Less people looked at this page today than they did yesterday. It's kind of degrading - at first there's a nice peak, and then statistics slide downhill. It makes me sad.

Anyway, this is the last post I'll make about reader statistics, unless anything more terribly interesting happens. A blog whose subject is "how many times have you looked at this page?" could get a bit old.

I got bored and signed up for Google Analytics. For the first time in four and a half years, I can see how many people visit, and what city they're from. Things you may or may not care about:

• 24 people visited this blog in the past two days.
• 23 of those people are from Iowa (13 in West Des Moines, 6 in Johnston, 2 in Clive and Urbandale each.)
• 1 person is from Nottingham, Virginia.
• That 1 person from Virginia likely found this page by Googling it. The term they used was "barbercide".
• 50% of all page views come from clicking on a link on Yes Maybe's blog.

If you made it this far, congratulations. You can watch this video of a crazy bunny.

Good news for Des Moines radio listeners: 106.3 The Bus isn't quite dead yet.
It turns out it was moved to 100.3. You might already know this, but I just found out on accident.

I'm a cold blooded killer.

That is, I'm a cold blooded raccoon killer.

I think I ran over a raccoon while driving late at night. It looked at me and then my car made a THUMP sound and then I winced and went "oooooh".

And there were baby raccoons on the other side of the road. Maybe I killed the mommy raccoon.

Not only am I a cold blooded raccoon killer, but I'm a family ruiner as well.

Afterthought: My sister and her four friends are playing DDR in her room in this relatively small house. This results in thumping and giggles coming from her bedroom, which is not a pleasant thing to wake up to.

Things about the week:

• Being sick during the summer feels like a waste of time.
• They need to make more websites like this one. This website has only one rule: no clicking allowed. I felt like I absolutely needed to click the whole time I was there.
• Dr. Seuss is indeed a genius.
• "He said he could no longer hug people, ride a bike, swim or wear bathing trunks because of the pain and embarrassment. He has become a recluse and is uncomfortable being around his grandchildren, his lawyer said." No further comment.
  

I think I have a cold or something. And it's bothering me more than a cold regularly would, having something to do with the fact that I have a cold in the summer. That's not right. I'll be as lazy as I please without a cold, and I don't need a cold to assist me in any further laziness.

In other news, best IM message of the day goes to:

dorkbyhabit: yknow what just a second i need to make toast. be riiight back.

This message was recieved around 8:30 at night.

Anyway, before this cold came, here's how I've spent my summer vacation so far.

Oh.
Hello again.
You thought I had forgotten about you, hadn't you? All of this "updating daily" talk and then no updates! The nerve!

Sorry. I was on vacation. Where I went, they don't have computers or the internet.

But where I went, they have something none of us can claim we have: Chris Kirkpatrick.

We were at a resteraunt after arriving in the aiport a few hours too late. Everyone was tired and a bit hungry.
A waitress then approached my sister sitting across from me at the table.

"Excuse me," she said quietly, "do you know who that man is?"
She pointed to a man with a do-rag and goatee.
My sister looked at him for a second, wondering if he was a person that she should pretend she knew.

"No," she said.
"That guy," the waitress said, "we've been trying to figure out who he is all night. That's Chris Kirkpatrick from N'SYNC."
"Oh," my sister said being the huge N'SYNC fan she is.
And life went on as usual.

Sorry, that was a bit anticlimactic.

Here are some things I learned/thought in the past day or two:

• "Oh, sorry, Blogger was down for maintenance" would have been a perfect way for me to slack out of not updating this blog today. My procrastination is almost more aggressive than the will to get things done sometimes.
• This would have been a great intentional twist for a high school science class. A real dead guy for your crimonology unit. Can any more be said?
• One word: Jesus-opoly.
• I would like to meet the person behind this brilliant work of vandalism.

There. That wasn't so bad for me. That could have been four blog posts in the past. But no. Today, you get one post in a goodie bag of four fun-sized posts.

Random thought: one last thing I thought about after reading that last sentence:

• I suck at metaphors.
  

Hello.
I've realized I've sort of neglected this thing lately. But that's okay. Because this blog is used to it. In fact, I think it may like it. But too bad, blog. It's time for you to get some attention. From me. Maybe not anyone else, but I'll give you attention.

Another realization: summer is upon us. This means that I'll have at least twelve projects that I will seriously contemplate doing and eventually drop/forget about out of boredom or procrastination. I need something to keep my mind somewhat stimulated this summer...but not something that will keep it too stimulated.

If you'd like an example: over-stimulated.
Example two: stimulated (just right).

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that I'm slacking off. There are three types of blogs in my little circle of friends:

• sporadically updated blogs with posts of good length
  
• often updated blogs with short and sweet posts and
  
• rarely updated blogs with annoyingly brief posts.

This is my attempt to come out of the latter...and to create a new category: the often updated blog with posts of good length.
Impossible? Maybe.

Expect near-daily updates as long as I have access to a computer...and maybe updates when I don't even have access to a computer.
Let the fun begin.