oh and by the way...

The comments button works. See it? It's just below this paragraph. It probably says "0 comments". I even did you the favor of opening up comments to anyone that damn well pleases. You don't have to register or even tell me who you are if you don't want to. You just click on the link. Type. Verify a squiggly, random word. Publish. Done.

I know there are at least a handful of you reading this now and thinking, uh oh, she's directing this to me. And yup, you're all right.

Granted, it does make me exceptionally happy when you tell me how much you love the blog or that you read it every morning and even when you send me e-mails commenting on a post (that's classic). But it would make me feel much less alone out here in blog-land if you just clicked the comment button every now and then and shared a word or two. It doesn't even have to relate to what I'm blogging about. Tell me a joke. Weather report? Dow Jones Industrial Average. Whatever works. It's all good.

Anyone?