This website is seriously damaged and Anoop couldn’t help me. We all know about the homepage not updating with new posts. This is extremely annoying. I went through their support and we ended up altering a part of the cache file. What this did was screw up plugin updates that surround that file. So when I tried to update Akismet, it broke the site.  I also can’t upload pictures.

When the site breaks, I have to go to Hostmonster and have them revert back. Anoop renamed the plugin file and I’m re-activating them one by one. Not knowing what is the problem plugin, this is fucked up. The W3 Total cache seems to be the root of the problem. If the site is down, these problems still loom.

In other news, I’m heading to Vegas on Tuesday and will be back early Friday morning. I’m heading to a Roofing Show which is code name for 2 day vacation. Not really but not that far off. Most likely there will be no posts in the meantime.

I have other little tidbits going on in my life but they are barely blog worthy. No one cares about our bowling league and we take on Strike You tonight who has the highest team average. Sam and I have been pretty hot and if the Cohen’s come to play, we should be fine.

Jeff and I went golfing on Friday and we paid $23 and got in 18 holes. The front nine took us 2:15 and the back nine was 45 minutes. It was getting dark considering we teed off at 3pm. I shot a 44 on the front and was driving the ball beautifully with my new driver and 3 wood. I even had 2 up and downs which I was never doing before. I’m feeling really good about this season and a few minor tweaks will hopefully make big differences.

My Bovada account is making a boost again with some timely Sixers bets. Having a juiced account for March Madness is preferred. In other gambling news, I was hit with a 3 outer when I flopped top 2 and was up against top pair with a higher kicker. I haven’t been running so hot and it’s not because of bad play. I get it in and lose when I’m ahead and also lose when I’m behind. These reasons are why I try not to devote so much time towards playing.

I’ve been lax on blog updates and I don’t have any good reason other than I’m just not posting. No real explanation.

If you needed a reason to join SnapChat, look no further than the William Penn snaps. I have them saved to my phone but, to my knowledge, that’s the only place they are currently.

On Thursday night I decided to go out and have a few drinks. My night escalated once I got to Howl at the Moon and started drinking pint glasses of Victory Dirt Wolf which is intended to make you take a dirt nap. Somewhere along the night I decided to post an array of Snapchats with myself and the statue of William Penn on City Hall.

I woke up with a splitting headache and messages that praised the William Penn Snapchats. Apparently being near black out and posing with a statue is all you need for internet success. People were so enthused they began sending me their own William Snapchats and I have a few thoughts:

• The closer you are to blackout, the better
• If you aren’t close to the statue, it doesn’t make sense. The statue is the essence of the SnapChat
• You need inside humor. I guarantee only Shee knew who Weird Haircut Seth was. Only Weens and a few others knew the high pitched squeal.

All that being said, 22 people got to enjoy my Snapchat and then the follow up the next night. The follow up was planned ahead of time which immediately detracts from the natural being. Either way, I have to take a break from this as I paid dearly in mental well being from producing these videos. Hope you enjoyed them.

My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person — always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2017

This tweet is not right for a President. If you follow the blog, you’d know I don’t care if our President is Donald Trump or Donald Duck. I truly don’t. As long as I can live my life with the opportunity that America has brought since its inception, I’m cool. However, this tweet is crossing a line. A read that Nordstrom said that the sales of her brand sucked. If they want to discontinue carrying Ivanka’s line, it’s their prerogative. The PoTUS has no right to even have an opinion on this matter. Pretty absurd.

In other news, how does President Donald Trump only have 15 million followers on Twitter? His personal account has 24 million.  Obama managed 84 million throughout the 8 years. The Biebs has 91 million compared to Hillary’s 13. Hillary had 65 million of the popular vote to Donald’s 62. Are you telling me there are this many people not on Twitter? How did I get talked in to owning this POS?

Not my commute.

You’re either an earner or a burner. Today I had to walk to work because of the snow and I hated every second of it. My normal commute is about 4 minutes. If I walk it probably elevates to 13. This is all down time.

I make this post because some people are incredulous that I drive to work. This tends to come from people who have 30+ minute commutes so they look at 15 minutes as inconsequential. Here are the reasons why I drive:

• I have a parking spot
• It’s 9 minutes of my life

It’s not lazy. It’s being smart. 9 minutes x 2 trips a day adds up to an 1 1/2 hours a week. Multiply that by 50 weeks and you have 75 hours of your life that are spent walking that year. People probably say, “isn’t it nice to relax on your walk?” My answer is no. I walk places all the time and I’ve seen this area for the last 12 years every day. This is not a scenic route. I can’t see any reason whatsoever to walk to work if I have a car. Care to differ?

I check in with posts like this every so often so people can get an idea of what goes through my mind with regards to the website they visit. I’ll also display my knowledge of analytics so maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two.

Here is the site traffic for this entire year, 2017.

You’ll note that I’m averaging over 200 people a day, but they aren’t staying. An 83% bounce rate is pretty bad. Under a minute stay certainly isn’t wonderful either. People land and leave.

This is where the traffic comes from. The vast majority comes from organic search like Google. Direct is people typing in rnningfool.com into their URL. Referral is mainly Bansheemann7.com. Social is Facebook and Twitter. I expect the high bounce rate from Organic but seeing the Direct is at 69% is discouraging. I’m hoping it’s people visiting so many times. The average time from people who want to come to the website is a little over a minute which is what I expect people to give me.

When you say, how the hell does rnningfool.com average over 200 people a day? Here is what people land on.

This should come as no surprise. Dan Bilzerian and Claire Abbott dominate the traffic. The 3rd place / is the home page, so I’m pretty pleased with a 51.98% bounce rate. Notice the only traffic the site gets is featuring hot women.

Being the one man operator behind the site, I ask myself, what direction should I head with this site? The answer is obvious…Boner Material! I went through the pages last night and made sure they all had original content. I had done the brunt of the work with the sliders a few months ago so I pretty much made sure the links worked and added a few galleries to keep them relevant. I expect the Katee Owen page to take off shortly. I also added a Sara Underwood boob on her page…which should get the site banned all over. I’m not real clear on the legality of adding these pictures with zero permission. If the site makes no money, I imagine there is nothing to go after.

Now this is where the oddity of it all comes in. Boner Material is not my passion. I’m not Mr. Skin. You can’t argue with the stats though. I don’t want to scour the internet for the hottest pictures of girls and post them all over my site. I do this because it gets the eyeballs. You can ask why do you want the eyeballs? It’s not that I WANT the eyeballs, it’s that I can get the eyeballs. That the work I do on this site with content, sliders, pictures, organization, and the like are skills. I know its bizarre to think like this, but I’m learning when I post Charlotte McKinney’s full sized breast, people take notice. Is it sick and perverted? I see how people could think this. However, WHY DOES IT GET THE MOST TRAFFIC? Everyone and their Puritan value system only wants to see titties. This is 2017.

I also updated the running log. I haven’t seen this take off in the traffic category…

Yesterday was one of the first days I’ve ever solved the WSJ crossword puzzle to completion. If anyone does the crossword puzzle, you’d know that Monday’s has the easiest puzzles and they get harder as the week goes on. So even though it’s not a monumental accomplishment, I knew it was going to be a good day.

Considering where I was playing from last Monday (in a puddle of self-loathing), and coming off of a nice Super Bowl win, I was in high spirits. Work was fine and then I proudly wore the Snakes hat into the bowling alley. For those who are unaware, the worst scoring bowler of our team has to wear the Snakes hat as they enter the alley and wear it until game time. I was feeling pretty good compared to the last two weeks where I was hangover recovering. I also incorrectly identified us on Facebook as Snakes on a Lane when we are correctly Snaking Back Monday.

We started out slow in the first game but the other team was way worse. We took game 1. We rolled a solid game 2 and it was pretty much over before it started. In the 3rd game, the Weens and I started, out battling with 4 straight strikes.  He dropped off in the 5th and I ran the strike total to 7 in a row before I hit a ringing 10. I  converted it to keep the game alive and struck out the rest of the way for a career high. Sam struck out from the 7th and our team registered the highest scratch game score of the entire league at 889 (222.5 avg). My 279 also is the 2nd highest score achieved in the league. Our 2360 total pins was our 2nd highest team score ever, missing our high water mark by 6. If this isn’t momentum, I don’t know what is. We proved that we can beat any single team if we bowl our best.

I also bet against the Sixers which is easy money at this point. Without Embiid, this team couldn’t cover against a WNBA team.

Out of all of my friends, I’d rate the action I give on sports near the top. Not necessarily in dollar amounts, but in the sheer amount of events I bet on. I bet NFL, CFB, NBA, EPL, MLB, NCAAB, horses, golf, and any other event that I fancy. My perception of what people think of this, if I were to say this, would be viewed as negative. This I don’t understand.

I have Y amount of dollars. I’m betting X amount of dollars. If my Y number is far greater than my X number, what the hell is the difference? It’s not like if I lose what I bet my life will be any different. Of course you could make the argument that this money can be put in better places but that’s a personal decision. Maybe you think a 100 dollar pair of shoes is money well spent and I think 3 hours of my time watching a game with the potential to win 100 is money well spent.

The real reason betting takes place is to put your money where your mouth is. If you truly believe in an outcome, betting on it is the surest way to express this opinion. Your backing your thought with a financial statement. Talk is cheap. That being said, the worth of being right is also fulfilling. I took the Heat last night against the Sixers. Knowing the Sixers. Knowing Embiid is out. Knowing the Heat have won 9 in a row. This wasn’t a tough choice and one of those easy games. I’ve learned that there are no such thing as easy wins, ever, so you take what you can get.

This brings me to the Super Bowl. The Patriots last 6 Super Bowls have been decided by 4 points or less. The spread is 3. This in itself is reason enough to bet on the Falcons. However, if I bet the Falcons, and the Patriots blew them out, I would have to shake my head and wonder what was I thinking betting against Brady and Belichick. I don’t even think the Patriots have that great of a team but Brady’s record over the last 14 games is 13-1. The question lies in those dangerous 3 points.

I have $246 in my gambling account and will be pressing it all tonight. I already have 20 on the blue Gatorade at the end and will put 20 on Devontae Freeman to score the first TD. I’m not really into the rest of the prop bets with super juice on them. Unless it’s a sure thing, which nothing is, it doesn’t make sense. So here’s to the Pats -3 and everyone reading to enjoy Superbowl Sunday.

In 2015, the Patriots won the Superbowl against the Seahawks on a Malcom Butler INT at the goal line. Unbeknownst at the time of the INT, Butler would develop into one of the premier CB’s in the league (4th highest PPF rating this year behind for Talib, Chris Harris, and AJ Bouye). At the conclusion of that game, I had some action on what color Gatorade would be poured over the victor’s head. I had chosen Patriot blue. This proved to be a money maker.

We’re back at it again thinking the Patriots will indeed win the Super Bowl and Mr. Belichick will be taking a blue, not clear (the betting favorite) or golden, shower. Is this easy money? HMMMMMMMMMMMM. I don’t think so. As much as my intuition tells me, “why is there any reason they would swap from blue?” I found this picture below.

There you go ladies and gents, here’s to blue money.