A Sense of Doubt blog post #4282 - 800 Days and a Blog Recap - About My Blog

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4282 - 800 Days and a Blog Recap - About My Blog

It's been 800 days since Dad died.

It's been 4146 days since Mom died, less of a milestone of a nice round number like 800.

Eights are meaningful in Dad's death as I have previously written about, like here:

Thursday, October 30, 2025

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3908 - Letter to Dad #008 - Meaningful Numbers & Ellory is Sick

Here's the text from that post.

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It took me some searching to find the numbers related to your death, but I know I wrote about them somewhere.

Here they are:

Friday, December 6, 2024

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3580 - "It Doesn't Matter If We All Die" - 100 Years - 100 Days Since My Dad Died

REPRINTED

I have written about the 28s and the numbers in the deaths of my parents.

Mom died on 7/4/2015. Seven times Four = 28. Dad died on 8/28/24.

Our first full day here in PACNW was 8/28/17 as Dad drove me and the dogs here.

He moved into Friendship Village on 8/28/20.

He died there 8/28/24.

Dad turned 28 the year after I was born.

That's not as good of a 28 in this story of numbers, but it's close to the other significant numbers in the series.

ADDED

As my mind reaches for meaning, I think about you being born in 1935. Three plus five is eight.

You were born 6/26. 6+26 = 32, a multiple of 8 and 4.

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And now, 800 days. The eight there is obvious.

I thought with this post that I would take a minute and review recent blog stats.

I know a lot of these stats represent bots, especially when I see the last month stats shows over a million hits!

Deeper in it's possible to sift out the real people from the automatons.

This November stats line shows a big spike in activity Friday when I did not even have all my posts up yet for the week, but I did have Wednesdays post election post up.

This chart looks like it shows more actual readers or at least clickers because the post about Ellory leads all others by triple.

All these stats are from the last seven days.



Now, looking at the last 30 days, this is interesting.

What caused the huge spike in mid-October? Surely that's a ton of bots as I previously surmised.

But still, that's a ton of activity.

Again, looking at posts gives a better indication of actual readers based on what is popular.

Once again, the post with Ellory logged significant numbers for the month as did two of the Dracula posts. Music always charts well as shown here. It's interesting that "toxic multitasking" tops the list, surely because those words generate clicks. But it's tied with one of the Dracula posts. Speaking of clickbait, near death experiences, data centers, and revision all reaped some substantial numbers. What surprises me most is that the DC Universe time line post accumulated 272 views over the month.

Looking FOR THE YEAR, we see these posts earn high view counts:

These lists always surprise. It makes sense to see my Heroes post, the first ever on the blog, score highly both for being first and following the death of Hayden Panettiere. The "Burgers or Booty" post has always charted. However, what's with the student introductions post from my first Concordia Class? It's kinda cool to see the subway tunnels post earn so many views this year, but I am surprised to see the ambient music post earn so many views, especially since it was a reprint. And why is the Le Guin post far and away the most viewed post? That's a post from 2017. And I used an image of Vin from Mistborn long before I read it even the first time (and now I have read it again). I have no idea why this post is getting so many clicks. There's some cool music from Sound Cloud at the end of that post, so is that why?

It's great to see some comic book posts in the top ten for the year and some of those recent ones carried through.

Even though I am often reprinting or sharing or making a post with little original content, I like the daily discipline of posting something online via my blog.

It's been over 11 years of daily activity.

I am not planning at this time to stop.

Thanks for tuning in.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2611.07 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 4146 days ago & DAD = 800 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.