I realised, when casting about in desperation for a tenuous parallel to build into a recent blog post, that I always feel the need to draw some sort of parallel between my random thoughts and observations, and something to do with my cancer or treatment in these posts. I think it’s because of the fear of having mis-sold the content otherwise. The whole cancer thing is pretty in your face in the introduction to the blog. 

I’m not sure why I’m so concerned about this, though. I’m sure no one apart from me ever reads my inane ramblings. At least I would be sure of that, if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m absolutely obsessed by analytics, and scouring the analytics page of this site on a regular basis. Not because I really care that much whether anyone is reading it, but because I am genuinely really obsessed with analytics. I love them. And don’t even get me started on dashboards. They basically do the stuff that clever people do with their big brains and complicated spreadsheets, and then churn it out in a way that makes you feel as if you’re that clever. And often with pretty pictures. 

Anyway, surprisingly it turns out that quite a lot of people do look at this site, and not just those of the two-second-long ‘oops, clicked on it by mistake’ variety. There are also not, as I suspected, just lots of views from one individual user. Which might have been me. In fact, there are multiple views, from multiple people, in multiple countries at the same time. Or at least within a timeframe tight enough to mean it can’t just be one person travelling between different locations and logging in from different devices. Although one lone follower with that degree of dedication would definitely be worth having. You can tell I’ve really thought this through. 

The upshot is, a few people do seem to look at this fairly regularly, and so I guess I do feel obliged to produce something that is vaguely in line with what it says on the tin. Although on reflection, I really doubt anyone is looking at it because they have a burning desire to read my latest attempt to construct a tenuous link between some random event and dealing with a life-threatening disease. So with that in mind, I’ve decided I probably don’t need to make quite such a feature of the whole drawing parallels malarkey. In this post, therefore, I’ve made the daring decision to avoid doing so, just as an experiment. Which I guess you could say is a bit like…