Blog Backlog - Putting Myself on Notice
It's the start of a new year, and already I'm way behind. I'm way behind on blogging. Oh, it's not just stuff from the 3 days (so far) of 2023; a few of these items have been stuck in my backlog for months. I'm writing this to record my thoughts and put myself on notice of the things I want to see accomplished.
- Year-end retrospectives
- I've already written a few 2022 wrap-ups about travel stuff. (Done)
- I still need to write an overall 2022 retrospective. Update Jan 3: Done.
- TV/streaming and movies
- I still have at least one more blog to write about Chernobyl, which I watched just over a month ago now. Update Jan 10: done.
- Recently I watched the 10-episode miniseries Band of Brothers, and want to write about that, too- though not at the same length as Chernobyl. Update Jan 14: Done- well, not done but started.
- I've watched a few movies I want to review, Weird and The Hitman's Bodyguard. Likely by the time I get to these I'll have watched some other movie, too. Update Jan 7: Done and done.
- Added: There's also at least one more blog I wanted to write about Game of Thrones. As I haven't written about the series in over 6 weeks now I suspect this/these may never materialize.
- Travel
- Our trip to Mojave Desert is the one thing I am caught up on already. Though I thought I'd have it done by the 29th, maybe 30th, and it stretched through to the 1st. (Done)
- In the theme of Through the Desert I noticed that there's a desert-y trip from almost 10 months ago that I never finished blogging. I'd like to create a proper blog article about it.
- Politics & current events
- I've largely given up on trying to keep up with noteworthy political developments in this blog. The degree of absurdity in modern politics gets me down writing about it, plus there's just so much of it. But a few things on my mind recently are:
- A member of Congress got elected after lying his ass off about his education, professional experience, his life experience, and even what his parents and grandparents did. Update Jan 13: done.
- Musk's ongoing destruction of Twitter. Yes, I consider Musk's actions more about politics than business or technology now.
- Ukraine. Wow, so much to say about what's happened there. It's like every week I don't write about it, it gets harder to start.
- Added: As the new session of Congress gets going there are rollercoaster rides and hijinks. Update Jan 8: Done, though there's surely more to come.
- Other
- Added: Remember my " Beer Tasting 2022" series? I haven't posted to it in over 3 months! I'm several rounds behind. Update Jan 9: Posted one; more to come.
- Added: In a similar vein I've also got a Gin Tasting post in the backlog. Update Jan 17: done!