The Hippie Dream

            Bill the smog guru is no longer Bill the smog guru. He sold his diagnostic equipment and quit the business. He had a run in with the state of California and in true hippie fashion he lost. The state rolled right over him, and told him, my way or the state highway, and the state highway it was. Bill knew he was licked so he sold his equipment at a decent price.

Bill still has some hippie rebellion in him. He hasn’t given up yet. He already has a new scheme for a smog guru resuscitation. His plan is to sell his business to guy named Veroush. Veroush is a smog guru of a lower order, but a smog guru nonetheless. Bill’s strategy is to team up with Veroush so he can reclaim his rightful position of king of the smog gurus! Muahahaha.

            Frankly, I don’t think Veroush is going to go for it, but I didn’t have the heart to tell Bill that. Why crush the hippie dream.   

Google

Good news! My stats are back. Thank you Google, you're not so bad after all.  

Google Stats

            Google has statistics for us bloggers who use Blogspot. There are a couple reasons why I use Blogspot and one of them is the statistics that I can access. It’s interesting to see where people are reading from and how many readers I have on any given day.

            Today, tonight I went to check my stats, and it seems all of my history has disappeared. Erased. Imagine my disappointment when I realized I’d been wiped out.  This is Googles equivalent of Apple Maps in my estimation.  This has happened to me before. The last time it happened it involved money from ads on my blog that people clicked on. The money in my account one day vanished. I took down the ads on my blog as a matter of principle shortly after that.  
            I’m not sure what’s going on with Google, but I don’t like it. I’m a stats guy. I need them to keep me interested. I’d really like my stats back. Imagine baseball with no stats, blogging to me is no different.