Introduction
Great! Today, Friday, New Year's Eve, we have another rainy and warm “spring” day in winter. At least the morning fog lifted. This is not Camelot weather. By eight, the morning fog had not disappeared (cf. Camelot lyrics - Richard Burton, on Soundtrack Lyrics).
This morning, Tim Burchett (U.S. Representative, 2nd District) emailed his 2021 year-in-review newsletter. The website is Congressman Tim Burchett (house.gov), where there are several news lines and an option to sign up for his monthly newsletter. The website does not include archived newsletters. I wish it did. Tim, as he prefers to be called, is doing his best to slow or reverse the slide of this once-great nation into “Socialist Utopia,” as I call it. I support and join Congressman Burchett in his efforts.
Tim's year in review inspired me to check this website's 2021 year in review. I took a minute (11:02-03 AM) to see a moment-in-time snapshot. I also looked at my newer Substack platform. I had to do something, aside from hope that the fog would lift, which it did eventually.
Appalachian Irishman by Today's Numbers
Since the inaugural article on Monday, March 6, 2006, I have been able to see this website's analytics. Next March will be the sixteenth year that this website has been up and running. Today, at 11:03 AM, I saw this website's statistics on Blogger Stats. (You can't access that site. Only I can, as the owner.)
Today, at 11:03 AM, all-time views at that moment were 136,636. At the time, today's views were 28 (so far). Yesterday's views were 124. This month's views were 1,925 (so far). Last month's views were 1,460. The number of views keeps increasing. It was a snapshot in time.
Twenty of the 286 total articles before this one were viewed or read in the last seven days (12/24-30/2021). Views of those articles totaled 95. They were as follows, with the total of views beside each article. (Four articles with published dates emboldened from 2006, 2009, and 2014 were viewed.)
-- Ferrell's Well Drilling, 3-8-1958; Weigel's from 12-21-2013 Remembered on 12-21-2021; Christmas Day Yesterday; and Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Backdrop (published 12-26-2021) = 21 views.
-- MY “LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL” CONTINUES (published 12/29/2021; article #284) = 9 views.
-- Tuesday, 11-23-2021: Dad Got the Same Junk Mail Here for the Third Time! (published 11-26-2021) = 8 views.
-- 5/9/2021: Mother's Day on VE Day (Russia) in the Midst of a Memorial Service = 7 views.
-- ALPHA TO OMEGA (published 12/29/2021; article #285) = 7 views.
-- Life, “Such As It Was,” Update: 12/7/2021 to 12/23/2021 (published 12/24/2021) = 5 views.
-- Devil's Nose, 11-29-2013 Hike (published 1-1-2014) = 4 views.
-- 11-7-2021: USSA “GOVRMINT” TIME ENDS! (published 11-7-2021) = 4 views.
-- CHRISTMAS EVE, 12-24-2021, UPDATE (published 12-24-2021) = 4 views.
-- “Life, Such As It Was,” from 11-29-2021 to 12-4-2021 (published 12-11-2021) = 3 views.
-- Christmas on Friday, 12/25/2020 = 3 views.
-- 11-24-2021 Was Mom's Heavenly Birthday: My 7-17-2021 Birthday Pie (published 11-26-2021) = 3 views.
-- HOW TO PRONOUNCE “APPALACHIAN” - REVISITED (published 12-12-2009) = 3 views.
-- Devil's Nose Mountain, Hawkins County (published 3-7-2006; article #2) = 2 views.
-- A Liberal's Stew (published 3-18-2006; article #6) = 2 views.
-- Fearghail Nieces: Basketball Proud! (published 12-19-2021) = 2 views.
-- Ferrell Family Gathering Fun on Saturday, 7-3-2021 (published 7-5-2021) = 2 views.
-- DAD, 9/17/1927-1/25/2008, AGE 80: I REMEMBERED (published 1-25-2021) = 2 views.
-- Reflections from Saturday, 12-30-2000, Eleven Years Later on Thursday, 12-30-2021: The Squirrel Saga (published 12-30-2021; article #286) = 2 views.
-- Sunday, 6-13-2021: Generational Honor: Granny Ferrell and Niece at Age 15 = 2 views.
The first article on Wednesday, December 29, 2021, mentions the number of international views at that moment in time. I can see the total number of views from which nations at any time. I can't see the names or email addresses of viewers. I can't see who has subscribed to this website.
For 2021, this is the one hundred twenty-first and final article. A man has to stop for the year sometime! I published 55 articles in 2020. Analytics show me data for articles from 2016 to 2019. This website's statistics page includes better details than the information in the next section.
Appalachian Irishman (since 3/6/2006) - Substack 12/23/2021+
The Thursday, December 23, 2021, article, the 280th on this website, was my first article on Substack.
Today, at 11:02 AM, I saw my Substack platform statistics after I logged in at that moment. The statistics were not as detailed as the ones for this original website, Appalachian Irishman.
In nine days (12/23-31/2021, at 11:02 AM), Substack analytics showed 30 readers. I have one Substack subscriber, whom I know, who enrolled to receive email notifications when I publish on that platform. I can see the email addresses of subscribers on Substack.
Substack is useful. It may draw a wider audience to my original website. (I will not republish this article on my Substack platform.) This original website's statistics protect email subscribers (whom I can't see) better than my Substack platform (as I see subscriber email addresses).
Conclusion
The first semifinal game of the 2021 College Football Championship (No. 4 Cincinnati vs. No. 1 Alabama) is on now. I hope that Alabama does not win!
The second semifinal game (No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 2 Michigan) starts about 7:30 PM this evening. I expect Georgia to lose. If so, then Georgia won't have to play Alabama again in the 2021 Championship game on Monday, January 10, 2022. Georgia let Alabama beat them on Saturday, 12/4/2021, in the SEC Championship game. Yes, I am still not over that loss!
Go Dawgs!
1 comment:
Happy New Year, y'all – if it will be. We can always live in hope, even if we do die in despair. (That's an old Irish joke.) I am “enjoying” this spring weather today. We have had clouds, wind, sun, heavy rain. Now, 1/1/2022, 1:52 PM, we have sun and wind. I predict rain next. The pattern repeats.
This is my 1/1/2022 comment, to my 12/31/2021 article, “APPALACHIAN IRISHMAN BY THE NUMBERS, 12-31-2021, FRIDAY, 11:02 - 03 AM (published 12-31-2021; article #287).” The link is:
https://www.appalachianirishman.com/2021/12/appalachian-irishman-by-numbers-12-31.html
Alabama won, as I predicted, yesterday afternoon. Georgia won, as I didn't predict, last evening. I watched the entire Georgia game, having stayed up until about 11 PM. The 1/10/22, Monday, College Football National Championship game will be between my DAWGS and Alabama. We will see if Georgia will redeem itself, from their loss to Alabama, in the 12/5/21 SEC Championship game. We can always live in hope!
This morning, my 'ol Samsung, not semi-intelligent, cell phone started “white screen of death,” again. I fixed it early last year. After “enjoying” the morning, on Straight Talk “chat” and then direct call, I may need to get another not semi-intelligent cell phone. We can always life in hope that I can keep my 'ol phone!
For my Appalachian Irishman website (https://www.appalachianirishman.com/), my 12/2021 total viewers/readers was 1,960. (I was born in 1960.) In 2021, I wrote 121 total articles. I had 60,361 total views/readers. That is, on average, 5,030 views/readers a month (rounding down). I published this comment on my https://appalachianirishman.substack.com/ website (which I started on 12/23/2021).
Remember, in 2021, we can always live in hope! That dying in despair part is only for the folks, who decided freely, to not accept the Good Lord's gift of salvation and live according to it. I'm just trying to help folks, so they can die in joy, not despair!
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