Painful Maps

Saying for the Day: We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ~Denis Diderot

This is a map of recent visitors to my blog.
I check it every once in a great while to see where my readers are.
This is a close up of part of that map.

I used to have a good number of Upper Michigan readers. Now I have only two. The one in Caspian being the most faithful. I have more readers in Australia than I do in the UP. So sad.
I used to have a regular reader in Florence but he has disappeared as well. I am doing better in Europe than in Wisconsin.
Reality is such a pain. It shatters dreams.
I think it will be another great while before I look at these maps again.
Or perhaps tomorrow will be better.
#### News from Pigeon Falls-The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal. Yesterday for the third day in a row our dragon flew. It was snowing again but that didn’t seem to have any effect on him. Its frequent visits are beginning to make people nervous. What is going on? Is something horrible about to happen? Doesn’t Petrovich have some kind of driblet about when dragons fly? People are strange. When the dragon doesn’t fly they ask where is he. When the dragon does fly they asdk why now. But there is a feeling that something is about to happen.
Nancy’s poltergeist has also stepped up his or its activity. More flying cups and saucers. More floating dishes. People are going in for a cup of coffee just to see what will happen next.
Tommy TW has started his new book tentatively called “ The Haunted Museum”. It’s set in a small town that turns what was a haunted house into a museum and the horrible things that happen there.
Petrovich has finally found a carpenter that isn’t afraid of ghosts and the work on his room has begun again. Of course, carpenters that don’t believe in ghosts charge more.
Tommy UK still thinks they need an Exorcist to drive the ghosts out. Eino has explained to him that ghosts don’t exist and therefore can’t be driven out. Eino is always the voice of reason.
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Todays link-Ivan's Blog- Some thoughts on turning thirty.
This was a really dull day. It rained all day. I was feeling a bit better than yesterday and my oxygen was up some but not enough so I spent most of the day on oxygen. In the morning I watched a dragon movie. Then visited all my links. Then I watched two dragon movies. By the time I got back to the computers my little computer dragons were lonely and upset. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA