The Little Countdown Clock Race

I've been surfing Blog Explosion, and I got a bunch of new hits on my blog (and a few nice comments! Hello there!). It's a bit on the addictive side, this racking up credits. Each credit, each blog you look at, gets you a visit to your blog from some poor sucker with red-strained eyes, a terrible twinkie habit, and friends and family who haven't seen them in weeks but know they're still alive from the clicking sound their mouse makes as they click on the little numbers after the little clock counts down to zero and you can finally GO!

I don't know if it's my browser, or what, but every few blogs do not load on BE. I'm stuck sitting there, waiting for the countdown on a page that has a 404 error. And let me tell you, it doesn't take 30 seconds for me to read the 404 page.

Then there are the blogs I don't really want to read. I know there are probably people who stop in to my blog and wait anxiously for that 30 seconds to be done so they can move on and rack up their credits. Because that's how I feel about some blogs. I won't say which ones-- that way, if you who write said blogs come to me you'll think I'm actually scrolling about, reading your first few blog entries. Hah ha!

But anyway. It's a very addictive thing, this Blog Explosion and its new kid on the block competitor Blog Click. It gets you more traffic, and if you comment on some of the cool blogs you see, you'll even maybe make new friends. Get on more blogrolls. See your stats climb to twice their normal number, allowing literally tens of people to see your intelligent banter and cute posted graphics and quizzes that reveal the REAL YOU.

I only do it when I'm waiting for other stuff.* Like right now, I have to go to a pointless meeting all the way downtown, through 5:00 traffic. It's pointless because it's a dispute resolution meeting and the other party refuses to play. So I have to show up to show my good faith, so we have that evidence when we sue their asses. And so, because I need to leave in about 20 minutes, I can't actually start anything productive. Or useful.

Heck. Let's go watch the little clock count down some more. It'll get me another visitor to the site who will then sit watching their clock count down and think "this Kim Procrastinates chick is awfully wordy. Where are the quick entries I can read in 30 seconds?

And don't get me started on the MYSTERY CREDITS. I love them. I want more. Please? If somebody signs up using my referral thingy, I think I get more credits. I'm begging here.

Frankly, I blame you Terry. You know why.

*yeah. Sure