Post mortem post report

End-of-year statistics are always fun for a number guy like me. This blog was started way back in 2007 (back when blogs were the hip and cool thing to do, as opposed to now, when … well …). That year, there were only 54 posts since it didn’t represent the full calendar year. In 2008, there were 170 posts and the numbers climbed from there (184 in 2009), and then from 2010 through 2018 – probably the Golden Era of this blog (if there is such a thing) -- there were more than 300 posts per year, with three years of more than 400 posts (the high mark was 2014, with 407 posts). What’s the point of all these numbers? This year, 2021, will be the lowest full-year total of posts since the blog was created 15 years ago. As logical humans, we always seek reasons, causes, correlations, people or things to blame. I don’t know. There just have been fewer posts this year. How’s that for an in-depth analysis? I mean, obviously, there were far fewer results oriented posts, thanks to you-know-what. And we didn’t have the Pandemic Papers series to carry us through the first full year of, well, the pandemic. And so, the post numbers are low this year. Will 2022 be better? My guess = yes. But again, the days of averaging more than one post per day? I think that ship has sailed for good. On to 2022.