Sure enough, my site stats have dropped ever since I left the hospital. As I suspected: you're only interesting when you're sick. Technically, I'm still sick, but to the impatient mind, I'm not nearly sick enough. Ah, well.
Bullshit! You have a core group of loyal followers that matter the most.You know who we are and I suspect you can track from where. Website numbers in a non commercial environment do not matter. You have embraced this online medium for a long time to engage us all. Please continue. We like it. BTW-Awesome cooking and wood chopping continue. -Curtis S.
I appreciate the sentiment, but the numbers don't lie. In the space of a day or two, I went from a high of 1200 or so per day to about 500 or so, which is about my norm. None of this invalidates the idea of a core group of supporters, of course, but it means the extra people were no more than extra people. Anyway, thanks as always for the support. I can always count on the core group to be there.
The irony is that when you are at your most ill, say thrashing about wildly in your final death throes, you will have the most interesting things to blog upon, but be totally unable to do so for those staring uselessly at their monitors, awaiting your final words with bated breath . . .
Since British fairy tales often involve dead parents, horrible relatives, and little children in constant danger from terrible monsters, I guess such a sense of humor is at least consistent with a British sensibility.
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Bullshit!
ReplyDeleteYou have a core group of loyal followers that matter the most.You know who we are and I suspect you can track from where. Website numbers in a non commercial environment do not matter.
You have embraced this online medium for a long time to engage us all. Please continue. We like it.
BTW-Awesome cooking and wood chopping continue.
-Curtis S.
Curtis,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the sentiment, but the numbers don't lie. In the space of a day or two, I went from a high of 1200 or so per day to about 500 or so, which is about my norm. None of this invalidates the idea of a core group of supporters, of course, but it means the extra people were no more than extra people. Anyway, thanks as always for the support. I can always count on the core group to be there.
If it makes you feel any better, I'll always think of you as one sick SOB.
ReplyDeleteThe irony is that when you are at your most ill, say thrashing about wildly in your final death throes, you will have the most interesting things to blog upon, but be totally unable to do so for those staring uselessly at their monitors, awaiting your final words with bated breath . . .
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Jeff,
ReplyDeleteYou have a very "British children's books" sense of humor.
I agree with Charles. :)
ReplyDeleteI hope that's not an entirely bad thing.
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Jeff,
ReplyDeleteSince British fairy tales often involve dead parents, horrible relatives, and little children in constant danger from terrible monsters, I guess such a sense of humor is at least consistent with a British sensibility.