A New Record - 17,000 visitors in August!

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You might notice this is a slightly off-time for one of my posts.

I just got back to Brookings from Sioux Falls a little bit ago. I have a little one who is prone to ear infections, so we were on the road at 5am this morning to go get tubes put in. As I finally got around to checking stats today, I see that I've officially broken my record for visitors - 17,000 this month (providing about 35,000 hits).

Thanks again for your continuing readership.

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