Signs I'm Just A Tad Spoiled

Reading Patterico noting the drop in his traffic since the election, it reminded me of my never-ending mood swing when it comes to traffic to this site.

When I started this blog, I got 8-15 hits a day for the first eight months; the 2002 election and my Keillor pieces put me on the map, but after the instalanches were done, I was at maybe 200 visitors a day - and very happy about it.

Last year, when I was under-or-unemployed most of the year and could spend a couple of hours a day on the blog, traffic climbed laboriously to about 400 visitors a day - where it stayed until this past March.

And then it was off to the races, peaking at over 3,200 visitors a day for most of October.

We all knew it would tail off after the election. All I'm saying is that if you'd have told me a year ago that I'd be bummed about getting "only" 2,000 visitors a day, I'd have said you were nuts.

And I should just shut up and say "Thanks!"

Thanks!