Today was Meilin's last day. Our company used to do things like cake and ice cream for people who leave the company, but she'd only been on staff for seven months, so nada for her from the company. I took her, and Gary, out to lunch today at a decent Indian place a couple of blocks away from my office in The Village. The wait was less than I remembered, and the food was just as good. We all did a pretty good job polishing off our food.

Meilin stopped by my office at the end of the day to thank me again, and ask if I was ready to leave, so we could walk across town to the PATH station together. Ever the Chinese immigrant, she did the folded hands with elbows extended head nod salute at me, before reaching out for a hug. Aww, that was sweet. I made sure she had swiped a photocopy of our office phone numbers. She'll be working in the WTC area starting tomorrow. Not many places to eat around there, unless you walk a little North to Tribeca, but I don't know Tribeca really well. Oh well, we'll figure out something for meeting for lunch--maybe West Village or SoHo.
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Townhall.com sure seems to be working for driving traffic. Cricket Frog started out as my experimental blog on Blogger Beta, back in the day before mass migration happened, as suggested by people who had dabbled with beta. It doesn't really get much in the way of traffic--a few regulars, and a bunch of search engine driven hits, but that's about it.

But, like many other people, I am a political junkie, and a news junkie. I wanted a place to actually voice my opinion about topical news items, and actually have people read it. So far, they are. The Bullfrog hits are coming in from curious fellow Townhall members cruising the member blogs, and people are beginning to comment. Sweet.