The Lurker

"Pappy is a benevolent despot who rules with a velvet paw" -- My Wife

A couple of times in the last week my wife subtly mentioned I ought to use the above as a theme in a blog posting. When I offered to make her a contributor on the blog so that she could post (in a tone best described as "goading" or "needling"), she demurred. On the way home this evening she again suggested that perhaps I ought to use it as a theme.

Family Portrait

For the first five months of its existence, the blog was basically just an exchange between me and my wife. I'd post something without mentioning it, then she'd go and read it the next day. A good day consisted of about four visitors on the site, almost entirely divided between the two of us. She's a lurker, so you'll notice as recently as September an ACPP (average comments per post) of nada. Then came the fateful October day when I came out of the dog blogging closet, and the comments and visitors went up.

Despite her lurker status, my wife is a bigger booster for the blog than I. She's always the first to mention Pappy's blog and movies to new friends while I'm still trying to feign normalcy. Despite that, concerning her suggested theme, I think Pappy is "Our Lord and Master" rather than a "benevolent despot". And I'm the blog's sole contributor. La, la, la.