Analytics tell of bots

red mug, blue linen, a blog

you are reading, is enjoying

another siege of aggressive

bots, splattering this week,

as sometimes happens in this

mode of communication, wheth-

er or not the news be merry.

I don't particularly object 

to this, apart from a tran-

sitory suppression of real-

time distribution to loyal

readership markets, because

the blog is both a vehicle

of recurring greeting, and

a semi-permanent database.

These surfs tend to subside;

as I suggested, this is not

the first. Then the patterns

of stable readership return;

thus, this is a posting less

of umbrage than of gratitude.