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333,333: A Gift To My Wife

A couple of days ago, while responding to a comment on one of my posts here, I noticed I was closing in on 333,000 points. In general, I don't pay much attention to points anymore. But when I say the numeral alliteration, I couldn't resist.

My wife, Rocky, founder of Mothers Fighting For Others, loves the number 3. Anyone who knows her well knows this. Our six kids (3x2) know this. So, I decided to try and make my point total hit 333,333, if only for a brief moment.

Rocky, this is for you. :)

333333

Do you have any idea how hard this was? :)

Posted by Jeff Turner on 10/08/2008 11:17 AM

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55 Comments on 333,333: A Gift To My Wife

OCT

2008

Yes I do. I have tried to record such historical events and then the phone rang.

Hi Jeff..Congratulations...a lot of not only hard work but a lot of thought on Content making your posts interesting and helpful.

Cheers, thanks for sharing.

Hi Jeff,

Now thats a whole lot of content! Now I'm hoping this is comment #3!!! :)

i love you...

Suzanne... you are comment number 3! I need to think of a prize for you. :)

Rocky, sorry. Suzanne hit the submit button before you did. I still love you though.

Jeff - I always enjoy seeing totals like this when they roll over on the AR "odometer". Well done!

Jeff, You guys are one of the nicest couples I have ever met.

You're cute. :)

Hi Jeff, And congrats on the point odometer thing. Hope the wife appreciates your thoughtfulness !

What a great present for your wife Jeff. I'm a beleiver in 3 being a good luck number.

Cute? I was shooting for romantic. :)

Wow! I have been on AR 3 months, have 30,300 points and only have to do it 11 more times or 33 months to reach 333,333! I can see why you don't pay much attention to the points after a while. :)

I don't know how you managed it, Jaff! I wouldn't know how to begin to make my points land on a specific number. It does remind me of when, years ago, I drove a vehicle that was about to turn 100,000 on the odometer. I was on a vacation, driving on the highway, and had to figure out how to pull over at just the right time so I could stop at 100,000 and take a photo of the odometer. I'm lucky I didn't have an accident, but at the time, it seemed like an opportunity I couldn't resist. I don't know what ever happened to that photo. Oh well.

SIMPLY AWESOME AND UNIQUELY RARE!! Thanks for all the help you provide to the community.

What a great love affair! It's always going to be the little things that carries the most weight.

I have never even thought of trying to hit a specific number on the mark... That can't be easy.

3 is a great number. Thanks for all of the useful information that you gave us that helped to get the 333333.

And then it was gone....

shoulda made it so comments couldn't be made! :)

Jeff - congratulations are in order because I do know hard it is. I tried to sit at just under 100,000 for a short time so two of us could cross over at the same time, impossible as the points seen are behind that points actually earned. we crossed closs but not at the same time.

Cute good for you.

Again with the "cute." :)

Jeff- I can't imagine how hard it must have been to hit that exact number. That's incredibly romantic. Puppy's are cute;-)

I'm hoping that this is comment #33!

Great Job with all you do.

I'm a numbers twit as well. Pulled over many a time to capture a significant number on the ODO.

Congrats on the 333,333 and to compound your calculations, all you needed was to have some referral start get a whole bunch of points at the same time (AR pays the referrer 10% of points earned by the new member.

Then again, if something like that happened you can alsways ask Bob to penalize you for naughty behavior.

: )

Mike... would I get to engage in the naughty behavior first? That woudl be a real bonus. :)

Oh yeah! Of course.

Go ahead and be as naughty as the points you think you need to lose.

Then come clean to Bob confessing your naughtyness.

Bob will act like he knows all about it. (he likes that part even though he has no idea what your talking about)

Your Point total will be perfect.

It's kind of like reverse gaming in AR ;)

Just the other day I was complaining to Bob about my lack of features. He said he would fix it or fix me. To tell you the truth, I couldn't understand what he was saying.

You can see, I now have plenty of features! I have more features than anyone. I must be #1 for features. How cool is that?

LOL

Jeff, That is pretty cool. Rocky must be easily impressed:)

Jeff... I've learned so much from your 333,333 points - Please keep sharing. I love REAL ESTATE SHOWS!

I have learned a lot from your posts. I love my wide angle camera and Real Estate Shows, all thanks to reading your posts.

Jeff - at this point (still far away from 333,333) I can't even figure out how some of the points keep racking up, let alone trying to "fix" on a number! What if you got a comment or two somewhere in between and it threw off the whole thing??? This was a great, sweet (ok, romantic too) thing to do for your wife. ~Rita

Jeff:

Well, I was wondering, of course, if Rocky, saw this. I figured yes, and there was her comment. Thanks for sharing the tribute to your lovely wife (no offense to TLW).

Jeff

I really hate to post this comment, because it's number 34... I grew up in a numbers loving family, but no one liked 3's! My dad loves 2's - as in 22, his lucky number. I love 8's - the great infinity number (and I love even numbers too). My husband is a fan of prime numbers.

Jeff, all of your posts are interesting and informative - looking forward to 383,383!

Way to go, Jeff! I'm betting Rocky had a great big ol' smile!

It's that creative, ingenious mind that I totally admire in you, Jeff !!!

Some may say, "What a silly thing to do", but you know what? I doubt no one else even thought of doing something like this :)

Yay, Rocky! You guys are awesome - your love for each other so evident when you are together !!! Here's for many more 3's in your lives!!

Awesome!! It must be fun balancing your way to 333333. LOL

Your posts are very informative. Keep it up.

I aim for 8888 by the end of this month.

I'm hoping to be comment #38.

Am I? LOL

Yes!! I am #38. LOL

OCT

2008

Well, that makes me comment #39, which we all know is divisible by 3. Hi Jeff :) Hi Rocky :)

I'm so glad y'all are getting into the numeroloical spirit! :)

LOL... I'm comment number 41...

How did you do that Jeff :) do I sense a tutorial coming???

Jeff, Here is a trick I learned as a kid. Enter 12345679 (no 8) in a calculator, then multiply by a number that is divisible by 9, and see what you get. For your wife, do 12345679 X 27 and you will get an answer she will like, since she likes the number 3. Try it!

Susan... this is for you. A video. http://www.vimeo.com/1924838

And... believe it or not, the perfect zoom size for this video was 333%. You can't make this stuff up. See the upper right side of image below.

333 percent zoom

You're welcome, Jeff. Actually though, the multiplier to use is 9, rather than 3, so if you use 9 you'll have all 1s, 18 will get you all 2s, 54 will get you all 6s, etc.

LOL... I got fixated on the number "3" :)

Wow, it's amazing that you have so many points! And what a thoughtful husband... I hope your wife appreciates her special blog.

now see... i thought you commented on my blog the other day because you felt it worthy of a Turner comment.

When in actuality you were using me to please your wife... sick sick man you are. :)

Desiree... I just need you to know that I am employee a series of filters right now. So much could be said. :)

You make me laugh you ggek head. Nice going and that's a lotta points. thanks for all you do!

OCT

2008

That is very sweet & touching, Jeff. Thanks for all the neat posts you do here on AR (you probably should be a paid staff member at this point, with all those tutorials you've done).

What a great thing to do for your wife. Wow, six kids! How do you have time to do so much for the community here on AR? Ditto what Mary said about being paid staff.

OCT

2008

very sweet of you to romance Rocky with your loving 3's... I cant imagine 333333 points! You and Rocky both are inspiring people and everytime I read your post I think to myself you both have genuine hearts to help others and to enrich lives.

note: yuou now have 3 sweet and 3 romantic /romance comments !

OCT

2008

Cute :)

OCT

2008

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's "cute," I get it. But I like Michele's response better. Sweet and Romantic! :)

OCT

2008

Hi Jeff, I just saw this on the 30th and there were 54 comments when I commented. My birthdate is 6/3/54. So naturally the number 3 is one of my favorite numbers.

Congrats on the 333,333

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