Then again, most of my memories are fuzzed together from mid-2001 to early-2004. Didn’t help that my first attempt at a blog went under pretty quickly, thanks to a Hosting Matters crash that lost most of my data, and had been corrupting my backups for about three months beforehand.

Here’s to another nine years of Israel, cats, snark, and Hulk! *raises glass*

So, long time reader, but only occasional commenter. Here’s looking at the next decade for your blog, and hopefully more after that.

Of course, in ten years, we’ll all be writing and reading posts telepathically, so your blog might change coding formats once again, say from WordPress to Mindpress.

That puts you on the first-year list, then. Wow, I didn’t realize you’d been reading me this long.

I’d also completely forgotten this:

Here’s the long and the short of it: If the election were held tomorrow, I would vote for George W. Bush without turning a hair, no matter who his opponent was. I would more than likely, however, vote for a Democratic Congress. I am pro-abortion, pro gay rights, for progressive taxation (but not overtaxation), completely against corporate welfare (but the Dems don’t really do much about that, either), and generally against almost everything that Tom Delay and John Ashcroft are for. I’m not a single-issue voter–normally.

That was eight years ago. Well, I still loathe Tom Delay and was never really fond of Ashcroft. I’m still for all those issues. But I don’t want, and will probably never again vote for, a Democratic Congress.

And I still remember when you got the better of Andrew Sullivan about the booing of Wolfowitz at the pro-Israel rally April 15, 2002.

what was it like blogging with the dinosaurs? ;)

Keep up the excellent work. Yours is an important voice in the blogosphere… and besides that, you’re a daily read.

[Time to start working on your next Haftarah!]