So it turns out that this past August 5th was actually the anniversary of The WAMBAG’s first post. This is something I’ve actually missed for the third time in a row now, and each time I note that fact as evidence to how seriously we take our work here. We’ve been coming to the same party for the last five years, and in no way is that depressing.

Five years! This is the fifth anniversary of our first post, which both terrifies and disturbs me deeply, on a level which I can never fully express in words. I’m embarrassed (but not really) that this grand day coincided with my month long absence from the site, which is actually the longest time I’ve been away from this site for…I guess five years, now. Oddly enough, my previous record was set last year, right after the anniversary post.

But for once, this time wasn’t because I didn’t have anything to write about. It was the opposite, in fact – there was too much. But when I sat down and sorted through it all, I decided that I didn’t really want to put any of it into words. But now that I’ve started again, I guess I’ll get to the rest of it shortly after.

Neat thing about having arbitrary dates like this on your calendar is that you have the opportunity to take these little mental snapshots of your life every time you hit one, and compare it to last year’s. That’s why holidays are so fun. They make for great save points throughout your life that you can easily remember, especially since they have all these strange associations from the holiday decorations. Just remember the last time there was an evergreen in your living room, or the last time you got drunk and challenged your cousin to a duel because he was dressed as a pirate.

This was an okay year for The WAMBAG, I think. We’ve been posting less – just 115 posts this year versus last year’s total of 176. That represents a 34.66% drop-off, according to my current understanding of Grade 5 math. However, I think it’s offset a bit from the improved quality of the posts – for example, I don’t have the numbers crunched yet, but I’m sure the average words per post have jumped up significantly. Although I’d imagine that we’d like to get the crushing, depressing tone out of our posts as well. This year, I’m hoping to find that happy medium of quality and quantity that we’ve been searching for now for five years running. Baby steps, baby steps!

A big kudos to the crew. Five years is an awful long time to keep a good thing going. And we have a pretty good thing going here.

And by that, I mean that there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wish for some horrible accident to destroy this site and wipe every record of its existence clean from the Earth.

“You look pretty.”
“What?”
“I said…you look SHITTY!”

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