It's fascinating to see what searches will bring up your site. I hadn't realized until today that I could see the statistics for what search terms were used by people to visit this site. I knew you could find the referrers and what domains people come from, but until recently I wasn't listed in any of the search engines so I never saw what terms came up. Not too surprisingly, several of the searches came from looking for broccoli. I had a couple hits from people searching for Olive Garden's garlic-herb chicken con broccoli, which is what I usually get when I go there, and there are several from people looking for information on the Trek 7500, which I bought last summer. I didn't think anyone that I didn't know ever came across the site, but it makes sense that once it was indexed by google and other search engines, it would come up. I still don't have enough traffic to have more than one hit for earch search, but it is still interesting.
I remember back when people were trying to be careful about what personal information they put on line, in fear of net-stalkers, or other people knowing too much about them. Now that's what blogs are for. People share the details of their life with complete strangers that they wouldn't tell their close friends. I think it is good in many ways, very cathartic. Of course, there is still the danger of people becoming obsessed with someone they met over the net, but that's a problem anyway, I never thought it was worse because of the internet or something stilly like that. How is it different than randomly following someone you see in a park? It's much less dangerous in many ways. True, the internet makes some information that should be private a little easier to get than it used to (like social security numbers or drivers license information), but that was available for the right price anyway if you were really trying to get it.
If you are interested in sharing the little details of your life with the rest of the world, then why not? Some of the little things shared can be helpful to other people, like reviews of a bike, or descriptions of restaurants and their dinner offerings. I think it is useful to be able to see what real people think about things, rather than just professional reviews. Both are useful, but if you find someone that seems to have similar interests, you may value their opinion more than what you find in Consumer Reports or some other publication.
It's cold out there today, and going to be colder tonight. The wind chill is something like -15 here, which is cold enough, but I saw it was -30 or colder in Bangor, ME, so I'm glad I'm not still there. Of course, if you stay inside it isn't nearly as bad, but even just going out to the car is hard to work up to.
The quarter is pretty much finished at work, I spent 7 or 8 days working second shift as a shift-lead so that was interesting. It went pretty well, and we got alot done. Second shift did much more than first shift, and third shift was as useless as always. We keep trying to convince them not to have one and the upper management keeps insisting on it. It'd be better to do 2 10 hour shifts instead of 3 of 8 hours. Maybe next quarter they'll notice that nothing got done overnight this time, but I'm not holding my breath. That's only true for fulfillment, post-production and printing should have a 3rd shift, but that's just machine operation.
Since I was gone for a week I got behind on my other work doing postage reconciliation, but today I got caught up, so it didn't take nearly as long as last time. Cindy had taken some home with her to do last weekend and that made a huge difference. I finished around noon and came home early so I could bring Sabrina to work. I stopped at the library on the way home too, but didn't find anything good to read.
This is week 2 of my second semester at Strayer. I'm taking accounting, C++, and psychology. So far I think accounting is going to give the most trouble,. Some of the things that are done don't make much sense to me at all, as far as what is considered a "debit" and what is a "credit." I'll figure it out I guess. The other classes should be ok. I almost messed up the first week of C++ because I wasn't paying attention. The other classes have all had "week 1" "week 2" etc, and this one had "chapter 1" "chapter 2" etc, and so I had done "chapter 1" instead of both 1 and 2. I noticed at about 10:30pm sunday and had to do everything in an hour and a half. Luckily the assigment was easy so it didn't take long. In the accounting class for some reason they couldn't open my homework, I think i have a newer version of Office than they do and they couldn't open the spreadsheet. I resubmitted it as an older version, but I don't know if that worked better or not. I still got credit for the homework since it is just graded as either submitted or not, rather than a real grade, so good enough for now.
Which reminds me, I got all A's last semester, yeehaw. I got a letter saying that I'm on the "president's list" because of it. Oooh. Hopefully I can keep up the grades. It was a bad time for starting the class, since the first day of class was also the first day of the new quarter at Moore, so I was working 10-12 hour days for the whole week. I never got around to reading anything in advance either, so I had to do it all on Sunday. I've already started this week's stuff a little bit, so I won't be rushing at the end again, but I'll still have alot to do on sunday.
I think that's all that is new here. Maybe I'll update again in less than a month this time :)