diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c7e88910e..8358f87b1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-12-20  Elijah Newren  <newren@gmail.com>
+
+	* configure.in: re-add the note	about Fibonacci sequence micro
+	version numbers that was lost with 2.8.5
+
 2004-12-19  Elijah Newren  <newren@gmail.com>
 
 	Thanks to Baptiste Mille-Mathias for this fix.
@@ -48,7 +53,7 @@
 	* po/POTFILES.in: Remove reference to metacity-properties.* files
 	since Alex removed them in his 2004-12-07 commit.
 
-2004-12-13  Elijah Newren  <newren@math.utah.edu>
+2004-12-13  Elijah Newren  <newren@gmail.com>
 
 	* configure.in: post-release version bump to 2.9.2 that I forgot
 	to do last week (oops)
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 4b12e6ea6..b33772d54 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 AC_PREREQ(2.50)
+
+# Fibonacci sequence for micro version numbering:
+# 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987
 AC_INIT([metacity], [2.9.2],
         [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=metacity])