Friday's Child Is Loving And Giving

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child born on the Sabbath Day,

Is fair and wise and good and gay.

I’m supposed to be “fair of face,” according to Mother Goose. Wha’ happened? I must be the exception that proves the rule… Don’t know on which day of the week you were born? Go here.

So. I was up until 0400 before the ol’ eyes got too heavy to read another line. I slept the sleep of the just even though the jury is decidedly out on my “justness.”

What an Instalanche does to site traffic: I was reading Glenn Reynolds early this morning. As you probably know, Glenn is one of, if not the, leading lights of the blogosphere. Glenn had numerous links to folks who are blogging about a UCLA Alumni group looking into radical-left proselytizing by UCLA professors, a subject of interest to me (see the SC&A links, below). One such article is “It's About Time: UCLA Professor Radicalism Gets a Closer Look,” by Gina Cobb. Good article; Gina has an interesting and well-written blog. The illustration above shows the impact a simple one-line mention in Instapundit has on traffic to a blog. Here’s the mention, in its entirety:

UPDATE: UCLA Alumna Gina Cobb says it's worse than I think.

Amazing, isn’t it? I checked out another blog’s site meter after reading a Glenn-linked article on terrorism. This guy had an average of 1,500 hits a day, quite respectable in his own right, and his Instalanche took traffic over 40,000 hits on that day. Never underestimate the power of exposure!

Ameriprise update: eight hits in the last 24 hours, from Arkansas, Nebraska, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia, and two from Washington (state).
Just for the record: the song in the commercial is “Gimmee Some Lovin’” The guitarists are Spencer Davis and Steve Winwood. (Yes, THAT Steve Winwood.) The album was released in 1967 and was titled “Spencer Davis Group, Featuring Stevie Winwood.” The Spencer Davis Group Official Web Site has a complete recording of “Keep On Runnin’” as the site’s theme music. I hadn’t heard that particular track in a long, long time, and it sounded GOOD! And by the way, you don’t have to be “of a certain age” to like this song, it rocks!