Some time between Christmas and the first of the year the Flophouse reached 100,000 all time pageviews. The Flophouse has been around for about two years and I just checked and I've written well over 500 posts. That set me back on my heels - I can't help but think that all those words might have added up to a book or two if I wasn't so lazy and disorganized.
100,000 pageviews is both reassuring and kind of scary. It is nice to know that it's not just my mother reading. It's a bit scary because I'm not quite sure how it happened.
There was never any grand design behind the Flophouse and there still isn't. I literally ask the universe ever morning what I should write about and then I sit down and do it. That's about it. Apparently right now the universe wants me to talk a lot about FATCA/citizenship-based taxation. Or maybe the universe just has a really twisted sense of humor.
I have readers. What a concept and I still have some trouble wrapping my head around the idea. I know some of you through your comments and others through your emails. I wish I knew more of you better. Regardless of how you came here and whether or not we've been formally introduced, I'd like to thank you all for coming here and reading. I am so grateful that, given all the things that I'm sure you have to do every day, you choose to spend a few moments reading my musings. I hope that whatever you are finding here keeps you coming back. I give you my word that I will always do my best to make it worth your time.