This strip, for one reason or other, kept getting bumped out of regular rotation. It's been re-heated so many times, I can't tell if it's any good anymore. Rather than just throw it away, I've served it up on a weekend. Don't worry, if you don't like it, we can just give it to the cat.

Within hours of writing this, I saw this one on xkcd. I think Randall Munroe and I must be receiving the same CIA mind-control beams. Except his are funnier, for some reason.

The Perihelion fundraiser officially ended on Sunday (Pi Day) but I let it run a couple extra days to take advantage of the post-Pi Day shopping madness. During the fundraiser, the shops sold $932.89 worth of merchandise, $93.80 of which is markup. So, half of that works out to $46.90. I've rounded that up to $50 and sent the donation via PayPal to Engineers Without Borders. When I filled out the form, I entered "Tree Lobsters Perihelion Fundraiser" in the description field. Hoping that gives someone on the receiving side a double-take.

The Tree Lobsters webcounter... Yes, there's a webcounter. It's waaaaaay down at the bottom of the page. See? There it is! Right down there, past the cheap crap nobody buys, the Q&A nobody reads and the "targeted" Google ads that invariably try to sell you seafood.

Anyway, the counter just ticked over to 1,000,000! That's a million pageviews since the comic started. OK, well, there were a few webcounter outages here and there, and I lost some counts when I switched webcounter providers (because of the aforementioned outages), so the actual million mark was probably yesterday sometime but, still: 1,000,000! Woohoo!

Update
thatnerdwoman just happened to load the 1,000,000th page and did a screen capture of it: