It always feels like I end up speed-running the last three months of the year. We tend to save our vacations for early spring and late fall when the weather at home isn’t as nice. Inevitably, those month pass by quick. Factor in the day to day at work slowing down as people start to take their holiday vacations and a few free PTO days around the said holidays and I’m staring at the end of the year already.
We had to cancel our Thanksgiving plans of traveling to see my parents this year on account of literal feet of snow closing the highway between Ohio and New York for days on end. But staying home and spending the time with the family near us was still fun.
I didn’t get up to too much gaming in November. I played a few rounds of Lethal Company with the Squad and we played through Backrooms: Escape Together. We all bought this one in October but never got around to playing. It was fun for what it was, I probably should get a post out about it sometime soon.
I don’t have too many goals this month on account of it being rather busy and there isn’t much that I can “goalify” (yes spellcheck, I’m aware that’s not a word…). The ones I do have should be achievable but, as always, I’ll see how true that is come January.
Goals
Meet my StroyGraph Pages goal for the year.
I was looking through the pages read stats over the summer and thought that it would be fun to try and beat my 13,200 pages read last year. Which by the way, was the most I’ve ever read in one year since I started tracking my reading stats.
That stat probably isn’t the most accurate though. I’m pretty sure it just adds up the page counts from the books I marked as read throughout the year. Which definitely allows for some fluffing of the numbers as some books have a bunch of back matter. I just finished one that had 45 pages of footnotes and citations…On the other hand, some books have more pages than the editions in Storygraph so it might even out somewhere. It’s not like Books Read stat is any better. I read 48 “books” last year, ten of them were under 100 pages. If a short story is outside of a collection there’s no other way to log it.
I don’t take these “challenges” too seriously. It’s fun to look at the stats, especially year after year, but I have found that trying too hard to read books just to hit the arbitrary numbers I set for myself sucks most of the joy out of reading. With that said, reading has been my main hobby for the past few months and I’m feel pretty confident I can hit my 14k pages goal by the end of the year.
Post two times a week.
I found out in September that posting 1 times a week was about as motivating as posting 1 time a month…so to remedy that I’m going to see how posting two times a week feels. That means 8 posts this month so I’m 1/8th of the way there!
Many Welps 