more relevant than i realized

and here i thought i sucked now…

…seriously.

i figured at this point this was only read by kramer. and me. although i typically don’t read what i write after i write it. and back when this all started in 2002 for me there was no social media. most people still got their news from television. and the internet was a metric fuck ton smaller, so there were less options for entertainment. for my depressed but still mildly egotistical self it was a golden age in that regard.

but earlier i noticed something.

while mining the way back machine for old shit i noticed the screen shots still showed the old hit counters. remember, again, this was back before social media exploded where certain folks have literal tens of millions of viewers, which are the kinda numbers that desensitize you. back in 2004? seeing that hit counter…

so, doing non-gas station math (fuck that “fraction of a person” shit, in other words…how do all their prices end in 9/10 of a cent?) i was averaging 24,839 views per year back when i thought i was the shit. this was back when i got voted to both open and close blog conventions and such. and before there was social media and youtube and tons of other shit to do with your phones. hell, this was before you could even see this on your phone. but as of this writing, my current hit counter shows (doing the average math to round out the last two months of the year) that i’m averaging 24,838 now. i’m literally one person light from my so-called “peak”, which given all the options now i’d say i’m having on to my relevance pretty nicely for an old somewhat crippled motherfucker, huh?