Contest Closed

The one person who participated and won a free t-shirt reported that it arrived today. He sounded thrilled, and that makes me even more thrilled.

The Fern Garden has been seeing highly increased traffic over the past couple of days, which is also an encouraging sign. After spending several hours flipping back and forth between keyword analyzers and traffic analyzers and link analyzers, I think that I need to have my head analyzed.. what was I thinking??

But it is a ton of fun. This has been a nice focused project while I wait for completion of one of the game modules. I'm seeing now that it is not going to be a short-term project - I suppose I should have known that.. and I'm trying hard to keep from checking traffic stats every hour on the hour. Typical Type A++ sort, I want to know what's happening.

Also, I have entirely new respect for folks who write ad copy for the catalogs that flood in through the mail. This is an insane task, folks. Try describing 1500 t-shirts in glowing terms. One at a time. Every one different. No two the same. I dare ya. Heck.. I dare ME. I still have to go through a ton of designs and do exactly that. One at a time. Every one different.. no two.. the.. same.

Shoot me now.