What you can't see is that her shirt (courtesy of HFD) says: "I would rather be at Target." Right.

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On a recent trip I noticed that the photo file names from D-Fiddy were approaching DSC_9999.NEF. The four digits in the file name track the shutter counter on the camera body, so I was quite curious to see if photo DSC_9999.NEF would be followed by DSC_10000.NEF or DSC_0000.NEF. As it turns out, it is neither; the counter resets to DSC_0001.NEF (which means, incidentally, that on the second counter reset the camera will not have taken 20,000 photos as would be expected, but rather only 19,998. Skipping 0000 in the counter sequence seems like an odd choice to me...).

Anyway, our camera's "odometer" flipped over 10,000 photos after about 500 days of ownership, which works out to an average of about 20 photos per day. Since we post daily photos on juxtapose, that means that about 1 out of every 20 photos makes it onto the photoblog.

You may have noticed that there has been a flurry of recent bliss bits and relatively few bitch sessions on klog lately. Thinking that this is surely an indicator of Kelly's increased happiness, I set out to quantify it.

I compiled the historical data covering blog posts from the beginning of klog in February 2005, comparing the number of bliss bits to the number of bitch sessions on a monthly basis. Subtracting the number of bitch sessions from the number of bliss bits yields that month's "balance of happiness" indicator. This number ranges from 5 to -5 with an average just barely above zero (there have been 46 bliss bits as opposed to 42 bitch sessions over 2.5 years of klog).

You may think this is a crude measure, but I challenge you to find a clearer, more objective, and more quantifiable indicator of happiness. The results are summarized in the line graph below; I'll let you draw your own conclusions about the trends.