Ramblin' Rose
    Stream of consciousness, this morning.
    So, I finally did a full check into my brand new stats. Nedstat is recording less than they used to but the data is still useful and interesting. Since I'm using an online web-page editor, every accessing of any page through the editor and making a change and every formal publication is counted as a hit. Thus, on many pages it appears as though I am Narcissus incarnate. I access the index page through the editor at least once a day and it is not uncommon for me to make some tiny change that I have to copy throughout all the pages. Thus, more than once a week I am accessing all pages through the editor. Online editors are notoriously labor and time intensive. The writing goes fast. The editing goessssllllooooowwwww.
    And yet, I even write online, I read and edit my work online, so, I may be the incarnation of Narcissus. One page, though, seems to generating at least some bot excitement, Mom's Test Results. My guess is that its technical jargon is being pulled by a lot of search bots. My surprise is that it is showing up high enough on a list of searches to rate clicking into. It doesn't appear as though it is typical, though, for a visitor to this page to jump to any others in the site.
    Which brings me to a, well, I guess a musing. It is apparent from the search results that I am either getting so few visitors (besides myself and my interminable editing) that it may seem absurd that I talk to my audience as though I have an audience. I am convinced that I do, and a rather wide audience. I just haven't reached them yet, but I feel you. And now I am officially searching, through Nedstat, for you.
    My ISP is goofing up regarding how much space I've used versus my allotment, what they insist on referring to as my "free" webspace (and which I always correct, as, I wouldn't have it if I wasn't subscriber, for good money, to their ISP). I am at only half capacity. Their web-editor stats record me as this, plus, I downloaded all my material, last night and measured it. Just over half capacity. Despite the fact that it is publishing everything I put in it is also complaining that I am way over budget. So after the holiday I'll address this with them. If the site should lock up or become inaccessible for a bit know I'm aware of it and on it.
    I have, by the way, a not insignificant amount of material in a few other sites I took down months ago in disgust. I had not updated them or accessed them for awhile, although they were both still getting visitors. I'm going to ftp those up today, maybe, or at least start and fashion links from these site to Mom and Mom & Me material. It'll help flesh us out.
    In fact, I think I'll begin that process now.
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