As I noted in my 2023 LiveJournal in Review, I've long threatened to retroactively go through all my old posts and make sure they're tagged appropriately. This will also potentially surfacing old content I've forgotten about, because after all what good is a journal that has never been read. First up up will be the first month of my journal's ( Read more... )

LiveJournal helpfully put together a stat block for 2023. Here's mine.


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On December 11, 2003, I signed up for LiveJournal, with my very first post just barely making it in before midnight. I was induced to join by a great many of my friends who had joined this relatively new social media platform, back when social media was still an incredibly new concept that almost nobody understood. mokatz delivered the final blow that ( Read more... )

This year I've read 119 books, broken down as follows:
- 20 normal adult books, which is just shy of my total from all of 2022. I'd like to tell you this is because I've made time to read more, but I suspect it has more to do with my being laid off with a nice supporting side of regularly giving platelets again- 13 graphic novels, which blows my ( Read more... )

I'm a big fan of analyzing parts of my life to see how they're going, particularly around the start of a new year. LiveJournal is still the biggest part of my online life, so here we go.

In 2022, I made 232 different posts. Assuming my manual counts I put together in my 2021 LJ review are accurate, that is the most single posts I have made in one ( Read more... )

It's been more than 40 days since I last posted, which I believe is the longest gap since the start of this journal. The prior record holders were:

- 36 days when I went to Europe on my sabbatical.
- 24 days when our daughter was born.

This time around, we went with travel. I had earned a second sabbatical back in 2019, but the pandemic followed ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got through a quick summary of the first 43 people I used to follow on LiveJournal, only of whom is anything like active nowadays. Today I'll try to get through the remaining folks.

It probably goes without saying, but most of these people could easily have fallen into multiple categories. And as theferrett reminded me that tagging people ( Read more... )

Most of the people I follow on LiveJournal are people I know in real life, just as I do on Facebook. However, because it was the first social media I ever really used and I was making it up as I went along, some are people I only know vaguely, or hardly at all. In the same spirit as my complete guide to my LJ tags, I thought I'd chronicle all the ( Read more... )

As of Wednesday's post, I have posted 200 straight days in a row. Assuming yesterday's post and this post (which is being written Wednesday night) go up as scheduled, it's now 202 days in a row. This blows away my prior longest streak, which was 59 days back in 2014. It more than doubles away the 100 in a row I mistakenly thought that I in 2014. So ( Read more... )

It's been nearly ten years since I updated my profile, so in honor of me having posted every single day for five solid months (plus three days in the prior month) for a total of 157 consecutive days (counting today), I thought I'd update the profile. If I get two more days, this streak will be 100 days longer than my prior longest streak, so ( Read more... )