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A Quieter Day

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Good morning, everyone…..

The subject line of this post may surprise you since, after yesterday's 200-point drop on the Dow, it would seem strange to suggest things will be "quiet." What I'm referring to is that the posts today won't be fast and furious like yesterday's ridiculous sixteen-post mayhem.

I'm going to be absent for a portion of the day on some personal business, so my fingers simply won't be near the keyboard to type. If I could leave them here, I would. The point is to not be surprised at (a) the lack of a post every 17 minutes (b) the consequential multi-hundreds of comments that pile up in a given post.

Speaking of the day's activity, I have a spiffy little tracker what shows how many people are on at any given moment throughout the day. There are times when over 700 are crowded on the blog at the same time. It's an interesting chart:

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Oh, one final bit of business. The Adjunct Task Force for Avatar Themes met at 4 this morning. Due to the early hour, tempers were short, as was patience, so it was quickly decided that today's avatar theme would be South Park characters. So you know what to do.