This marks the 2000th time I sat down at the keyboard to share my meaningless drivel unique insights and perspectives here at LTG.  I was hoping for something substantial to write about as I reached this particular milestone in my blogging career.  But if it hasn’t happened it 2000 tries, what’s the point in waiting?

Speaking of milestones, or perhaps more aptly bumps in the road, it occurs to me that I’ve never actually paid much attention to the numbers before.  In fact, I wouldn’t have seen the big two zero zero zero coming but for a feature on the dashboard of my updated/upgraded WordPress interface showing, you guessed it, the number of posts I’ve posted.  This feature also allows me to go back in time with relative ease to see and share with you those fascinating snapshots in blogging history I failed to acknowledge (perhaps with good reason) along the way.

My 100th post was entitled simply “Another day”. Back in those early days I was all hellbent on posting something everyday, regardless of whether I had anything of meaning or value to share.  Now you may be asking yourself at this very moment “what’s changed?”, to which I can only reply “shut up!”.  To save you the agony of reading that particular entry in the annals of LTG I will summarize thusly: It was mere days prior to my initial departure for Korea and I had much to do.  So we went to breakfast at Bob Evans.  Then it started snowing.  So we went home, I lit a fire, and we watched movies the rest of the day.  Yep, it was a bonfire of inanity.  So to speak.

The 500th post occurred back in those heady days when I had a much more robust readership (thank you to those who have stuck with me against all reason).  In Whistlin’ Dixie I weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Dixie Chicks attack on the President in front of a foreign audience.  Reading it again now I can see the rightness of my position remains unchanged.  But I suspect the folks who commented saying it was more than appropriate to criticize Bush would be calling me racist for offering the same criticisms of our current President. What goes around comes around I suppose.

As I reached my 1000th post I was thinking about Things I don’t miss in the USA.  In this particular case it was the growing nanny-statism that I much despise.  It’s only gotten worse I’m sorry to say.  The specific issue that set me to blogging was a NYC homeless shelter throwing away a church donation of fried chicken because they weren’t allowed to serve food cooked in trans-fats.  I hope they let them eat cake!

By the time I achieved 1500 posts I had pretty much given up on writing about politics.  It was much more fun easier to talk about the simple joys of my Korean life.  Like Dining at Daepohang for instance.  And hell, instead of writing 1000 words, I just posted pictures.  Did I get tired or just get lazy?  Yes!

And there you have it–my tribute to 2000 posts.  Don’t worry, there’s plenty more where this came from!  Or maybe you should worry.