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2023 stats
Dec. 31st, 2023 02:36 pmIt's the end of the year, so as appropriate a time as any to look back on what I did. I like tracking things, so I have numbers!
I'm overall happy with my Japanese studies. I logged 156 hours, which is about 3 hours a week. That's less than I aspire to but more than 2022 and 2021 together (71 and 65 hours respectively) so I can't complain! I read my first novel in Japanese! また、同じ夢を見ていた, which was 130 or 304 pages long depending on what source I looked at (I have no idea why the discrepancy) and took about 40 hours to finish. I read a bunch of manga too - よつばと！(Yotsuba&) 12-15 and チェンソーマン (Chainsaw Man) 1-4. Overall, success!
I went to Japan! I didn't log any language-learning time there because I was too busy and not sure how to count being surrounded by Japanese all the time, but I tried to read basically every piece of text that passed in front of my eyeballs, to the point of being nerd-sniped into slowing down and stopping randomly on the sidewalk trying to read random signs. I was pleasantly surprised with how familiar and un-intimidating it felt to be surrounded by Japanese. I also had several conversations with folks in Japanese, thanks to the patience of strangers with my broken speaking skills, which was fun.
I read 50 books, which is a good number and in line with previous years. (As with everything, I wish I had more time and could read more books). "Books" is a bit of a misnomer, since it includes everything that can be logged including short stories, but close enough. I read about a quarter as audiobooks, something that still surprises me but shows that my audiobook obsession from 2021 (48% of books read!) has stuck around. Print is way up at 12%, mostly due most of the manga I read being in paper. Ebook is my default for the rest. I apparently spent more time reading too - 10,400 pages and 85 hours (audiobook) vs last year's 6600 pages & 83 hours, and the stats for book length support that. Last year it was a lot of Seanan McGuire, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Lois McMaster Bujold. This year was Laurie Marks and Rosemary Kirstien, as I (re)read their series. All fiction - I didn't finish my one-nonfiction-book-a-year, but probably will in January. Guess I'll have to read two nonfiction books in 2024!
For birds, after 1698 days and a flight crossing the international date line, I finally let my bird-checklist-a-day streak lapse. It was fun, but was starting to feel like a chore and the Japan trip made a good excuse. 193 birds this year, 131 locally, which is average-to-low but that's fine.
I don't think there's any interesting stats for board games. Lots of Spirit Island since the new expansion came out. New neighbour board game friends that I'm excited about!
I want to say something about biking here but I don't log that anywhere. Maybe I'll have to start.
Here's to 2024 being better than the last 7 years, or at least not worse.
I'm overall happy with my Japanese studies. I logged 156 hours, which is about 3 hours a week. That's less than I aspire to but more than 2022 and 2021 together (71 and 65 hours respectively) so I can't complain! I read my first novel in Japanese! また、同じ夢を見ていた, which was 130 or 304 pages long depending on what source I looked at (I have no idea why the discrepancy) and took about 40 hours to finish. I read a bunch of manga too - よつばと！(Yotsuba&) 12-15 and チェンソーマン (Chainsaw Man) 1-4. Overall, success!
I went to Japan! I didn't log any language-learning time there because I was too busy and not sure how to count being surrounded by Japanese all the time, but I tried to read basically every piece of text that passed in front of my eyeballs, to the point of being nerd-sniped into slowing down and stopping randomly on the sidewalk trying to read random signs. I was pleasantly surprised with how familiar and un-intimidating it felt to be surrounded by Japanese. I also had several conversations with folks in Japanese, thanks to the patience of strangers with my broken speaking skills, which was fun.
I read 50 books, which is a good number and in line with previous years. (As with everything, I wish I had more time and could read more books). "Books" is a bit of a misnomer, since it includes everything that can be logged including short stories, but close enough. I read about a quarter as audiobooks, something that still surprises me but shows that my audiobook obsession from 2021 (48% of books read!) has stuck around. Print is way up at 12%, mostly due most of the manga I read being in paper. Ebook is my default for the rest. I apparently spent more time reading too - 10,400 pages and 85 hours (audiobook) vs last year's 6600 pages & 83 hours, and the stats for book length support that. Last year it was a lot of Seanan McGuire, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Lois McMaster Bujold. This year was Laurie Marks and Rosemary Kirstien, as I (re)read their series. All fiction - I didn't finish my one-nonfiction-book-a-year, but probably will in January. Guess I'll have to read two nonfiction books in 2024!
For birds, after 1698 days and a flight crossing the international date line, I finally let my bird-checklist-a-day streak lapse. It was fun, but was starting to feel like a chore and the Japan trip made a good excuse. 193 birds this year, 131 locally, which is average-to-low but that's fine.
I don't think there's any interesting stats for board games. Lots of Spirit Island since the new expansion came out. New neighbour board game friends that I'm excited about!
I want to say something about biking here but I don't log that anywhere. Maybe I'll have to start.
Here's to 2024 being better than the last 7 years, or at least not worse.