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We now return you to your regularly scheduled Blogathon day.

That’s right, as of this posting I’m officially more than halfway through the Blogathon. You know what that means, don’t you?

It means we can only go downhill from here.

Yeah, I know, it scares me too. We may all be in for a bumpy ride…

So this viewing was of the 8th episode, “Rumors.” Near as I can tell, all that’s happened is that the writers have added Yet Another Layer Of Mystery And Weirdness.

I still want to see how it turns out. I still have hope that there will at least be a point, if not that it’ll make any sense. Each episode has one or two interesting elements that make for good imaginative seed material.

But is it a good story? I don’t know yet. By the end of the ‘thon, however, I might have an answer. Five episodes to go, and I have at least that many half-hours remaining before I get to sleep, no?

So I checked my email after we got back from our trip to the coast (details and pictures to follow at some point this evening) to find that a handful of nifty people had seen fit to push my Blogathon sponsorship tally well past the $150 mark.

You know what that means, don’t you?

Cute, cuddly bunny pictures.

Proof of cuteness will appear bright and early… bright-eyed and bushy-tailed… tomorrow morning as I kick off my Blogathon run.

Thank you Sarah, Dave, and the inseparable team that is Lilith & Geoffrey! The total stands at $173… easily $100 more than I expected to generate.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention Mari! Ack! I’m so sorry! How can I make it up to you? How, I ask!

See that “sponsor me” link up there? Have you done as it asks yet? No? Well then.

Remember, starting 6am Pacific time this Saturday morning I’ll be posting at least once every half hour for a solid twenty-four hours. That’s a minimum of forty-nine journal entries. However will I fill the time, you ask?

I can think of one cute way to fill at least some of those entries. But I won’t do it for nothing. As things stand, I’ve garnered $118 in pledged donations to the World Wildlife Fund. I’m surprised and delighted at the giving nature of folks like Jenn, Wendi, Marty, Erin, and a handful of groovy folks from work who wished to remain anonymous.

This has gone better than I expected, but I’d like to break $150 before we start on Saturday, and towards that end I offer…

Cute, cuddly bunny rabbits.

You read that correctly: Cute, cuddly bunny rabbits.

The bunny we adopted recently turned out to be a Mama Bunny, so we have a passel of baby bunnies that are just cute as all get-out. I have a digital camera. I will take pictures of those bunnies for all you animal lovers out there, and post them here.

But not until there’s more than $150 in sponsorships. That’s right, I’m holding the bunny pictures hostage. It’s up to you now, Oh Generous Readership. Do the right thing. Do it for the World Wildlife Fund. Do it for me. Above all, do it for the bunnies.

Because every baby bunny should have 15 minutes of fame, don’t you think?
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That’s right, I made a change today. Technically I made several changes, but only one… okay, only two of them are very noticeable.

One, links are no longer boldfaced serif but instead sans-serif and, ah, green.

Two, the date markers that delineate journal entries by, ah, date… they are larger.

If you would like to suggest largerness, smallerness, darker- or lighter-greenness, or a specific hex value for the greenness, you are welcome to. And I’m welcome to ignore any and all suggestions, of course. But you never know, do you? Do you?

(Update: Three. Three noticeable changes. Our main weapons are fear, surprise, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope… oh wait. Nevermind that. Anyway, I also tweaked the journal entry titles a bit to make them stand out better. I like the way this page looks now. Hot damn.)