For about six months now I've been watching my hit count creep toward an average of 9 hits per post. It doesn't matter; it's just an exercise in . . . well, in curiosity, I guess. And it isn't as if I really have all that many people who are interested in my thoughts. All time, 40% of my page views have come from Russia, which I imagine to probably be machine hits, so I don't take the whole statistical exercise as being at all indicative of my "popularity" or, by extension, value. Anyway, when I first started paying attention I was averaging under 6 hits/post, and ended up passing 6, 7 and then 8 hits per post within a couple months of each other. But the average has been slow to reach this next integer, in part because I've been blogging so prolifically this year - by nearly three times my previous highest number of posts, and December looks as if it will be the first month in which I don't average at least one post per day.
The count has been hovering just below 9 since we got back from vacation, the wonderful trip and family time that was also the reason I didn't write as much this month. I was a little surprised when I got up this morning and saw the average was over 9, with enough views to spare that I could do another post without dipping back under it. I probably have something to actually say, so when I get around to that one the average will dip back under again unless I've picked up a couple more views. Eh. I suppose I can live with that.
Anyway, I seem to be having a really difficult time focusing on the positives in my life right now. The negatives are right in my face all the time, and it's a constant exercise in discipline to turn my attention from them that I just don't seem to always (or even usually, of late) be up to.
I can't afford not to be, though.
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