January Blogging

[canyonwalker]

January has felt like a busy month on my blog. I've published 63 entries, averaging just over 2 a day. While that's not even in my top 5 busiest months it is close. What kept me busy this month? Here are my thoughts, organized as Five Things:

1. Did I know it was going to be a bloggy month at the start of January? Kind of. I knew I had a backlog of things I wanted to write about, in addition to whatever new stuff came along. I even wrote a blog about my blog backlog. It was a manifesto to myself about what I wanted to accomplish for the month. I updated it with annotations as the month progressed. Today on Jan. 31 I'm satisfied I've finished most of it.


2. There was no one main thing my blogs were about. Some months when my post rate is high, there's one topic driving 1/3 or more of my blogs. This month it was, "A bit of this, a bit of that....'


3. The thing I blogged about most this month was the HBO series Band of Brothers. It's from all the way back in 2001. I watched it in December 2022. While I ended up bingeing the 10 episodes in 3-4 days during the holiday break it took me the full month of January to get my thoughts into blogs. I ended up writing 15 blogs about it, not counting this mention here. That's quite a lot, especially considering before I started I thought I might wrap it up in just 2 or 3 blogs!


4. The second biggest topic in my blog this month (as measured by tag usage) was politics. I go back and forth on blogging about politics. There were lots of happenings I had opinions about, so that drove some of my political blogging. At the same time, writing about politics is an exercise in frustration because one of the two major US political parties has enshired rampant lying as one of its core values. That makes me want to stop after a while. I hate lies— and the lying liars who tell them.


5. Do I expect February to be as bloggy? At the moment, no. That backlog manifesto I wrote early in the month declared more than half the posts I'd ultimately write this month. I have a vastly shorter backlog going into February.

So, what's on tap for February? Like I said, not much. I've largely cleared out my backlog. I'll take it as it comes. And I may not exceed 1.5 posts per day, let alone surpass 2/day again as I've done in January.