This is getting silly.  There is no reason to continue this charade.  The legitimacy of the entire post count system is at stake, and my initial 7 posts were clearly making a mockery of it all.  I am disgraced.  I will once again retract the initial 7 posts, for if i don't, I fear a sound sleep will escape me.  I cannot rest my head on my pillow with a troubled brow.
So, with this post 442/11, renouncing the initial 7, as well as the apology for them, this will now be, for the sake of legitimacy, post 434/3 in this most recent embarrassment.