Several months ago, one of my work wives went to China for a one week visit to see her family, that because of work visas ended up being one month.
Being a good work wife, she wanted to read this blog while there in China - only to find it blocked at ever turn. My blog was banned in China.
Cool, I thought. It's great to be part of someone's conspiracy, but truth be told, I was disappointed. Not just for my work wife, but because I was loosing out on over 1 billion readers.
And now... just for a lark, I noticed that I suddenly had two readers from China over the past two hours. Whoops, it's 1AM as I write this... it's now one reader from China over the past two hours.
I hope nothing happened.
Still... it's nice to see. I actually don't have a problem with any country or persons from anywhere. Love and do what you will has always been my motto (since I was 14, anyways). I have no idea why I recall ages and dates et al, but can't recall what I had for dinner on Friday.
Anyhow... welcome you readers from China. Yes, China good, Japan bad.
Just kidding.
Regardless of the story, I do try to present a reasonably fair take on things regardless of what animal, vegetable or mineral is involved.
Now... if I could just figure out why the hell, one month later, this stupid blog is shrinking in daily hits. Heck, even another blog I write under an alias isn't immune. I had been average over 2,200 daily hits until Friday - and on that day I dropped under 1,000. It's back up again, but what the hell?! I had just posted three stories in two days - something I never do there, tending to space things out to average seven stories a month, as I focus my energies on the every dwindling supply of readers about all things Japan.
Oh yeah... China... I just did a story or two on the current relationship inroads between themselves and Japan. D'uh. That explains the rush of Chinese readers to an English-language blog about Japan.
It does and it doesn't.
Okay... enough of this whining about blog numbers. When I started, I would have been thrilled to have 1000 readers a month. You guys give me that and more every day now. Thanks for feeding my ego. It needed a diet anyway
I'm building a LEGO diorama for my son involving killer robots from outer space attacking a museum. I think I'll add ninja.
Cheers
Andrew Joseph
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