Blogging Question: How Long?

Can any of you long-time bloggers tell me how long it takes before you get readers?

I go online every night after work for 2-3 hours just fixing up this blog and reading other peoples' blogs, but all quiet on the middle-eastern front. (Probably the only front in the entire middle-east where all is quiet.)

Got a new heading - not that too many people will notice, and certainly none of my family, who couldn't care less about my blog. Oh yes, they each went in once when I called them long distance and begged. But that's OK, I've cut them off from email. It's been two weeks already but they haven't seemed to notice.

For them, email is a BAD thing. Instead of sending me accolades and marmalades to thank me for taking the time to make sure that no good joke that passes through my mailbox goes unforwarded and that they are aware of every possible threat to their health, they actually hinted that they don't even read them all(!) When someone from the Midwest tells you that, it means that a) the mail sits in their inbox taking up space because they wouldn't want to be impolite and delete it b) they have allowed you to become an absolute pain in the enema insertion location c) they can't send you any email to ask why you haven't sent any email in two weeks because their inbox has been over its limit since 1998, a year after you started sending them email.

I'm kind of baiting them. Now I'll know if they do go in.