If you’ve been following me this year, or talked to me, or lived with me, or saw me at all until perhaps late September, the story of the year has been “Don’t you think he looks tired?”. Odds are it was true – because I was totally knackered. But I survived, and found a more than slightly better situation for myself, and things are looking up.

I also have some amazing friends and acquaintances from across the planet who were always there with a kind word, some patient tolerance, a book to lend, a game to play, or a drink to share. I wouldn’t have made it through the whirlwind year without them.

I’m not going to belabor that point, I did that all year – in fact, so much of the year’s blogging was bitching and complaining about my situation that I honestly don’t think I have a “best of the year” aggregator post in me – there’s just nothing there.

However, as I always do, I’m going to run down the year in numbers, because I think it’s interesting, and I have programs that keep statistics, and I’m going to use them dammit.

So, 2013 by the numbers:

• web site hits received – 5228
• posts written – 107
• books read – 117
• miles biked – 1515
• miles driven – 30,000 give or take
• fan conventions attended – 4
• professional sporting events attended – 5
• live theatrical productions attended – 10
• musical performances attended – 10ish
• live musical performances by me – 20ish
• most instruments played in one performance – 3
• podcasts mentioned on – 1 (that I know of)
• costume contests won – 1
• instruments procured for me – 2
• instruments disposed of – 2
• instruments built – 1
• cars totalled out from under me – 1
• new cars purchased – 1
• new jobs started – 1
• instances of office workspace changes – 3
• RPG characters killed out from under me – none!
• games played – not enough
• bands performed with – 3 (for certain definitions of band)
• minutes spent trying to come up with clever numbers to report – roughly 15
• entries on this list – 24 (so far)
• number of revisions it took to get these lists formatted right – 6

There you go. A year in the life.

And fine – the top five posts I like from the past year (because I’m probably going to have trouble coming up with five):

1. …friendly courteous kind
2. my own worst enemy
3. neon hypercolored memories
4. metaphysical redneck – buddhist country
5. found art

Yep, coming up with five was tough. As I said, it wasn’t the best year for writing output. I’ll try to do better next year.