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The LJ-stats meme that supergee apparently started entirely by accident ("I must remember to use my powers for Good." -- Supergee) ... The idea, as it mutated, seems to have become "post your LJ stats now so as to be able to refer back to them in a year to compare to next year's stats".

My raw stats:
Account type: Paid Account, expiring 2004-09-26
Date created: 2002-05-30 11:55:17
Date updated: 2004-01-02 02:24:08
Journal entries: 940
Comments: Posted: 1,380 - Received: 2,271

(First, let me thank whoever paid for my account -- I've gotten two anonymous gifts of paid LJ, the most recent arriving yesterday. I really like having a paid account, but it's a frill I can't afford to spend the money myself, small as it is. I only hope that whoever paid reads this so he or she can see my thanks.)

Now one of those stats is a little misleading: of the 940 entries, 209 were automatically posted "Quote of the Day" entries (or manually posted when I woke up and saw that the cron script had failed that day because the modem had disconnected, but I'll lump those two or three in with the couple hundred where the script worked). I'm not sure how I want to count those, nor the few completely manually posted QotD entries from before I installed the cron script. I did prepare them (that is, I didn't write the important content parts of them because they're quotes, but I collected them, formatted them and added citation information / links, wrote to ask permission for the ones that weren't culled from public sources, and stuck 'em in the quotes-queue file), and they are things I wanted to share with y'all, but I don't feel I can give them the same weight as a "sit down and write about what's going on" entry when it comes to a "Gee, do I really write that much?" count. The 42 "link sausage" entries were more work than the quotes, and do include my own work putting together the descriptions (and of course my personal tastes in the selection of links), but again, I'm not sure they count the same as a real personal entry. Maybe not less, but they feel like they ought to be counted differently. Or maybe I just over-analyze.

(By the way, I did not mean to stop posting Link Sausage entries right after people answered my poll about them -- I just got too busy for a while, then lost a bunch of links that I'd left in open browser windows and hadn't jotted down yet in a succession of browser crashes (mostly iCab), OS crashes (mostly Windows) and power failures (Baltimore Gas & Electric, but nowhere near as often as the iCab and Windows problems) ... I keep meaning to go back and find the juicy ones again.)

But that still leaves roughly seven hundred posts in nineteen months. Or an average of just over a post a day not counting quotes and sausage. So I guess all my long-winded four- and five-post days are cancelled out by the times I don't get around to posting for four days in a row. If I get around to it later, I'll try to figure out average word counts or something, just for grins and the fun of parsing my archive. But no promises there -- I've got a lot else to do today. Right now I've gotta run out and avoid a parking ticket. (Street-cleaning hours start in five minutes.)