Al Roker in Puffy Paint

First, thanks for all of the super feedback about my awesome cartoon. Sometimes I think about giving the site up, but I just don't think I could leave this adoring community behind. After all, if I stopped posting, where would people leave hundreds of unrelated comments advertising their online poker sites? And who would Jaleel White's lawyers send their cease and desists to? No way, man, I'm not letting my homies down; that's just not the way I do business here at cpdc.

I think having a website is like being married. (Well, I can only hypothesize, having never been married. I have, however, watched more than one episode of Mad About You, so I feel completely competent to utter these sorts of proclamations.) At first, you're really excited to be involved, and so this entity becomes the object of your attention. If something interesting happens at work, you make a note so you can share it later. You bring it up over and over in conversations, and most of the time, no one is remotely interested. It doesn't matter, though, because you love it and you see the possibilities. But then the years go by, and the excitement begins to fade. Not only do you no longer speak of the website, but whenever someone brings it up to you, you sigh wistfully. When you check your email and see a comment from it, you can barely withstand the urge to chuck a whiskey bottle at the monitor and yell, "You ruined my life! I could have you deported!" You invent bizarre hobbies like collecting macrame eggs and drawing Al Roker in puffy paint on your undies just so you have a reason to avoid it. I reached that point with Goulash some time back.

It certainly gets tiring to post here every day. There are a lot of times that I can't think of anything interesting, or I'd rather be doing something more productive. The temptation is strong to bop the server in the head with a roll of quarters and flee town in the middle of the night. Nevertheless, I never plan on stopping my posts. I like what I do here; I think it's a cool site. My goal was to create something that I would enjoy, in the event I got kicked in the head by a donkey and forgot all about it. I definitely have that here. And so, while I can't say that all 400 entries here have been of uniformly incredible quality, I like what I gots, and that's what matters. That and the love of the online poker syndicate. Here's to 400 more entries, huzzah.