Blogging milestones that is.

Not too long ago I passed the 10,000 hits milestone. The ole statcounter sits at 10470 at this very moment. I cant get too excited about this however. Most of my daily traffic comes from folks search for information on the “illuminanti.” These people probably think that they have uncovered a very very secret society since even google returns only a few hits on this word. The truth is quite different, the word they should be searching is “Illuminati,” that will give them all kinds of information. So why are they coming to my site? Am I a secret overseer in some worldwide conspiracy? Wouldn’t you like to know. Or maybe I wrote about the Illuminati and consistently misspelled the word in that post. I’ve been tempted to edit it, since I figured out my error, but I figure I’m helping others with the same spelling challenges as myself. So I leave it as written.

A fair percentage of my hits came through the Blog Explosion. I gave that up. It was kind of nice to watch the hit counter move, but I prefer to have people actually read this thing. I have a few regular readers, you know who you are, and you should be ashamed. (For the uninitiated, that was my feeble attempt at humor, there’s a lot of that here.) So the 10,000 hit mark is meaningless, but it’s human nature to eye up a nice round number like that call it meaningful.

The Milestone that has much more significance for me is the fact that as of right now, I have been blogging for over a year. When I started this, I didn’t really know anything about it. I’d read WWdN and a few other blogs. I didn’t have any “blogging friends” I had no one really interested in reading my site. I had some notions about what I would write about. Most of them were wrong. I found that writing was different than I thought it would be. i also found that it was very important to me. So I write and I write, sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s not.

When I started I did not know if I would have it in me to stick with it. I think that will not be a problem. And to those of you who happen by… Thanks. It somehow means more to know that someone is reading what I am writing.