Million Milestone

It happened while I was sleeping.

At the beginning of this year, when I was checking the metrics of my blog, I realized that I was very close to achieving one million views on The Brown Knowser. I was about 43,000 views away from reaching that number and guessed that I'd hit that milestone within the next couple of months.

I thought it would be nice to hit the million views in time for my birthday, which is next week, so I wrote a blog post about that wish. And, boy, my readers didn't disappoint.

Over the past year, I've had around 15,000 viewers to my blog each month. Sometimes, more; sometimes, fewer. Getting 43,000 in two months was a challenge but not impossible.

But, boy, have you come through for me.

In January, my blog was visited 34,247 times. You rock! And as February moved along, I was seeing high viewership again, and calculated that I would hit the million mark by the middle of the month.

It happened in the wee hours of Valentine's Day, while I slept. I awoke on Friday and checked my blog stats, to see that the million-viewer milestone had been exceeded.

A few hours later, I looked at the numbers again, and I was at 1,001,010 viewers. If I suffered from apophenia, I would see that the binary 1001010 represents 74, which is the age that my grandmother was when she died, some 30 years ago.

Her birthday? Valentine's Day. Coincidence?

(I really have to stop watching conspiracy theory videos on YouTube.)

Thank you for supporting my channel. While The Brown Knowser makes no money, I feel rich nevertheless. You keep me writing. You keep me looking at the world around me, keep me thinking, keep me creating.

I hope that the coming blog posts continue to entertain you. You are awesome.

Happy Monday!