september was a blog month for the record books. over 58,000 people popped in on this blog alone, which was incredible and maybe twenty times the highest ever monthly figure. where did they come from? it's possible that a couple of them just liked the be-there-be-square function and went exploring, because a lot of blogs are up, and, it's possible that every time they came back here i scored another hit. i have no idea, i'll admit it, but i welcome you. this blog is part of a system of 27 blogs, and about 9 more that are commercial, and a few dead ones that i haven't deleted. there's a whole museum worth of them out there that i'm struggling to save; they are ones i used in teaching back in the early days of blogs, and i've written extensively about the use of blogs in teaching and i'd like to catalogue that too. but this one is at the top. it's got the most overall hits. it's been here the longest. it actually has a book - just passing through - autobiography and true stories from out there - and this book references this blog and a lot of the stories from this book are in here in this blog, deep within it, somewhere (see template).

the thing is, blogs are not the most anally organized structure; they're organized by the time that you posted. so if you want to know how to find something, you have to know when you posted it, which is ok if you are looking for a travel itinerary and can say, well, it was january 04 or something like that. if you are just looking for family, or for posts about one topic (i don't use titles, generally), you're out of luck. if i don't organize on the surface to help you find that stuff, you won't find it.

i post a blog report every month (this one is here) but i'm finding i often have to just guess at where the wild numbers are coming from. for some reason everyone is piling in and i can't say i object, but i don't totally have the house in order first. so i'm going to scramble around a little, clean up if i can, organize this museum before google organizes it by deleting it, and see what i can do fast. the sense of urgency is on. leaves are changing, winter's coming, and there's a lot of work to be done. happy show-your-colors month!