For Those of You Waiting With Bated Breath
January 21st, 2006 at 11:25 pm by Dee O'Neil Andrews
All I know about visitor number 10,000 is that they dropped by about 6:30 p.m. Friday, hail from Odessa, Texas (remember the really good movie last fall – “Friday Night Lights” – of Texas high school football fame?) and use Southwestern Bell as their internet provider.
So, if anyone wants to step up to take their moment in the sun and grab their claim to fame by being hit number 10,000 here at “Finding Direction,” feel free. I feel a real connection with that part of the country, as you all know, being from Abernathy, just up the road a ways. And, of course, I’ve got family near Midland/Odessa just across I-20 to the east in Abilene. I’ve got even more family up in Lubbock and Wellington.
I’d be more excited about the 10,000th hit at “Finding Direction” if I didn’t know that about 5,427 of those hits were from me constantly piddling with the template and stuff. You know – reading back over my posts and continually editing them like an English teacher would. Then there are the aproximately 4,132 hits by family members and Tammany Oaks members trying to keep tabs on me since I wandered off into Blogland a few months ago.
Then deducting the 414 or so “commercials” that slipped through, along with the Google and Yahoo! searches for “wind vanes,” and you have a net total of what – 27 people who have wandered by looking for inspiration, uplifting and encouragement?! And what have you found here? What have you found? All that and more, I hope. At least that’s my intent.
Seriously, I hope that all of you who have come by and have hung around to see what was going to happen next will continue to do so. Let me know how I’m doing and what you’d like to read here at “Finding Direction.” I’m glued to the house for at least nine weeks this time (six of which have already passed, thank God), so have lots of time to think and write and meditate and instigate new contests and come up with new tests and to try in inject a little humor in what often is a humorless situation around here.
It’s you all that keep me encouraged and coming back here to write all the time. So, thanks. Thanks to every one of you who come by to read all the time. I’m here when you need anything. And I’m like the Motel 6 commercial. I’ll keep the light on for you so you can find your way here.
Grace & Peace everyone. God be with you.
Dee,
You probably get lots of hits from people like me who read your posts on a reader like “Bloglines” or an off-line RSS reader. I don’t think your site meter catches those (though I’m not sure). I only come to your site if I want to leave a comment.
Enjoy your 10,000 milestone. You’re a great writer and a lovely person and you deserve every hit! (By the way, you can set “Site Meter” so that it doesn’t record hits from your own browser.)
I’m still struggling to get to 1,000 since I installed my meter on Oct 27(?).
Congratulations on your blogging milestone!
Yep, I do the bloglines alot too! Keep on writing Dee. We love it even when we are reading on the run.
I will think about that name the triplet contest….
Anthony -
I tried to set the Site Meter to block out my own hits, but even though I did exactly what Site Meter said to do (either 2 or 3 times) it’s never worked.
I don’t care. I’m not sure how accurate all that stuff is, anyway. As long as I feel I have something to say of benefit to someone, someway, I’ll keep at it.
Which reminds me – you all have got to drop by next time when I announce the winners of the “Winter Desktop” Picture contest. It’ll be fun.
I use bloglines too but had hoped to be #10k. I guess I’ll set my sights on #20k, maybe sometime next week.
10,000? Wow.
I enjoy your blog, your stlye, and your spirit. Have a great trip to 20,000.
Way to go! — 10,087