Obviously I have not been writing entries on this blog recently. I had a little burst of writing activity in May 2020 but since then I’ve not added anything more despite constantly thinking that I’d like to get back into the habit of writing more regularly. However, that doesn’t mean that I’ve been ignoring this blog completely. In fact, over the last month or two, I’ve been enjoying looking back through old entries to see the kinds of things that were on my mind and enjoying the occasional nuggets of wisdom or glimpses of humour that I have found. I think this may be a prelude to me getting stuck in to writing here again.
Much more surprising than the fact that I have been digging into my ‘back catalogue’ is the fact that someone else has too. I write ‘someone‘ but I don’t actually know for sure that it is one person, it could be multiple people, but my instinct is that it is one person. I base this view on the observation that the stats for this site are showing between one and three reads per day, always of random old entries (just as I have been dipping in but not, I hasten to add, to the same entries – that would be truly weird) and always from somewhere in the USA. I think I actually prefer the idea that these reads all come from one person as that suggests that there is at least one person who finds my writing sufficiently interesting to keep coming back for more, and on an almost daily basis too. It’s like they are coming to this site for a little piece of daily wisdom, entertainment or distraction. The picture below shows the weekly viewing stats over the last three or so months. You can see that the engagement starts about six weeks ago. The visitor (or visitors) never leave a comment and so apart from knowing that they are viewing from the USA I have absolutely no other information about them.
In some ways, I’m happy not to know any more details – that way I can just keep on imagining that there is one person out there enjoying my past writings. But quite a big part of me wants to know more and wants to have my suspicions confirmed or shattered. Mostly I’d just like to know a bit about them and whether they have actually enjoyed and even found useful anything that I have written.
So, go on… if you have read this entry and it’s you that I’m referring to, drop me a comment or a message. It’d be great to hear from you!
Tim O'Hare 