WHUZZUP!

• Reports are in that BOBTHECORGI’s mom and her open-heart surgery went well, and she’s doing fine
• The Other Cheek – Here is another gem via BOBTHECORGI.Fellow Pennsylvanian Tina is hilarious! She offers guidelines for those visiting an Intensive Care Unit that I’m sure several medical professionals would wholeheartedly agree with.
• I was just informed, in my absence, that a dear friend lost her son in a motorcycle accident. Madeline Jacobs offers a thank you and a tribute to her 21 year old son, Jason, cut down in the prime of his life….This is the second time tragedy has struck, as she lost another son, Jordan, in an accident on her ranch recently. My thoughts and deepest sympathies are with her and her family right now. I can’t even imagine that type of pain.
• BrooksKidz Update: – Yeah, things are slowly coming back to normal. (I posted a “readers digest version” of the whole thing on Kare’s Discussion Board, as so many people felt there was more to the story.)On Wednesday, the house got a last-minute inspection by a very attractive, very shapely, social worker named Stacy. Of course, I kept forgetting her name (I kept calling her “the one with the body”)….So all night, when her name eluded me, the girls would remind me by going “Staaaaaaaaacyyyyyy” (doing the “girl shape” thing with their hands). I come up here to check my mail to find a few love notes (in kids handwriting) that Staaaaaacyyyy left behind for me on my desk.Yeah… we’re gonna be back to normal in no time. :0)

• A big congratz is in order to BOBTHECORGI for hitting the 1,000 visitor mark… in what, a matter of weeks? Holy cow… it took me eight months to do that with my very first site… and that was with me checking on it 20 times a day! (Of course it’s one of those boring stodgy “Let US design your website with our cracksmoking staff”, a la my Schizophenic Website stage… )unlike BOBTHECORGI, which happens to be one of the most entertaining and well-written blogs/journals out there…CONGRATZ BABE!
• In case you missed it last year: Kare has reprinted her now-classic “Mr. Wonderful” rant… (I’m sure you have an ex or two that this post will strike home with…)
• Friendly sex advice from Uncle Bob… Green M&M’s don’t work on virgins. Scientists offer no explanations on this as of yet.
• I’m taking the rest of the summer off… The Tribe called Brooks has a lot of restructuring to do in our lives. Writing to moi@ericbrooks.com is probably a guarantee that you won’t get a response for a couple of months… you can write me at my top-secret work email (if you know it) for a better shot. I’ll probably post sporadically here, but no promises.

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Don’t know when it happened, but sometime early this morning visitor #1,000,000 came strolling in!!!!

WHOOOO-HOOO!!!!!!
Don’t believe me? Scroll down to the bottom of the page and see for yourself. 

Well, whoever you are (you probably don’t know because the counter is invisible through most of the site)… I have a prize for you: One can of TURTLE WAX!!!… yeah bay-bee!!!!!

Special thanks to: Tucows Interactive, Cathie Walker, Mark Connell, George Carlin, Matt Haughey, and the gazillions of friends with portals and personal pages that have linked to me.

A “Thanks for nothing” to the so-called and self-proclaimed “Independent Design Community”… ass-kissing was never my style anyway, and it turns out I didn’t need your clique after all. Losers. :0)

And an EXTRA-SPECIAL thanks to each and every one of you reading this for all your love and support in the past two years. I love each and every one of you, and just want to share a simple little tip for *your* success:

• Know your audience…
• Give ’em what they want, with no strings attached…
• Always support your friends… that’s where the hits and reciprocal links come from.

Thanks guys,
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PS: Kendra redesigned Structured Ramblings… and it’s ASS-KICKING