Long Legs and Blogging
“Your posts have long legs.”
Every now and then, WordPress sends a critique, a kind of how you’re doing on your blog sort of thing, and I kind of like it that my blog has ‘long legs.’
My stats are inching back up. At one time, blogging out of Kuwait and Qatar, I averaged around 1200 – 1500 visitors a day, now I am happy to see 800 – 1000 a day. This year I had my highest all time day on this blog 3931 visitors in one day. I don’t really have the kind of blog that attracts that kind of visitor count often; mine is quirky and focused mostly on small things – and great ideas.
But I love the ‘long legs.’ Today the post attracting attention is one I wrote back in March of 2008 about bathroom plumbing in Kuwait. It just always gives me a grin to see an old post attract a little attention. š
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Long Legs indeed ;
First of all i wish your mom enjoys her new living arrangement , and wish you the peace of mind that you were seeking becuase you were worried about your mom living on her own before .
Now that i have caught up with all your recent posts and your travel , the pictures and locations were magnificent , Just imagine that you crossed all those vast areas without passort , or check points or anyone asking you ,where are you going ,or what are you doing , using one currency the dollar ,well the plastic ,and speaking one language ,mainly english . What a wonderful and beautiful country the USA is , and to top it friendly folks and good food and great prices along the way .
greetings to AdventureMan too
Oh! Daggero! I am so happy to see you, and I know AdventureMan will be, too. He has always enjoyed your comments, and we have learned so much from you, and laughed with you, and enjoyed the songs you shared with us about the beach in Fintas. Thank you, too, for your good wishes for my Mother. It is a good feeling knowing she will have the attention and care and safety she needs, and we only hope she will be happy.
You are right about the amazing freedom to travel. I have also seen the same amazing change in the Euro-zone, and I hope to God that they will not turn back the clock and end in shambles. It’s an amazing freedom to travel where you want, work where you want, to be able to speak freely about how you believe the country should be governed, and most of us don’t even know that it’s not like this in other places.
Every time I fly now, I thank God not to be crossing so many time zones, nor worrying about visas or suspicious bureaucrats – ours, yours, others . . .
This time, flying, for the first time in a long time, I got the full pat down once again, and I can never figure out what on earth would make them target me. Nowhere near as badly, however, as when I was flying out of Frankfurt and had to spend a good part of my life patiently answering questions because some dear Palestinian friends had sent gifts with me to my Mother, one of which was a huge packet of fresh dates, wrapped in layers and layers of foil, LOL. I knew it would cause me problems, and I chose to do it anyway. What an experience. My Palestinian friends love to retell the story, always ending “now she knows what it is like to be a Palestinian.”
Hi Intlxpatr! I don’t come to your physical site very often, usually like now – to comment. But I keep up with you daily via the RSS Feed function – I have all your posts brought to my Google Reader and read them there. I wonder how that counts towards your stats? You may have a lot more followers and activity than you realize due to the changes in access options….As always, love reading your posts!
Thank you, bitjockey. Hmm. I don’t know how that works. I do get a daily report on people following my blog, but I think that is through WordPress, not RSS, but then I don’t really understand how all that works. I’m just glad to know you are sti out there and that now and then you feel inspired to comment. š I’m also wondering how you are adjusting to repatriation?
Liking it (repatriation) very well š I went from one desert to another and am living in Arizona; but, I’ll have to say this is very different from Kuwait. I love the mountain views around our town. While I love the area it’s still not home and still to far away from family but it undeniably closer than when I was in Kuwait. Hopefully, one day soon, I can find a job opportunity even closer.
Inshalla, Bitjockey š