I realize that some of you folks out there have contraptions that tell you how and where people found your blog/journal and came to visit. Some of you also have your site listed on other sites for people with similar interests to come and visit your site if they please. Also, folk like you probably have far more hits to your site than I do. My site is visted by the handful of people that I have given out the address to. Occasionally a stranger will wander in, but not very often. I watch the hits to see how they go up with each new posting. It goes up maybe 5, 6 hits with each new posting. That means that the few folk that actually have my address, checked to see the new posting. On very rare occasions it will go up 10 hits. I am guessing that a stranger or two wandered in here accidentally because of my headliner or profile or something that seemed of interest to them.

So I have this sort of informal survey going on in my head here. I want to know what percentage of hits to your own site do you feel are actually people you don't know who wandered on to your site accidentally (as in not from a place where you have your site listed to bring in visitors), just folk who wandered in off the internet.

I am guessing that I have maybe an overall less than 2% of all hits since it's creation in 2004. I don't go out and invite people in from anywhere else. If someone was looking for me, you would have to know I was #1 on AOL, and 2# my screen name (I have 7 of them). I have never used my real name ever on any thing I have ever done online. Period. I can't even find me when I do an online search for myself under my real name. There are only a handful of people on earth who know my nickname is/was Doc or Doc J. And only slightly more than that who know my email address.

I think I am pretty hard to find out there in the ether. Me and my journal(s) are pretty much obscure considering the trillions of web pages that exist online. I am like a spec of sand out there on the beach. If you found me while searching for the real me, you pretty much seriously lucked out.

I sincerely don't care if this blog gets read by other people. This really is a journal, my inner thoughts rambling around and getting put down here. I am not trying to find like minded people out there who want to agree with me, or converse with me. I am just placing thoughts to page.

And why might you say do I do that here and not in a 3 ring note book? Oh, I have billions of those too, from as far back as my teens. All saved and tucked away for no one in particular to ever read. Most likely they along with most of my other memorabilia will be thrown in the dumpster upon my death. I write here because I am lazy. I post here because I don't have to create files, or back anything up on a disk, or do anything other than type down what I am thinking about and then hit save. I also don't have to get writer's cramp of ink on my hands. Boom, it's done and over with and even if my hard drive crashes, it's still here on the internet, waiting for me to keep writing in it again and again.

Boring eh? Yeah, but that's me, boring and lazy. See how easy? Now hit save J.