stats roller coaster

I expected my Hairy Chasms stats to be low while I was away from this blog, and for most of October, the stats were indeed low. Starting around the time of my Andong walk, a period during which I scheduled a bunch of posts as a way to bring the blog back to life, traffic started returning, and it came back with a vengeance. I went from 200-visit days to 1,000-visit days, and then, once I was back from both walks and blogging here again in earnest, my stats leaped into what is, for me, the stratosphere with a slew of 2,000- and 3,500-visit days. Yesterday was over 3,600 visits, and that day pushed my stat counter over 20,000 visits for the month. Unbelievable. I expect everything to calm down as I reestablish a blogging routine over the next couple of weeks; I hope this will mean a return to 600- and 700-visit days, not the 300s. But you never know. People can be fickle, and with Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, we're entering the time when my blog traffic is traditionally pretty low as my readers, who I imagine have lives of their own, get engaged with those lives and step away from the Hairy Chasms. What will be will be, as they say. Meanwhile, my thanks to the combination of people and bots who pushed my stats over 20K this month. I really wasn't expecting that.