Rising Numbers-And I Thought I was me…
Posted by Kirk M on 31 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Blogging, Just Thinkin
I’ve been very pleased over the past few weeks with the way my blog here had been doing as far as my statistics and the numbers thereof were concerned. Very pleased in fact. Of course if you knew me well enough you’d realize that it doesn’t take much to make me feel that way still, I couldn’t complain the way the numbers were going up. Then yesterday I took a closer look and found out it wasn’t really me after all…
…it was a rodent.
Now I never set out upon this blogging venture with any expectation whatsoever of gaining any sort of notoriety or massive following, that would have been an unrealistic assumption on my part and the numbers have proved out accordingly so you can probably imagine my reaction when I saw the numbers steadily rising day by day. Could this be it? Could people actually be enjoying what I have to say about this, that and the other thing?
Don’t you believe it.
Punxsutawney Phil. That’s why my numbers were going up. Yup, a groundhog was making my statistics look more rosier everyday and here I thought it was my wonderful content and/or perhaps an increasing need for self abuse on the part of Internet surfers overall that was causing this marvelous increase in visitors. It never dawned on me in the least that the closer we came to Groundhog Day the more people were banging into last year’s post about this very thing. Over half my visits and nearly all the downloads were of that Feb 2nd, 2007 post about America’s favorite weather predicting rodent and the image I placed into the post.
Nuts!
Well that’s okay I suppose. At least I wrote the damn thing in the first place and I’m glad so many folks are enjoying it or at least Phil’s charismatic photo is drawing a crowd. In the meantime I believe I’ll go have a good sulk in the corner.
I’ll be back later when I feel better about myself.
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