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Well at least according to this guy that’s about how many there is. By my quick head count I have about 3 or 4 regular posters depending on where I make the cutoff. I have about 12 people that have posted at least twice. Since 100 is a nice big round number I’m going with that.

Now I’m willing to bet that my readership is a little low which is why I didn’t just multiply 12 by 10 or 3 by 100. Still very exiting and probably highly inflated. All 15 of you who are actually reading this can feel like you’re part of a larger group (notice that wasn’t “all 3 of you”).

Alright first things first. Mom, Dad, your 21 year old son has consumed alcohol that you have not provided. Whew! That’s a big weight of my shoulders. Not really because I’m pretty sure you two assumed as much. If not, sorry to burst your bubble.

I’m sure you’re all wondering what I bought well tough! Actually I will tell you. I bought some good Scotch, Glenlivet 12 year old. And I saw some crazy Blue Moon Pumpkin Beer. I like Blue Moon so I thought I’d give some of that stuff a try, but that’s for later, not tonight.

Tomorrow (or today, whichever) I’ll be going to a bar for a few drinks with a couple people and that will be pretty much all of my festivities for my actual birthday. Saturday there will be a great party. It’ll be great.

Not quite as soon as my birthday but the POTW is almost a year old! In celebration of this milestone (and to artificially boost my picture/week number) I will be holding a contest! Rules follow:

1. The pictures can be of absolutely anything and should be e-mailed to me either using an address you already know or to the one in the “Contact the Webmaster” link at the bottom of every page.

2. Pictures will be judged by me for only one thing: how much I like them. A pointer on this, I’m probably more likely to like a picture if it has something to do with me but not necessarily. If it’s a particularly beautiful picture that has nothing to do with me you’ll probably do alright and have a fair chance of beating out pictures that involve me. I mean really… I bring down the quality of a picture just by being in it.

3. You must be the artist or photographer of the drawing or picture.

4. Rachel does not automatically win by dating me and no matter how much she pouts it’s not going to do her entry’s any good (see comments on jewish guilt in the Yom Kippur post). Although she may do slightly better then she would have otherwise… but not likely.

5. 7 Pictures will be selected for the week leading up to November 15th.

6. All pictures must be sent to me before 11:59:59 PM CDT on November 10th.

Excited yet? I am. Really when you think about it I have about 6 readers total so even if I post this in my away message for the next month you regulars probably have a good shot. OOh, I know lets add an extra rule.

1. If you’ve commented on tedger.com (either my blog or the potw) before the time of this post you get bonus points in my scoring system which really doesn’t have any solid numbers…. you get the idea.

Ready! SET!! GO!!!!

Update People become exited by trying to be excited but not pressing ‘c’ on their keyboard

Last night and this morning I was fortunate enough to have Rachel invite me to sit in on Yom Kippur services at the Ames Jewish Community Synagogue. It was really interesting because despite seeing many other religious practices in action I really hadn’t seen anything of Judaism other than Rachel illegally lighting a menorah for Chanukah in the dorms (Shhhh! Don’t tell the RAs!).

I got to hear plenty about jewish guilt (it was after all, the day of repentance) and hear plenty about how Rachel’s temple back home did things better…. errr…. differently.

I also found the Jewish idea of repenting to god (”God” or “god”? I’ll go with god being an agnostic shrug) for your sins against him/her/it (again shrug) and and directly repenting to individuals for your sins against them. I think that christians might have taken a step backwards in this department. All in all it was very cool to be there.

Oh, and since I’m sure Rachel will throw it in the comments no matter what I do, I did nod off a little at the morning service. Very briefly, but Rachel caught me because I almost dropped the hymnal that isn’t a hymnal because it’s jewish and has prayers. I feel horrible about it and apologized profusely afterwards. I was told that I wasn’t the first one to do it so I should feel bad, but I do, and I think I should. If I were jewish I guess I’d have to wait till next Yom Kippur to repent for it anyway.