It is in the nature of most humans to assign importance to numbers when the actual importance is perhaps questionable. I’ve never before allowed a large round number to guide how I write. If you look into the archive you’ll see that at 100 pages it’s just another part of the story, and at 200, 300, 1000, 2000… I generally see the urge to land important things on a specific page number as a trap. It just so happened that in the lead up to 3000 I landed in a transitional part of the story and had a bit I wanted to do that could last essentially as many pages as I needed. So I jumped from groups of cast members until most everyone got to have an appearance before the 3000th page. Ramon and Evrina have featured a lot recently, so I didn’t jump to them. Wes is probably the character with the least screen time and I gave him a bonus page for a throwaway gag that was really just for my amusement. I even introduced a new minor character, which was also just a treat for myself. Some of you figured out part of what she’s referencing, but not all of it. In fairness it’s pretty obscure, so we can overlook that. Anyway, we find ourselves here at page 3000 with something that is again mostly important to me. In case you don’t know Thomas is referencing the final line of one of Mark Twain’s short stories: Eve’s Diary. The line is spoken at Eve’s grave by Adam. In it’s original context it is a lament, but here it is expressed romantically. It doesn’t matter where I am as long as I’m with you. Though I have no such person the sentiment resonates with me. I hope each of you can find your Eden someday.

For now however I will leave you to your own devices. I hope your week starts off well. I will return to you on Wednesday and we’ll see where this takes us. Until then, keep cool and dry.

3000 Paradise.

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