Please forgive us for breaking out of character for a moment, but a huge milestone was reached today for Extreme Mortman — we passed over a unique million visitors for the year.

We join you in wishing ourselves a hearty mazel tov.

We couldn’t have done it, of course, without you million-strong readers. And we also owe a huge debt of gratitude to the blog biggies for sending us so many visitors over the year, with links from Instapundit, Michelle Malkin, Huffington Post’s Media News, Hot Air, Inside Cable, Fishbowl, Wonkette, National Review’s Corner, Pajamas Media, Reason’s Hit & Run. Political Humor. And a special thank you to my employer, New Media Strategies.

To celebrate, let’s go in a different direction for a moment. For this one posting, let’s act like a typical blogger and talk about our new cell phone and what we had for breakfast.

1) Cell phone — Over the weekend, the Extreme Family got new cell phones. Wonderful new cell phones. We haven’t done anything new and trendy — in electronics or anything else in life — for years, if ever. But we’re really enjoying our new Samsung Juke phone. And I see that there’s a whole website devoted to it — with a round-up of favorable buzz. So let me see if I can get noticed by the good folks at Samsung Juke by saying this phone is so great, Ron Paul should buy one.

2) Breakfast. OK, let’s see. This morning I had some cereal and some juice and some coffee and my regular serving of fruit (banana). Then I shaved, brushed my teeth, had my morning bowel movement, then I got out of bed.

Thanks for a great year!