Comic for Friday, Nov 12, 2004

Posted: 8:55 am, Friday, November 12, 2004

Whoooo, it's Friday. Rock. Everyone lookin' forward to the weekend? The Irish close out their home schedule with the Pitt Panthers tomorrow. My father is going to be out at the game with my uncle Jimmy, and Eric is taking his ladyfriend Nicole (nee Tori) out to the Dome for the first time. Go Irish, beat Panthers!

So, yesterday, I was looking at the random numbers Speakeasy provides me with that are somehow reflective of my web traffic. I have no idea what the actual traffic of this site is - it's still pretty modest - but I am, as frequent readers know because I keep mentioning it, in awe of the traffic I do get. So, because it's Friday and because I am honored that anyone checks this site at all, I'm going to give quick shoutouts to everyone whose subdomain shows up on my viewership, and also to the people that I know check the site frequently, in case they're Unresolved (which a full third of the traffic is).

To make it extra special, we're going with bulletpoints.

• Someone from the University of Waterloo, up in Canada. I have no idea who you are. I know one Canuck, and she's moving to Jersey this weekend. But, hi, neighbor to the north!
• Someone from AOL. I don't think I know anyone who uses AOL, but you appear to frequent the site.
• Inktomisearch - oh, wait, that's just a bot.
• Somebody comes up as and insight.bb client, and they apparently check the site out a lot. No idea who you are, either.
• Somebody on msn, a few people who use Roadrunner, no real idea who you guys are, but hey.
• Somebody from Harvard. I don't think I've ever known anyone who goes to Harvard. Howdy, Crimson. Sorry I didn't know you the last two years - up until this year, the Thanksgiving-ish always had the sub-theme of being the Yale-Harvard football game from the 1950s. You would've gotten an honorary invitation, whoever you are.
• Someone from Johns Hopkins, which utterly confuses me.
• Someone from Pratt, but that could just be 2.0 using a campus computer. If it's not, greetings, art historian. Years from now, you will be able to reflect upon the end of your discipline that my random doodles hast wrought. I apologize.
• Someone from Illinois law that I don't think is E. Jeff? Kris? I have no idea. But hi.
• Someone from the Univeristy of Texas Biosciences school. I mean, just, damn. I hope you don't hate me. Biosciences - that is crazy! Who are you? How the hell did you find this site? Wow, biosciences. You and my friend Alicia should talk, if only you weren't both so crazy busy with school and the sciences that you do.
• A Sprint user, an Earthlink user from New York, someone with dial-up from Washington, someone with dial-up from Weehawken. And then there's a few that make utterly no sense to me. Sorry if you're being begrudged a shout-out.

Then there's the Gold Members, who I was listing along there, but it dawned on me it's kind of rude to tell where everyone works. Gold Members is the term I just assigned to people that I know check the site out pretty frequently, and have from the get.

• Eric
• 2.0
• RAW
• Grafe
• MNP
• Tree and a few other Columbians, from the looks of things - I'm guessing Fair Meghan and, I dunno, maybe Tree told Scott or someone
• Mikey and it looks like JJ's school has given me a few hits
• Alicia
• E
• Crownover, although I think hers shows up as an unresolved
• Jeevs
• I believe Wallace checks this out, too, don't really know

If you're not listed, I either forgot you or you show up as unresolved. Anyway, that concludes Reader Appreciation Day here at Five Bucks to Friday. Thanks for comin' 'round, everyone. It's been a fun two months so far.

Now back to the rest of my bullshit.

I wish Fallujah didn't sound like something you get at Taco Bell.

Busy day for me tomorrow - running to Queens for groceries and booze, helping my landlord figure out why my apartment is the same temperature as the ice planet Hoth, watching the game with Tree, celebrating Lauren's 25th, calling my grandmother to wish her a happy 88th or 89th, I'm not really sure, and .. OK, I guess that's it. Thankfully, Sunday is pretty open, because I need to draw me some strips for next week.

No links today? Is it possible? I guess it is. I've been busy at the office this week, what can I say? That and Crownover has got me doing a logo for a friend of hers' production company or something that keeps taking up my lunch breaks. Mebbe I'll post a draft here, mebbe not.

Today is Mikey's last day at Profund. On Monday, he reports to work at Hewlett-Packard to start as a whateverthehellitishedoes there.

I made my mother watch Lost the other day, and yesterday had to write a synposis of the story so far because she had a lot of questions. She didn't understand it, but was pretty sure she enjoyed it.

Now for the political rant of the day, but it's brief, I promise:

I finally put a finger on my mood since the election - it is almost exactly like my mood in the week and a half immediately following 9/11, sans any post-traumatic feeling of unity with the country. (I actually did say, on the night of 9/12, I believe, that if we could find the guys that did this, I would join the army - well, we know they're all Saudis, now it's just a matter of attacking the Saudis instead of an old business partner of Bush's dad who reneged on his end of the deal.) Seriously. It was kind of a feeling of utter disbelief, and that the entire world has changed, possibly in a way that means it's about to end, and then about a week and a half later, I still know that something horrible has happened, I just try not to think about it too much and get on with my life as close to normally as I can. Amazing that Bush being reelected can make me feel so close to how I felt on the darkest day in the nation's history (in my lifetime). Not saying this is right or anything, just that it's how I feel.

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