28 January 2009 A mysterious yet disconcerting trend
I can’t believe how fast January has passed. It certainly does not seem like four weeks since I last posted. Although things have been extremely, excessively, are-you-frickin’-kidding-me quiet on the work front, I have actually been pretty busy. Everyone in my family except for Genbo (who has a constitution of iron) came down with the flu at the same time. And, Maki is working at a hospital on the other side of Kyoto for the time being, which means she leaves earlier in the morning and comes home late. Zoe is now probably in her peak of difficulty, as she has very concrete desires and wants yet not nearly enough words to express them, which leads to frustration. And, she is for some reason waking up about five times a night these days. I think it is proof of evolutionary principles that babies are at their most cute when they are the most demanding; those who weren’t were simply abandoned on the African savannah by frustrated parents tearing their hair out.
And yet, despite the fact that I have not posted for a month, I have more readers than ever. I’ve noticed for a while now that readership grows when I don’t post, and declines when I do. This is a mysterious yet disconcerting trend perhaps explainable only by the hypothesis that people visit only in the hopes of not finding anything new here.
Well, I intend to post once every day for the next month. That should pummel my readership into negative territory.