Sometime in the next few days my SiteMeter total will top 400,000.
There has been a reduction in measured traffic, but only because as of a few weeks ago I set SiteMeter to count only visits to actual Yippee-Ki-Yay! content rather than to it and all of my past blogs. There’s also been a reduction in actual traffic, but that’s inconsequential—it’s only because fewer people are visiting.
Any competitive spirit I may have had about blogging went away months ago. Any desire I may have had to try to offer my own supposedly unique insight on issues had diminished before even that. Nor have I ever deluded myself that anyone was interested in reading me saying what a million other people are saying, simply because it’s me saying it. And it appears that my opinion of politics in general has begun drifting in the same direction long ago taken by my interest in playing Dungeons & Dragons; indeed, the similarity between the two pursuits cannot be denied.
I recently joked that instant gratification elicits better results with me than delayed gratification. Well, I’ve been blogging, as such, for almost five years. At various times over the years I’ve wondered why I keep doing it. Yet I’m still here. Yippee-Ki-Yay! is undoubtedly destined to be another one of those blogs read almost entirely by members of my own family.
Had I never been added to Instapundit’s blogroll, or received widespread attention for this, that or the other, I either would have stopped blogging years ago, or I would have been satisfied all along with what little traffic I was ever able to attract. As it is, I have among my remaining readers fellow bloggers who are surely wondering what the hell I’ve got to feel sorry for myself about.
Well, nothing. I sat down to note that my SiteMeter total was about to cross another one of those multi-zero round numbers, and the next thing I knew I was free-associating. When you’ve been blogging this long, you start to blog like an old man on a park bench just aching to strike up a conversation with anybody, about anything.
Still boreblogging after all these years. And nobody does it better.
Update, Friday night: Unique Visitor #400,000 was looking for a picture of a proposed (six months ago) new Georgia license plate. He or she came from somewhere in North America via an unknown ISP, and uses a Mac.
I can remember when my round-number visitors were people I knew.
‘Nother Update, Saturday morning: What the @#$!!ing @#$!!? Last night my SiteMeter put the 400,000 number (I coulda sworn) on the visitor looking for the license plate picture. Today that visitor is now shown as #400,002, and the 400,000th visitor is a Windows user from Manhattan Beach, California and clicked here from the Bear Flag League blogroll.
I dunno, maybe I clicked the wrong way from #400,001 last night or something. It was late.
