Who reads this crap?

I started this blog on March 24, 2008. This is my 356th post. You can see stats about people reading your blog, although I'm not sure how accurate it really is. At some point last year, my blog views sky-rocketed. At least in my opinion. I don't know what a good number is for this sort of thing. It's a public blog, but I never thought anyone but my close friends and family would ever read it. To date, I have had 14,027 views.

I also get to see where the traffic sources are coming from. My biggest fans are apparently in France. To my knowledge, I do not know anyone in France. Next on the audience list is the United States, which makes sense, followed by Russia, then Italy, and then one lone person in Portugal.

What is truly horrifying is which posts receive the most attention. Omg, can you believe people all over the world are reading about how I was convinced (because I had too much time on my hands) that the hospital had sent me home with someone else's rib when I requested to keep the one that was removed from my body? I actually called the hospital and asked if it was possible the lab had mixed the two up. After consulting some anatomy books and Candace's wise mother, it was decided that it was indeed my rib. That post has received 256 page views. Hopefully all by the same 3 people. Just many times.

My most viewed pages have been about food. I can relate to that.

And then there was the post about me trying to run while bogged down with allergies, allergy medications, and too much coffee. Why on earth is that my most viewed post? Strangely, that was when Russia really jumped up on the audience list. I had to re-read the post to be sure I wasn't posting anything that could lead to any sort of international tensions.

I started this blog as a way to share travel stories and such with my family instead of sending out a mass email or letter or whatever I did the first big trip out of the country. While the traffic has certainly picked up in the last year or two, the blog views average out to about 1,800 per year. That's really interesting considering most of my blogs are random musings...such as this one.

I mean really, who reads this stuff?