This is something I've never posted about before

And probably never will again.  As a general rule I don't pay much attention to how many readers I've gotten or how many followers I have.  A crude explanation is I don't think I have much control over that.  Keep writing and keep posting.  

Within the last couple of weeks, I noticed I was getting more page views some days.  Some days there were 1500 views and 2000 would be a very popular post.  Other days were getting 20,000 and up into the 40,000s.  It was mostly on popular topics (of course), and I was getting close to having had 10 million total page views here in the 15th year of the blog's life.   I thought it was going to make 10 million last night, but it didn't and that's honestly part of why I did the "three sigma" (far from normal) post last night.  

It made it today.  

Screen snip off this PC with a couple of red, comma-like things added to show the number when I grabbed it was 10,019,164.  That was 7:45 PM EDT, 2345 UTC on September 7.  Which has no traceability to the time when the total went over 10,000,000.  The middle box on the top says I have 5379 posts, making this one #5380.  I've posted when I hit some big round numbers of posts before like 4000 and 5000 but not every thousand.   

I think posting something like this is probably a good way to know I had nothing else.  But that belies that Starbase Boca Chica static fired a booster today, Booster 15, supposedly chosen for Flight Test 11.  We hear rumors that FT-11 will be going more quickly than the 9 to 10 delay.