2024: A Year In Numbers

A totally random set of stats to quantify what I’ve been up to so far

At the end of 2024, here’s a completely random sampling of statistics from my life.

Substack

• 114 articles written

• 239,110 words total

• 19 subscribers (18 free / 1 paid)

• 7,875 views from 3,888 users

Twitter / 𝕏

• 658 posts

• 1,290 followers

• 5,788,107 impressions

• 69,014 likes

Reading

• 32 books read or audiobooks listened to (453 total since I started counting a few years ago)

Health / Fitness

• 126.4 miles run (927 miles total since I started tracking a few years ago)

• 1 emergency room visit / cancer scare

• 1 dental crown added

Other/Misc

• 1 kitten adopted (2 cats total)

• 1 new podcast launched

• 6,365 photos taken on my iPhone

• 3 politicians met (1 U.S. Senator, 1 U.S. Representative, 1 State Senator)

• 1 foreign country visited (Grenada)

• 3 U.S. states visited (New Mexico, Alaska, Wyoming)

• 4 kids that are now teenagers (next year all 5 will be)

• 1 child that finished high school

• 19 years of marriage

• $3,865 spent on electricity bills to heat/cool the house

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That’s all I can think of for now… I think I’ll start tracking stats like this each year so I can compare them in the future. It’s interesting to see what I’ve been up to over the past year.

Overall, 2024 was, without exaggeration, the worst year of my adult life. However, I’m still here, I’m still alive, I’m still married, I’m still in business, and I’m still kicking.

How about you? How was your year?