Here it is. New Year’s afternoon turned into a little bit of a hectic day for me, actually causing me to scrap my afternoon/evening plans, but I did get a chance to drive to high ground along the way and snap a quick sunset photo.

I’m about to wrap things up for the night and put my little boys to sleep, but here are some quick numbers from my last two years of blogging. I started this blog with a photo of the ND State Capitol Building lit up with “2006” in the windows, and that’s how I started 2008. In the two years in between:

This blog has served 984,138 invidual pages;

I’ve been visited by 459,070 individual readers;

The site’s busiest day was January 14, 2007, with 12,051 pages viewed;

The total hit count (includes images, pages, ratings, and messages sent to me via the Contact Me link: 119,415,870!

Yikes. For just some guy with a camera, I’m flabbergasted. Hopefully folks keep coming, hopefully you’re entertained when you get here, and hopefully I can sell a couple of banner ads to local businesses to pay for the cost of operating this thing. I’m looking forward to 2008 on BismarckMandanBlog.com, and I hope you are too!