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Yes, your scribe knows it is small potatoes, chump change, a mere bag of shells when compared to Diana Peterfreund's 192,409 hits as of 10 AM this morning, but the fact that his site has now had almost 10,000 visitors is a pleasing statistic to behold. Actually, when one considers that the counter was only put in place after the first month or two of scribal musings, the number is probably already into five figures.

But quality, not quantity, is what matters in life. Among those 9,970 visits are included a large handful of people of whose very existence your scribe was unaware before venturing into the blogosphere, but who have enriched his life immeasurably with their online friendship. Others, like the AuthorBabe or the Sage of Old Greenwich, were known to your scribe before, but have taken on new dimensions and depths as a result of our mutual blogging experiences.

Yes, Blogger is a life-changer. Your scribe is reminded of the parable of the Sower, who broadcast his seed regardless of burning sun, rocky soil, pouring rain, hungry birds, and all the other enemies of sucessful germination. Some of the seed still manages to bear fruit, as it were, and so it is in this case.

10,000 hits - and a handful of precious new friends. Not a bad ROI, in your scribe's opinion.