Weekend Is Coming.

So I decided to try to say something coherent in the first day when I don't have to eat pain-killers in the industrial amounts.  So, here is my slightly disfigured (after root canal and several rounds of lidocaine due to resistance to numbing in this particular case on Wednesday, lucky me) face. 

In related news, Andrei Raevsky (The Saker) sent me this: 

@Saker the numbers are from SimilarWeb, a 3rd party traffic estimation agency. I run a SEO agency myself as one of my businesses, and generally their numbers are fairly reliable (though sometimes they can differ from real ones as provided by G Analytics or similar on-site counters by a factor of 0.5..2). comparing Similarweb numbers between different sites is almost always objective, though. you can check them all out for yourself if you install the free Chrome/Firefox Similarweb extension. BTW, Andrei Martyanov blog’s numbers are: 662k monthly visits, 43% bounce, 02:35 avg visit. which is only slightly less than thesaker.is.

The reason this came into focus is the fact that The Saker's famous blog is doing very well beating in rankings many prominent sites and blogs. You can see Andrei's rank here. I am not specialist in all those rankings but I certainly can see the numbers of daily visits to this blog and they grow, no doubt about it. Hey, good that my opinion seems to matter. I am just trying to do my job and, incidentally, am in a transition to a full time writing and making videos. In this case those numbers have an impact through Patreon, however indirectly. So, these are the news. I will post later a wonderful piece of music by incomparable Chrysta Bell--Agent Tammy Preston in Twin Peaks: The Return and real life muse of David Lynch--an incredible art those people make. It requires a separate post.