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Has everyone started receiving achievement notices?
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Seems like every day I’m getting a blogging pat on the back.
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And is it me, or is this achievement bordering on rude?
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Of course when I click the “see all your achievements” link?
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WordPress is such a tease.
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My bots seem to have departed the pattern but I thought I’d share one more old post from when I first started on WordPress.
This one has to do with blogging itself and contains a little River history.
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The blogging life.
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While I don’t usually pay a lot of attention to my stats, there are some days I have to.
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Because WordPress likes to announce it when they rise .
“Hey loser! Look at you, people have found your miserable little blog. Kudos.”
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And over the past few days things have definitely been looking up.
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So much so, I got suspicious.
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Yes, the majority were from the U.S…. but still, for me the numbers have been crazy.
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Fearing they were bots…I sent a question to the Happiness Engineers.
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Which, irony of ironies…. was answered by a bot.
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Frank.
Yeah, sure.
Not believing I had suddenly become that popular, I went ahead and changed my WordPress password.
And the very next day?
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Things were back to normal.
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Another day of strangely high viewing stats means another look back in time and a rerun post about my very least favorite green.
Give me liberty or give me death… but for the love of all that’s holy, don’t give me kale.
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https://riversworld.live/2018/08/18/so-whats-up-with-kale-and-why-does-everyone-want-me-to-eat-it/
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Another day of oddly high viewing stats (almost 700!) had me stepping back in time again and reading old posts.
This one is about my relationship with lobster and the cruel twists of life.
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Take a gander, since you’re here.
https://riversworld.live/2018/08/25/now-theyre-just-screwing-with-me/
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The other day my daily viewing stats exploded for no apparent reason.
500 views with no comments made me wonder why.
I mean… let’s be honest, I’m not that interesting.
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Though clearly Patricia thought so.
The fact that she never interacted and liked mostly old posts made me realize she was probably a bot, but it was kind of fun to reread things I hadn’t seen in a while. And since most of us weren’t connected then, please take a walk down memory lane with me and heed my advice about Corpse Revivers.
They’re dangerous.
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https://riversworld.live/2018/08/23/never-trust-a-corpse-reviver/
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I get these attaboys from WP every once in a while…
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And it always amazes me I’ve managed to come up with that much drivel. Think how interesting this blog would be if I actually wrote about something worthwhile.
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We saw the boot in downtown Freeport the other day but my husband turned a corner before I could get a picture.. so here’s a stock photo. Yes, it really exists. A giant mobile boot that travels around the country promoting L.L. Beans. Talk about the perfect job.
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I’ll never take the time to make this, but I think you should and report back. It sounds lovely.
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My husband is after me to buy a new car. But Ethel, my beloved loaded 2014 Subaru Forester, is just getting warmed up with 77,777 miles.
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Next up, the reason I will never have dementia.
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I read a book every two days. So according to the author of this study my broken down body will retain a mind sharp enough to catalog the decline.
Yay.
I think….
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Admit it, you’d eat those.
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Sometimes I find a news you can’t use article that deserves its own post.
Cicada urine definitely fits the bill.
You’re welcome.
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Two different batches of the noisy little devils are set to hatch this spring so in their honor, read on..
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Aren’t you glad you subscribe to this blog?
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My idea of fun isn’t watching insects urinate, but hey… whatever floats your boat.
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Admit it, you’re going to time yourself now.
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And because I’m nothing if not thorough.
For your viewing pleasure…
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To my loyal blog friends who read my ridiculous drivel every day and never complain….
A Christmas tree.
River style….
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Clearly my algorithms are hard at work, holiday or no.
Here’s hoping you have a wonderful day surrounded by everything and everyone you love!!
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You can’t say I’m not dependable.
Or prolific.
I’m definitely prolific.
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In case you’re wondering 1,500 days is four years and ten days.
Of blogging.
Every day.
Continuously, never missing.
Dependable and prolific. That’s me…
Whether there was anything worth reading for the past four years and ten days is another story entirely.
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Yes.
That’s an option as well…
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