I have been writing a blog now for a number of
years and for the most part it has been an interesting way to spend part of my
day. Sometimes it is just an onerous task, but for the most part no one gets to
read that because I just don’t write. That works for everyone.
I don’t have a large following or what anyone
would call a following at all. Just a few curious people that check it out from
time to time. They are like people rubber-necking while driving past an
accident scene. They have interest, but not the morbid curiosity that would
cause them to get police scanners so they wouldn’t miss any of the gory
details. My followers would never go out of their way to read this drivel and
quite frankly, I don’t blame them.
On the particular blog platform that I use, I am
able to change the way my page looks, control who reads it, read any comments
that anyone might make and check the statistics of who is reading and where
they are. I can see what their web browser is, where it is located and how they
got to my blog. I don’t mess with the look of the blog and there are rarely any
comments, a few from friends agreeing with my opinion, but not so strangely,
few of those. I do get some cryptic comments every now and then and I am
convinced that spies use random blog comment boards to pass secret messages to
each other. The bulk of the comments seem to be from non English speaking
countries. I suspect that reading and commenting on a blog is part of an
English as a second language course. The words are correctly spelled and
probably every sentence has a verb, noun, adverb and dangling participle needed
for correct structure. They just seem odd and really quite meaningless. I like
to think that those odd comments are high praise in whatever language they are
most comfortable with.
More often than not lately, when I check the
site that led some poor, unsuspecting soul to my blog I find that I am at a
Slovakian bearing companies web site. Slovaks need bearings too and probably
more than most. I wonder just how bored the Slovak employee had to be at work
to struggle through reading my blog. I have to assume that English wouldn’t be
a first language and probably not even a second one. French or Bulgarian would
be much more useful in the Slovak bearing industry.
I get my fair share of comments from European or
Russian porn sites. I assume they are porn sites from the pics of naked women,
but they could be models in the Russian version of Victoria Bratislava
Maybe the porn sites and bearing manufacturing
places are getting me down. You know, I just had a thought. What if the same
guy in Bratislava
A guy has to make a living.
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