So how do you fit a bit of who you are and what your diary is about into a little box 60 pixels high and 468 pixels wide?

That was the challenge when I signed up for Diaryland Gold and got 10,000 banners. I know some folks have signed up and won't use the banners, but Mr. Man this just seemed like too much fun NOT to do.

THEN, as if THAT wasn't fun enough, someone else signed up for the gold service and said I had referred them so I got bonus banners. BONUS BANNERS. It made me warm and tingly.

There may have been quivering involved.

Fine. Go ahead. Make fun. The rest of you HAVE lives.

So the brain trust at MarnCo, the multinational corporation behind the Big Adventure (by brain trust we would be talking, a middle-aged, barely pre-menopausal woman and two cats--the cats being the intellectual heavyweights of the trio) sat down and brain stormed.

Actually brain stormed is a grandiose term for what happened. We brain flurried. It was the best we could do. But we flurried enthusiastically because That Is Our Way at MarnCo.

Okay, now that the banner blitz is pretty much over, here is what we spewed. I would like to mention that no matter WHAT Zoe and Zubby tell you, I did ALL the Photoshop work. We couldn't be cutting into that badly needed 22 1/2 hours of daily kitty sleep, now, could we?

So which banner do I think reflects me best?

Why #5, OF COURSE.