My view of the world

I see Google is doing weird stuff again.
Today a friend called to tell me that my blog was a pr 4 and had been there for over 24hrs. With Google you need to give everything time to equalize across data centers. When I checked the page rank hadn’t moved, but this afternoon it showed a pr4, now it’s a pr 0.
I don’t worry about this site, since it’s just a place to talk to myself out loud, without having the people in the grocery store look at me funny, although I have been known to talk to myself there too.
The google bots report back to the ranking software, and through some sort of arcane alchemy the page rank is decided.
I would dearly love to know the secrets of page rank, but the algorithm changes continually and the Google page explaining page rank has nothing at all to do with the latest changes.
I guess we’ll have to get page rank the old fashioned way….now was that a black goat and a silver knife or….