Monday, August 08, 2005

1336 47,000th visitor

Some time during the night or early morning my blogodometer turned over to 47,000. Today the Truth laid Bear says I'm #441, which isn't bad considering there are over 14 million blogs out there. This changes all the time--once I was down in the 200s, and last week I think it was 700 something. I truly don't understand these rating services--I think I get rated on the basis of the ratings of the bloggers who link to me. Does that make sense to you? And always, always, Mr. Bear says I have an average of 71 visitors daily. No matter if 300 or 15 stop by, it is always 71. All of that is a fabrication, too. If my site gets pinged because someone strung together the words like "playful xxx kittens pursue Canadian librarians" and my little photo of librarian Susan's kittens comes up on the list, but reused on someone else's site, the site-o-blogger gives me a nod.

I'm now on a California consortium/list--I'm considered an ex-pat Californian because I lived in Alameda in 1944-45 and in Fresno in 1957. Wow. The right is really out there on the left coast. I've contacted an Ohio list, but haven't heard back. Maybe 38 years isn't long enough time to be an Ohioan? I say "warsh" just like a native.

3 comments:

Anvilcloud said...

Do they really say "warsh" there? I thought it was a Maritime-Canadian thing. I remember once having a French teacher who say "warsh," and it embarrassed the heck out of me -- for him.

Norma said...

Yes, it is pretty common in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, but I'm not sure how far north and east. In the east they add an "r" at the end of words.

Warshington DC
warshing machine

sounds boot right ta me

Susan said...

Due to my well-educated, Ohioan Dad's use of the word "warsh", I didn't know the real word until I learned to spell!

And to my friend's over the border:
Lately there have been commencials for Casino Windsor playing on WJR in Detroit. These women talk about how fast it is to get through the border to go to the casino from Detroit. The trouble is that they have fairly noticeable Canadian accents...so why were they going through the border if they were already in Canada, eh????