I recently took a 12 day hiatus from taco eating, and thus taco tracking.  There’s really no good reason why I went twelve days, including two Taco Tuesdays without eating a taco.  It’s embarrassing.  I love tacos.  I’ve let down myself, let down the Taco Tracker, and let down my country.  My pace has dropped dramatically to just a smidge over 433 tacos for the year.  That’s like a hitter with a batting average of .433 going into the All-Star break.  It’s unacceptable! 

 I don’t know if it was a mental lapse as I struggled to come to grips with the fact that I’m approaching that elusive and historic 100^th taco.  Perhaps in my subconscious I am secretly scared of the 100^th taco.   I don’t know what the deal is, but I can tell you that I am 100% committed to tracking tacos. 

 With that being said, we have to talk about the elephant in the room:  The 100^th taco.  I sit at 96 right now.  I typically go with either 3 or 4 tacos in a meal.  Therefore, if it’s 4, I’m going to hit the 100^th taco.  This is a huge deal for the Rockford area.  I don’t want to sound self-centered, but we need to face facts here:  not since President Richard Nixon visited Rockford on October 29, 1970 have we seen something so historic. 

 I’ll turn it over to the public, what are ideas for the 100^th taco?

 Cue the pomp.  Cue the circumstance.