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1: new job
2: new family vehicles- the Caravan and the Honda, both new to us this year
3: series of skating lessons for alexander
4: babies born this year, either ours or friends (nicholas; Kaia to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
turtlegrrl13 and jakerain, Olivia to rubylou, drakemonger and jeliza; Gwendolyn to mahariel and Paul)
5: new foods tried during the year
6: kids at alexander's fifth birthday party
7: friends who spent at least part of the year working at Microsoft
8: friends who spent much of the year un- or extremely underemployed (possibly more, but i'm fairly certain of eight)
9: local friends whom i see entirely too infrequently
10: people who are mutual friends who i don't know in real life or met online or via a small handful of organizations to which i belong. Not that there's anything wrong with that. One of these days i'll probably try to learn something about you ten aside from what you write.
14: fewest posts per month (August)
24: mode number of monthly posts (occurs twice in the set, both February and March)
37: communities and/or syndicated feeds
48: most posts per month (December)
307: total posts
I have no idea what motivated me to do this, but it was actually a more interesting use of time than i would have expected. It is said that statistics can be made to say anything- this is, however, a demonstration that statistics can, all by themselves, not say much of anything in particular as well.
2: new family vehicles- the Caravan and the Honda, both new to us this year
3: series of skating lessons for alexander
4: babies born this year, either ours or friends (nicholas; Kaia to
turtlegrrl13 and jakerain, Olivia to rubylou, drakemonger and jeliza; Gwendolyn to mahariel and Paul)5: new foods tried during the year
6: kids at alexander's fifth birthday party
7: friends who spent at least part of the year working at Microsoft
8: friends who spent much of the year un- or extremely underemployed (possibly more, but i'm fairly certain of eight)
9: local friends whom i see entirely too infrequently
10: people who are mutual friends who i don't know in real life or met online or via a small handful of organizations to which i belong. Not that there's anything wrong with that. One of these days i'll probably try to learn something about you ten aside from what you write.
14: fewest posts per month (August)
24: mode number of monthly posts (occurs twice in the set, both February and March)
37: communities and/or syndicated feeds
48: most posts per month (December)
307: total posts
I have no idea what motivated me to do this, but it was actually a more interesting use of time than i would have expected. It is said that statistics can be made to say anything- this is, however, a demonstration that statistics can, all by themselves, not say much of anything in particular as well.
