Here's why you'll get a reminder in your email from me

This was in my email today - in response to my whining about recently low numbers of visitors to blog :

Subject: No reminders

Message: I was just commenting to Don this a.m. that I hadn’t visited your blog lately because I’d been busy and hadn’t gotten any of your usual email reminders … what’s the deal?  You know the proles have to be prodded or we’ll get distracted by things like eating and watching TV.

The quality is still there, you just need to keep reminding folks that they need to get off their butts and look for it.

Love and kisses.

So, I guess I will start sending out the reminders that I’d assumed would just be an annoyance - clogging up the inboxes of others.

Thanks for the kick, Peg.

Nobody loves this blogger anymore?

After the last weeks dismal numbers of visitors to this blog, I’d gotten kind of sad. Sunday night came along, time to write something for Monday Musings, and I couldn’t.

No steam. No fire in the belly.

Hells’ bells, hardly anybody reads it anyhow.

So, I says … no blogging for a week. Take a rest from it, and maybe the fire will come back.

For me, the ‘fire’ comes from two sources: A-outrageous events, B- numbers of loyal readers.

There have been times lately, when I wasn’t going to blog, but took a look at the numbers of readers, and thought : “I owe them something to read.”

So I would blog. And, feel damn good about it.

But, this last couple of weeks has been crap on a stick.

Worse than crap.

Sarah Palin. On my front door step. With a crowd of Tea Bag crazys out on the lawn, chanting.

“Maven is a Socialist!”

Actually, that would be cool.

But, I don’t understand the way my numbers - called analytics, in the blogger game - have been wildly gyrating between “HUGE” and “lower than whale shit”.

Hmmm. If anybody has a clue, let me in on it.

Otherwise, I’ll be reduced to pleading and begging and whining.

Not!

Maven, who isn’t exactly a Socialist