CNN and Laundry and Humility

A couple of months ago, I was setting around talking with some friends and the subject of our blogs came up.  First the overall topics of our blogs and then we got to talkingabout the number of subscribers we had.  At some point I had mentioned to one friend that the “stats page” on my blog was showing that I had (at the time) right at 14,000 subscribers.

My friend challenged me on this and all but called me a liar.  I’m not sure what my friend based their opinion on, but they didn’t understand how this ol’ grizzeled vet could have anything worth sayiing that would be read by that many people.

This morning laying in the bed, I got to thinking about that conversation.  Then I got to wondering about JourneyAmerica.  Where would JourneyAmerica show up in the searches.  Buried somewhere on page 100 of Mr. Google?  Probably so.  Then I got to thinking how cool it would be if my little online gallery were to show up in the top five pages.  So I got curious.

Fired up the computer, found Mr. Google and did a search on “journeyamerica” (without the quotes, of course).  Lo and behold it came out #1!  Yep.  #1 placement out of 121,000 items for the term, journeyamerica.  I stared at the screen in disbelief for about 5 minutes.  You know there’s alot of businesses that pay top-dollar to get good results from search engines and this ol’ boy got lucky and hit #1 just by being a loudmouth and looking at the world through a camera lens.

So what does all this mean?  In the overall scheme of things — not much.

The sun will still sit tonight, there will still be wars going on in Iraq and the other place (I’d type it, but I can’t spell it), and we’ll still have a lousy economy.

I’m going to take about five minutes to enjoy my token status of being #1 temporarily at something in the world and then I’ll get back to work.  God has a way of keeping me humble.

Remember the other day I mentioned that CNN wanted to interview me about a couple of snapshots I took?  I was basking in the glow of that moment when a friend stuck his head out the door and asked me if I’d throw a load of his laundry in for him since he was in a hurry to get to town or somewhere.

I grinned at him and asked, “So just how many people have you had help you with your laundry right after being interviewed by CNN?”  He had no idea what I was talking about so he shrugged his shoulders at me and left.

I got me a cup of coffee and sat down to think about it for a second.  God has a sense of humor and he keeps me humble.  I’m glad He does.

Now, where’s my coffee?  I’m going to drink a cup and then enjoy this for a few minutes.

NOTE:  The screen capture graphic with this blog is the search results I got this morning.