Time for a little practical two-for-one action.
I am solvent at the
moment, which as any habitual reader of on-line diaries will know, is not true for
many people online. Apparently, Diaryland itself is one of them at the moment.
Also, I am only 15 episodes of blogorrhea away from my 1000th entry here -- at my
usual rate of writing, that means I'll reach it in a week and a half. I was trying
to think of an appropriate way to celebrate my thousandth, and what better than
promoting the health of the host of all those words?
So here's the
deal: I'll celebrate by holding a contest. I was going to make the winner just the
first person to email me (decided to use email instead of the Guestbook to avoid
embarassing anyone). Then I thought about asking some questions based on what I've
written in here, but that seemed too self-aggrandizing and too many hoops to jump
through. So you just have to email me, but let's add some rules to make sure the
money is used effectively. Hmmm.... OK, this is open to anyone with a Diaryland
diary that is at least three months old with at least thirty entries in it --
that's an average of one about every third day. And they have to be reasonably
spaced -- I mean, I don't care how regular entries are, but I don't want to
sponsor a journal that got written in for a month and then left to molder, or even
one that got written in, dropped, and then picked up again in that last week. I
get to decide what constitutes "reasonable", but hey, it's my contest. Oh, and
this isn't a rule, but please don't enter if you have so much cash on hand that
you wouldn't notice an extra $30. Go run your own contest instead. The e-mail
link is in the drop-down at left; the winner will be the sender of the first email
I receive asking to be in the contest.
Please tell me in the email if
it's OK to announce your nom and site here if you win. If you don't want me to, I
won't.
One more thing: if you already have a gold membership, a new
one just adds time onto it, so you can still enter.
In
other news it is ferociously hot here today. The humidity is up and the
monsoons are here. I hear we had a little rain (very little) over the weekend, and
there was a nice dust storm last night, but those didn't have any effect on the
temperature. The forecast is saying we may be getting some thunderstorms with
actual water, but judging from the predicted highs those won't affect the heat
either. This is how hot it is: we unloaded the Orange Crush and rigged the boats.
We were done by 5:30 and could have gone for a short row, but it was so nasty out
that even Rudder, apostle of the Protestant Work Ethic, decided not to. I'm
definitely taking the rest of the week off practice. Maybe next week will be
cooler.