This is our five-hundredth post.  We considered doing something enormous, something epic, to commemorate the milestone.  There are a few reasons why we ultimately did not.

For one thing, we couldn’t rent a hall big enough to accommodate the party we were hoping to throw.  Even if one had been available, our funds are grossly insufficient to fly each and every one of you out to party with us.  So that was out.

We thought about posting some sort of picture that would reflect our new post-count; we did one such post when we hit four hundred, and now drawing “500” on Jill’s ass with a Sharpie seems like the worst kind of redundancy.  So we didn’t do that.

We wanted to get all stat-crazy and include a breakdown of the number of times we’ve posted different memes and such over the last five hundred posts, i.e. forty-two TMI Tuesdays, sixteen HNTs, twenty-nine Retro HNTs, twenty-four Sinful Sundays, etc.  That sounded like a lot of work, and while we’re far from lazy we’ve also written and scheduled eighteen posts this week, some of which have already been published, and some of which will be published over the next couple weeks while we’re away on vacation.  So actually sitting down and counting posts seemed like an asinine thing to do.  Contrary to popular belief, we do occasionally enjoy sleeping.

We considered linking to our favorite posts of the last three-plus years, but this sounded almost as labor-intensive as the previous idea.  At any rate, how would we even go about determining our favorite posts?  And just how many posts would we be able to choose?  One favorite?  Impossible.  Ten favorites?  Fifty?  I’m certain that narrowing five hundred posts down to fifty would also be difficult, though doable.  But when you’re narrowing anything down to one-tenth of the whole, why bother?  At that point we might as well just tell visitors to pick a random post from the archives and enjoy.

No, we ultimately decided to do none of these things.  Instead, this is just a quick acknowledgement.  It’s not much to look at, is it?  Not what you’d expect for half a thousand.  Just a crappy stock graphic at the top.  Kind of lame, really.  We’re almost ashamed that we even bothered.  Why call attention to such a grand milestone if you’re going to do it so half-assed?  Oh well.  Hopefully posts number 501 will be more engrossing.

To all those who have supported us on this journey, we thank you sincerely.  Whether you’ve posted a comment, shared your thoughts with us on Twitter or via e-mail, or even just contributed to the sometimes prodigious page view count on our posts, we want you to know that we might not have made it this far without you.  While we blog primarily for our own reasons, independent of the community aspect of blogging, we greatly appreciate your taking the time to stop by.  We hope you’ll stick around, because there’s plenty more to come.

Oh, what the hell.  Here’s a picture.