2023 by the numbers
December 31, 2023
Work
- 5 years (December 3) as a full-time employee with LGND (6 1/2 as contractor + full-time)
- 22 team members at the end of the year
- 24 team members at the beginning of the year
- 4 new teammates joined
- 6 teammates I said goodbye to
- 10 Projects Involved in
- 8 Projects shipped
- 1 project shelved
- 4 Major site builds
- 1 project still in progress
- 5 projects I helped out with QA (quality assurance)
- 1 WordPress Guide
- 1st project I built with native WordPress blocks
- Shortest project – Principal Media Interactive Video Catalog 39 hours
- Longest project – LGND.com 74+ hours
- 46 PTO days (I am very grateful for LGND’s unlimited PTO policy)
- 25 Campfires
- 2 Campfire presentations (Modern CSS and Bringing an Idea to Life)
Personal
- 1 funeral (my mom died on January 11)
- 30 years of marriage
- 55 years on earth
- 12 days knocked out with COVID
- 2 college dorm move-outs (May and December)
- 1 college dorm move-in
- 2 trips to the ER, 1 in an ambulance
- 4 doctors
Travel
- 1 flight (back home to Missouri for my mom’s funeral)
- 1st flight since March 2019
- 5 Roadtrips
- 5 Multi-day trips
- Most visited destination – Murray, Kentucky
- 5 states (TN, GA, KY, MO, NC)
Coding
Writing
- 18 tweets (see my post Grieving what has been lost)
- 63 Mastodon posts
- 63 LinkedIn Posts
- 205 Daily Logs in Evernote
- 45 weeknotes (beat previous best of 42 in 2022)
- 87 posts on this site
- 31 posts in December (met my goal of posting each day)
- 74 notes (I started this year to post thoughts I would have posted on social media in the past)
- 41 Instagram posts
- 143 Journal entries (written)
Reading/Books
- 4th time I’ve read through the entire Bible in a year
- 33 books finished
- 39 books started
- 4 still in progress
- 8,126 pages read (not including the Bible)
- Top 25% of readers on Goodreads
- Top 1% of readers on Pocket
- 7 sports books (6 baseball)
- 2 biographies – 1 autobiography
- 3 rereads
- 4 recommended
- 6 borrowed from the library
- 1 book gifted
Entertainment
- 5 movies in theater – Across the Spider-Verse, Oppenheimer, Godzilla Minus 1, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ant-Man Quantumania
- 1 NCAA basketball game
- 1 Super Bowl championship for Chiefs (second in 4 years)
- 3 The Gondoliers performances
- 1 Shakespeare performance
- 1 Symphony concert
- 1 visit to Ruby Falls
- 15 FIFA23 games played on PS4
- 111 MLB The Show 23 games played on PS4
- 46 MLB The Show 22 games played on PS4
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