Yes, it must be you: The order date(s) match.

I do appreciate the support, although I’m not trying to push these bound volumes on anyone. (Well, I could say: $29.50 gets you a great 11×18 picture of the Golden Gate Bridge–and a year’s worth of C&I thrown in for free!, but since color values on covers can and do vary, that’s misleading. It is a great picture, though…) And volume 6 does have a number of essays long enough to read better in print, in my opinion…

I toyed with the idea of making the volume indexes “added value” when there are print versions–that is, removing them from the site. So far, I haven’t done that. For volume 8? We’ll see.

In any case, you’re welcome–and I’m sure it will come naturally again, real soon now, when things are a bit less askew. I’ve given up any hope of writing anything prior to Midwinter, but it’s only 19 hours before I need to be at the airport, so that’s not a big loss.

Can’t say why for sure other than it seems right to do what I can to support your efforts that I have been appreciating for several years now. Sure, I have all of the issues (pdf) on my hard drive and can have a look whenever I like, but I rarely print them. So now I’ll have print copies, too, and if I happen to ever find the index lacking then I can do a full-text search on any set of the issues I choose.

I guess my purchase is just my way to say “Thank you!” for the hard work you do; whether or not it comes naturally.

So, Thank you!

Enjoy yourself in Philly. I sure wish I was going but hard decisions had to be made early in the year about conferences.