Like every other self-absorbed writer with commentaries available on the Internet, I do a lot of self-googling. Friday, before I left for a weekend retreat at the fabulous Hyatt Resort in Bonita Springs, this blog was on page four of a Google search.

Today, if you type in Doomed Generation and hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, guess where you wind up? That's right -- right here. I don't know what happened over the weekend to move me up from No. 80-something to No. 1 with a bullet, but whatever it is, I'll take two.

Top of the World!!

For most blogs, that's not too hard to do. How many hits not related to your own blog are you going to get if you create some new, bizarre word as a title, like Shinetime, for example? But since my blog combines two relatively common words, which result in more than 6 million hits, I'll take this as a victory.