Refining my spreadsheet for tracking my posting has taken time. My initial assumptions of posting once a day led me to a too-simple structure of each post being on its own line for that day, but as posts bunch up, I needed to get a little smarter. I had to add columns to track the number of posts per day, I found bugs in my code counting drafts and completed posts, and I persistently was getting a count too high in one area – because I’d mis-entered a date.
Now I’ve got a better picture, and you can see above the struggle, the dips where I forgot to post, and my razor-thin buffer. I’ve got so much writing to do, I wish there was an easy way to quickly add a new post – oh, snap.
So here’s your self-fulfilling post for the day. Reminds me of one of the books on my enormous pile, “This Book Needs No Title” by Raymond Smullyan, filled with bon mots like “People say I don’t worry enough. That’s always worried me.” That’s because this is a post that, in a sense, needs itself – this post fills the hole in my buffer that this post detected.
How meta.
-the Centaur
