Day: August 26, 2013

caveat: zap-o-matic number 11

Banalities & Journaling / Cancer

i slept a lot more than usual the past 24 hrs. a 2 hr nap yesterday at midday, plus more than 8 hrs over night. im supposing this is the alleged fatigue setting in. i felt some definite fatigue at work yesterday too, along with the really burning mouth, so i left early. 

but in the present moment i feel rested and energetic and in good, positive spirits. ive always liked that word in that usage: spirits. "spirit" just means breath, etymologically. so: "good, positive breathing." 

nevertheless, i dont really like other, related usages. "spirituality" is overused and has become a vague catch-all. i actually prefer the term "religiosity," even as applied to my own buddhist atheism.

off to number 11. zzzap.

Caveat: Bump and Spike

Banalities & Journaling / Cancer / Internet & Blogging

I was looking at my bloghost’s pageviews data. It’s kind of interesting, in a “meta” way. Here’s a screencapture from earlier today.

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The graph shows the last 120 days of my blog, with number of “pageviews” per day (people clicking through or navigating to my blog for whatever reason). The broad rise over most of July is what I’ve taken to calling my “cancer bump” – while I was in the hospital, a lot of people who don’t regularly follow my blog began following it, and many people who do follow it, followed it more intensively or frequently. I was posting more, too, which may have increased the rate at which random strangers would have found it listed in google searches of various kinds.

But I’m much more curious about the other notable feature of the graph. What in the world happened on August 19th? That’s the most pageviews in a single day that I’ve ever gotten, by far. It’s such an outlier.

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