May and June Blogging. What's Still in the Backlog.

[canyonwalker]

It's been a while since I checked in with my blogging stats. To be particular, it's been two months since I posted March and April stats. Two months seems about the right frequency for this meta-blogging.

• In May I nearly hit my stretch goal of 2 posts/day. I came in at 1.97 with 61 entries in 31 days.


• In June I slowed down but still achieved my intermediate goal of 1.5/day, with 47 posts in 30 days (1.57/day avg).


• I thought June would be another 2-a-day month like May— and March and April— because I was still catching up on my trip to Italy and had other items, including catching up from earlier trips, in my backlog. Instead, many of those things remain in my backlog because I ran out of steam for blogging. From the middle of June on I struggled to post even once a day.


• But I did keep up with my baseline goal of posting something every day. That streak's been unbroken since February, and if I overlook that one off day my streak of writing daily goes back over a year at this point.

So, what's still in my backlog as I go into July? Five Things:

• I have a scattering of blogs from hikes from a recently as a week ago Sunday (Alviso slough) to a few months ago (e.g., Pinnacles National Park).


• I have at least 3 blogs from our trip to Rome, Italy last month backlogged on processing photos.


• I have a blog or two from our trip to Panama, six months ago, I still have to finish.


• I still have several blogs stuck in backlog from our trip to New Zealand— which is now 14 months ago!


• This isn't backlog yet, but I'm about to leave on a vacation trip to Oregon, so I'll have a lot to write over the next week-plus.