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• 1 Speck // Sep 20, 2008 at 7:30 am

  I found you through “Five Star Friday” when it first started…um, I forget when. I’ve been a regular reader since then. You don’t get Statcounter hit love from my readership though, sorry. I’ve got you set up as a feed and don’t usually click through to the actual post.

  I read you because you write well and give the reader a little piece of your heart and soul as well as your mind. I like that. And you don’t take yourself too seriously. There’s too much seriosity in the world today so your humor is a bright spot in it.

  I wouldn’t change a thing.

• 2 The Movie Whore // Sep 20, 2008 at 5:28 pm

  You know I have the same thoughts. I see the traffic come and go and so rarely does someone stop to say hi.

• 3 Georgie B // Sep 20, 2008 at 6:36 pm

  I love it when people stop by place to browse. If they leave a comment, all the better. If not, at least I have proof that they stopped by to browse, read and possibly enjoy.

  And in the end, that’s all that really matters to me, that people stop by either out of curiousity or on purpose.

  BTW: I discovered yours while surfing through the Bloggapedia directory late one night.

  Glad I did.

• 4 Mrs T // Sep 20, 2008 at 10:38 pm

  Well Mrs T found you by surfing through Blogcatalog and as soon as I read your intro.. I thought “He’s English, he’s crazy. We will get on like a house on fire.”

  And then my house burnt down….

  It’s a sad tale, I know. Anyway this is a brill site. Hooray for madness!! So don’t change it! It’s very rewarding when someone takes the time to comment, even if it is only briefly – because this whole thing is about communication. I have a reader who comes every week from Turkey… Boy, is my curiosity sparked! Of course, I’m still waiting for Pierce Brosnan to come on by but it ain’t happened yet but maybe one day….

  Anyway let me make a plea to all your readers…Leave Sy a comment so I don’t have to as I’ve been neglecting my children by keep writing on this site..so go on..please, please, please…….

• 5 Pierce Brosnan // Sep 20, 2008 at 10:41 pm

  Oh that Mrs T is one hot bitch I’m gonna call over there straight away. By the way Sy this is a great site. It’s almost as good as my gun. Keep up the good work!

• 6 Sy // Sep 21, 2008 at 7:40 pm

  @Speck – Hi Speck, and welcome. Thanks for de-lurking! I haven’t heard of Five Star Friday before. I will have to look it up and see what it is all about!

  @Jim – Yup, I hear ya fella. It has become (for me) very disconcerting recently which when you spend as much time on a post as we do, it kind of deflates you a touch, thus the reason for this post. Which has thus far seen 1 new name, and Pierce Brosnan…who I think may not actually be him. Unless they hand out drugs to moviestars to make them appear completely nuts. Oh…hang on…

  @GeorgieB – It is definately nice that people come by, but I do find that the lacking commenting is hard to go with for too long. As of today, Feedburner reads 57 readers and Statcoutner shows an additional 40 hits so far today, but no new comments from other readers. Sadly, sometimes you need to comment on other sites for recirprocal commenting which is something I dont get the time to do which affects things too.

  @Mrs T – But I did save you from your burning house with my gun loaded and my pants on outside my trousers! Now…did you leave the Mr Brosnan comment per chance?

• 7 Avery Jones // Sep 22, 2008 at 1:37 am

  Hiya,
  I found your site through The Best Blogs site and I totally agree. Your blog is a mixture of sarcasm and creativity. I would love any feedback to my blog as I am a new blogger.

  http://underthesheets-shhh.blogspot.com/

• 8 Trillian // Sep 22, 2008 at 8:08 pm

  It’s almost midnight here and I need to keep working. I would much rather be rolled in rosemary and olive, but reading your blog comes a close second.
  Thanks, Sy.
  By the way, is your name really Sy?

• 9 Justin Wright // Sep 22, 2008 at 9:04 pm

  Well, lets see…I found this site while doing my endless rounds of Googling for random things at work. Anyways, my name is Justin and I am a blogger/photographer. Check out my blog here:

  http://www.lifeofjustin.com

• 10 Sy // Sep 22, 2008 at 11:14 pm

  @Avery Jones – Hi Avery. Welcome to the site. Sarcasm is about as creative as I get! Nice and easy and gentle on the eyes! I will come by and have a look at your blog in the morning!

  @Trillian – Welcome! Working at midnight? Another night shift type pf person like myself, or just a bit mad? Judging by the rosemary and olive, you seem perfectly normal to me!
  My name is Simon, but shorterned to Sy because I am a crap typist and it takes me ages to find the…oh…where is it…M key. I got given that name at about age 9 and it kind of stuck! Where are you to be working at midnight anyway?

  @Justin Wright – Hey Justin – Thanks for dropping by. I think the site definately comes under random! Too much unrandomness stuff makes me lose sleep! I will head on over and take a look at your photography in the morning!

• 11 Another blogger // Sep 23, 2008 at 1:12 pm

  hey..
  i came by your site throught the best blogs site. i think urs is the most hilarious blog i have read. it cracks me up every time and i never miss any of your posts.

  im a medical student in india and this is my blog http://insanely-still-sane.blogspot.com

  keep doing whatever you are doing cos it rocks!

• 12 app // Sep 23, 2008 at 2:36 pm

  I might be all the rest of your 60 readers. (I hope not…you deserve more readers)

  I have been testing out a lot of feed readers lately, in order to write a big specialized review on them. This blog is in my OPML file I add to all of them.

  I am also being counted as a reader every time someone visits my blog. I have you added to my sidebar in a dynamic RSS driven blogroll that displays the title of your last post under the name of your blog. (that’s 2 links for you on my site) Your position in the list is affected by how recent your last post is, with the 5 most recently updated sites at the top of the list, and the rest hidden behind a “show all” link.

  I am sorry if I may have messed up your Feedburner stats. Wasn’t intentional.

• 13 Vitalij // Sep 23, 2008 at 4:32 pm

  I don’t have blog but i am happy

• 14 darri // Sep 24, 2008 at 1:27 am

  I love your smart though self-deprecating sense of humor. Your good person-ness shines through. It also could also be that I have a thing for bloggers who have a thing for midgets and other idiosyncrasies like you and ponygirl.

• 15 Tamera // Sep 24, 2008 at 3:51 am

  Well. I found you a long time ago through blogcatalog….Why am I still here? I am waiting for that carrier pigeon, and without coffee I am a little cranky.

• 16 Sy // Sep 24, 2008 at 8:26 am

  @AnotherBlogger – A medical student? Wow, you must have some great material to write some very funny stuff! I will swing by later and take a lookie at your site!

  @App – What reader have you found to be the better of the bunch? The only reader I use is the one built in to Outlook but I prefer to visit sites where you get the full feel of the site rather then a bunch of text appear in a reader.

  @Darri – If yo ucant have a good conversation about dwarfism, then really..what is the world coming to! One day we will all suffer from dwarfism when the huge aliens from the planet zorgo come to enslave us.

  @Tamera – I have some bad news. Porky the Pigeon took a slight detour. He heard of a place called the canary islands, and decided to go check it out. He got caught at customs when they asked him why he was bringing coffee and he is now on trial for drug smuggling.

• 17 Gareth // Sep 24, 2008 at 2:17 pm

  Sy, if my memory serves me correctly, (which some days I think it can be very cruel and play tricks on me!) we came across each other on a Babycentre forum, while our other halves were pregnant. I remember reading your first incarnation on blogspot (don’t remember the url!)
  A lot has happened since then, and we are now both proud fathers (me for the 2nd time).
  How is your little one?

• 18 Trillian // Sep 24, 2008 at 7:43 pm

  Found your site through best blogs too, and no not night shift, just slightly mad. I work at an airport as well, hence my appreciation of your header masthead.
  Don’t have a blog, but if I did it would link to this:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mgxCR3Sbkw

• 19 Bree Ahmed // Sep 24, 2008 at 8:39 pm

  I found you through Best of Blogs ! And this is the best place ever Sy. I’m a sucker for wit. Anytime I’m down.. this is where I hop to. I hope I can always do that. And you’re just awesome. Period. : )

• 20 Sy // Sep 24, 2008 at 9:24 pm

  @Gareth – Of course! Yeah I just never got the time to go on that site as much as I wanted to. Even my wife is on there more now than when she was pregnant! The little one is just awesome! 2 months old today. Where did that time go I want to know!! How about you my friend? How is the little dude?

  @Trillian – Working at an airport and madness generally go hand in hand I think! If not, they should!! Ah yes. Waldorf and Stadler…or whatever their names are. Those guys rule!!

  @Bree – Glad it cheers you up! That is the idea of this site. Nothing bad, just insanity of the fun kind!! And your comments do wonders for my ego! )

• 21 Georgie B // Sep 24, 2008 at 10:52 pm

  Sy, this is one of your better posts as it’s generating a world of comments for you.

  See now, you are special somebody in someone elses eyes besides your wife and daughter.

• 22 app // Sep 25, 2008 at 3:59 am

  I wasn’t aware that Outlook had a built in RSS reader. I hope you are not confusing feed reader with newsgroup reader.

  If it does have an RSS reader and all you are seeing is text, you are missing the wonders of using a full blown desktop RSS reader. You get a lot more than text (images, video, etc)

  My favorite one is Newzie, but the review I am going to be writing is a bit specialized. It’s targeted at owners of old slow computers, and Newzie really isn’t suitable to run on an old P1 with 64mb RAM running Win98.

  I do visit sites and read onsite, often…but I don’t want to click a bunch of links every day just to see if my favorite 200+ blogs have a new post.

  To be honest, you really should try a good RSS reader. It can make you a better blogger by allowing you to read more in less time, leaving more time to write great posts, which means we would get more of them to read.

• 23 Gareth // Sep 25, 2008 at 12:28 pm

  Sy, the little dude is doing great – he has a very big appetite – had him weighed yesterday, and he’s now reached the 14lb mark, a whole stone! Health visitor also gave my wife a bit of a lecture about weaning. It’s not going to be long before we start introducing some solids
  My wife is also on that website alot. Its been good as she has found a few new friends locally through it. Helps to have some more adult conversation!

• 24 Sy // Sep 25, 2008 at 5:52 pm

  @Georgie B – I know. I should start doing posts like this. No effort to write, and a crapload of comments! What more can a blogger want! Although at school they always said I was special. I had a had with a D on it and stuff. I think the D stood for Delicious.

  @App – Nope, Outlook 2007 is a full RSS reader. Images, video…the works. I am lucky to be an IT type dude so havent got confused between the two! Actually, on the feedburner stats, it shows a lot of readers are using the outlook feedreader. One of my problems is that time gets away from me now that I just dont get the time I want to read other blogs…which makes me a bad blogger!! But home life is not too conducive to surfing at the moment since kiddie was born, and work…well, I like to slump in my chair and then not move for 12 hours! It works out quite well for the with the slouching! Actually, I am trying to get them to put lazyboy chairs in to the office!!

  @Gareth – 14lb? Wow! Shawnee is currently a tiny 8.14. She is such a dinky thing though. So time to go on the fun foods huh! A nice steak and chips for the boy maybe?
  Yeah we are looking for more local people here. We dont know anyone here with kids so it makes for a lot of fun!

• 25 LoveHugs // Sep 26, 2008 at 8:43 am

  weeellll, I StumbledUpon you tonight and am glad I did. I really don’t read blogs, at least I don’t seek them out to read them but I bookmarked yours for some reason. And the Dead Rooster’s as well. You two are “the bomb” as my daughter would say. (She assures me that being “the bomb” IS a good thing, as is being “sick”, “tight”, and also, “dank” which is something I thought they saved for dark caves full of bats).

  Anyway, obviously I am neither a writer nor a blogger. I guess they are and are not one and the same, if you think about it too much as I suddenly find myself doing at 12:30am. Too much coffee, too many cigarettes will do it to me every time. So it’s probably a great gift to the internet blog-reading society that I am not a blogger. =) <— see? I am STILL sneaking those silly smiley guys in my comments as though I were IMing on AOL back in 1996! ACK! Sheesh.

  Someone really brilliant ought to discover a remedy for us retired AOL IMers who can’t get rid of the Smiley Guy Syndrome in spite of intensive therapy and various experimental medications. It sure would be nice to write without a smiley guy once again.

  BTW, what’s a RSS feed???

• 26 LoveHugs // Sep 26, 2008 at 8:45 am

  … p.s. did i mention that i think you’re really kinda cute? (shhhh!)

• 27 Bree Ahmed // Sep 26, 2008 at 6:29 pm

  Georgie B. is right, you’re heck special and ‘delicious’ ! Oh wait, you said the last bit yourself. Haha. And people think you’re ‘really kinda cute’ ! Is this your ‘a-ha’ moment Sy ?! Saaaaaaaaaay it. Admit it.

  *struts off laughing..

• 28 Sy // Sep 26, 2008 at 6:43 pm

  @LoveHugs – You dont happen to have a beard, be a man and come from Ohio do you? You know…just checking. And yeah, I am cute. Cute as a buffalo. Of course, I am sick cute. And the bomb…that is just the way my trousers hang.

  @Bree – Dont you start missy!! ) But yeah, I am delicious. When covered in mustard and fed to a hot dog! Now. Get back here…dont you go strutting away from me when I am talking to you!

• 29 Bree Ahmed // Sep 26, 2008 at 11:22 pm

  Sir yes sir !

• 30 LoveHugs // Sep 28, 2008 at 1:54 am

  Hi Sy, I can reassure you (I just checked in the mirror to be perfectly sure) that I do not have a beard, I am not a man, and my daughter says we ARE in California. haha. Oh yea, I am not bald, either but maybe a bit grey – only my hair dresser knows… just thought i’d throw that in for kicks and giggles. consider it a freebie. (you’re very welcome!)
  And I’m not sure I get the thing about your trousers but I’m not sure I ought to ask… Or so my daughter says, “Mom, just let it go”.. lol

• 31 Sy // Sep 28, 2008 at 11:27 am

  That is very good to hear! There is nothing worse than getting told I am cute by a man. It makes me all weird inside. Like nice weird. Hang on…erm…oohh…look. The sun is out!

  I also have a bit of grey. Sadly, being in England that means the weather. Damn lack of summer! Now. I could try and explain the trousers thing, but I fear it may be a little too “English” if you know what I mean!! So how is the weather in sunny california when you arent at the hairdressers?

  Oh, and can your daughter write me a dictionary so I will know just what the hell my daughter is saying to me when she is older! That would be a serious help!

• 32 cyndi // Sep 28, 2008 at 6:22 pm

  England, huh? yikes. My brother in law AND my sister in law AND my daughter’s boyfriend’s father are all from England… You people have a plot to invade just my family don’t you? (grin) Very nice people, I might say – I like that they stay out of our family feuds. They simply sit at the sidelines and watch quietly, not picking sides. Verrrrry intelligent choice, and I am taking lessons from you people in the etiquette of fair family fighting.
  I would love to send you a dictionary but that’s what wikipedia is for — the darn thing would have to be changed on a weekly basis. They do that to us so we will never really understand exactly what it is they are saying to us — or about us! As soon as we think we have their language figured out they move on to something completely different and there we are, might as well be deaf and mute. Or like Charlie Brown’s parents… Waa, Waa, Wa, waa, wa wa… lol
  Things in sunny california are, well, how shall I put this?? I guess things here are plain old, Sunny. haha. Actually we get kind of tired of the sun, would like some good old fashioned rain now and then. I love a great big thunder storm!
  If you wouldn’t mind sending one our way we sure would appreciate it. Thanks.

• 33 cyndi // Sep 28, 2008 at 6:23 pm

  P.S. thanks for not explaining the trouser thing. And no, I’m sorry I don’t get it when you say something about being a little “too English”.. I’m not sure you ought to explain that one either. lol.

• 34 Sy // Sep 28, 2008 at 10:02 pm

  Ah yes. Us old chaps from Blighty are a wonderful type you know. All the “Goddamn English…” stuff you hear is all wrong you know. Well, some of it is. Anything you hear about me being super awsome is generally great though. And yeah I know…we arent modest at all!
  Wikipedia cant even keep up with the language differences! It is insanity! I cant wait for “real English” to make a comeback whereas you can actually talk to a teenager in the street…which is different to my current thing of just wanting to give the annoying “cant handle his drink” lets hout really loudly all night one a bit of a slap.

  Now. The “A little too English” is generally that a lot of people dont get the whole English humour thing. Yeah they get a lot, but we have these weird quirkies that we say and noooooo one else understands. Not even me. And I say them!

  So tell me. Why havent you started a blog yourself?

• 35 Mrs T // Sep 29, 2008 at 10:43 pm

  I say Sy, let’s talk “prowper” English and damn those Yankies and their dictionaries! Now tally-ho, foxtrot, alpha, what arrre you jolly well up to tonight? Sampling the tea and cucumber sandwiches or just down at the old boy’s club for a swifty Old Bean? I’ve got to dash my good fellow as I’m offf to the races tomorrow and must chill the Old Champers and strawberries…..

  So chocks away Sy … and I say watch out for that darned messerschmit at 11 o’clock !

• 36 Sy // Sep 29, 2008 at 10:55 pm

  Prowper Engwish? Good golly Mrs T. That sounds absolutely spiffing you know! Lets put the kettle on, have a cup of rosy and talk about the state of the lawn!

• 37 Mrs T // Sep 29, 2008 at 11:02 pm

  Oh souper Sy, I’m feeling a little parched! Do make sure you use the best china; one must take one’s tea in exactly the right manner. Now my good fellow, what say you to a little wager over the next American President? I say it the one with the puffy cheeks that looks like a hamster…. what say you??

• 38 Sy // Sep 29, 2008 at 11:08 pm

  Oh only the finest china Mrs T. The one with the rose pattern. Splendid indeed!
  Now I accept your wager, and am putting my 10 penneth on Jose M. Aparicio as a walk away winner. I see not how he can lose.

• 39 Mrs T // Sep 29, 2008 at 11:22 pm

  A shocking revelation old boy! But I accept your wager…I say The Hamster wins with a last minute surge for a power by spinning around and around in circles on his wheel until the electorate is totally confused….

• 40 Sy // Sep 29, 2008 at 11:25 pm

  Ah you see, I am using common sense here. While everyone else is having the stand up debates on TV, he will sneak in and woo the voters with free beer and nibbles. How can that lose?! Much the same over here. Any party that says the words “We will scrap speed cameras and car tax” will walk in to the office of Prime Minister. But no one is willing to say it…

• 41 Why Are You Here? : Gareth’s Blog // Oct 1, 2008 at 12:12 pm

  [...] by a post by Sy at The Wheel is Turning, But The Hamster Is Dead, I thought I’d pose some [...]

• 42 cottie // Oct 6, 2008 at 4:44 am

  I know this blog through best blogs site last week, and I think this blog is hilarious.

  I’m from Indonesia, by the way..

• 43 LostVegasBoY // Jul 23, 2009 at 11:27 pm

  hahaha yup that hampster had a heart atack but im a try it with billy (my hamster)

• 44 LostVegasBoY // Jul 23, 2009 at 11:29 pm

  this is funny good work

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