3:15 PM ET, 10/11/01
I’m writing from parts unknown on a working vacation. I love the term “working vacation.” I go away for a week, I’m dumb enough not to take my vacation days (I didn’t know when I was going so I couldn’t take them), and I was also dumb enough to lug my PC with me in the car. So instead of going out all day, I’m spending the bare requirements on time on this computer doing actual work before getting out at night.
I have no TechTV here, so it sucks big time. I’m hearing about things that are going on — with the new ticker (more space for STOCKS???? what are they thinking???), and Laura Burstein’s return for Friday chats (whoo hoo! now get Heather back too!), and I feel seriously out of the loop. If this site gets mentioned again this week, I’ll miss it since I’m here vacationing and cranking out issues and trying to avoid real work.
Oh yah! Duh, our 100th issue went up today. 101st too.
I had big plans for the 100th issue. Our 101st issue really should have been our 100th issue. This is what I had in mind when I planned on getting here. A big cliffhanger on number 100, followed by a mind blowing surprise for issues 101. Well, as with all plans, things get changed. I guess I got too into things this morning and lost count. So ta-da, we’re at 101 and if house keeping hadn’t of interrupted me (lol “do not disturb” on the door and they knock anyway), we probably would have been up to 103 or 104 by now.
I didn’t have a big speech planned so I’ll just say thank you to all of you readers for hanging with us for so long. I also want to say thank you to Anne, Chris, Heather, Laura and Robyn in chat for helping to inspire the site. Believe it or not, this was supposed to be a tiny little project to make the chat people laugh. I also want to thank everyone at TechTV — including the big bosses at the top who probably cringe every time we put an episode out. THANK YOU for letting me go for so long and THANK YOU for not suing my butt by now.
It has been a great ride and we’ll keep on going for as long as we can.
Now with that, I’m out for the night. Take care.
— k9