It feels like Hooker Week

EDIT:  Since posting this last night and working today a few more of the bloggers decided to join in on the Hooker Fun and I thought I'd take the time to point you in their direction as well:
Lightning36 decided to join in the fun with a good old fashioned Hooker Story.
Then From there I followed a comment made by JT88Keys and will be adding him to my blogroll as well.
I received an email that the Chaos Theory blog was updated and noticed it was a hooker story as well and also linked to the Poker Grump doing a hooker story of his own.
I believe that to be 7 different blogs in a matter of a few days!  Suhweet!!
One more that's not technically a Hooker blog - but Lucki Duck said that he will be commando during his trip to Vegas and hopes to bring back a story!  

So it just sort of feels like Hooker week in the blog-o-sphere and I'm going to say we owe all of this to Rob.
Recently (and not so recently too honestly) he has had a post or two about hooker sightings in various casino's and I really must applaud him for the length that he goes to in order to try and get his readers a good story.  It is really inspiring and something I am most likely going to copy in the future so that I can provide good, old fashioned, entertainment for all of my readers.
Robs latest story talks about a particularly nice/chatty one at his favorite casino and there is nothing that I need to expand upon, I just think it's a good read.  Especially the part where he tries to get as close as possible to eaves drop on the conversation for more material.  Bloody Brilliant!!

That brings me to example number two where sevencard2003 talks about how he can't find any hookers where he is at and needs to talk to someone younger than he to get tips on how to spot them.

So, that leaves me and while I do not have any recent stories to tell about Hookers, I really just kinda want to talk about them.

I'm going to start at the worst part of the story and that is me admitting that unless I have been approached, I probably couldn't pick out a hooker from a normal person.  Maybe I just haven't put enough time into studying people and figuring out what is what and maybe it's just because I'm so innocent, but I really can't just talk a walk down a long stretch of a casino and go "There be hookers Thar and thar and thar and oh bloody hell that one is obvious."  I'd probably be wrong 85% of the time and 10% would be lucky guesses.

The first time I was ever approached was before I actually moved to this awesome city that I now call home. I was vacationing with 3 friends and we were staying at the Excalibur.  I had just gotten done with a long session at the MGM Grand poker room and was walking/staggering back to get a much needed nap so I could wake up and start the next day.  Both of my vacationing buddies were already in the room and sleeping and I believe the time to be somewhere between 2 and 5 am.

Walking through the NYNY so that I could take the next bridge to Excalibur I was passed by 2 or 3 ladies of the early morning and one approached me asking me if I wanted to have a good time.  I was a bit shocked at first because I'm not used to complete strangers saying anything to me unless I happen to be wearing something with a Steelers Logo on it (and then it's just the normal stuff sports fans say to people who share the same passion in passing).  I kept walking and she became more persistent.
Hooker: "Hey baby, you down for a good time tonight?"
grouch: "Unfortunately not, headed to my room where my friends are sleeping"
Hooker: "You sure, I'm sure your friends won't mind one bit?"
grouch: "yeah, i'm pretty sure, they are in bed sleeping and probably don't want waken up to get kicked out so I can have a quickie"
Hooker: "well, I can always bring my friends along to entertain them"
grouch: "No thanks, appreciate the offer but not tonight"

And that was the end of the conversation. I continued my walk to get some sleep and they moseyed on looking for someone with a warm room and ample money.   As I was walking back to the room I briefly wondered why I was approached but when I got back to the room and hit up the urinal it was pretty damned obvious.  I look like the type of person that generally doesn't just have vagina thrown at him on a regular basis.  I look like a hillbilly from the mountains who hasn't shaved in multiple months and any attention from the opposite sex is a rarity.  It is with this knowledge that I actually expect to get "hit on" more often over the course of my years living in Vegas.
In the future I am hoping to pick up better stories about being approached though.  Thus far both of my approaches have been pretty much the same thing.  Me saying no because I have a roommate and them saying that my roommate probably won't mind at all.  It makes me wonder how many times guys take a hooker back to their hotel room and gets his rocks off while his buddy sleeps (or tries to sleep) in a bed across the room.  I'm sure it's more often that I'd like to believe.

Stats - A dorks update

Here is the update that I have been promising to myself.  I'm pretty sure that most of this is going to be boring and unimportant to most/all of you but dag nab-bit it's the kind of thing I look at all the time.  I don't know how often I'll actually do these types of posts but I'm sure it's going to be a couple of times a year.

Now, Like I said in my last post, this morning, I had been waiting to reach either 25 followers or to reach 10k page views before I did a statistical post.  Yesterday I hit 25 followers and was about 400 views away from 10k. Now, from what I have been observing, the way that Blogger works is they cut the day off at 4pm.  I have not found any way to change this to actually cut it off at MY midnight, so I am stuck with their reporting but whatever.  It only annoys me a minor amount and I feel that I can live with it for now.
So, when I got home today to follow up on some comments I checked out my stats update so that I can start thinking about and composing this post and noticed that "yesterday" ended up being By Far my biggest day in terms of hits.  My previous was 215 which I hit on back-to-back days on February 8th and 9th. However, yesterday's total surpassed it by a surprising amount.  Total was 340 hits.  Un-frigging-believable.  This puts me at a bit over 9900 total hits and means that after this gets posted if I few people look at it I have the distinct possibility of  hitting that 10k goal before the end of Feb!

Dork High-Five!

Yeah - whatever. It's the little things that tickle my fancy.

So, onward.

My first Subscriber: Carmel - who didn't want me to be talking to myself.

My latest subscriber: Liz - Who is an old friend from high-school and followed my links through Facebook and decided to finally "join the cult of grrouch."

December 31st - with a couple of friends subscribing, I ended the year with 12 followers.  Through the magic of the internet and with the help of Josie's blog and I have now over doubled that number.  Truly more than I thought would happen.

June of last year I started doing this blog as a way to track poker playing with Tony BigCharles, reporting on sessions and keeping track of a challenge that we were doing at the time.  Posting links to my blog via his blog and on AVP (this was right after VPN went away) I ended up getting about 1k hits.

July - October I didn't update nearly as much because my poker playing cut WAYYYYyyy back and the total of those 4 months was about equal to June, about 1k hits.

Then, in November I started writing a little bit more, and more consistently and have actually stuck with it since then.  November saw me with over 1600 hits, December was over 2200 hits and January somewhere around 2400 hits and now February garnered me almost 3k hits (so close but so far away).  

In the comments section of my last post Rob from Robvegaspoker asked what was in it for the "subscribers" and to that I really don't know.  You all have my eternal gratitude that you find me amusing enough to keep coming back and reading my updates.  Over the course of the next year or so I hope to meet every single one of you and at least buy you a beer and probably do some form of gambling with you whether it's playing poker or Pai Gow or craps or whatever.  I look forward to continually interacting with you all and eventually meeting you all as most of you probably travel to Las Vegas occasionally.

Greatest Hits:  Or Postests with the Mostests

I've come to the realization that linking the right photo (generally from a Google Image Search) tends to give me a decent amount of traffic and this is evidenced by the post with the most views still gets hits to this day because of one particular picture that I included.

My top Posts thus far:  

#1 - For The Ladies - Other than it was a love tale told with pictures, the main reason that this is #1 is because of the last picture I included - and oddly enough the #1 searched for term that gets hits on my blog is roofies (which ultimately links to that picture and when clicked on shows my blog).  I'd love to know if any of those hits actually look around my blog and if any ever come back.  I'll probably never know the answer to that.

#2 - A video game post

#3 - I won my dog in a game of craps

#4 - Great F'n Day

#5 - Cuntcakes 

#6 - Case of the Mondays'

#7 - Titty Tuesday

#8 - Pokah on da Weekend

As you can see, two of my recent ones have actually cracked the 100 page view mark which is pretty awesome.  The other thing that I notice with my top choices is that there really isn't a consistent pattern of what I post about.  It's not like the top posts are filled up with all poker talk (which I kind of expected being that most of you are poker related friends).

The sights that drive the most traffic to my blog?

Very Josie's site  #1 - so a big mua to you love.

2nd is Cheapassgamer.com - which I generally only link to my blog when I have video game related posts.

3rd is google.com 

4th is allvegaspoker - and generally I only link to the poker related stuff - though I suppose I should cross post there more often as I do have a unused "blog" there as well

5th is - sevencard2003's blog

6th is  - robvegaspoker's blog - and I note that it will surpass TBC's blog within a month or so!

7th is -google UK

8th is - Facebook - I usually update Twitter and Facebook when I post - NetworkBlogs has been doing that for me now

9th is - Mobile Facebook - ditto the above.

So, more than you guys really needed (or wanted) to know there.

Top Search Terms

Roofies

Boobies

Grrouchie

Evil Cat

Ok - That's enough to bore you all for now.  If you are just waking up after falling asleep to all that crap, please wipe the drool off your chin and maybe clean your keyboard off.

If you actually read all this - You are a fucking dork too.

This wasn't well thought out our planned out and next time I do one of these it will be formatted better and maybe be easier to read over.

Hope you all enjoyed this statistical breakdown of my blog (right).