So I am sure if you have been paying attention you have noticed I put the funky little "bean counter" at the bottom of my blog. This is mostly as a result of a conversation I had with a fellow Blogger friend. It went something like this:
Nosey Blogger Friend: Dude, why don't you have a counter on your blog?
Me: Ummm, why the hell would I want one?
Nosey Blogger Friend: Everybody, who is anybody wants to know how many people are reading their stuff.
Me: Not me, don't really care.
Nosey Not So Much a Blogger Friend: Your totally lying! You have to be curious.
Me: Um no, seriously, the best part of blogging for me is when a friend or really good friend/neighbour comments to me that I gave them a good laugh or (and not that this has really happened) they try to sneak in and out of the neighbourhood with their hockey jersey on in hopes that I won't see them and point and laugh or possibly take pictures (only to get busted -NOT that it really happened).
Blogger Friend: That really happened didn't it?
Me: Maybe. Not tellin.
Blogger Friend: That soooo happened!
Me: Whatever if it did or didn't. That's the best part. You, my friend, will never know (unless said pictures turn up).
BF: Ah, I so totally get it. Still I am totally kickin your ass with the numbers, sucker!
(Footnote: for a teeny tiny brief second I considered logging into my blog a couple hundred times and sending a na na na email to my pal but then thought better of it. She is a serious blogger and would probably want names of all my new "readers". Not even I could expand my imagination that much and pull that off. So to shut her up I put a counter on. Now that its there, it's kinda fun. She however is going to wish she never mentioned it cause every time the counter hits a round number I am sending her off a little note about it!)
