It's 4 in the morning and once more the dawnin' has woke up the wanting...

Well it is 4 am and I am wide-awake (again!) My erratic sleeping pattern has haunted me, and those I have lived with, for years.

Even as I small child I would wake up very early and sneak downstairs and play with my toys or get my bike out of the shed and ride round and round my grandmothers backyard until someone woke up and called me in for breakfast.

Now, as a 'grown-up' I get up and switch on the PC and check my visitor stats to see who has had a look at The Tao of Blog and send them a thank you if I have their contact details and drop by their blogs.

If I am still too sleepy to complete anything constructive, I will just settle down with a cup of tea and do some mindless clicking on the two traffic exchange sites I am experimenting.

I still have mixed feelings about using them. On the one hand it can be quite interesting to see where in the world some of my fellow mouse abusers live, (or in my case mouse pen abuser), but on the other hand, is it just a waste of time and energy?

Most of the members from these exchanges don't hang about on The Tao of Blog for long. Like me, I guess they are generally they are too busy trying to amount a pile of credits to have the time or the inclination to delve deeper into the site, but a few do, and that is what give a sense of satisfaction. I could say that it is because of the interesting content, but in reality, they maybe just bored and need a break from clicking, or are distracted from the pc and just leave the window open for a few hours without reading any of it. The visitor stats cannot tell you these things.

When I need a break from all this mindless ad watching, with endless repeats of the same ad on both networks, I catch up with a few of the many blogs I enjoy reading, like the latest from Gina over at Preposterous Ponderings via my feeder on Netvibes. Then over to David Byrne’s Journal to get his latest take on New York and to Don William’s My 2 Cents for the Day to see if he has managed to kick his 'Mac Habit.'

I guess nothing has changed really, 'cept I no longer have a bike and yard to ride around in, just the vastness of cyberspace.

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