Never before in my PT history with ASTYM have I asked for a break. After hard negotiations I got a 13-day hiatus. +_+ I think we found the mother of all fibro flare triggers. Just in time for Father's Day, lol.

Ok, looking for funny grill kittehs and rebounded off these. The pix click to the pages they came from.

Wanna see the Walking Dead gang do this.

And I know this has absolutely nothing to do with grilling so what the crap was it doing in a grill search, but it reminds me of Mike being #devilJesus so there you go, happy Father's Day.

And speaking of healing powers, I got this text yesterday from my Sploit.

Just woke up to a really neat experience! I heard a loud whisper say, "Help him!" When I opened my eyes Zurrito was starting to slide down between the mattress and the wall. He was going down feet first but wasn't far away from his face being covered by mattress.

O_O Yeah, that was pretty cool. I guess we came close to it being a very bad day. That thought alone has made the rest of the day and night since then easy to feel grateful for, so I'm going into the weekend feeling pretty spunky, even though I feel like I was thrown off the Powder Keg.

You guys be safe around those grills, I know people who have gone to ER for nasty burns.

Here you go, a lol from my past before I started figuring out how to be social, from 6-12-08.

I understand all that now. I can see now why *I* used to look like the one who was horrible. That came from my deepest cave, a blog only 5 people have seen.

Ok, time to WORK.

Think I'm heading in for a strep test this morning.

Still raining. Days and days and days of rain. Oh, the sun comes out and teases us, but then the rain comes back. Saw a big crevice running through a parking lot yesterday that had survived the winter just fine, but the ground beneath is so spongy now that it's ripping through 2 inch thick asphalt like it's cloth.

 I just discovered the 'kitchen sink' area of the text editor. Yes, after all this time. Still no individual font sizing, font style, or background color. I suppose all that has to be done in customizing, but that sweeps through and changes all the content in the blog, not just one word.

Yes, I'm still working...

Quick blast from my private blog past while I get ready to WORK. I wrote it while I was on vacation last year and had just found out about the Xanga migration.

June 8, 2013

Munching on Kroger popcorn chicken out of the microwave. YUM! 

Having long slow thoughts about directions I want to take with my xanga stuff after I get home. Dan (TheTheologiansCafe) said the move would be seamless, and we’ll still be able to access our stuff (not sure I’d hold my breath), but no more blogging without paying. So my Lexx and bluejacky stuff would still be viewable by the public, BUT I’d lose view counts, premium perks like my custom module, probably even my personalized html, so my sites might actually look like crap after the move.

I need a dotcom.

I also need a blog completely free of anything xanga is doing, probably keep my yablovh over at wordpress for personal, etc.

The dotcom can be the central hub and branch out to all my other stuff on the webs. Kinda wondering if I should rebuild Yablo’s House. 

But first things first. Start salvaging everything I have on xanga as soon as I get home, then sift through it all and format my first book. I have till the middle of July for the salvage, and hopefully I can compile the book by my birthday (sadly, Xanga has severely jilted my work schedule), assuming I’ll be VERY interrupted with Twink having her baby. She has no one to help her at all after the birth, so we’ll be her support round the clock the first couple of weeks.

Yablo's House was my very first fairly extensive website that I built on AOL Hometown. Hometown is all gone now, alas. That was before I knew about hit counters and stats, but I got feedback from real people, one of whom insisted my site was dangerous because a variety of gifs on one of the pages purportedly nearly produced seizures after it created a throbbing migraine. Since that person also mentioned her kid being hooked on the gaming and cartoon links I had set up, perhaps this was even an addiction problem. At any rate, Yablo's House was apparently a popular hangout for at least one of the locals, crack me up. I hope to rebuild one day, but not now, obviously in the middle of WORKWORKWORK with a deadline.

If you are curious and disappointed and can't abide the thought of turning away just yet, check out this article about another famous Yablo, by Ebba Gullberg. Yes, I have read that entire article. Yes, I understood all of it. No, she is not talking about me.

So in the last 8 days, 63 of my pages have come up in google search for a total of 881 search summary link views and 13 actual clicks to my stuff.

This is over 3 months. You can see I get vastly more search views for my Weird Al links than anything else I've ever created, and bluejacky is my top blog for search engine queries.

I've always known a lot of people see my stuff, even if simple stat counters don't show it. You kinda get a clue when a big comment shows up and not one single tracker caught a ghost of that person's existence. That is why I don't put a lot of stock in website trackers. I'm not sure analytics is any better, because they make a big deal out of possibilities that don't necessarily happen, but they could. Like Sumall telling me my mention reach exceeded 2 million last month. Just because it was possible that 2 million twitter users might have seen something I did, I'm sure not seeing evidence that anything like that actually happened.

With the logarithm projections they use, I bet George Takei's mention reach is in the billions, which is more people than actually use twitter. The person writing these stats could have just said 3 in 10 in the title because the story below says almost 4 in 10, and this is how stats are jacked around and become lies. I took stats courses in college in 2 different disciplines, sociology and resource planning (geology department), plus it showed up in math classes. Believe it or not, sociology was by far the toughest. Stats are a wonderful tool, but they're also like the porn of math, they are dolled up to sell, sell, sell, and people who haven't been disciplined to think about statistics are usually the suckers being targeted.

And then there is stuff like this. Some twitter value sites will also convert calculations to worth in hamburgers, gold, and cocaine, so it's mostly just fun. Not all value sites agree, I'm definitely worth more with this one for some reason I'm not told. I'm sure it's a gimmick trying to get me to click on an ad.

Why do I even care about this stuff? Because I'm way past the days of 'no one comments on my blog, boohoo'. I discovered a little over a year ago that 10,000 actual hits on a single blog post is still pretty sweet, even when it doesn't get a single comment. I'll take lurkers any day, but it really does help to be able to see them when I'm twiddling my thumbs wondering if something I'm doing is really worth my time and effort. It's worth my time and effort for my own entertainment, I've said repeatedly I'd still be doing all this even if I were the only one who ever saw it, but stats are icing on the cake.

This post is my brain taking a break and recharging for WORK tomorrow. I need to get back to my other stuff, laundry and dishes and cooking and stuff.