It would be safe to say that the 2007 cyberlife of the Somrod tandem was thoroughly squashed under the weight of reality. Or if you prefer, we are sarcastically proud to present our list of 2007 Excuses:
1. House hunting/researching and subsequent contracting/purchasing/moving to temporary housing/storage/moving in/setting up (MS & SR)
2. Major spinal corrective surgery and subsequent rehabilitation (SR)
3. Six months of clean-up, repair and renovation of 120 year old water leaking basement (MS)
4. Job change in May (MS)
Therefore, our 2007 Online Results are rationally explained:
1. No new art or literature produced
2. No upgrades or revisions to the main website
3. No podcasts released
4. Lowest number of annual blog entries ever
5. Traffic goal from 1/02/07 not reached
Despite that, we are in a better place physically, mentally, and financially than we were at the beginning of 2007— just without the fun outlets that makes us feel semi-complete. Nevertheless, anyone who knows us realizes we’re creatively itching like two dogs who crash landed on the Planet of the Fleas. Hell, people I’ve met this year did not even know I was an artist or a writer! 2008 will be the end of that, I assure you.
Anyway, even if we missed the goal, we still had a moderately better year of unique visitors to the site as you can see below:
Click to see a comparison from 2005 to 2007
Luckily, we’re already hard at work on the new endeavors. So even if the alarm bells are ringing, there’s no fire. I’m even feeling bold enough to set a goal for 2008 unique visitors of 130K. Yeah, dream the MF-ing dream, my friends… you’ve got nothing to lose. Cheers.