the Three Simple Steps of How to Post a Comment (or "action") on the McBride Gambit blog

This is not a real post to the adventure. Repeat: this is not an actual turn to the adventure. If this were an actual post, you'd have been directed to an emergency radio station where you'd have heard someone screaming and crying. Repeat: This has only been a test. Thank you, and good afternoon.

1. Go to:  http://mcbridegambit.blogspot.com/

2. Click on the most recent post to read it. If you have already read it, skip step 2 and go to step 3. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.

3. Click on "no comments" to comment IF you are the first victim to comment on that particular post. Otherwise, click on "comments." The word "comments" will be preceded by a numeral, which indicates the number of comments already commented on, or with, or by. Maybe. Define "comments." For extra points, define "define."

4. There is no number four.

5. After you type your comment, you'll see a pull-down menu just below. It's asking how you want to be remembered. You can sign in with your Google account most easily. (Blogger.com is owned by Google. Soon everything will be owned by Google & Microsoft and they'll merge into Googlesoft.) But you can also sign in with several other types of accounts (Wordpress, OpenID, etc): pick one. If you don't have an account with any of the listed weird things, you may either sign in as the default of "Anonymous" (In which case, please sign your name at the end of your post. NOT ON YOUR SCREEN WITH A MAGIC MARKER!  Sheesh, how many times do I hafta warn people about that?) or you may create an account with any of the weird things listed. Again, I recommend Google because it's easiest and because they already have all your secret information anyway and are auctioning it through whitehouse.ebay.gov.

6. You may preview it and then publish it, publish it without previewing it, preview it without publishing it, or any of the above combined in any fashion that blogger.com will allow before it fries your computer in anger.

7. You may also "subscribe by email" to let you know when a new post arrives. I try to remember to alert you all whenever I put up a new entry. (I wonder if I dare call it a "turn" ?) If you don't trust my memory and/or want to know when anyone else posts a comment, this is what you'd click. I've never done it, so I don't know what happens after this. Perhaps everyone who was ever an Avenger arrives at your home asking for cookies. Let us know how it turns out.

These have been the Three Simple Steps of How to Post a Comment (or "action") on the McBride Gambit blog. 

And remember that the world is divided into three kind of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.