If you were bedridden for 9 years, would your friends and family remember you when you returned to walking again? Mine didn't, in fact they forgot me so hard that an impersonator took my place in their lives for 9 years. How does this happen? I had a wild experience today, and it has made me question: how fast do YOU forget people you know? Like details about them? I ask because, this was someone who knows me offline, face to face, local friend, who hasn't seen me in about a year, but knows me, and knows my car... specifically knows my cars... a 1992 Volvo, that is fully mural painted, with a giant pink jellfish on the hood,, a purple unicorn on one side, a blue merman and a seraphum angle on the other side, and a purple dragon on the back. Also, has a huge four foot long wheelchair carrier on the back, with my website url painted in yellow daisies. This is the same car that for over a decade had 2.5 million marbles glued to it. I build art cars. I have NEVER not once in 50 y...
Since Google's most recent core update (Dec 12, 2025) I am suddenly getting a plethora of traffic (500+ visits daily) to my Blogger blog (started 26 years ago) and its traffic to flash fiction, short stories, and poetry (something that has always been notoriously difficult to get traffic to on Blogger since its BlogSpot days). This update, whatever it is, seems to be driving traffic to all the oldest 20 to 30 year old websites, blogs, and GeoCities type sites. Never seen Google do an update like this one before.
Since Google's most recent core update (Dec 12, 2025) I am suddenly getting a plethora of traffic (500+ visits daily) to my Blogger blog (started 26 years ago) and its traffic to flash fiction, short stories, and poetry (something that has always been notoriously difficult to get traffic to on Blogger since its BlogSpot days). This update, whatever it is, seems to be driving traffic to all the oldest 20 to 30 year old websites, blogs, and GeoCities type sites. Never seen Google do an update like this one before.