Taking on the 1000 day challenge

We started to blog almost three years ago.  Back in the summer of 2008, we decided to throw our musings onto paper and submit it for the world to see.   I don't think we ever had a theme although  my sister in law said 'it's just basically you complaining right?" and that was true.   

The early blog entries were a bit scattered in terms of consistency but as we continued to get some interest from friends and foe alike we began to fall into a routine.  The first few months went quickly as we found abundant topics to write about but we heard one complaint often (well we heard a lot of complaints often but one kept coming back).    We were not consistent in our postings; sometimes we would post 3 or 4 times in a day and then not post again for days.   But on September 22nd 2008 we decided we would challenge ourselves and write every-single day for 1000 straight days.  We started this quest that September day and have continued it every single day since then..   We have written daily mostly while waiting for the subway but have continued it while travelling through Europe, we have posted from Holiday Inn's in Columbus Ohio, we have posted while at the hospital waiting for our daughter to be born, we posted from baseball games, while watching football games, during business conferences, from a ski-lift, while hung-over, while jet-lagged and when we couldn't move because of some nasty stomach bug caused by the water in China although our biggest challenge might have been to write through bouts of writer's block. We posted from the desserts between Libya and Egypt, we blogged while driving in a beat up car in Bucharest and wrote while standing behind a donkey and wagon in China.  We posted from vacation and posted from work and all in all we have hit our goal.    Yesterday marked our 1000th straight day of complaining so we thank you all for sticking with us.

The irony of it all is that i'm in China and the Great FireWall seems to have cut off access to anything on the blogger server so I must try to post this from a back-channel.  

It would be typical of my luck if I did NOT hit my goal of 1000 straight days only because my final post just couldn't connect to the server..

so somebody email me to let me know if this one posted...