Amateur Megalomania

Colds are unpleasant. Which makes sense, because if they were a great thing, we’d spend all of our time going around licking doorknobs.

And I appreciate the body’s capability to go after the microbial invader. I just wish the body had evolved a way to quietly present you with a nice text message – “You have a cold”, rather than beating you upside the head with fever, dizziness and enough sinus pressure to cause one to consider self-trepanation.

So the past few days haven’t been fun for me. Keeping up with the news, let alone writing about it, isn’t really possible when you can’t string together enough nouns and verbs to even gripe coherently about being ill.

I don’t get a lot of readers here. Back when I was on Blogspot and posting like crazy, I worked up to around 40-50 visits a day. Now I’m down to around a dozen, and some of those are from repeats. The Sitecounter, that little box in the bottom of the right hand sidebar – go ahead and click on it – reveals some interesting information about who comes here. I can tell the source of the visit, usually the provider, and with a little deduction, I can figure out who has stopped by. KVCC, Promedica, National City, Avon Lake Ohio….you know who you guys are.

But the counter also provides some more interesting stuff. When someone visits my site through a search engine, the search terms are referred to me through the counter. I can see what people are googling when they find me.

The word ‘amateur’ in the blog title seems to be a form of flypaper for desperate souls googling porn and finding their way to me.

Some months back, I posted a bit about a car accident we had. I titled it “Getting Nailed”. It seems to be incredibly popular for some reason beyond my understanding….

And here is a little thing that sheds some insight on you BGSU alums.

I need to figure out a way to leverage this kind of traffic. Jamie Jeffords, over at the Eye of Polyphemus, posts the occasional celebrity photographs, carefully noting that they are NOT nude, but of course the search engine doesn’t really contextualize the word ‘not’ when providing links to ‘nude Reese Witherspoon’ (and I expect to get a couple of hits on what I just typed).

Using Google to mess around with lonely people…that might provide some entertainment.

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