Tales & Trails of a Traveling Wiseguy

I've finished the month of October 2024 with 62 journal entries posted to my blog. I thought I'd finish about 60 but then I squeezed in 4 just in the past 12 hours. Technicalities count!

Five Things:

• I once again met my baseline goal of blogging every day. I continue my streak of posting daily for nearly 7 months.


• With 62 blog entries I posted at a rate of 2.0/day. This meets my stretch goal— for the first time in 4 months. Earlier in the year I surpassed 2.0 for four months.


• Usually the driver of blogging more is travel. It's unusual, then, that I blogged more in October than in July, August, or September because I didn't travel this month. ...Well, that's not exactly true. I had a 24-hour business trip to LA early in the month. But that was it; just that one day. And only 2 blogs.


• Instead a lot of my blogs this month came from TV. I started streaming Breaking Bad early this month. I've now watched up through the 3rd season (out of 5) and have written 20 blogs about it. Though even that is just less than one-third of all the blogs I posted this month. So, yay not letting TV/streaming dominate my blog.


• I go into November with a few things in my backlog. There are still a few blogs I've been meaning to write about the last fun trip we took, wheeling/hiking in the mountains in late September. And I'm a few blogs behind on Breaking Bad. Plus, I've written nowhere near the number of blogs about political issues I wish I'd had time to write. With the election coming up in just a few days now we'll see what happens there.