The past couple days have been very interesting ‘round these parts. I released my first theme, got mentioned in a 9rules blog post, and have watched as my head swelled to twice its normal size!
Here’s a screenshot of my mint stats (keeps track of how many visitors I’m getting, etc.), I only installed Mint a few days ago so that’s why Thursday has only 6 unique hits, I installed Mint Thursday night. 
Anyway, you can see from the red arrow that the day I released my theme the number of unique hits tripled. That’s enough to make anyone’s head swell. But alas, all good things must come to an end and today it looks like I’ve leveled back off on my traffic. Somewhere around 30-40 A little over 90 150 people have downloaded my theme though, enough to make any hobbyist blogger proud. I’m trying not to let it go to my head.
I just keep reminding myself that things will move on much as they always have. Water will go under bridges, bloggers will continue writing about what they had for lunch; they’ll keep looking for the next cool theme or breaking news they can rant about. I don’t know what, if any, effect my little theme and all the hullabaloo around here has had on the world. But who knows? A butterfly flaps its wings in Peking and in San Francisco there’s rain instead of sunshine. Can my unsleepable theme bring peace to the Middle East? Well, let’s not hold our breath.
