lol. my youtube monthly stats increases are approaching the golden mean. :o.

i hit 4500 views over the night. that's not bad for 5 months and no promo outside of posting to youtube itself. if i maintain a modest growth ratio of 1.2 per month (less than the golden mean), i'll be at 30,000 hits by year end and be averaging about 1721 hits a day by the end of next year. that would be a startling 50000+ hits in dec, 2015 alone.

i know better than to think i can expect unending growth. i'm not some kind of delusional liberal capitalist, or something. and i'll state again that i don't really care about racking up hit stats.

but i'm at least succeeding in generating traffic.

i'm not sure what's going on outside. when i was out there, it sounded like a race track around the corner. air show? several lawn mowers? don't know. but, sitting inside, the waveforms of the different motors are expanding and overlapping with each other and harmonizing, and it sounds like an ambient noise festival.

maybe i just wish i was at an ambient noise festival.

it's nice out.

hurry up, customs.

nice walk yesterday, although it knocked me out. i guess i needed a good night's worth of sleep. it's been a long time since i can remember a good 9 hours in one stretch.

those cheap shoes aren't working out. i suppose i shouldn't be surprised, although i also think i'm abusing them. they probably would have lasted the summer if i didn't take them on these periodic six or eight hour walks. as it is, they're already softening up on the bottom. i did pick up a pair of skate shoes a few months ago, but wanted to save them until the spring rains stopped. the whole purpose of the cheap shoes was really to wear in spring and fall. so, i guess it's time to switch over. the cheapies were two for one, so i guess i have another pair for the fall. looking at them now, it's pretty obvious they weren't really made for walking.

i got this rare craving for a burger last night. it's something that hits every few months. raw meat is not allowed in the house, so it's not something that's in my regular diet. the few times a year i want a burger, i go buy one. i remembered seeing a local burger place, so i took a walk around the corner....

"motor burger". well, i'm in detroit. sounds like a good place for what i imagine a local detroit burger should be: greasy and messy, with a side of transmission fluid, but that's kind of what i wanted.

it turns out it was actually a sort of bourgeois gourmet burger palace, which makes these weird upper class burgers out of goat cheese and gluten-free buns, then charges upwards of $15 for them. i was tired, and jonesing hard, so i forked out the $22 for a bacon cheeseburger and a non-hydrogenated, baked, organically grown poutine.

i gotta say it was good.

and i guess that's the new detroit.