Missed My Flickr Best

Trying to regularly keep up with all the different online services I belong to or moderate is pretty much impossible. And that means that each one of them is guaranteed to suffer from my lack of involvement on a rotating basis. No pinning to my boards for a couple of days, or no posting updates, or no tweets, or no G-plussing (when are we finally going to get vanity URLs anyway?), or, most sadly, missed blog posts. I haven’t uploaded a photo to my 500px account in ages. My tumlbing is practically non-existent lately. Don’t even get me started on my Posterous page. And my Foodspotting is dying of virtual starvation. The site I’ve devoted to my mom’s recipes hasn’t seen daylight in forever. I even have a blogspot site devoted to interesting things about my closest friends, which makes it seem like my friends haven’t done anything interesting in a very long time. I have a less important Shutterfly page that I still feel guilty about. And I have a travel blog that has yet to see a single entry.

Needless to say I have overextended my online self.

But today was try to catch up a little on Flickr day. That doesn’t mean I added anything. That will come later. No, for now I just updated a few old photos with additional descriptions and tags, replied to a few comments, allowed some of my shots to be added to other groups and, out of curiosity, checked my views status.

Boy was I in for a surprise when I saw that back on January 28 I had a one-day personal best of 3,691 views. (The day before had also been a record.)  I had never broken 3,000 before. My curiosity peaked, I wanted to find out which one of my Comic-Con cosplay girls was the culprit, since they are by far my most popular images.

Surprise the second. For some reason a batch of photos I took back in 2008 of a remodeled bus-turned-into-family-motorhome was the basis for my surge. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful vehicle called the Peacemaker Bus with all wooden fixtures and amenities on the inside, but I would like to find out why so many people all of a sudden decided to view these photos.

Someday when I have some non-existent more time I’ll look into it. But for now I’m just going to revel in my new record.