We certainly hope to be celebrating many, many birthdays here at The Current. Today is an incredibly special day for all of us, and we hope you too. Here's to you -- for listening, for supporting, for critiquing, complaining and cajoling, and for holding our hands as we figured out what in the heck we were doing.

A couple favorite memories: (MPR President) Bill Kling standing outside the booth as Atmosphere's "Shhh" played, with a look of "oh God, what have I done" on his face; the thousands of unsolicited membership contributions pouring in over the subsequent week, from people clearly answering, "the right thing, that's what;" the offices in near-darkness as we ran the building on generator power (a digging crew had broken a power line in St. Paul that day) and the asphyxiating smell of diesel fuel from the generator in the basement wafting up through the elevator shafts, giving us all a feeling of, "we will put this station on the air, if it kills us;" Lucia coming out of the booth after her innagural show on that first day and collapsing onto the carpet in exhausted triumph.

Thanks again for listening, and supporting.