As far as blogs go, this is pretty boring stuff: no sharp political observations or timely commentary on current events here, just me (Chris) posting periodic updates for our friends and family on what is going on around here because I owe them all emails that I never get around to writing. I try to throw in a few weird links when I find them and the occasional rant, but otherwise there isn’t much of interest here, unless you know us.

Of course, since the site is crawled by search engines, we also tend to get visitors who stumble upon DogsnCatsnRats in their web wanderings; we’ve met some interesting people and overall that has been pretty cool…well, except for that vet who left the comment flaming me for something I’d said that apparently pushed his buttons. Having made kind of a hobby of looking at the site stats to see how many visitors have passed through and what led them here, which I posted about previously, I had finally gotten used to the huge spike in traffic this weblog generated when I posted about Keen Eddie being shown on Bravo, and kinda enjoyed reading all the comments — though I kept wondering why they were not being posted somewhere they would actually have an impact, like on a fansite or at Fox or Bravo.

For the past month or so “Keen Eddie” has been the #1 searched phrase that causes search engines to hit us, but suddenly there is a new contender. It is amazing how many people every day are apparently looking for ways to escape being called for jury duty, which I’d posted comment with a humorous link on that subject on a little while back. We’re talking hundreds of hits a day on this one, and I am thinking of maybe changing the text to make the search engines stop hitting it, or removing it entirely… it’s just a bit unnerving to have that much traffic coming through on that one. Of course that is mostly just my paranoid side speaking, which says “don’t draw attention to yourself from the government, even if you are just being a smartass, or they’ll find some reason to ship your butt back to Canada.”

I think I’ll go back and fiddle with the title of that post a bit to see if I can get Google to at least drop it down from #2 in the search results.