5000

My visitor counter for this blog passed the 5000 mark. My ClustrMaps-counter reports around 2300+ visitors since I installed it last year. These are not unique visits. Regardless, what's so special about unique visits? It is the regular visitors that I care about, many of whom I don't know*, but who still find my life interesting enough to come by regularly.

Blogging has multiple functions for me. Sometimes it is just to blow off steam, as one fellow blogger recently confessed. Usually, in my case, it is to "log" for the purposes of remembering. I don't keep a diary anymore -- blogging has become one of the ways I log my experiences, my thoughts, my curiousities, my interests... Another reason, of course, for starting this blog was to keep my "Global Family" up to date with my expat experiences. With so many people with whom I feel an affinity, it is practically impossible to share my life in personalised individual emails. Blogging, is one means of bridging that problem. Then again, blogging is a way to force myself to write. Writer's block occurs when you stop writing, as I explained in my very first post for this blog. And that is in part, the reason for the title Skryfblok, literally "Writing Pad" in Afrikaans but also by auditory inference "skryf"-block (writer's block).

Again, thanks to all my regular visitors. And if you haven't posted a comment before, please introduce yourself sometime.

Sincerely,
Sanko

* I'm suspecting that at least one regular visitor to be a geeky CIA-operative spying on me. I'm sorry to disappoint him though. My life's interesting, but not that interesting.