Still don't get it

These were grabbed within moments of each other.
The one on the top is the counter that's actually on my blog, and reflects the data shown on the sitemeter.com page.
The one on the bottom is the new widget that Sitemeter made available. It sits on my desktop, cycles for new data about every five minutes, and resets to zero every night. It starts out low each morning, and hits a high that's often over 10,000 visits; one day it was over 14,000 visits. (Since I started prepping this post, by the way, it's now nearly 5,000... By just after lunch, however, it's over 7,000... Go fucking figure. But by dinner time, it's now over 12,000. My head hurts. Either something is incorrectly hooked up (always possible; it is the internet, after all), or I really don't know what's going on here...

Still can't get a clear answer on which one is 'right', but maybe both are and I just can't get my head around the concept. (Hey, I had a fucking brain injury, remember...)

Now that I've signed up for some Google ads, however (sorry for profaning this site with commerce, but ya gotta make a buck any way you can, right?), we'll know more once they start paying. They will maintain good records, I suspect...

Apparently, now that I asked the right question often enough from the support folks at Sitemeter, it appears that I have the widgit set to the wrong website (their test site, not mine), and that's why it's reading incorrectly. Unfortunately, you need a two-button (and fuck the idiots at Microsoft who thought up that one) mouse to access the Preferences menu on it in order to log in correctly. I'm acquiring one (as a loaner) to do just that. Bad programming, of course...