While I was studying to be a scientist, and in the decade that followed when I was working full time in R&D, a lot of my life was devoted to numbers. Big numbers, small numbers… often extremely small numbers, like my paycheck… numbers were kind of what I “did.”
These days its words, which, I’ll be honest, feels a lot better. But even these days there are very important numbers that I follow. How many sales a day, how many sales a month, how many visitors to this here website a week… all numbers, and watching their upwards and downwards trends is interesting if, I’ll admit, not terribly exciting. I live in the realm of small numbers… a few extra visitors on a given day can result in big changes for my monthly views because, frankly, I don’t get that many on average.
I mention this only because the last week has been a definite lull. My sales are rarely double-digits a day, but they are pretty consistently a few sales daily… but none for the last week and a half. And I don’t know why… I suppose in many places the weather is getting nicer, and maybe there is a general downturn in book purchases when the sun is shining? Just a guess.
Hopefully not a long-lived trend! I need those book sales to do little things like “eat” and “have a place to live.” Small, but important things!
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!