by The Tears of Things
Today is the last day of the pagan year. As we open our Moët & Chandon White Star Champagne for a special Sunday brunch, we lift a toast to our readers. In May, Jerome wrote a note of thanks on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the blog. Happily, we see no reason to revise it, except to say that we have had a steady increase in our site traffic:
Quick aside of sincere thanks. I don't get a lot of readers, or a lot of comments; I delete comments arbitrarily, without explanation; I'm irascible; and I'm paranoically convinced that fully a third of my readers are my enemies; but one statistic on the sitemeter warms my heart: the average reading time is over ten minutes. Any writer who crafts their sentences over months knows what that means. It's not uncommon for people to spend two hours here, and read twenty pages. I'm not bragging, I'm profoundly grateful. I know how precious time is, and you take the time, and I thank you for sticking with it -- yes, all of you.
We are drinking stars.
Posted by Jerome at October 31, 2004 08:54 AM | TrackBack