It snuck up on me, but my sitemeter at the bottom of this page now tells that there have now been just over one million visitors to The Bench. I’m amazed, incredulous, humbled and grateful beyond words. <\/p>\n
Thank you for dropping by and weighing in and enduring the slings and arrows of outrageous bloggery, lo these many months. (For those who missed it, you can read an account of how all this started and what happened along the way right here<\/a>.) <\/p>\nMeantime, to celebrate: let’s just dance, okay? <\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It snuck up on me, but my sitemeter at the bottom of this page now tells that there have now been just over one million visitors to The Bench. I’m amazed, incredulous, humbled and grateful beyond words. 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Meantime, to celebrate: let’s just dance, okay? <\/p>\n
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