Blog Statistics

I found out that there's a page here that tracks statistics of page views.  I should have been paying attention earlier; I would have pandered to the international community more effectively.  There's also a place for reader comments.  Sorry to all those who posted comments back in July and August.  Anyway, given that this started as a blog to signal to family members that we hadn't been killed or kidnapped yet, as expected, the US accounts for the overwhelming majority of visitors.  Stop hogging all the visits, Americans.  There's a tie for second place between Canada and the UK.  Germany and Spain follow in a neck and neck race for third and fourth.  Then there's a handful of countries mired in fifth through tenth place - Czech Republic, Argentina, Afghanistan, Russia, etc - you know who you are.  And then there are the collection of countries with only 1 or 2 visits.  Whatever I wrote to piss you off, I'm sorry, and I apologize, unless you deserved it. (You know you did, Etrusca and the Bactrian Empire!  Man up!)

On a completely unrelated note, boy, am I glad I didn't plan next week's R&R in Egypt.