500

WP tracks streaks, if you post every day.

Today marks my 500th day posting in a row.

Yup. Maybe it’s remarkable, maybe it ain’t. But still.

500 straight days.

Here’s the chronology:

2020

2020-03-20 I’m sent home from work. Two weeks, to lessen the curve, we’re told.

2020-04-03 Two weeks comes and goes, no return to work. Little did we know. 

2020-05-01 I begin a new series, The Skip 5 Show, where I’d skip through on random in my iTunes library, and post whatever the 5th song was. Aim: To do this every day for the month of May, 2020. The first track was Bruce Cockburn’s Sahara Gold. Classic.

2021-05-31 Goal success: I post a month-end, 31-song round-up of the Skip 5 Show.

2020-06-01 I decide to keep Skip 5 going, but I remove the series title and keep the numbering going. I also free it up to include whatever song may have been in my head or that I wanted to share. This day, Day #32, was Tina Peel’s Knocking Down The Guardrails from the 30 Seconds Over D.C. compilation. Cool.

2020-06-19 I post #50 in the song-a-day series, which was Teenage Fanclub’s Commercial Alternative. Great stuff.

2020-06-20 Thanks to long iTunes hassles, I had to re-start my iTunes library, at a higher bitrate, re-copying everything I had. Ambitious, yes. I lost some stuff, yes. But I would post an album a day, as I went. First post was 10,000 Maniacs’ Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure & Unknown Recordings 2CD set. Glory.

—And so was born, without much fanfare, the series where I began going through everything here, all the CD, LP, CS, DVD/BLU was born, replacing the random daily songs… As well as posting whatever else farted itself into my brain… This would continue for a long time, as would our quarantine with me here, home with the kids. A loose routine ensues over the next (almost) year…

2021

2021-05-05 I post “In Which I Admit I Am A Slow Learner But This Time I Think I Am Getting There And Maybe This Time It’ll Stick,” about how I had been attempting to go through everything here in the collection. It ultimately failed because, frankly, I lost interest. It has happened so many times on the KMA, since our 2006 inception – I start something, it fizzles out. This time, I’d made it as far as ‘B,’ the Black Crowes, when I stopped.

2021-05-06 I begin a new thing, just posting a song from whatever I was listening to at the time, or whatever song was stuck in my head at the moment. The first song was U2’s New Year’s Day. I still posted about whole albums, now and again, but the majority were just a song, or some other subject entirely (guitar stuff, etc).

2021-07-02 I post about finally (finally) getting back into the thrift shoppes after all that time of not being able to go anywhere. Several posts of this nature followed (and continue). I post a teaser shite photie about my finds.

2021-07-05 I post about the stuff I got on my first foray into the wilds.   

2021-07-07 First post about recent purchases, a song from the Silver Snakes’ album Year Of The Snake, called Four Crows. Unofficially this begins a new series where I instead post a song every day from all the new stuff I’ve gotten.

—I post daily from each album as I hear them, amongst other things as well. Time passes, in this way…

2021-09-07 The kids (finally) went back to school. We have exceedingly cautious optimism that it’ll be OK, after so long of being so careful with/for them. The second it looks like things are going sideways, it’s over. They come forst. Always have, always will. 

2021-09-09 I sent an email to my boss, asking his thoughts about a possible return to work for me. Now I wait and see what his plans are.

In Sum:

I have been in quarantine for 541 days, as of today. I am still at home now, even though the kids are in school, until my boss gives me a re-start date.

I have posted daily for 500 days.

I don’t know if I will continue to watch the streak counter, or if I’ll be able to Keep It Alive, but I’ll just continue and I guess we’ll see what happens…

If you made it this far, Many Thanks for Reading. And who knows, maybe I’ll hit 1000…