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Sunday, December 31st, 2006

the year in review (2006)

miles walked on the treadmill: 186 (+51%)
number of workouts: 45 (+77%)
number of concert DVDs acquired to distract me from the mind-numbing nonsense of walking on a treadmill: 9

number of journal entries published here: 73 (-67%)
current length of list of story ideas: 12
percent of such stories that might actually get written: 33

number of books begun: 6
number of books finished: 2

number of movies seen: 38 (+35%)
number of movies seen in a theater: 2
number of nervous phone calls made from theater to babysitter: 4

number of vacation trips taken: 2 (-50%)
total nights spent away from home: 24 (-39%)
total nights spent away from home for work: 9 (+100%)

digital photographs taken: 2702 (-10%)
nicer cameras lusted for: 2 (-50%)
moments I actually believed the hype: 2 (1 apiece)

pageviews served by this website: 993,311 (+41%)
dollars spent on connectivity and hosting: 1112 (-59%)
days of time lost to server hardware maintenance: 4 (+33%)
shitty randomly rebooting leased servers suffered, diagnosed, and replaced no thanks to the “we don’t support leased hardware” colo staff: 1

google adsense revenue: $673 (-9%)

electricity generated via photovoltaic array, in kWh: 3440 (-12%)
neighboring trees cursed: 2

songs written: 2 (+300%)
songs recorded: 2 (-72%)

number of personal stats tracked reliably throughout the year: 0
number of personal stats fudged after the fact for the purpose of creating this index: 25

Consecutive annual “year in review” summaries created: 5!

(Percent-change figures are relative to 2005)


Tags: harper's index
posted to channel: Personal
updated: 2008-01-02 00:01:11

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