CALL ME SNAKE

I didn’t realize, until lately, that blog.com tallies statistics like “pageviews per day.” For some strange reason, pageviews for Call Me Snake took off on Tuesday of this week, exceeding 130, nearly four times the number on Wednesday. I still can’t figure out what was going on Tuesday to account for this surge. The best explanation I can come up with has to do with volleyball, which is what I normally turn to when all other explanations fail. On Tuesday, you see, I played volleyball for the first time after a long hiatus. I’d taken a break from active play for about nine months to sharpen my inner game. Tuesday was the day for me to put all that good “inner” work to use in an “outer” game. (We did, in fact, play outside, as is our custom this time of year.) Somehow, I’m thinking, people must have known about that riverside game. Otherwise, I’m hard-pressed to explain Tuesday’s pageview explosion, which may otherwise remain a mystery for the ages…