If you're wondering why I'm such an irregular blogger nowadays...

It's because the Internet connection this year is so slow. I'm having trouble uploading my pictures, and without pictures, they're little point for me to blog, right? I could bore you all with poetry and random thoughts but I don't think you'd be half as interested in that as in pictures of life in all its beauty in the least developed country in the world!

In the meantime however, while I in a very Nigerien manner await for things to get fixed by themselves, I'll leave you with this pleasant little bugger - compliments from Eden's field station!

Ishtar

Ishtar News statistics

Since the 1st of June when I started looking at the statistics (prior to then, I was only blogging for the fun of it - still am by the way!), Ishtar News has had over 1000 unique visitors. Visitor loyalty is a 46%, meaning that every second person who ends up here comes back again. 54 people have come back more than fifty times. Now being really B!G (as Izz would say!) on continuity, I must say: I like that! I'd rather blog for a handful of people that I "know" myself (whether we've met in person or not), than for an entire community that only writes a comment in the hope of leaving a trace. By the way, I am reading everywhere about people getting rude and hostile comments on their blogs. Luckily, my blog is still so small that it hasn't happened to me!

That said, I will be posting July month's favorite keyword (what is it with people and their unhealthy interest in Ishtar's sunbathing habits?) in a few days. In the meantime, I created a little poll for you to enter what keyword you thought was the top July keyword, after "Ishtar" and surprisingly, "Hanna Grönberg" - my restless friend who has a very wide global social network. I'm honored to be your friend Hanna!

Now I only need to find a picture that matches with this post. Won't be easy, for rare are the moments when I have been working with statistics in any kind, and even rarer are the times when a photographer caught me doing so! I do however have pictures of me fiddling with the camera!

Isn't it amazing what blonds can do these days? We're turning into a high-tech species!

Ishtar

It seems my blog has come to life!

Wow!

Thanks for all the support, guys! It means a lot to come back from a ten-hour-shift (being away from home for 12 hours) and find that my blog has been living it's own life while I was gone!

I am unfortunately working tomorrow as well (but not as long as I did today), so I might have to wait until Sunday until I can do you all justice and answer your comments with the attention they deserve! In the meantime, I will try to keep by head above surface and listen to the voice that whispers so clearly in my heart who bears my burdens and settles my fears. It's amazing how hard it can be to allow oneself be small, but it's such a relief when one does. I was doing that a few weeks ago when I was running on the water surface. Perhaps I started taking all the good moments for granted again?

Oh well, will go in and check on my mom, have a long talk with God and then see what tomorrow brings. Take care you all!

Ishtar