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Now, today's story...

It's perceivable that during your visit here today you may have noticed the new map of the United States located at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Unless you aren't as observant as others. Or you just don't care. Either works.

For those perceptive people like yourself (I assume that if you weren't perceptive you wouldn't have noticed the map and therefore may have found my previous statements to be glib and insulting), I shall explain the map.

Last night I was stunned by the sudden spike in my hit count. My blog had 40 visitors last night, which, as you may or may not know, is unprecedented. And then precedent smacked itself around a little this morning. I had 50 hits before the evening.

The reason I bring it up is that it puzzles me. Liz blogged last night as well around the same time I did yet she failed to encounter any sort of a spike like mine. Nearly 100 hits in two days? I was lucky to have had 150 in two weeks!

And it's not like I'm stupid. I get why. You click that little "Next Blog" button up there at the top of the page and its anyone's guess where you go next. But why is mine so popular? Why do I keep randomly popping up?

Since I put up my counter (roughly three days after I began my blog), I've been visited by folks from 27 states and 14 different countries from around the world, including return visitors in Canada, Portugal and Malaysia. It's awesome, but it's sort of strange, right?

Of course as you can see, none of these people care to comment on what I have to say. I don't know, I might not care to comment either. It's just kind of fascinating is all. My writing has been seen by 15 nations across the planet. That's pretty big. Now whether any of these people are reading or not, who's to say?

Okay. I seem to have written down enough words to merit publication. And by that I mean I've wasted enough space to call it a full-length post. Yes. That I did. I suppose I could go for a few more words. I guess I'm having kind of a strange day. I don't usually like to babble this way.

Almost done. I figure, what? One more paragraph? That just means a couple more sentences from here. A little bit more typing and my job for tonight is finished. Though it's not like anyone's holding a gun to my head. For that kind of action, you could visit my fiction blog, The Chosen. But hardly anyone seems to be interested in that.

I read today on Blogger about a national novel-writing month. Didn't know months could write novels, but that's neither here nor there. The point is they were talking about fiction blogs. They called them NaNoBlogs. National novel... You get it.

All right, that'll do it. I've said my peace for the evening and continued to plug my less popular blog from my more popular blog. Come back tomorrow for a more interesting story. I swear it.

Speaking Of Plugs: I found the web site for this great new band, One Mile South. So I've decided to give them a free plug. It's just good music. I recommend streaming the full version of the 30-second clip I used for today's blog song — That's What I Believe. But really, they're all good. And if for some strange reason you don't care for it, then your opinion is just wrong.