Well, it's official. Despite the protests that arose when it was announced that Balsom's Blog and Stevie P's Blog were going to merge, we are a hit!

In our first full day of operation, we had a record 57 visits to 3dg.

Now, I know I'm no math wizz like Brokeback over there, but I put together this little diagram showing our predicted traffic through the end of the month.


For purposes of display, that's a logarithmic scale, meaning by the end of the month, we can realistically expect 100,000 million visitors per day to our site. Of course, keep in mind that this based on a very modest daily growth factor of 2.85, which will certainly be much higher once the buzz gets out.

The scary thing comes when we look at the forecast for next year. I won't bore you with the "math," but on our one year anniversary, we expect to have approximately 5, 900, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 (that number, by the way, a 1 with 165 zeroes behind it, has been officially named threedrunkguyzillion) unique visitors per day. That's right, by next year, every man, woman, and child in the entire universe will be checking our site for updates every day.

That's a big responsibility.

So let's recap the first day excitement. Stevie P has a "fan!" She seems like a very lovely Australian girl who has not yet learned how to use the Shift-key. Brokeback Jeff was kind enough to lay out some ground rules for 3dg, although I'm sure some of them are contradictory. And I was kind enough to provide an insightful, if not somewhat creepy interview the cast from Saved by the Bell. There was also some videos and pictures stolen from the web and made our own, and I reported on some very uninteresting news. Oh, and there were no less than three separate posts on needing more cowbell. Come to think of it, this site really should have been called Cowbell.

In any case, the first day is over, and now we're left with the expectation of trying think of crap to put up on the second day. And the third day, and the fourth day... Truth be told, I don't expect this thing to last past Sunday.

Oh, and just for reference, 6 threedrunkguyzillion cases of beer would be enough to give every star in the known universe 6x10^143 cases of beer. Now that's what I call a party... and a mission statement of 3dg.