Happy eighth (belated) blogiversary to me!

Eight years ago last Sunday, this blog was born!

Thanks to you wonderful people who have supported this project!

For free, we've published over 3,640 posts, and served well over 131,410 page loads (over 710,764 by Blogger's count).  Two hundred and sixty-four of you have given us your thumbs-up on Facebook, more than 1269 of you are following along on Twitter (29.9K tweets and counting!), and approximately 60 of you have subscribed to this site's RSS feed.  The bulk of you are Canadian, and I'm delighted to see visitors from United States, the United Kingdom, India, France, and the list goes on.

There are so many of you doing such a fabulous job of making magic a priority in this great country!

A special thanks to:

• All of my early supporters.  Special shout outs to Ariel, Doug, James, and John for your continued encouragement.
• All of you readers, Likers, RTers, submitters, guest posters, contest prize providers and all other manner of promoters of this site.
• All of my sponsors, past and present.  That means you: Magic Information Canada, Ryan Pilling, Clive Court, Perfect Magic, The Browser's Den of Magic, The Amazing Corbin,  Michael Close, and Daniel Sugar!
• All of the blog's official friends, past and present.  That's you:  John Smithman, John Harrison, Richard Lyn, Joan Caesar, Ted & Marion Outerbridge, Ian Crawford, Owen Anderson, Ryan Pilling, and Matt DiSero.
• My family for their support of this bloggy experiment.

My continued thanks to all of you!