I was overjoyed today when I noticed this blog got its first comment. Well, Sister had commented once before, but that doesn't really count.

Here at last, was my first evidence that people I do not know in real life were actually reading my blog. I was positively twittering when I considered that at least one person was reading, and that that person felt strongly enough to comment. Sweet vindication!

So I just about fell all over myself in my haste to see what my new reader had to say. I read the comment and kind of scratched my head a little. It was an interesting comment, but wasn't really a response to my post. My post, which can be read here, was nothing more than picking on a bad picture of MLB Commissioner Bud Selig.

The comment, however, ignored the picture and my thoughts on it and was instead focused on steroids. Hardly my dream comment, but then your first time is never what you imagine it will be, now is it?

Because my commenter's post automatically contained a link to his Blogger profile, I decided to check his blog as well.

I was surprised and frankly a little disappointed to find that his comment was a cut and paste job from his own post earlier in the day.

So I started wondering, did he find my blog as part of some search, intending to cut and paste the same marginally related comment into any blogs he found? Do other blogs now have exactly the same comment? Was his comment nothing more than an attempt to boost traffic to his own blog?

Time will tell. I'll assume the best for now. I'll keep an eye on his blog, and make real comments when I'm moved to do so. If he in turn ends up reading (and commenting on) my blog, then so much the better.

If nothing else, my illusion of a vast sea of readers is refreshed. But I really hope all the rest of my readers are hot women enamored with my deft wordplay, instead of more male fortysomething conservatives.