................................CONGRATULATIONS RT ON REACHING 110,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!................................

..........................CONGRATULATIONS darth_vader ON REACHING 8,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!..........................

For those of you dealing with the extended extreme heat here in most of the US, don't overtax your machines, a/c or electric bill. MOT will be just fine. We could "cut back" a decent bit and still have a huge year. So, 2011 is going to be another great year, even at this point. We will pass our total production for all of 2010 around end of this week. Thru the end of July, we are averaging 843,880 points a day. That's a 308,016,303 point year, 62.5 percent over 2010. In July alone, we averaged 949,379 points a day. That means a 324,157,681 point year, a 71 percent increase over 2010. For June and July, we averaged 966,807 points a day for what would be a 326,824,108 point year, a 72.4 percent increase over 2010. So, we should not have any problem hitting 325 million for the year. Growing 71-72 percent over the previous year is no small accomplishment, especially at the scale we are at! Now as for a 365 million point year (a million points per day), we'd need to average 1,216,322 points a day for August thru December. We'll pick up quite well once this unsually extended period of extreme heat ends so while the full 365 million (a 92.5 percent increase) may not be possible (not ruling it out knowing this team!), we have a good shot at 350 million. In trying to look at a worst-case type of scenario, we're looking at probably a 25 million point month in August if the heat continues thru the month. If we remain at that reduced pace for the rest of the year, we would still end up just below 304 million. As you can see, we're going to have a great year just about no matter what happens (I do presume we won't completely fall apart in the meantime ). Oh, and in case someone is wondering, 2010 was up 48 percent over 2009 while we're looking at least at 60 percent for 2011. MOT is doing a great job and we're going to do just fine this year so every give yourself a big pat on the pack and enjoy a free virtual drink of your choice on me!!!

EDIT: I kan spel jerst fin, 'tis my fat fingurs that r de problum!

I just noticed RT's signature:

Back in MY day, we had NINE planets!

You know, if we had some real old timers, they might remember the previous time when there were eight planets.

- D

You could go to the point when in the good old days, earth was flat!!!