Exponential growth!

Q isn’t up to blogging today.

I don’t know where he’s gotten to, but I suspect he’s hiding from the computer. I think he’s feeling a bit of “blog fright”. Is that the correct term for a fear of an online audience?

I mentioned to Q this morning that our blog follower number had quadrupled in the past week. Sounds impressive, right? Maybe not when you notice we still only have four followers, but I see the glass half full. I explained to him what so impressed me about the sudden surge.

The number of followers is showing the beginnings of exponential growth. Bear with me, statisticians. I know it’s not a large enough sample to be representative, but I like to dream big. It’s a hobby. Don’t knock my hobbies and I won’t knock yours, ok?

Ok, so for the first two months the blog was up, we had one follower. Then suddenly a second follower signed on. Q told me he got a little nervous shiver realizing he had an audience, but he dug in his paw pads and kept typing.

But now, only a couple days later, two more followers have signed on. I was so excited, I couldn’t contain my enthusiasm. “Q, if you keep adding followers at this rate, by the weekend you will have 20, by this time next week, 400, and then 160,000 followers! Wow, before you know it, the entire online world will be watching you”!

Yes, I overdid it. Poor Q went into shock. He bolted out of here so fast I heard him hit a wall at the back of the house; “whump.” Then a little whimper. I went to comfort him but he is nowhere to be found.

I’m heading to the store to pick up catnip and an ice pack to restore my cowardly lion to his usual brazen state. Hopefully he’ll soon have another story that he’s brave enough to share.