Not tonight

On September 24, 2016 By Luther M. SilerIn Blogwanking6 Comments

Rough day, and I’m kind of in weird headspace at the moment. So no bloggery this evening.

Whoopsie (on 2000 posts)

On September 2, 2016 By Luther M. SilerIn Blogwanking2 Comments

I really meant to eventually write a “real” blog post after my brief ode to a good morning yesterday, but events got away from me in the morning (in other words, I laid around reading and then took a nap) and then we spent the entire evening at my parents’ house. If I hadn’t gotten that post up early, I’d have entirely forgotten about the blog yesterday. Which would have broken a streak that’s nearing two years long now, but otherwise wouldn’t have been any kind of big deal.

I wrote my 2000th post on this thing a week or two ago. This is actually probably post 2010 or so, because the milestone slipped past me at the time. I noted it on Twitter, but haven’t mentioned it here yet. The post itself wasn’t exactly earth-shattering, but I’m entertained about the song I chose.

Some random facts:

I’ve had, so far, 377,623 pageviews and 204,501 unique visitors to the site.
The first post was June 4, 2013.
My best day had 12,451 pageviews. Today will probably have around 150; traffic’s been a bit down this year.
My most popular post, by far, is “In which I tell you how your religion works,” with 106,900 pageviews. The next most popular is the Goddamned Snowpiercer review, which has 22,872 and still is regularly in my top 5 posts every single fucking day.
I’ve had traffic from 195 countries, or at least what WordPress calls countries, which occasionally seems a little odd.
The top 10: The US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, India, France, Brazil, and Norway, in that order.
There’s been exactly one pageview from 14 places: the Cook Islands, Equitorial Guinea, the Faroe Islands, French Guiana, Iran, the Marshall Islands, Martinique, San Marino, the Seychelles, Sint Maarten, St. Martin (apparently a different place?), Syria, Tajikistan, and Togo.

On to the next 2000, I guess. 🙂

It’s 9:00 AM

On September 1, 2016 By Luther M. SilerIn Blogwanking3 Comments

I’ve eaten an avocado and done some staring.

Now there is coffee.

Good morning so far.

Let’s make that two days in a row

On August 24, 2016August 24, 2016 By Luther M. SilerIn Blogwanking1 Comment

I promise, returning recharged tomorrow. Logarrhea on its way, for serious. Just not tonight.

OH SHIT

On August 8, 2016 By Luther M. SilerIn Blogwanking8 Comments

I almost forgot to blog today. That would have been a disaster of insignificant proportions. I’m literally in bed right now writing this on my phone. 🙂

So, uh, hi?

In which there is nothing going on

On August 4, 2016 By Luther M. SilerIn Blogwanking2 Comments

It’s been several days since I wrote a blog post with more than a few sentences of original content in it, so it would probably be good to do that today, I suppose. The problem is that immediately after writing a post about how much I liked my job I immediately went straight into a couple of nightmare days, including one where there was only two of us (one of the “us” being me, of course) available to unload two trucks full of furniture, a job that normally involves no less than five people.

It took four fucking hours. Normally, we’re done in less than one. I hurt myself halfway through, but by then a third person had shown up, so he took over for me. Don’t be alarmed, it was just a muscle pull, but shit. My least favorite thing about working at this job is being sweaty all the time. I’m basically at the point where I’m coming to work on Tuesdays prepared to give myself a sponge bath in the men’s room after the truck gets unloaded. On the plus side, I did well in sales this week with the weekend still to come, but holy shit did I have to wade through some nonsense in order to get that accomplished.

But anyway.

I’m going to get some fiction written tomorrow if it kills me. I want a book out by Halloween, goddammit, and since it’s August and all I probably ought to get moving on getting the effing manuscript finished. There really isn’t much more to go; it’s mapped out in my head, I just need to get everything left onto the damn page. Screen.

Whatever.

I keep almost writing posts about the election, and I’m pretty sure that I’ve written less about this election than any other one since, probably, 2000, when I only barely had a blog. Donald Trump has lost the power to meaningfully piss me off, it seems, and I just don’t believe that he actually has any chance to win the election, so it’s just a matter of enduring the whole mess until it’s over. It’s not like there’s not been plenty to write about, I just haven’t been able to muster the will to bother.

Tomorrow I have an actual day off. I have an eye appointment at 2:30. Hopefully I’ll use the time before that productively, somehow, and not just crawl the hell into bed and die again. We’ll see.

In which it’s my Friday and I need advice

On July 27, 2016July 27, 2016 By Luther M. SilerIn Blogwanking, PoliticsLeave a comment

When I left work today everyone said “Have a good weekend” to me, because at my new job no one knows how days of the week work. But one way or another I have the next two days off. I intend to spend most of tonight watching speeches at the DNC. The question: Liveblog? Or just stay on Twitter the whole time?

I don’t know if I’ve subjected anyone over here to one of my political liveblogs yet. They were mostly a feature of my previous blog.

Hmmm.

EDIT: I’m on Twitter. Come say hi.