isn’t it great just to wake up

Pssst. It’s me. I’m still here.

Here’s Kevin Costner in ‘Draft Day’ – “We live in a different world than we did just 30 seconds ago.”

Everything I wrote in yesterday’s post – most especially it being the final post in the lengthy history of Couch Surfing at 70 – was true. Except, it turns out, the parts that weren’t – most especially yesterday being the final post. I wake up, I walk out into the day, and the day grins a little and says, “Oh, not that. How about this?”

The new website, it also turns out, did not offer a fundamental courtesy long-time subscribers and readers here have come to expect – email notification of a new post, and the post itself as part of that notification. In fact, over at 148 curious things, no notification at all. I discovered that, yeah, pretty far down the road, and I thought about the kind things readers have expressed to me over the years. Like, “One of the first things I do in the morning is open my email to read your post.” That’s special.

I sat and thought about that, and I paced and thought about it, and then I contacted the hosting business here, and then the domain business here, and re-upped for more money that I planned or felt I could afford. Because, it turns out, I couldn’t afford not to.

What’s most important? People count. You count.

I’ve tweaked a few things, spruced up others. Please take a minute to go to the website and check out the revised “About Me,” “Other Stuff,” and “Donate” pages. It’s just a quick trip to Couch Surfing’s homepage, and its navigation bar. In fact, yesterday my friend Kate in Columbia, MO zoomed me through the set-up of a direct link to my PayPal receiving page, making donating as easy as pie.

I am most pleasantly surprised to feel how grateful I am to still be here. Really, really grateful. Some of me didn’t go away afterall. I vow to do my best to entertain you.

The ‘Welcome’ sign is back up….where it belongs.