Happy 50,000th!

(Sometimes these blog entries just seem to write themselves. If you're a frequent visitor here, you may want to skip this entry and come back tomorrow.)

Yesterday was a fair day in Boulder, Colorado, mostly sunny with a high around 80. _____ wondered how the rest of the afternoon was going to go. ______ was working at the Broadway Suites, downtown Boulder's premier executive offices, located at 1942 Broadway on the Pearl Street Mall. Anyway, _______ was wondering what to do with the rest of the day. Perhaps there was still some time to go mountain biking. Maybe go to a movie. Or maybe just a little shopping, followed by a quiet night at home.

_____ decided to check the Internet. _____ has a Macintosh computer, and uses a Safari 1.3 browser. For those who care about such details, the monitor was set at a 1280 x 960 resolution. Web surfing, being what it is, led one thing to another, and before too long, _____ saw the craziest picture on Google Image Search of the blessed Virgin Mary holding a small t. rex. _____ just had to follow the link to this crazy picture, and at 3:17:41 p.m. yesterday afternoon, _____ became the 50,000th visitor to Water Dissolves Water.

Saturday was auspicious for several reasons. Not only did it mark the 50,000th visit, but it also was the first day this site got 500 hits. And it marked the day my computer died, although I do not think it was the traffic that finally crashed that wretched beast.

Traffic to this site is normally down on weekends, so it's all the more amazing that both records, 500 hits and 50,000th visit, occurred on a Saturday. The vast majority of the visits still seem to be Googling Monkeys looking for Jimi Hendrix pictures, whom I'm happy to oblige. A rather improbable and slightly psychedelic picture of a rug barn is inexplicably the second biggest attraction. Next comes a picture of Courtney Love, the creation of Adam, and Jack Vettriano's Private Dancer, the latter coming mostly from the U.K. Rounding out the Top 10 are Amanda Keeys' I Love You to Death and Edith Vonnegut's Goddess In the Freezer, the requests for that latter one coming mostly from France. The list goes on with mostly the same images, but as requested in Germany, France, the U.K. and Canada. My international profile looks like this: Of course, those of you who check out my Site Meter already know all of this.

The top search words that bring visitors this site are jimi hendrix, sexblog, "water dissolves water", aj mclean stepsister, armin meiwes, art rene, bodhidharma way come to china koan, bootleg drew womack , fresh water mold in new orleans from katrina, homosexual actors, http://shokai.blogspot.com, jimi, mount everest, radio television, ray charles, shokai, t-rex, water dissolves, and, finally, what dissolves in water.

But what does all of this have to do with our friend _____ in Boulder? Damn if I know. ______, if you're reading this, if you saw something here that compelled you to come come, please email me. I want to know more, more about you, how you came across the V.M. and t-rex picture to start with, and what you thought of this site.

You are, after all, something of a celebrity around here.