Stepping out to Angellucci's

709 visitors.

Old friends. Classmates. People who click on your blog when it flashes for half a second on blogger.com after you’ve updated it. People who click on the link from your Orkut profile. Guys who’ve stumbled onto the blog from links embedded in other’s blogs. About 7 to 9 of them a day. I used to try and track each visitor to his location and IP address….for fear that it might be some relative who still thinks I’m the clueless idiot innocent nerd of 10 years back.

Well….he’s got the clueless idiot part still right. But if there’s family checking in here already, I must commend you guys for the restraint you’ve shown in not disowning me yet. Or maybe you have blogs that I’ve got no clue about.

But I digress. There have been 709 visits to this page since I installed the first counter. It took just 1 of them to turn a rather humbug life upside down, in the best way I’ve known yet. 1 teeny tiny visitor, out on her browsing rounds, starts off with the 1 blog she knew at that time, and went through a chain of 4 before landing up on idlipaav.

It did start off as something totally innocent. Even the most ardent blogger and bachelor knows that there’s no previous record of meeting a girl through this portal, so I kept the roving instincts firmly in check the first time. Given the crap I’ve posted before…well, you’d know why they were so firmly in check.

More than a month has passed. There are times when I look skyward and wonder why the dude’s being so good to me. It could be a way of reaffirming the faith amongst his prodigal sons…I can’t remember the last time I’ve had so much to pray about. Or fight about. Or sing about.

Fingers crossed.
Fervent prayers on lips.
And maybe a song or two as well.

Song of the moment

Steady as we go – Dave Mathews Band