Explain, pls

On September 17, 2025 By Luther M. SilerIn BlogwankingLeave a comment

Anyone have any ideas about why China, and not the US, has been my #1 source of traffic for the last couple of days? And traffic has been up pretty considerably in both viewers and pageviews, so it’s not like a single bot is crawling the site or something.

I feel like this has to be nefarious somehow, and also like my suspicion is maybe at least a little bit racist. But maybe not.

Anyway, I’m bound and determined to get to bed as early as possible tonight, so this blogwanking update was brought to you by the letter Zzzzz.

Too tired to even explain why

On September 9, 2025 By Luther M. SilerIn BlogwankingLeave a comment

… but I’m taking the night off.

500

On July 29, 2025 By Luther M. SilerIn Blogwanking, WritingLeave a comment

Every so often you’ll hear about some sort of writing challenge. Write every day for a month! they’ll say, sometimes with a list of suggested topics. Sometimes the challenge is just the list of topics and the idea is you’ll spend thirty days writing about your great love of, I dunno, horses or whatever.

This post marks five hundred days straight of blogging, without missing a day.

Nobody ever gets to tell me to do anything, ever again.

That’s out of five thousand and eighteen posts total, by the way, meaning that my five thousandth post was me being whiny and bored, and I didn’t realize it was such a significant number. The blog hit its twelfth anniversary in June; twelve is kind of a whatever number, so I deliberately didn’t worry about that.

Total wordcount: an utterly ludicrous 1,694,839, not counting this post.

Just imagine what I could do if I was, like, writing for money or something like that.

(Part of me wants to take tomorrow off, but I think we all know that’s not going to happen.)

It’s not a Superman post …

On July 16, 2025 By Luther M. SilerIn BlogwankingLeave a comment

… but it is a “taking the night off” post. Got a book to finish before I fall asleep in this chair. Be good to each other.

Nothing tonight

On June 6, 2025 By Luther M. SilerIn BlogwankingLeave a comment

Been doing all my usual shit today– cleaned up and organized around the house a bit, read a book and a half, put together part of a Lego set, played some video games. Y’know, nerd shit. But hell if I have anything to say about any of it. I’m rooting for injuries in the Trump/Elon thing. Trying really hard to not complain about being bored. Christ, I’m not even a week into vacation yet.

Fully expecting to have things thrown at my head the next time I go into public.

Uhhhh

On June 3, 2025 By Luther M. SilerIn BlogwankingLeave a comment

WordPress appears to be having technical issues tonight, so I’m gonna just toss this up– gotta keep that streak going– and call it a night. The boy downloaded Nightreign tonight and watching him play has proven quite amusing so I’m going to go do that. Hopefully this will actually post.

(Randomly: listening to a Pearl Jam concert from May 8th of this year. I swear, Eddie Vedder has not correctly remembered the lyrics to Wishlist even a single time in his entire career.)