1,000 Page Views

I am astonished to note that Google counted more than one thousand page views for my blog yesterday. I have come close before but that was a first and there it was in black and white:


Page views yesterday
1,040

I have to say I am gratified that you are following my progress so closely and take the time to look at what I see in the Keys and Key West every day. It does take planning and a fair amount of effort to keep up with the five-a-day format but I can also affirm that I have a new energy boost about the potential for these essays and I am still working on new ideas for this blog. At home I thank my wife for her unstinting support, pushing me into the office to write when she could be enjoying my company (think about that for a moment...) and my buddy Chuck who is brim full of ideas and suggestions and tweaks which I will implement as we move forward. He and my wife have been clear and constant in their support for my efforts along with kind words from Orin http://scootinoldskool.wordpress.com/ and of course the Twisted Roads Jack riepe http://jackriepe.blogspot.com/ . I have to say that after much thought I have come to the conclusion that I like my blog right where it is in its layout and color scheme so I have dropped plans to move to a new domain or web page. However thanks to Orin's help it's new address is http://keywestdiary.us/ though http://conchscooter.blogspot.com/ will still direct Web searches to this very spot.

I am getting used to the frequency and pace of five a day and I am looking forward to implementing Chuck's latest zinger which is to include interviews with regular people who live and work in the Lower Keys and Key West, to find out what keeps them ticking down here south of reality. If you are one such and would like to see your picture here and as essay about your daily life please contact me at conchscooter@gmail.com. If you know of someone who might like the treatment or that you would like to read about drop me a suggestion and I'll see what I can do. I hope that such additions might help broaden your knowledge of what it takes to make living full time in the Keys a reality and give you a fresh perspective onlife down here, because let's face it, not everyone is a police dispatcher around here. Amazing but true.

I am also working to figure out how to add reader's essays. Gary: I still can't figure it out quite and neither could Orin but the pictures won't download. @#$@^&! Rest assured the glitches will work themselves out. Anyway the guru of this change, the rather unapproachable Bill Belew calls this sort of work fiddling inasmuch as I'm not writing fresh posts and I have lots of words in my head struggling to get out so cheerio, I've got to get back to posting!

So onward and upward and thank you for your support.