I can see you....

I have discovered that my blog has this nifty little feature...  It gives me statistics as to who has been reading my blog and where the got to my blog from and what country they are from. (I will not confess how l;ong this has been a source of both curiousity, morbid fear and ego inflation for me)

This is mostly a terribly amusing tool, especially the obscure search terms people have used that happened cause them to arrive at my blog.

For example if you are searching for barely clothed women who are fully deprived of bodily covering but to spice things up you type in auntys instead of girls or woman you will happen upon a post I made titled "Auntys heart full of Love" about the birth of my nephew.

In a less hilarious example, if you are searching for hotels in Botswana and you look up the Kidron suites hotel you will get my blog as the only three posts on the Internet referencing it. (this is a cause of great concern because my work colleagues could legitimately happen to get to my blog by mistake)

I was smart enough to remove all references to the acronym for the company I work for in cause I have written anything here that could be deemed as a dismissible offence. (does dozing off at work count 18 months after it happened?)

What is also interesting is who exactly is reading my blog - in the past month the stats for page views have been as follows:

1. South Africa 91
2. United Kingdom 33
3. United States 32
4. United Arab Emirates 18
5. Malaysia 6
6. Russia 2
7. China 1
8. Czech Republic 1
9. France 1
10. South Korea 1

Now some of these are confused people looking for pron (misspelling intentional) and several are people I have given the address to and many people are referred to my blog from Facebook. It is kind of very interesting matching countries to referring websites. And some readers are from links from friends blogs. (It seems however that this month my high readership in Europe has lapsed a little.)

 

Finally the most bizarre thing is that there is one post that gets read more often than any other post, more often than the next 6 most often read posts. This post gets read at least 10 times a month. My only hypothesis is that this post pops up most commonly when google references my blog... or else I may need to do some selective Internet searching to find out if I have been a victim of intellectual property burglary. And that post is (one of my finer items I believe) reposted here to celebrate itself as the seeming proclaimed winner of my blog! (I should be able to do better over a year later....) I will start working on a revised list ASAP.

 

With no further ado:

 

Monday 21 December 2009

Things that slightly unnerve me...

Some things just make my imagination of worst possible scenarios run wild.


- being overtaken on the way home by a sirens-blaring police car and seeing it turn into your road. or a fire engine, or an ambulance


- seeing three senior management guys rush past you into the boardroom for a sudden meeting and cue: slam door as you walk past.

- when the guy you secretly had a crush on makes a special effort to tell you specifically about his new girlfriend.

- watching videos late at night and listening through your headphones and not being sure if the voices you hear are the soundtrack or from your garden


- when the cat jumps on your bed in the middle of the night and walks around cautiously (burglar!)


- arriving home on the late side and still getting home before your parents.


- being stared at. (no further explanation required - stop that okay? I Said Stop That!)

- funny coloured spots in your protein (red in egg, white in beef, green in chicken, black in sausage)

- seeing a stranger walk away as you approach your desk

- Similarly, seeing your parent walking out of your bedroom


- when you mislay your "very angry diary"

- reading your bank statement before your remember the what the big-spend of the month was


- dozing off when you shouldn't and realising that not 20 seconds have passed but 15 minutes.

- when you look for your car in your usual parking bay - when you have parked elsewhere

- seeing a police car in traffic and not being able to remember if you were speeding when you drove past him

- cars stopped on the side of the road when travelling late at night (road block!)


- being followed along your route home by cars with tinted windows

- speeding and realising the person following is keeping pace

- seeing mould on your bread/cheese halfway through eating the sandwich

- when you don't hear from someone in weeks and you wonder if they are dead... (it is concerning when you wonder if they are dead and the idea is more curious than sad)