Just one addendum. I just looked at the count of how many people are reading. 0 was (quite justifiably) the number most often seen. There were 42 readers on the day I announced I was going to do this, a lot of 2's and 3's and for some reason I cannot fathom, one 16. Given my current twitter followers count of 290 and the unlikelihood of anyone who does not at least marginally know the style of my wit or half-wit depending on your opinion, it would seem to me virtually impossible to get this thing into consistent double numbers. I may regard this as a reason to stop, with apologies to my fan (but I tried) or it may bring out the "fuck it. I am doing this because I am doing this" part of my personality, which again is really more my shrink's business than yours. Looking at it from this point of view (perhaps slightly influenced by my daughter's comment about my looking sad), if being read is the goal, I can start cranking up the wit machine and possibly get to over 300, something I have never achieved. And in a way the tweets are more to a point than the blaahg. And then there is the novel that this may be interfering with the writing of--or not-- it is just so much harder. Were I not writing the blaahg there is as much chance that I would not be writing the novel at all, rather than attacking it in fits and starts as I am now. Go have dinner.