Recently I pulled up some website traffic
statistics for my website, www.bamcc.net, and I was pleasantly surprised at what
I saw.
According to numerous
tracking sites my daily traffic fluctuates between 100,000 to 500,000 per day.
Add that to my blog's daily visitors and it racks up to be some pretty
impressive stats.
I also pulled up a
global location traffic saturation chart and according to it my website has
heavy traffic in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, parts of Europe,
the Middle East and Far East. Africa's and South America's traffic are
good but not heavy. Not bad.
Now if I could only convince
more manufacturers and publishers to provide more review material and possibly
some ad revenue then things would be great.
I've been retired just
over two months and I have to say, "I wish I had retired earlier."
It's nice sleeping in
when I want to. Not having to worry about getting things done quickly and
getting to spend time with my wife, family and friends is pretty special.
I've even managed to get somethings done around the house (much to my
wife's delight) and get more exercise-especially riding my bike and playing tennis.
I've even managed to drop 10 pounds and lower my
blood pressure.
Although am a little
burnt out from teaching Drawing and Commercial Art, I am starting to get back
in the swing of things and starting to draw and write again-just for myself.
There's so much I want
to do, but some things take time. My website for example.
I want to write several
reviews a day but unfortunately material to review doesn't keep a daily
schedule.
I'd like to travel-but, my wife and my trip to
Rhode Island to visit my son and daughter-in-law won't be until
September.
Our trip to Tennessee to
see the leaves change won't be until October and my trip to Michigan to see my
brothers has been put off to next year. As is our trip out West to the
Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, etc.
I really want to go to
more conventions and publicize my comic book characters and children's book art
and scripts. Next year's San Diego ComicCon is one place I want to attend.
I'd love to go to The International
Toy Fair in New York City and various comic book, game and electronics shows.
I've got a boatload of
stuff I want to sell: toys, model kits, comic books, trading cards, etc. that
are taking up space in my Man Cave and garage, but selling them is going slow. Good
prices-but slow.
I still hope for a
Silver Age comic book find and perhaps some old toys from when I was a kid.