Monday, May 14, 2007

We're still friends, we're still us

My best friend hasn't spent any time communicating with me lately. Not by phone, not by email. It was making me very uncomfortable.

Usually we at least trade emails a couple times a day. Two weeks ago he was in town and we had dinner together two nights in a row. That spoiled me, I guess. I was getting used to seeing him regularly, and for hours at a time, once again.

Then he took his family on a much-needed vacation to New Orleans for Jazz Fest and to visit relatives. And then he had a whirlwind business trip to New York. And last weekend was Mother's Day and naturally he had family obligations.

His silence was completely understandable. But I hated it. I missed him. Here's the thing about him -- like this blog, he just absorbs what I have to say and accepts me as I am. But from this blog I am anonymous. I can confess my inkiest-black thoughts to him and he still accepts. And comforts. And supports. When I don't hear from him, my world starts to make less sense.

Because he's him, I was able to tell him how much I missed him without feeling silly or needy or vulnerable.

I know he gets a lot from me, too. I know this relationship is a two-way street. But for the last week or so, I'd been the needy one. He was attentive and sweet via emails and over the phone as he came in from the cold.

So we're still friends and we're still us and I'm so glad. Now I can relax and concentrate on my beloved future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux taking the mound against the Reds.

Facts about this here little ol' blog


Thanks to statcounter.com, I know some fascinating things about my musings. At least fascinating to me, because I am a geek.

While it may seem that I spend an inordinate amount of time blogging about Greg Maddux and the Cubs, those two subjects are not the ones that bring readers to me. At least not through search engines. Nor are searchers drawn to my musings for my sharp wit or my perceptive take on life in these here United States. No. The subject that has brought me the most msn and Google search hits is …

The discontinuation of Victoria Principal Time Release Moisture

This completely cracks me up.

76 visitors have spent more than an hour on my site. Gotta tell you, I don't even find me that interesting. I suspect that either their screens froze or they went off to make dinner without exiting my page.

Just to prove that it is indeed a worldwide web: I have had one visitor each from Croatia, Kuwait, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica and Ecuador.