#6 And Holding

That's my current ranking in the "Weblog" Awards.

I guess it beats 7,8,9 and 10. But still.

I've pondered the reasons for my mid-level ranking, and I keep coming back to the same thing: I should read my email more often. Also check comments more seriously.

Last week I got a notice that I was "Blog of the Day." Ha, I sez to myself. Do I look like I was born yesterday? This is obviously some ploy to get me to check out some phony website that will only get me in troulel again. (I haven't forgotten the Great Porno Hijacking of earlier this year. Make that the Not-So-Great-- no, make it The Repulsive P.H.)

So, I didn't check.

Then there's a message in the Comments section. "Good luck in the Weblog Awards!" Yeah, right, I muttered. Like I'm going to fall for that one. Obviously someone's trying to trick me into voting for a friend of theirs. What, I owe them something?

So, I didn't follow up on that one, either.

It wasn't until yesterday morning that I finally logged onto the Awards website. Reason: raw envy. I was cruising the blogosphere and noticed a number of my favorites touting themselves for the Awards. Man, I said to myself, that does it. What do I have to do to become a Famous Blog? What have these guys got that I haven't got, besides technical expertise and tireless reporting and style and wit and all that jazz? I have to know! I want to be Just Like Them!

So, that's when I checked the lists. And to my amazement, THERE I WAS.

When I got done running around the house whooping like a crazed Confederate I realized, "uh-oh... all these other guys have been garnering votes for days. And voting closes tomorrow. I gotta make up for lost time!" Which would not have been lost in the first place if only DIH were not so gloriously lazy.

By last night I was doing some calculations. I could have voted for myself six times by now. That would push the numbers up. And if everyone who voted for the blog in the #1 spot already votes for it again tomorrow, well, you got your geomteric progression there. And it would take a blogosphere physicist to beat something like that.

As to how I did in mere high school physics, let's not even go there.

Well,there's nothing for it but to keep begging- uh, plugging. Please go the the Awards website (linked here yesterday- scroll down and there it will be, just waiting for YOUR fingertip) and vote for DIH in the Best Diarist category. Then go check out the other categories and vote for those guys, too.

[Then add a note in their "Comments" sections telling them to vote for the Best Web Diarist in Upper Midwest. Me, me, ME!]

Okay, I feel better now.