Well, that's it for me. It's been an exciting year for us here at TPM. In a couple weeks, we'll celebrate the first anniversary of TPMCafe. And TPMmuckraker has now been up and running for more than two months. We even work in a bona fide office. Next month we're going to get our new 2006 election tracking blog up and running at TPMCafe.

Thank you to all the readers of each of our sites for helping us make this possible. And I want to particularly thank those of you who chipped in for our two fundraisers to launch those two new sites. It means a great deal to me. And I hope you're enjoying the sites your contributions have made possible.

I'm going to step away for a week. Sit on a beach with my wife. Hopefully recharge my batteries and clear my head.

Matt Yglesias is going to take over for me here at TPM while I'm away.