Some things to think on
I have found a new toy. Because I own my site, it comes with some things I never got around to looking at until yesterday. One of them offers a bunch of different statistics programs that allow me to see who comes here (generally, it doesn’t give me your name or age) and from where. It also tells what OS you use and which browser, and there were some I’d never heard of in my life. It also tells how many pages were looked at and how much time was spent on the site. None of this information is connected, so I cannot say that someone from the Netherlands spent an hour here, but I hope (s)he did.
It is a revelation to me. In October people have come from absolutely everywhere. Kuwait, Slovenia, Korea, Japan and a list as long as my arm of places I’ve never been and may never go. Not that I wouldn’t love to go, but you’d have to send tickets.
Now the truth is that most of you are in the United States, as one would expect. After all, that’s a big population. Then the United Kingdom and Italy and other EU nations. But some of you are visiting from Russia, too. And quite a few are here from China.
Do you know how much that means to me? Do you understand how happy I am that you come here? Now that I know about you, I think of you when I’m writing. I wonder what appeals to you, what you’d like to know that I can find out, and if you are English mother tongue folks who happen to be in those places or if you are reading English as a second language.
One of the programs available shows a list headed by flags. I am so delighted when I see that row of flags marching down that chart. Jamaica, Barbados, Canada, Malaysia. It gives me a thrill so potent that I sign in and look just to see it. And that is just for October, only four days old. Over eighteen-thousand page requests from dozens of countries. I hope the only change will be that the list grows longer and longer… just how many flags exist anyway? I want them all.
I am left with only one question: why don’t you talk to me? Imagine how happy I would be to hear what it’s really like in places I barely know!
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