I stumbled into winning a copy of Beginning Drupal 7 by Todd Tomlinson from Apress and the nice hosts of the Drupal Easy podcast.
The announcement on the podcast had me laughing out loud. (Luckily, I was home with a sick child who was sleeping upstairs.) I hope Mike and Andrew don’t mind that I transcribed the bit where they talked about me (starting at 46:24 into the podcast):
Mike: Anyway, [laughs] so we picked the winners earlier today, and they have not gotten back to me yet, but I’m going to say, I’m going to feel pretty good that they will get back to me so I’m going to announce their names, anyway. Jeremy Reichman, who — get this — his user ID on Drupal.org is 2039. Now, that doesn’t seem that small, but I think we’re up over five hundred thousand right now. Is that correct?
Andrew: Yeah, I believe so. It’s a pretty high number now. My number is 98,079.
Mike: Right. So this guy’s way better than you.
Andrew: Yes.
Mike: Way better. But he’s been a user for over nine — nine and half years — on Drupal.org.
Andrew: Wow.
Mike: So I’m not sure what he needs a Beginning Drupal 7 book for but, you know, I would guess it’s probably for his child that he’s had between the time that he started iwth Drupal and now.
Andrew: Although the could still be using Drupal 2.
Mike: Yeah, that’s true.
Indeed, my user ID is 2039. Indeed, I have been a member on Drupal.org for “9 years 37 weeks,” according to my profile. That’s a long time! The low user ID certainly doesn’t make my account better than someone else’s, but it is kind-of fun to have now that Drupal has become so popular.
One possibility they did not raise in that announcement was that I could just have been lurking on Drupal.org for five or six years — biding my time with my increasingly-creaky UserLand Manila Web site — before I decided to take the plunge with Drupal. This may be why my Certified To Rock score is a mere 3.
But perhaps I will share Beginning Drupal 7 with my children when the book arrives. This is not a bad idea, and I already have precedent for it. Our new arrival needs some technical reading material — and I’m going to have to upgrade to Drupal 7 sometime.
