8 (circle)

In lieu of anything substantial to post (arguments can be made that I have yet to do so), I will go the route of the frivolous post. 

Self serving and self aggrandizing/

At some point yesterday, I hit (and surpassed) 8,000,000 hits to this blog thingy. 

Just to remind folks: it took me 14.5 years to hit one million. And another 5+ to hit two million. 

Since then, it's been up and down. 2024 saw another (!) four million come in. Since then it's slowed down a bit and I am seemingly getting one million hits every 6-8 months. 

I'm not complaining. 

I've said before, it is most likely bots or AI. 

I get a fair number of comments from "Mari" that never make it to my posts. They are all the exact same language and I just go through and delete them and mark them as spam. 

I know threatened to monetize this blog thingy if the numbers kept increasing, but I have not pulled that trigger. I have not even researched that trigger. 

When it comes down to it, I'm a lazy fuck. 

It looks like I'll end this month with about 180,000 hits, which is great. There were months when I was in the low hundreds. Not of thousands, but triple digits. I don't take these numbers as validation, though some stupid AI program is searching me out for a reason. 

I do not use you-know-whose-name, so they can't be searching for that. Oh, I guess it could be the administration putting me on yet another one of their lists. That seems to more reasonable. My FBI file must be about 7" thick at this point. .....because you just know they print them off, hole punch them, bind them and put them in a drawer. 

There was a time I said if I didn't blog for three days in a row, assume I'm dead. Now, just assume I got no due process. 

That seems more likely. 

Song by: Bon Iver