The "Stumped By The Stats" Story

It was an ordinary day.  And ..... I think it is time I revealed all the facts.  What facts you may wonder.  Well, at the end of the right column on my blog is a counter.  I put it there after my wife asked me a few years ago, after I had started writing my extraordinary stories, if I thought anyone ever read what I was writing.  Seems there were a few of you who found me for some reason or another and were tuning in daily for some family humor.  The daily readership eventually peaked at about 100 readers a day.  To tell you the truth, I was amazed that I was able to garnish that many people who didn't mind taking a few minutes from their busy life to read my daily stories.  Then one day last week, after almost 1,400 stories, I looked at the count and realized it seemed to have ballooned tremendously.  So I checked in the "Stats" area of Blogger and found that it went from 73 readers one day to 3,867 to 4,831 to 4,906 in three days.  It eventually reached 5,523 before it dropped to more reasonable numbers in the 350s.  I tried to think why all of sudden so many people accessed my stories.  Maybe by mistake?  Then I thought that just about the time it grew so quickly I had written a story about the Big 33 football between PA and MD at Hershey Stadium in PA.  People might have "Googled" Big 33 and was directed to my stories.  I then went back to the "Stats" and clicked on "Audience" to see where the readership was coming from.  GERMANY!!  In the last week 21,948 people from Germany had pulled up my stories while there were 558 readers from the USA.  Had some from Russia, France, India, United Kingdom, Canada and even 34 from Latvia.  Knew right away they weren't interested in the Big 33 game.  Thought that maybe the fact that our President was in Berlin it may have been the reason.  But, the mystery still remains just that.  I wonder if my stories are translated into German by Blogger and if not, there must be quite a few German residents who are well versed in English.  I may have to consider a trip to Germany to tour and write a few stories that will bring back memories for my readers in that country.  But if not, I just hope they continue to enjoy the zany writings from LDub.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.  PS - The count total continues to climb. Reached over 100,000 hits with the 6,237 hits yesterday.