*looks around the blog, vaguely unsatisfied frown on face*
I am contemplating changing some things up around here. I just don’t have the fortitude to deal with politics anymore. I rarely have anything pithy, illuminating or original to share, either. I mean, I’m consistently getting between 3k & 4k hits a day. I think a whooooolllle bunch of those are bots and spammers. All I know from my stat meter is that 80%+ of the hits are from direct requests for this web address. I cannot fathom that there are that many people out there interested in lame ass cat pictures, movie reviews and regurgitated content from other sites so I suspect that of that 80%, 75% of it is my own hits during the day to see if anyone said anything that might amuse me for 5 minutes. :)
Plus, I’m paying for way too many URLs right now and not using most of them. It may be time to consolidate into a single location. Features would likely be book reviews, movie reviews, lame ass cat pictures, recipes and food porn, links to stuff that I think is shiny or drool worthy, occasional whines about wanting to win the lottery and retire to Wyoming and travel stuff when I can afford to travel again. :) So… not much difference really, except for the addition once again of actual recipes. And I give up the pretense of once having been an every so often current events and politics blog, feel less pressure to post every day and less guilt when my posts suck. :)
I’d like to investigate having an online store for cool art, good tea and stuff I like, but that probably will require some kind of business license and dealing with city hall – yik. Knowing me, that probably won’t happen.
Anyway, there is a possibility if I get off my ass soon that a name change may be in the works.
At any rate, get to work you other bloggers. Amuse me!
I hear ya. I have stuff to post and then whenever I go over there I get washed with waves of ennui. Plus it’s been dead so long I doubt anyone would notice if I did. Then I think about starting all over again from scratch and ditch wordpress. Looking at squarespace now. Hmmm.
Huh, I just checked out the demo. Impressive.
Hm. Not unhappy with WordPress, but that looks pretty keen.
A co-worker sent me this yesterday (the consequence of watching The Golden Girls on YouTube in the office), and had me in tears from laughing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pBkAi-giu-g
That’s all the entertainment I have which is why I haven’t blogged in nearly 2 weeks. ;)
that is definitely chuckle worthy. :)
Amuse you? Shit. Challenge accepted. Give me some time, and I’ll see what I can do.
Awesome.
There! Go now, Nicole, and be thou amused!
Oh, and I average around 20 hits per day. It skyrockets to all of about 100 when my friend Gerard over at American Digest links to me.
If you need help bringing down your stats, I might be the guy to ask. Though I am honestly not sure what my secret is.
Eh. Stats schmats. I mention them only to note how many hits I get from spam bots. And my own lame self. :)
I only get maybe 200 hits per day, in my fluff blog. H&B gets far more. Hits mean nothing, comments do ;)
If you wish to consolidate your blogs, talk to ArmedGeek. He has his own server.
I would amuse you, but I’m having a bad case of writer’s block. Stupid voices in my head aren’t talking to me for some reason…
200 real hits is better than 2k spam hits. You are quite correct – hits don’t mean anything. What counts is knowing that sometimes my inanity amuses someone other than myself. :)
H&B gets hits due in part to the high quality postings of booze and also hookers. That’s a tried and true formula right there.
And we have at least 2 servers wandering around here at home I think. Space isn’t an issue. I’m truthfully not paying much for space. All my sites are hosted off of my main recipe site that I’ve had for a gazillionty years. But, all the domain names are separate and paid for as such. That’s where my cost is coming in.
Just want you to know that I stop by daily, and I’m not a bot. At least I don’t think I am.
You don’t sound like one, so if you are, you are a smart bot. :) Thanks for stopping by.
I run about 800 a day, about evenly split between actual readers and feed subscribers. The metering service ignores bots, except for the Googlebot. I’m also paying for six domains, but you don’t want to know about that.
Ouch. Makes my 4 look downright manageable. :) And you always provide entertainment.
I used to blog for reasons other than “to mollify the voices in my head” and bake the whole hog building traffic, etc. *feh* Too much like work. Now, I’m back to just beating back the voices in my head.
So, whatever you do around here, my counsel (for whatever that’s worth *heh*) would be to either have fun (or preserve whatever sanity you want to maintain) or bag it.
Yeah, too much like work is no fun. :)
90 percent of the Internet is cats.
The other 10 percent is elephants on trampolines.
http://sonofsoylentgreen.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=27695
If that doesn’t work…
http://sonofsoylentgreen.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/etr.gif
elephant on trampoline made my day. :)
I really like the name “Autumn People” but… whatever. You’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do. I’ve changed blog names something like 6 times.
Oh, it will likely stay the same. I’m pretty lazy. I spent an hour or so looking at new themes and another 30 minutes trying to figure out how to change my header text and I’ve decided it probably isn’t worth the effort. :)
If you talk crazy they will come.
People dig crazy.
Yeah, I wish I had the gift of crazy gab like you and Leeann. Nothing that interesting ever happens to me and I lack the ability to make the mundane crazy interesting. I’ll just have to be content with reading you. :)