INSOMNIA

I have no idea what happened to my body the last twenty-four hours. PURGE would be the operative word of what my body was doing; and I leave the details to the imagination without elaboration. Just say, it was not comfortable or fun.

Last night was hopefully the last of it. Could not sleep at all until around 2am when the rains ,moved in and the white noize comin’ in my windows lulled the brain into settling down. Prior to that, I was digging through the backend here at the shop and y’all might notice some minor changes. Font size being the biggest(literally). Depends on how you view my site. I have very little control over how the mobile version is seen, but the desktop should be more easily read.

I also spent some time looking over trends and statistics. (Statistics: Lies, lies, and damned lies) 2012, High end of posts 40, word count 112k. Views 114k. 2025; Posts 535, word count 224k, views 123k. 2020 was the ‘Good Year’ for this site, and that being lockdown year, I can guess why.

Obviously this doesn’t show actual content, just movements through the site, in and out. No objective way of showing content quality, which is truly subjective. But being the sole writer of content here, I can say I know the differences.

I slowed up being a bitch about the world in general and started being more the homebody goof-off. 2020 was the last of my bitchin’bout the world; its been tapering off a lot since then.

And my last week of posting, which I personally felt was some damned fine writing on my part.(and that was ALL me except the two parts I stated were AI. )

CRICKETS

Traffic cut to a third its usual already low rate, comments near non-existent.

I get it.

It’s this reason right here why I haven’t jumped harder towards substack. Admittedly, being the introvert, I may be reading the trend wrong and NEED to make that jump to grow, but,,,,

The general trend across the nets is for Vidcasts, not podcasts as much. Was just spoken word for awhile. With the growth of bandwidth, everyone likes to see the faces and visual clues for emotive content. With the explosion of AI generated content, the audio/video gives extra information to sift through the slop.

this blog is a dinosaur caught in a tar-pit. I’m the caveman stuck on its back unwilling to give up on the poor beasty.

I’m invested in this site ’til September of 2028. Its paid in full to that date.

Then? I don’t know,,,

Heck, by then, we may all be scraping a living out of our backyards, reminiscing of internet days and all of this handwringing will be moot.

Am I wrong?

Let me know in comments.

LLLLL! (, ‘)