10,000 and going

A year ago this coming July I started this blog for nothing more than my personal enjoyment. Over the course of the last 10 months I have made about 3oo posts. This weekend I will surpass 10000 hits. I'm not sure if that is good bad or otherwise but I hope some people have enjoyed it.

The posts over the course of the last 10 months have ranged from Bashing Bush to having to give up my pet dog Mia, to struggling to keep the 120 lbs I lost off to attending an Obama rally with my daughter.

Some of my more brilliant predictions and analysis were:

• Saying last August not to write off John McCain (and following it up by saying on New Years day he would win the nomination).
• Predicting that Huckabee would become a factor when most in the county didn't know his name.
• Declaring that Obama turned around his campaign after his speech at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Iowa in November.
• Boldly stating that the Celts would sign Sam Cassell in December and it would help solidify a championship team (half down, half to go).
• Remarking that the Patriots would not win the Super Bowl despite their perfect record (although I had a different Manning beating them)
  

Ok so not all of my predictions were winners:

• My declaration that I was upset that my favorite team (the Celtics) traded from my favorite player (Kevin Garnett) because I thought of all things Gerald Green was going to be a special player (he has since been released twice).
• I thought Hillary would win the nomination (which she won't)
• I also believed that George Bush would was planning on bombing Iran (which he hasn't YET).

Over the course of this blog's existence, the posts have become increasingly political. Over the next 6 months I probably don't see that changing too much.

Well thanks to the 10000 visitors who have come by for a visit from all the red dots from the map above. Please comment when you come by.

Phil

One Month of Blogging

I started this blog exactly one month ago, mostly for my own enjoyment. 48 posts later I AM enjoing this. It is however a little bit of a burden. Some days when I do not have anything top of mind, I do feel a little pressure to find something either entertaining, insightful or something that I am pasionate about (can anyone guess what those topics are???).

Some stats for the first month:
about 750 hits (probably half of which are me)
3 visits from Australia
4 from south america
1 india
1 thailand
1 northern alaska (I was going to do a post on Ted Stevens to entice them back)
a handful from Europe
And one hit that looks like it came from Mount Everest Base camp (good luck and don't look down)

of my posts the leading topics have been:
Politcs
News
Sports
and of course trashing George Bush (although I remember being feverish and doing a postive one, must have been a relapse)

In closing, if you see a post you have a comment on (good or bad) please comment on it. If you would like to contact me, please feel free to email me at dicarlofamily@yahoo.com.

Peace Out,
Phil