Russian Porn

A little knowledge really is a dangerous thing.

Blogspot is a user-friendly system for novice bloggers and maybe more accomplished ones as well. Clearly I fall into the former category. I was sitting around today exploring some of the other features of the program.

I know… “Get out and get a life Ava. “ Hey, I had a date last night and another one tomorrow… so I’m starting to re-claim my rightful place in the world of the non-brokenhearted …. Sorry, last night’s date didn’t provide anything blog-worthy but you can’t force these things… and sometimes a peaceful, non-humorous date is a welcome reprieve. Oh there was chemistry, but you can't write a whole blog on a little chemistry.

So here I sit playing with my blogspot features. I browsed through the stats and noted that I’d had 625 pageviews since I switched from Word Press to Blogspot in May. I realize many of those are repeat viewers, and that’s a compliment…thank you (and only you know who you are).. Then I started clicking on more detailed info about said viewers. I discovered 6 from Russia, 3 from India, and 1 each from France, Luxembourg, and Latvia… Latvia?

I probably know just enough about blogging to be dangerous. I assumed that my facebook buddies who were terribly bored or strongly loyal were the only ones reading these …and only then as more of a favor to me. Of course, I predicted a fair number of readers from the former high school classmates on my friends list who haven’t heard from me since the late 60s and are really curious to see if I’m still the wild child I was back then….and just what that might look like in my late 50s. In my mind, this was my reading audience. But Russia.. Latvia… WTF.

I’ve visited Russia twice. Is there a chance I left a few stalkers behind? Then I remembered something I learned from my two visits. Their reading materials are heavily censored. (or at least they still were in 1990)..

Maybe my blogs are the closest Russians can get to porn. I did have one blog with “Sex” in the title. Maybe that drew them in. If so, I really do apologize for not making the blogs spicier… or then again, maybe I’m doing you a favor. If you are out there and can read this, I invite you make yourself known. It’ll be our secret.. just between us and about a hundred of my closest friends.

Ava's website: www.edatinginsight.com