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📬 I'll read it
Manuel Moreale wrote a helpful article for everyone thinking about starting a blog. He identified two issues soon-to-be-bloggers have: not knowing what to write about, and worrying that nobody will read it For the first issue, I suggest to read either this article by Manuel, this one by Meadow, or this one by alienlebarge. All three offer some thoughts on what to write about and to not overthink it. Concerning the second issue, Manuel offers to be your first reader.
🧹 Cleaning Up for 2024
Brandon inspired me to write about this. I am a big fan of fresh starts but tend to collect a lot of bookmarks, podcasts, reminders, etc. over the year. With 2024 on the horizon, I feel like cleaning up - digitally. Here is what I did or plan to do: 🟢 done Bookmarks: During the “battle of the defaults”, I learned about Omnivore and use it as my read-it-later-slash-bookmark tool intensively at the moment.
🏠 Home Alone & Rich
It’s that time of the year, where I enjoy watching „Home Alone“. It’s one of those Christmas Movies warming my heart. Every time I watch it, I wonder how crazy rich the McAllisters are if they can afford traveling from Chicago to Paris over Christmas with 15 people, four of them in first class. Lucky me I don’t have to wonder anymore: the NYT asked three economists to estimate the wealth of Kevin’s family.
❄️ I went to winter wonderland, and all I got was ...
… heavy snow fall, a week spent in the apartment, a Corona infection, but still nice family time. I was really looking forward to this post. We went to the alps for a week (read here about the adventures train journey) with the intention to spend some quality time surrounded by snow. I was so full of anticipation that I prepared a few paragraphs in advance that I wanted to use in the post.
🎄 Holiday Travels - Part 3
Good news needs to be shared, too. This is a short one. The second part of our Christmas Travels went like a charm. We boarded the first train at 08:47, made all connecting trains without any rush and arrived at 16:45 with just 15 minutes delay in Stuttgart. Thank you SBB & DB. 🚃🚋🚂 After the chaotic first trip, this was a blessing. Two more train-days planned. Fingers crossed there will also be short postings about them 🤞
🎄 Holiday Travels - Part 2
Yesterday marked the first day of our Christmas Travels. And unfortunately, the strike - which I mentioned in the first post - hit us. Not directly, but it’s after-effects. 👷♂️🪧 This is how our travels went Luckily, my wife was awake at night and saw that our train was cancelled. She immediately booked seats in an alternative connection. The new connection started half an hour earlier - thus our morning routine had to be accelerated.
💡 Electricity Consumption
This fall, we moved into a new apartment. The building is labeled low-energy - „KfW55“ in German. Being a statistics nerd myself, I am curious how this effects our monthly energy consumption compared to the 70 year old building in which we lived before. info This is the first post on this topic. I plan to post updates on this, to see the progress over the year. If you want to read all the posts, please check them out here.
My November 2023
Recently, I started blogging again and I am still figuring out what posts I want to write in future. Many of the blogs I read regularly, post a monthly (or even weekly) summary of what they are currently doing. In the past, sticking to a regular publishing schedule, never worked for me - but this monthly review thingy is something I haven’t tested yet. Maybe, this is the first and last one 🙂
My blogging workflow as of late 2023
In 2019 I wrote an article about the technical background of this blog, and in 2020 there was a post about how I blogged using iPad. Neither of these articles mentioned the complete workflow, starting by how I capture ideas and how they slowly form into larger articles. The idea of this post is to give this comprehensive overview. Not for you to replicate it, because it is so cool & smooth, but for me to see how things change over time.
🎄 Holiday Travels Booked
Only a few more weeks until the Christmas Holidays. As our family lives in various parts of the country, it takes some effort to organize that we can all see each other. The holidays are travel times. This week, I booked the train tickets for our travels. It will be the first time, we‘re doing this with a baby and I am not sure if we can carry all the luggage, but - I like train rides, especially in winter.