So, apparently, to get a shit load of hits on your blog you need a popular afternoon radio show to mention something you mentioned once on your blog and is among the top three hits. My server was having a nice little load and traffic spike as a result.
My unique visitors just today are half the number of last month’s. And one page got 810 hits in just 45 minutes.  For my little dumbass blog that’s mostly become twitter spew, that’s pretty good. I’ve now reconfigured the web server to not load spike like this again.