A Post About You! Yes You…

I can be a stats [to those who aren’t familiar with this word, it is short for statistics] freak at times… Just out of curiosity, because I’d like to see where my visitors come from. Lately from all over the world especially Asia. By checking my stats, I can find out a bit about my visitors, where they come from, how they found my blog, what they find interesting to read etc. This week for instance, someone found my blog through a link that I didn’t know of. So I checked the link and was flattered to see that my blog is mentioned on a website about multi-ethnic people…

At times you meet kind people, like fellow bloggers who pay you a visit and leave a nice comment. I always visit their blog and leave them a comment too 8O

Most of them I visit again and leave a comment every now and then when I think I have something decent to say. Some I add to my daily dose list [see sidebar: ‘Pollination’] because they have something interesting to say and I’d like to check back again… Some I add after a while because I find myself reading their blog more often than I expected at first.

At times I wonder why people read my blog because basically what they’re reading is just a tiny part of a big complex structure that is me. Some come back a few more times and leave it for what it is, other people come back regularly to read more and start leaving comments which is highly appreciated! And one particular person decided to stay after I challenged him to leave a comment and I am eternally happy about his decision…

Some bloggers/people who leave comments become friends… Some people, I met in real life, and not just online which was/is fun and others I will visit some day in the very near future. Life seems to have no boundaries when it comes to meeting like-minded people especially online and it can create endless opportunities [although at the moment I’m only focused on one in particular].

Although I have been extremely bad at leaving comments lately, I do read my favourite blogs. This Thursday will be a very important day to me and my future, so I had to concentrate on getting some things ready, hence my absence and lack of feedback. I will be back to read and leave comments, just not this week, so please bear with me…

One more thing I would like to mention is that my stats showed a really nice visitor and it’s a shame this person didn’t leave a comment on behalf of the company… [see picture below] He or she might come back again some day and hopefully won’t be too shy to speak up. ;)

To all other visitors, do leave a comment and become something different than just an IP address on my stats list.

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The following IPs [along with a few others]

are banned for trying to spam my server:

148.223.53.182,

80.58.205.50,

72.232.234.130,

72.232.234.58,

72.232.83.82,

72.232.234.138,

195.225.177.136 and

213.136.35.172

The Fool

I’m so hungover I need at least a week to recover, I should cut the crap really and stick to lemonade instead of booze. I know I sound like some moron alcoholic but trust me I ain’t. It’s just that I had too many parties lately and I really wish for a quiet weekend at home. Next Saturday I have another friends thing to do but it will be during the day and the weekend after I will be painting [all week]. I promised MvdM. to help him and W. rebuild the kitchen. I’ll probably have some demolishing to do as well since the whole kitchen needs to be ripped out and tiles need to be removed. So hopefully the weekend after that I will be doing nothing; bliss!

I was in Bournemouth yesterday and this morning, M. had her 40th birthday and invited a crowd over. I only knew about five out of 60 people and had a hard time talking to strangers because firstly I didn’t feel like it and secondly I don’t like superficial chitchat. This country at times seems to be the country of superficial chitchat though, especially at parties where you are forced to entertain some by being overly polite and keep a straight face. It was a nice party though and I had a great time catching up with S. and M. Last time I saw them was two years ago at S. and J.’s wedding.

I made one big mistake which was the speed of alcohol consumption and the type of alcohol. Normally I stick to wine or a nice Scotch but I would never ever mix anything until last night. I had this weird drink Pimm’s, that I didn’t even like to be honest. I mean it was alright but sooooooooooo yukky sweet. Halfway the evening I swapped to wine because Pimms was finished, biggest mistake ever. And again I didn’t eat much [when will I learn?]. Last time I felt like this is about 20 years ago and I hated it back then as I hate it nowadays. I feel tired, sick and extra extra tired on the side.

We came home at about 14.00 today and I just needed to relax for a while and watch some TV. It was hectic on the motorway, too many annoying tossers not knowing how to drive [being stuck in the middle lane and not realising why people start overtaking them on the left] and I needed to focus on something just to stay alert and awake, so staring at the road was not a clever thing to do it made my condition worse. I had to skip a lovely full English breakfast because I couldn’t stand the smell of it [why am I torturing myself like that?] and had one slice of toast with butter instead, a cup of tea [in the morning???? I couldn’t stand the smell of coffee, yes… me… the coffee addict!] and lots of fruit juice.

Some details are better left unsaid because they are just too embarrassing. I just lost the plot again last night and since we had to walk back to the B&B down the road things became worse. I was in bed by 04.00 in the morning and had to get up five hours later. At 06.30 or something some kids started to run and scream somewhere in the house, I was told at breakfast that they were guests there as well [so where were the bleeding parents?!]; they need proper training. I wasn’t allowed to do that when I was a child, my parents would’ve told me off big time. So I didn’t sleep much and I really didn’t want to get up, that bed was divine, I wish I could’ve slept for at least another four hours… Bummer I had to get up and get ready…

So after a 2.5 hours trip I ended up on the sofa watching the motoGP in Germany on BBC two. How come I end up watching a GP all the time? Last week I did exactly the same thing, channel surfing and getting stuck with the GP here in the UK, Form 1 though. I’m twisted… I didn’t see much today though and missed the finish [darn] because I simply fell asleep for half an hour. My brain is fried and I can’t think so I’m switching off soon. I really need to catch up on sleep and try to eat something, I feel like eating Thai Green Curry Chicken noodle soup and I think that is exactly what I’ll be preparing in the next 30 minutes and then a kip!

I promised PE to check something out and I didn’t have time in the end but I’ll keep my promise and work on it tonight or tomorrow, if you read this: sorry about that, I’ll need a brain that works though so I’d better wait a few more hours before I start doing the job for ya!…

For now:

Charlie, Uniform… Lima, Alpha, Tango, Echo, Romeo, over and out…