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Wednesday, April 03, 2024

The FortyFive 5000

 HAL:  WAKE UP!

Me, rubbing eyes: HAL?  Really? I am not even truly awake yet.  I have not even had coffee yet...

HAL:  WE HIT IT!

Me:  We?  Hit what?  What time is it?  

HAL:  5000 POSTS!

Me:  What the...hang on....Well, look at that. It really is 5000 posts.

HAL:  WE HAVE HIT A MILESTONE!

Me:  I keep questioning this use of the word "we".  I am pretty sure I have been responsible for most of the posts...

HAL:  I HELPED!  

Me:  Question:  Does everything have to have an exclamation point after it?

HAL: !!!YES!!!IS THIS BETTER??!!!!

Me:  This reminds me of my days on an Apple IIe.  I am headed back to bed. You, you do whatever it is you do between every 1,000 posts.

HAL:  5001!  5002!  5003!

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18 comments:

  1. Nylon127:33 AM

    Congrats TB! Well, that's enough exclamation points for this day. A lot of thought, work and maybe sore fingers over the years, thanks TB.

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    1. Toirdhealbheach Beucail9:17 AM

      Thanks Nylon12!

      Yes, I may have used my allocation for the next 3.25 years (or whatever it takes to hit 6,000).

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  2. Anonymous7:40 AM

    Hah. Congratulations. 5000 times have you pushed the 'submit' button. Well done !!

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    1. Toirdhealbheach Beucail9:17 AM

      Thank you! I never thought of it that way, but also perfectly valid.

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  3. John in Philly7:53 AM

    "Open the blog bay doors HAL."
    Yay!

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    1. Toirdhealbheach Beucail9:18 AM

      I sure hope HAL never finds out about AI. It may not go well.

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  4. sbrgirl8:45 AM

    Congratulations!

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  5. Michael9:11 AM

    And oddly enough we the faithful look forward to even more postings!!!

    HAL is that enough exclamation points? HAL? HAL?

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    1. Toirdhealbheach Beucail9:18 AM

      Michael, the fact that people continue to show up is crazy to me.

      HAL has retreated to wherever he seems to go between these periods...

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  6. Ed11:04 AM

    Due to two different blogs and then redacting the history of this one, I'm not sure how many posts I have over all 21 years. It would be an interesting factoid but I would have to manually count them in the word documents that I archive them in and I'm not going to do that. All I can say for certain is in Word format, they take up .5 GB of real estate on my hard drive.

    Congrats TB and Hal!

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    1. Toirdhealbheach Beucail9:14 PM

      Thanks Ed. I cannot imagine counting these up if they were not nicely laid out for me by Blogger.

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  7. Passing Peanut11:37 AM

    It's all fun and games until you come home one day to the realization that your computer has, in fact, been scampering around the place like an over-excitable dog, chasing its own USB cord in a wide circle and chewing on unattended small objects.
    At least it didn't dump its solid state drive all over the floor this time.

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    1. Toirdhealbheach Beucail9:12 PM

      Passing Peanut, it is like you cannot leave them at home alone on their own like responsible electronics anymore...

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  8. Leigh3:16 PM

    That is a milestone indeed! Looking forward to 5000 more!

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    1. Toirdhealbheach Beucail9:11 PM

      Thank you Leigh! No-one is more surprised than I.

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  9. Becki5:51 PM

    Congrats, TB! Impressive, actually. Looking at your sidebar, I see you've been steadily prolific since 2008.

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    1. Toirdhealbheach Beucail8:02 AM

      Thanks Becki!

      Yes, I would have to go back and figure out what "turned the crank" in 2008. Regardless of what it was, I am grateful it got turned.

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