This is the first in a series of “year in review” posts we are planning. First, for our 3 loyal readers, the blog run down.

26, number of entries written so far this year:
That is an average of 1 fresh post every 14 days or so. We are 2 posts shy of our 2006 tally, which, considering there were 3 months in which no posts were written at all this year, is ok. But certainly not impressive.

6, number of customers who left comments here, instead of attempting to contact customer service whatsoever.

5, number of groucho marx posts.

352, number of spam comments blocked by Akismet:
The most common domain for these spammers? @mytop-in.net, followed by @mail.ru. This does not include all of the comments which were manually deleted, although that number was much lower.

5, most comments received for a single post:
for an orange county choppers post written 2 1/2 yrs ago. Apparently Vinnie is leaving the show? If anyone has details, uh, please leave us comment here. Not surprisingly, this was also the most viewed post for 2007.