Once upon a time, I started a blog. On a good day, my blog would get about 10 to 20 hits. On a weekend, maybe 5. Sometimes, it’ll hit close to 30. Once, I got 95 hits because a woman with a very popular blog mentioned my name and a number of her readers came to visit.
Yesterday morning at around 6:30am, I checked my blog stats summary sheet for all the blogs I manage (there are about eleven or so of them, half of which are unpublished blogs that I use to test out stuff – shhh, don’t tell WordPress). So when I saw the number 252 next to my blog, I immediately assumed that it was a technical glitch on the part of WordPress because there’s no way I could have gotten that many hits, let alone that many hits so early in the morning. Not even if I combined the stats for all eleven blogs. Maybe they switched to displaying monthly totals instead for the poor bloggers with tiny audiences?
Then I checked my email and saw a message from my friend Shrew. She is an amazing photographer who follows the blog of Scott Kelby. If you know Photoshop, chances are you know who Scott Kelby is. And so it appears that on Monday at around 1:30am, this little obscure online hut made it to the front page of Scott Kelby’s blog.
I was flabbergasted. I was discombobulated. I rushed to my “43 Things” section up there that got the second highest amount of hits because I suddenly realized that I wrote it ages ago, when I had no visitors and it didn’t really matter much if I made sense or used proper grammar. (Did I mention that English is my second language?)
By the end of the day, my entire blog stats page was out of whack. I looked at it and shook my head in disbelief. Then I forwarded it to Shrew. Who looked at it and laughed out so loud that someone in her office thought that a poor duck was stepped on.
Then I made a little poster (using Photoshop, of course) to sum up my wild, wild day.
The End
Now THAT right there is funny!
You have such a great sense of humor and the writing talent to communicate it.
So how many hits did you get yesterday in the end?
Oh, and those graphs were actual screenshots of the stats page.
Brc, developing some sense of humor is almost inevitable when weirdly funny and absurdly wild and ridiculously unbelievable stuff keeps happening to you.
Holy wow, hut!! Maybe you’ll get some more regulars.
I can’t believe 2,000+ people can look at your blog and not make a comment!
No Kidding BRC!
Ok, so I’ll make myself known.
I saw your blog mentioned on Scott Kelby’s blog and I thought I’d check it out. I promptly added you to my Bloglines and plan to become a regular. 
For demographic purposes, I am a male 30-35 year old currently residing in Norway with a keen interest in photography and image processing.
Welcome, H! Nice of you to write in. Hope you enjoy the water and scenery. Wait, what am I talking about. You’re in Norway, land of fjords and glaciers and every magnificence of nature amplified to the nth degree. Wanna trade residences for a while?
And, Brc and Shrew, you guys … I’m all verklempt here. So sweet of you to say that. I feel like Gladys Knight and you are my Peeps. But let me not start singing now, else I might scare even more people away.
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