Counting Stairs

After reading Shelby's Blog on counting stairs I figured I should post some of the stuff of a stair-counter's nightmares. I've never wondered about counting the floor as my first step or not. I believed, from the beginning of my relationship with stairs, that the first step was the first elevation above the floor and at the top I counted my first footfall as I was only half on the landing but none after, say, if there should be a second set of stairs to continue up. If that were the case I would begin the process again as many times as it took to reach my destination floor and then add the sums together. Similarly on decent I counted the first footfall below the plane of the floor and then every in succession including the first footstep upon a landing, as I would only be half on the landing still. Should there be multiple landings I would continue in this fashion until arriving at my destination level and add the sums together for a total number of stairs.