I've written a couple of times before about Squarespace's traffic overview section where I can see how many visitors this site gets on a hourly/daily/weekly/etc. basis, including the ability to see where the traffic is coming from thanks to IP tracing. As expected there's a lot of traffic from Nashville and the surrounding area, as well as a few usual places where I have family and friends. The majority of it though is spread out all over the world. Just this month there's been 27 different states, Ireland, Canada, Germany, England and Italy. Some of it comes from Google searches for specific keywords where a post I've written shows up in the results, a lot comes from direct Twitter links, and some navigate directly to the homepage.

Tonight while going over the stats for this past week 3 items in the traffic logs stood out:

IP addresses originating from Cupertino, California. 1 running iOS 10 and the other 2 on macOS 10.12

I'm not saying Apple employees are reading this site, but I'll be damned if it sure doesn't seem that way.

When I was a kid and dreamed of being a rock star I always imagined what it would feel like to have Joe Perry listen to one of my songs. Now I know exactly how that feels.