Though I’ve reliably taken a daily photo since April of 2004, I have absolutely dropped the ball on posting with regularity.
There are huge gaps in the calendar as referenced below.
A gap usually starts when thers’s a succession of dense days with hundreds (if not thousands) of photographs. Then I get overwhelmed and simply ignore everything and promise myself to catch up.
Other gaps might be inspired by guilt. Perhaps I wasn’t performing well in a job and thought posting might seem gauche.
Or there was a pandemic.
The reasons are endless.
But I have gotten better. I now prioritize journaling before I delve into work each day. If I don’t publish, I am setting the groundwork for it.
I also have a goal that I will fill in these gaps and discover those lost days!
Maybe it won’t happen until I retire, which to be totally honest, sounds like a fine way to pass some time.
Though I seriously think by then there will be enough intelligent assistants to ask one’s computer to “sort through and find the best photo from each day in these timeframes and edit it as I would. Post as draft to the journal with as much information as can be gleaned from EXIF, calendar, email, texting and Foursquare data for review.”
Then I’ll just sit back and swipe the air and give a thumbs up or a ‘hold up!’ and fiddle with things.
Two more tidbits:
- There are 1,147 drafts — Very likely posts from LiveJournal that need updated to the new format of WordPress. Some of them are also quite embarassing — so yeah, I’m going to review before hitting publish.
- There are 1,370 posts categorized as “misc” — This is a failure of taxonomy. Likely correct as so many posts really are miscellany, but it vexes me that I need to understand patterns better.