Another new year has come and gone, another 365 days behind us. A year with Oscars, Eurovision, FIFA World Cup. War broke out in Ukraine, Putin became the newest dictator of the planet, The Queen died. Between all these, I still had some time to see some movies, listen to some records, and attend some concerts.

I’m not going to talk too much about the posts section, but a thing worth noting is the fact that I was able to create some post “bundles”, which are collection of articles regarding the same theme, be it about my 14 year old iPod Touch, Underrated Songs, various games.

I watch a lot of movies, some days, when I’m sick or just lazy in bed, I watch even a few. Same for TV series. So I decided to make a section for them in the site and post some quick opinions about them. I managed a whopping 162 this year, and I tell you, some are very very good.

Besides visual media, I managed to add more records into the “A Record A Day” section, managing a whopping 141 records added this year, meaning a record every 2 and a half days. Not great, not terrible.

I’ve also managed to make a separate page for the records that got the artists (and not only*) personal touch, in the “Signed” subsection.
*Hey, you don’t have to be famous to sign an autograph.

I’m thinking however on repurposing one of my old phones into a static photo booth, because the photographing and editing takes a lot. And as Dani told me once (and it’s still one of the best photography advice I ever got), good camera and lighting preparation can cut up to 90% of the time spent editing.

But besides these sections, I focused a lot on photographing some of the gadgets I have around the house. I loved spending some time with each, not only photographing, but charging, cleaning, fidgeting, listening to them.

Among all these, I managed to go and see some live events, however with the fall I started to do more house-related stuff and was pretty much away from concerts. I’ve still managed to attend a whopping 23 events this year, so it’s a lot better than the fucking pandemic year. The highlights? Thievery Corporation, after seeing them a few years ago in Sofia; Nightwish, a name long overdue on my bucket list, six Luna Amara concerts, Tapinarii three times, Alternosfera twice, and a series of others I really really enjoyed.

There’s a new post bundle I created that might become a section of its own and it consists of the collections I have, be it trading cards or sticker albums. I started with a few football ones, to mark the World Cup, but it’s gonna go into nice places, with cartoons, sports, and others, some having a great story behind them.

Oh, and I started a 365 project.

Nerd alert!

Before the new year comes over us, let’s take a moment and talk about graphs!

Looking at the monthly graph, it’s easy to see that the only month where I managed to post a record each day was June, and that was with a lot of prior preparation. You can also see the number of posts has decreased a lot on a monthly basis, but that’s because I used to write a lot about games last winter.

The weekly graph shows a generally flat curve, with a high on Mondays, because I sometimes write on Sunday evenings and publish past midnight or the morning after.