Of all the things to count, exchanges are probably the most
controversial. If there's a "family stamp" for three people, do you
count it as one or three? If the dog has its own stamp, do you count
that? What if someone makes a new signature stamp--should you count
every one of them or is it just one person per exchange?

Nobody can agree on all of these points, so I've just stopped
counting exchanges. Two different people could do the exact same
exchanges, and one will say they've done 50 exchanges while the other
counts it as 100. There's so little consistency, it's staggering.

As for event stamps, I only count one per event. Then everyone knows
exactly how many events I've been to. The event in SLO supposedly
had something like five event stamps (mostly traveling event stamps)
which I thought was riduculous and protested by not stamping into any
of them except the main event stamp designed specifically for this
event only. =) Probably didn't make a difference, but hey, I'm not
trying to win a race for acquiring the most stamps. I just want a
count of how many events I've been to, not how many stamps I could
acquire.

-- Ryan