I’ve been learning more about Awstats, and things may not be so bad after all. About 99% of the traffic falls into the 0-30 second range, but that doesn’t mean the traffic only stayed for 0-30 seconds. It could mean readers only loaded the most recent page, and moved on, which would be normal for a webcomic. 50 readers spent over 30 minutes on the comic, and 37 of those spent over an hour. I don’t know if that means they were reading the whole time, or read one page, did something else for awhile, then clicked on another page and lost interest. But it could be good news.

We’re at the halfway point of July, and Awstats is reporting 10,100 unique visits already. It turns out that Awstats is bad about inflating traffic numbers. The worst case scenario I’ve found is that Awstats inflates uniques by 150% – but, if my math is right, that would mean the actual number of unique visitors as of the middle of July is not less than 4000. Which is still pretty hefty, at least for me.

So why is there zero interaction, and no voting? It seems like I ought to be killing it. Do you guys only talk to your A.I. girlfriends and boyfriends? I’m kinda joking, and I kinda don’t know – maybe that’s how it is now?

Look ma! No radiator!

I’ve put the new one in, but have not run it.

After draining the old gas out of the tank and replacing with new, I discovered that what I thought was bad gas sound was actually the supercharger coupling. I replaced the coupling years ago, but it doesn’t have many miles on it, so I am a little bit perturbed that it is worn out already. That’s another $50 and a couple hours of time down the drain. I’ll tackle that job today, then I won’t have to listen to it knock while I flush the radiator. Then this car, in theory, should be mobile again.

It certainly needs a bath after sitting for so long.

In other bad news, my truck developed a dragging sound in the brakes, and I finally located it. It was a rear caliper that was failing to release, which destroyed a pad and rotor that are not even a year old yet. I had that brake apart a few months ago, and didn’t notice any unusual wear. Apparently when a caliper sticks, the pad and rotor tear up fast, and without enough warning until it is too late.

So that’s more money out the door.

I haven’t faced this problem before. It looks like the slide pins could be sticking. On this caliper, the pins stay with the bracket when the caliper comes off. I don’t know how the pins come out, but it looks like I’m getting to learn. Greasing the pins is a much easier and cheaper fix than replacing, or rebuilding the caliper; another thing I haven’t done yet. Hopefully that’s all the problem will be, but I’ll still have to get new rotors and pads.

Perhaps everyone is too busy interacting with their A.I. to interact here? If this guy’s numbers are right – well, that happened fast. Not hard to see why. UBTech will be selling a ton of robot bodies for the A.I. waifus and husbandos the younger generations already have.