House of Eratosthenes

That’s actually a million Site Meter hits. I don’t know how many hits the ten-year-old blog has actually taken, we didn’t go on to Site Meter until we were about a year and a half into this, and in that time the service has occasionally been down. Doesn’t matter, we didn’t have access to the Internet when the actual millionth hit came in — 349 hits shy last night, 174 over when we woke up this morning. So I don’t have a screencap of the magic millionth hit, can’t offer a free tee shirt or coffee mug. Oh well…

And why were we offline? Well, that’s the other thing; this post doubles as the announcement that we’re online again, after moving to an actual House of Eratosthenes, as in, house-house. Two-story, quiet neighborhood, corner lot. Yes, we’ve stopped being late-forties apartment rats, decided to start being respectable and take care of a lawn. Swearing at toilets and fuse boxes in the middle of the night, taking down blinds, putting ’em back up again…

Kid goes back to his Mom’s today. Yup, the wireless comes online on his last day here. What a mean old Dad. Well, I think he enjoyed the adventure of helping move all those boxes around, packing, unpacking, etc…

Me? Sick of cardboard boxes. Don’t want to see them anymore. I have no idea how many there have been. Like snowflakes on a damn hillside in the wintertime, counting would be pointless. Have to count like a wild animal, there is done, there is not done, the number is really, really, really high.

We relinquish the old place once & for all on the 20th. I’m starting to think we’re going to make it.

Update: I’ve noticed some blogs commemorate a million page views. We would have missed that awhile ago, page views happen about 50 to 60 percent more often than visits, or “hits,” in our case. You “hit” a blog, look at two pages, then go elsewhere — that registers as one visit and two views. Page views are 1,537,099. This is a million visits. We go sit with the big kids now.

Now you need to get a dog. Or two dogs.
- IcelandSpar | 08/16/2014 @ 06:45
As George Washington most definitely said, “Congratulations!”
- Severian | 08/16/2014 @ 10:05
“Me? Sick of cardboard boxes….I have no idea how many there have been.”
You realize, of course, this is SOMEBODY’S way of showing you that you have too much SH1T, RIGHT?
Seriously, how many times have you actually used that “set” of nut picks, or (some ancestors) meat grinder?
That 12 year old bottle of (wait, let me go look, OK, ie.) turmeric powder isn’t gonna’ get any “fresher”.
- CaptDMO | 08/16/2014 @ 10:44
That’s right. “That’s all a house is, a pile of stuff with a cover on it.” — George ~~Washington~~ something.
- mkfreeberg | 08/16/2014 @ 12:40
Congratulations on both!

Just wait till you have to start Fixing Things. That’s always fun.
- William Teach | 08/17/2014 @ 06:04
Thanks, Teach!

We’re up to our eyebrows in that fun already. Bank owned. Short sale. We put together a list of repairs needed and were going to pass it up just because of the length of said list…took another look and decided, wait a minute, none of these are big-ticket items, not a single one.

After that, we did a whole lot of studying. I mean, a lot. Completely white-knuckled about it the entire way. Then went for it, then started grinding away at the 138-item or something list. Oh yeah, here’s to fixing stuff.
- mkfreeberg | 08/17/2014 @ 06:10
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- Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup » Pirate's Cove | 08/17/2014 @ 07:18
I hate moving more than practically anything else. It’s on par with putting up hay. Things I will do if necessary, but find excruciatingly miserable.

Congrats, you guys, really.

I don’t visit House nearly as much as I used to, though I should, really. I consider Morgan to be my best friend I’ve never met. Hope to address that someday, relatively soon. I blame facebook, or as Morgan puts it, the “Hello Kitty” of bloggin’.

A million … as Joe F*ing Biden would say, that’s a big f*ing deal! I’m proud to be a few thousand of those hits.

You keep on keepin’ on, buddy. You DO make a difference.
- philmon | 08/17/2014 @ 21:49
Congrats, Morgan. Freakin’ 1 mil. is huge! Keep up the good work. Don’t mistake my lack of comments from actually visiting, I still do everyday.

As far as the house….cool. Bought mine nine years ago with six to go, wish somebody had mentioned all the incidentals instead of the old “it’s an investment”, BS. Oh well, the Tom Petty gets cranked and no one complains.
- tim | 08/18/2014 @ 09:58
I’d hit that
- chunt31854 | 08/18/2014 @ 10:18
…the Tom Petty gets cranked and no one complains.

And there you go! Monster BBQ grill, outdoor fridge stocked with suds, big ol’ kitchen for the wife, and some tunes.
- mkfreeberg | 08/19/2014 @ 06:28

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