Ho hum.
In addition, despite having had some of our summer holiday (more of which anon) I feel tired out physically, mentally and emotionally. Not what I would expect after time away in our lovely little caravan.
However, we decided to cut short our holiday and come back 4 days early, because of an unfolding family crisis at home. So rather than staying away, feeling worried, stressed out and useless, we packed up and headed back on Thursday. Since then we've been on the go non-stop and I'm definitely feeling the effects, culminating in a marathon 12 hour sleep last night which has gone only some way to restoring my equilibrium after several days of being in energy deficit.
Therefore, today I will be easing gently back into the saddle, tackling a mountain of dirty laundry, a medium-sized hillock of post/emails, a small mound of orders and assorted other stuff all clamouring for my attention.
So, while I play catch-up, here's something to keep you occupied, should you feel inclined.
For a bit of relaxing displacement activity during a lull yesterday, I was looking through my ClustrMaps stats and decided to check from which American states I'd had blog readers. If you click on the map it will take you to the stats, and on the right of your screen you'll find the countries listed, along with the number of visitors from each state/region/county for each country.
I have had had visits from people in 51 out of the 52 states.
Which state is missing?
No prizes for getting it right, just kudos aplenty. I spent a good 15 minutes trying to work out the renegade state without success.
Yes I know I could simply have Googled the answer but that would have been cheating, and completely outwith my ethos of displacement activity
I'm off to stand in the corner for the rest of the evening wearing a humongous dunce's hat....
6 comments:
lovely chuckle...I can assume your joking, right? (I know our current POTUS seems to think there are 52 states but...) ANd I am afraid the map needs a bit of updating...I no longer consider our "in-state tuition" affordable.
Tabitha....
And here was me thinking that my Stateside chums would thank me for a bit of positive feedback.
Actually, it was one of very few reasonably positive 'map of sorts' I could find... almost all the rest concentrated on the less attractive aspects of the various states. I have no idea either how old the map is so it could be years and years out of date.
Seriously though, aren't there 52 states?
From my admittedly poor geographical grasp of your huge country, I assume I'm correct that you live in Florida?
Sx
hahaha... last I looked, our Flag had only 50 stars. Someone recently raised this issue of statehood for Puerto Rico but they seem to like their status just the way it is.
Thanks for putting me right Tabitha.
I'll put my dazzling lack of geographical insight down to being downright stoopid.
Sx
that's why 'the 51st state' is used to describe a candidate territory.
I only count 50 "titles" on the map pictured. Sometimes, the District of Columbia is considered separate from the rest of the states. That's Washington, DC...our capital. But it isn't a state. And as far as not knowing the number of our states, don't feel bad. Plenty of our citizens don't either. And I am quite sure I have abysmal knowledge of the UK.
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