By Jody Worsham
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I don’t know
how everyone else finds my blog, but to get to it, I Google The Medicare Mom
and up pops all the titles that contain the phrase “The Medicare Mom.” Then I click on the top one, and it takes me
to this green page you are reading now.
Yesterday,
out of curiosity, I scrolled past the first one and clicked on the second
entry. I was pleased to find that McAfee
tests me and finds me to be virus free.
That’s good because yesterday I thought I might have picked up a
virus. It must have been that day old
pizza I had for breakfast.
A little
further down, I clicked on to The Medicare Mom stats. There I learned that I was ranked 12,108,885th. I was ecstatic until I remembered my brief
encounter with statistics in college.
Was that 12,108,885th out of a number larger than our
national debt? If so, hooray I have a
ton of readers! I have a platform
bigger than the 3x4 ft. deck in my backyard.
Or was that 12,108,885th out of a possible 12,108, 886? And if so, do those statistics count the
number of times daily that I check to see if anybody left a comment? Then, that
is not so good. I am my own top reader.
I kept
going. This was fascinating in a
depressing sort of way. I have more
Google entries than I have readers. One
site estimated my worth at $465.91. That’s
more like it. But where is it? It’s probably lost in the mail since I can’t
find my Pay Pal password. No, that has
to be potential worth or dial-up expenses because I don’t have any advertisers,
sponsors, contests, polls, or giveaways.
I just have me. Another site had
my worth at $33,75 but I don’t trust that site.
They obviously don’t use our math system because we have to have four
numbers to use a comma or they miss-typed and put a comma where they intended a
period. $33.75?
A site
called WOT (web of trust) ranked my overall trustworthiness at 90% giving me
three out of four people on the graft. I
only got 89% on vendor reliability but I don’t know how they came up with that
number because I don’t have any vendors.
I got 88% on privacy, I guess because I don’t understand links and link
backs so I don’t have many.
This last
ranking on WOT, I question. I got three
out of five people on the graft and a ranking of 85% on child safety. Do they not know the government, after extensive
investigation, awarded me permanent custody of eight children and two donkeys,
a driver’s license, a passport, and a teaching certificate? I looked back over my blog entries and the
only thing I can see that would warrant an 85% child safety ranking would be my
entries on cooking. Maybe I should have
posted a warning: This meal was cooked
by a non-professional with absolutely no training in the kitchen. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME…and do not attempt to
eat unless you were lost on a desert island for six years and have proven you
can digest anything…and I mean anything.
Even if you think no one is reading your blog,
someone is or some THING. Better check
for slips. Your blog is definitely
showing.
