This has been one heckuva last month for kapgar.com.

A few weeks ago, I broke the 1,000 comment plateau (thanks again to Jacynth for that one).

Today, though, I hit two more blogger milestones.

First, this is my 300th post at Typepad. I think, in all, I've posted more here than in the seven years at my static HTML "blog." It's just so much simpler when you use blogware. When you don't have to worry about handcoding, the words come that much easier.

But, even bigger than that is that I also got my 10,000th page view today. The props on this one go to Pauly D who was checking out how the Lost Blogs contest was shaping up when the crossover happened.

I wasn't even sure I would hit the 10,000 mark by the time this blog turns a year old (June 15 - despite the fact that my posts date back to June 1; a bit of backposting on my part so I could archive the entire month in one place). I didn't hit 5,000 until late December. These last 5,000 hits have been in a mere two and a half months' time.

Yeah, so this post serves as gratuitous back patting on my part. But, as I've said before, I'm a stats whore (Alissa can understand where I'm coming from on this one). I don't know why. I don't know where it came from. It just is. I can't get enough of webstats. I accept it and move on with my life knowing that this is one addiction that no 12-step program can cure.

Speaking of the Lost Blogs promotion, we're up to 19 participants! That is more than I ever imagined and the competition on this is going to be a lot better than I ever anticipated. I've been adding new participants on a daily basis for about the last week.

So make sure you pick out a good historical figure and have some fun with the writing. The more creative you are, the better it will be, the more fun you will have doing it (ideally), and the better your odds will be of winning one of the prizes.

I've got my histoblogger (sounds like an allergy medication). Do you have yours?