New Year's Streaks

Motivated by the start of the new year I've got a few different streaks of consecutive days going so far. First of all I've been doing actual blog posts1 every day so far in January. I haven't written anything truly lengthy yet, but I'm definitely trying to post at least a couple paragraphs worth of sentences and thoughts. Given appropriate topics I can certainly right longer, but it mostly just depends on what I'm thinking about when it's time to write. On top of the post I've written I've also been working on importing some old content every day as well and that's something I'd like to continue devoting a little time to every day this year.

In addition to writing conventional blog posts, I've also been trying to take more pictures and post at least one thing to Instagram and nice.social per day. That's been going well enough, but it is a little fiddly to have to post once via Instagram and once via nice.social. I still think it's worth doing in both places though and with my 10C site I can do it after the fact and backdate the post if necessary.

I've also been doing some Esperanto exercises in the Duolingo app again every day as well. It's been a few years since I first completed their Esperanto course exercises learning tree and they've added some additional vocabulary topics and exercises in the meantime. I'm rusty, but it comes back pretty quickly and I've been successfully testing out of a lot of the topics that I've previously completed. One thing that I discovered while going through the courses is that the free Esperanto Keyboard that I had installed on my previous phone is no longer in the iOS app store. Annoying, but I found another pay one that seems to work okay even if it doesn't offer dark mode support for free. I'll probably just shell out the $.99 sooner or later if it seems to be stable2

Finally, I've spent at least a half hour every day so far reading or listening to audio books. I'd like to finish off a couple of the books that I started last year, but never quite wrapped up, and I'd also like to get started on a few new ones 3. I've still got around 3/4s of the original Boss Fight Books set that I purchased last spring so I'll probably pick one of those and start making a dent in those during January.


  1. Rather than short couple sentence micro posts like I've typically done for several years.

  2. There were some reference to crashing bugs in the App Store reviews I read so hopefully they'll clear out.

  3. Preferably fiction since I have a tendency to get bogged down in nonfiction even when I enjoy it.