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So this web site includes reporting of statistics. Not in a lot of details (after all, this is not a commercial site so the statistics do not really matter), but there can be some interesting insights. For example, here is the geographic summary from the last week.

There are a handful of visitors from the US, as expected. My mother and sister regularly visit the site to keep up on the house construction. I often poke some of my coworkers to check out the latest pictures. Most of my friends are not regular visitors, but I can subject them to updates when we get together.

But who the heck is visiting the site from China? Are the Chinese companies using my blog posts to train their AIs? Is my writing style going to be used to influence the tone of thousands of colleges essays? There is no way to know for certain.

The menu under Sudbury River House was getting too long, so I have reorganized it a little. Now there are just three menu items:

• A Multi-Chapter Story about Building a House
• House Design Diagrams
• The View of Our Wetlands

A Multi-Chapter Story about Building a House has a list of all the story chapters, so far. The last chapter was added on April 28th so if you missed that one or any of the others, you should catch up.

House Design Diagrams has all the latest design documents for the house. Most of those diagrams have been posted before, but I did some minor reorganization in how the material is presented.

The View of Our Wetlands is a new page which collects together the same view over the past year so you can see how it changes with the seasons.

I have comments enabled on the blog posts and a few people have commented (thanks). I do occasionally get spam comments, however, which I delete instead of approving. You can usually tell they are spam because they are in Russian or ask you to visit some external website.

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Well, I am obviously not approving any of these comments, but I find them interesting enough to share anyway. Does anyone have an idea why someone would create a bot to make random comments like these? By the way, a quick internet search shows that tlover tonet has commented on a lot of different blogs across the internet and even inspired one other blog to comment on tlover’s comments.

Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled site content. Next Wednesday, I meet with the builder, the architect, and the arborist on site, presumably to discuss tree removal. I will also test my new construction camera (for a second time) while I am there to make sure I can get a decent view of the existing house (and future house location) and I can correctly work the controls to actually get a movie out of it. I cannot leave the camera up at this time since it is too cold, but I will be sure to put it back before any work gets done.