Furious Seasons

April 03, 2009

500,000th Visit

I began this site in September 2005 and until August 2007 I didn't have Sitemeter on it and didn't track statistics. I simply didn't want to know how many people were reading when I was still trying to figure out how to run a blog and while I was mostly still working as a reporter elsewhere. Anyway, I installed Sitemeter in August 2007 and last evening I hit a milestone as this site recorded its 500,000th visit since installing Sitemeter. Yee haw.

Thanks to all of you who read this site and especially to those of you who've been around the longest and who support it financially. You know who you are.

Oh, yes, yesterday was the third busiest day in this site's history as the post on the 1811 Eastlake housing for homeless alcoholics was quite popular and I ended up with something on the order of 7,000 visits. People were also reading my critique of President Obama's cigarette tax, including my father who for the first time in my 15 years of journalism wrote me and slammed me.

Posted by Philip Dawdy at April 3, 2009 12:01 AM

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Philip,wow,congrats on the 500,000! that's amazing. i knew it would be a success

Posted by: Stephany at April 3, 2009 05:35 AM

So. Did that person get a prize??? A new car, say. Or maybe a roller skate...

Posted by: Sherry at April 3, 2009 04:11 PM

Congratulation's on the 500,000th visit !

Posted by: mark p.s.2 at April 3, 2009 05:37 PM

yeah we need FS coffee mugs Sherry!

Posted by: Stephany at April 3, 2009 10:38 PM

Great idea, Stephany. I think we should agitate for mugs.

I was once involved with a group of survivors of sexual abuse. Some bright light thought coffee mugs were a good idea. Personally, it wasn't my idea of a great thing to wake up to.

At any rate, at one meeting near Christmas the leader offered the mugs for sale. I opined they'd make a great stocking stuffer for one's perpetrator. I had fun imagining Christmas morning, the family gathered together, watching one another pull things out of their stockings...

Sherry (Queen of Black Humour)

(Sadly, most incest survivors I know continue to have a relationship with their perpetrators. And wonder at their lack of progress.)

Posted by: Sherry at April 4, 2009 06:55 PM

They do? I think I can't face reading that body of literature.

Posted by: Anon. at April 5, 2009 06:34 PM

Anon,
Yep, they sure do. I stopped going to survivor groups because I got sick of watching people make progress all year, only to regress and lose most of their gains thanks to the winter holidays. I friggin' hate the winter holidays now.

The biggest excuse people gave for exposing their children to their perpetrators is the very bogus "Children need their grandparents." No, there are plenty of kids whose grandparents are deceased who are doing just fine, thank you. That's no reason to bring your kids to your perp's house. Some of these parents were women in their thirties whose father still French kiss them and feel them up in greeting.

Another biggie was "He (or she) says he's changed." Right. The rest of us have to go through years of gut-wrenching therapy to effect any significant change. Perpetrators, on the other hand, must have some kind of magic going because all they have to do is announce "I've changed" and Bingo! it's a fact. What baloney. I got tired of watching people play these games.

I terminated my relationship with my perpetrator when I was in my mid-twenties. I called her up and told her "I can have a life or I can have a relationship with you. I'm choosing to have a life." She hissed "I wish you'd never been born" and hung up on me. I was never able to see my father again. I was like an animal in a trap, chewing its foot off to get free.

I know the price one has to pay to recover from incest. And, ya know what? It's worth it. It's really worth it.

Sherry

Posted by: Sherry at April 6, 2009 05:56 AM