For twenty-oneconsecutiveFebruaries on diamond geezer I've kept myself busy by counting things. Ten different counts, to be precise, in a stats-tastic 28-day feature called The Count. You therefore won't be surprised to hear that I intend to do exactly the same again this year. Expect to read a post of comparisons and contrasts at the end of the month. I kicked off this annual exercise back in 2003 which means I already have over two decades of thrilling historical data to analyse and this'll be a 22nd datapoint. As usual in leap years, February 29th will not be included to keep the data equivalent. Here's my selected list of ten countables for February 2024.
Count 1: Number of visits to this blog (Feb 2023 total: 77244) Count 2: Number of comments on this blog (Feb 2023 total: 830) Count 3: Number of words I write on this blog (Feb 2023 total: 34291) Count 4: Number of hours I spend out of the house (Feb 2023 total: 164) Count 5: Number of nights I go out and am vaguely sociable (Feb 2023 total: 4) Count 6: Number of bottles of lager I drink (Feb 2023 total: 3) Count 7: Number of cups of tea I drink (Feb 2023 total: 116) Count 8: Number of trains I travel on (Feb 2023 total: 141) Count 9: Number of steps I walk (Feb 2023 total: 434000) Count 10: The Mystery Count(Feb 2023 total: 0) (again)
I feel like picking an 11th category, just for 2024, but I'm not sure what to choose. If you have any ideas please let me know, but make it practical and interesting and non-trivial, and be quick because I have to start counting it today.
n.b. I'm also undertaking some annual counts this year, entirely additional to my normal stats-packed February, so let's see how they're going...
• Number of London boroughs visited: all of them (at least twice)
• Number of London bus routes ridden: all of them (100%)
• Number of Z1-3 stations used: 89 (23%)
• Number of Z4-6 stations used: 0
For twenty-one consecutive Februaries on diamond geezer I've kept myself busy by counting things. Ten different counts, to be precise, in a stats-tastic 28-day feature called The Count. You therefore won't be surprised to hear that I intend to do exactly the same again this year. Expect to read a post of comparisons and contrasts at the end of the month. I kicked off this annual exercise back in 2003 which means I already have over two decades of thrilling historical data to analyse and this'll be a 22nd datapoint. As usual in leap years, February 29th will not be included to keep the data equivalent. Here's my selected list of ten countables for February 2024.
