Well, I’m glad I did that.

It’s pretty late on Tuesday. I just finished some cleaning and unpacking, although it seems not enough for sugar-mama’s taste. Why do all my clothes have to be in drawers or the closet? They weren’t at the last place, so why should I start with such high expectations at this new place?

Whatever. I’ll do it this week. It’s part of the give and take.

Oh, the take part? Yeah, I probably need to do some more of the giving because that taking will take place Wednesday afternoon when I head down to see Malia at Memorial on Moreland. It’s my new tattoo place and tattoo chick and they’re about five minutes from the new house. I might give a quick pic on Facebook tomorrow, but the full new ink won’t be published until at least next weekend because I want to unveil it at poker weekend.

For now, just know that it will be huge and sweet (yes, that’s what she said) and I need to be nice to sugar-mama for a while since she actually didn’t hate the idea. She may not totally like it, but at least she doesn’t have to live with it forever. Oh. Wait. Um, maybe… hmm. I’ll have to think about that one.

Anyway, I got some cleaning done and a little work and then I realized it was still Tuesday and I had time to get a quickie blog done to appease the vile Sheila and new Carlson. It’s the little things, I tell ya.

So, I came to the page and like normal, checked my stats. I think it’s pretty safe to say that I’m pretty vain. I like to know when people are checking the site and when I’m doing shit that people like.

Admit it. You’re the same way. You like your Facebook status, whether you do it once a month or every 13 minutes, you enjoy when you go back and there’s that cool little red 1 or 2 or 3, whatever, signifying that someone out there wanted to let you know they saw your post. They ‘Like’ it or they made a comment about it. You love seeing that little sucker lit up all red.

Well, so do I. But part of what I love is coming to my WordPress dashboard and seeing the traffic.

Normally, on a day that I haven’t posted a blog, I’ll have between five and 10 hits. Some days zero, other days maybe 12 or 13.

To my surprise, I logged on and it was at 49 today and I haven’t even blogged yet.

Strange.

When I do a blog, it will get 30 to 40 hits. That’s about 37 more than I expected I’d average, so I’m pretty happy with that.

But where the fuck did I end up with 49 hits today without any new entry? That’s a high number even if I have a good blog that I tell people to read.

Were my Islamist friends back? Were they curious about the new house and just assumed I’d post something new today?

[SIDENOTE: We love the new place. Probably the best place I’ve ever rented. Great house. Pretty good location. Lot of restaurants and shopping within 20 minutes, only a limited amount of crack houses in the same area. Well, actually, more crack houses than I’d probably like, but not more than we can handle. There is a rib shack, literally, two blocks away that I’m pretty sure is smaller than the trailer I lived in between the one-bedroom white house years, and according to the sign at the exit from the highway I take, there is plenty of Section 8 housing available nearby as well. And we’re in the exact opposite portion of the city, having moved from the northwest corner of Atlanta to the southeast corner, both times about as close to being outside the city limits as you can get.]

Since I didn’t want to disappoint my new bearded friends, I figured I better write something. But wait. Was it really them?

I found out recently that I can go in and look at where they page views come from. So if someone is on a certain site and then jumps to my site, it will tell me. Now, how that link gets on there, I don’t fully understand. I think it may have something to do with aliens and silver nuggets found in New Mexico. Whatever.

Then I looked at the links list and it became obvious. This is definitely my kind of people. They really probably do get it, whatever ‘it’ is that I’m selling on here.

Why?

Well, take a little look at the sites that people came from right before reading my blog today:

  • flixxy.com/athletic-girl-lunga-musical-africa.htm
  • snazzysnapper.com
  • A google string from ‘all my homies are from the street’, which happens to be a t-shirt that I own
  • theheckler.com/2010/10/06/cigar-guy-emerges-as-top-candidate-to-replace-brenly
  • A number of youtube.com posts
  • evilmadscientist.com/article.php/marmalade
  • A Twitter feed

Probably my favorite was the site: thisiswhyyourefat.com. There was so much expectation on my part when I saw this, and then I go to it, and it’s a dead end. It’s a lame blog site.

I wonder if that’s what people think when they get to my site?

Damn, now I’m not so excited about blogging today.

Damn you thisiswhyyourefat.com. Why couldn’t you be like peopleofwalmart.com? Bastards.