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THANK YOU READERS! The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. This is what they found: Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,400 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of…
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