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100DaysToOffload

#100DaysToOffload is a challenge to write 100 blog posts in a year. I completed it first time around in February 2025 - you can see all my entries for that here. I've now started it again as 200DaysToOffload.

2026-06-09: A total lack of inspiration
2026-05-16: (Not really a) Weeknote 2026-W20
2026-03-09: Notes for 2026 until 2026-03-09
2025-12-31: 2025 Year in Review
2025-12-10: 26 for 2026
2025-11-23: Weeknote 2025-W47
2025-11-16: Weeknotes 2025-W46
2025-11-09: Weeknotes 2025-W43, W44 and W45
2025-10-31: Old man hobbies
2025-10-20: Weeknote 2025-W42
2025-10-20: Weeknote 2025-W41
2025-10-20: Living a slow life
2025-10-17: Creating a vademecum
2025-10-06: Weeknote 2025-W40
2025-10-06: Weeknote 2025-W39
2025-10-06: Month in Review: September 2025
2025-09-27: Mandolin
2025-09-22: Weeknote 2025-W38
2025-09-15: Weeknote 2025-W37
2025-09-07: Weeknote 2025-W36
2025-09-01: Weeknote 2025-W35
2025-08-29: Protein powder
2025-08-25: Weeknote 2025-W34
2025-08-25: Search engines: part two
2025-08-18: Consistency
2025-08-17: Weeknotes 2025-W33
2025-08-17: Weeknotes 2025-W32
2025-08-05: Weeknotes 2025-W31
2025-07-30: Weeknotes 2025-W30
2025-07-19: Weeknotes 2025-W29
2025-07-19: Weeknotes 2025-W28
2025-07-06: After a long walk
2025-07-05: Weeknotes 2025-W27
2025-06-30: Weeknotes 2025-W26
2025-06-28: Weeknotes 2025-W25
2025-06-21: Weeknotes 2025-W24
2025-06-21: Weeknotes 2025-W23
2025-06-15: 50 in 50: What is something you are passionate about and why?
2025-06-14: 50 in 50: Favourite Work Story
2025-06-14: Dating Apps (Part Two)
2025-06-13: 50 in 50: Words of Wisdom to my Younger Self
2025-06-12: 50 in 50: What is easy to write, what hard?
2025-06-11: 50 in 50: Hobby adventures
2025-06-10: 50 in 50: Fascinating Country
2025-06-09: 50 in 50: Physical Labour
2025-06-08: 50 in 50: 20 Sublime Moments
2025-06-07: Weeknotes 2025-W22
2025-06-07: 50 in 50: Guidelines for Life
2025-06-06: 50 in 50: First Computer
2025-06-05: 50 in 50: Follow Friday
2025-06-04: 50 in 50: A Memorable Road Trip
2025-06-03: 50 in 50: An International Person
2025-06-02: 50 in 50: Relationship with Music
2025-06-01: 50 in 50: What societal problems is my region known for, and do they affect me?
2025-05-31: 50 in 50: A news event from when I was in school
2025-05-30: 50 in 50: What do I like to read?
2025-05-30: Weeknotes 2025-W21
2025-05-29: 50 in 50: What woman in your family do you most admire and why?
2025-05-28: 50 in 50: Why do you like your favorite restaurant?
2025-05-27: 50 in 50: On what subjects are you outspoken and on what subjects are you mostly mute?
2025-05-26: 50 in 50: Are you an exerciser?
2025-05-25: 50 in 50: Have you ever had a brush with celebrity?
2025-05-24: 50 in 50: Relationship with Social Media
2025-05-23: 50 in 50: How do you feel about writing?
2025-05-22: 50 in 50: How do you like to watch movies?
2025-05-21: 50 in 50: What is the most memorable job you've held?
2025-05-20: 50 in 50: What is your typical day?
2025-05-19: 50 in 50: Are you an early or late adopter of technology?
2025-05-19: 50 in 50: What is my favourite food?
2025-05-18: Weeknotes 2025-W20
2025-05-18: 50 in 50: Have you been to a memorable concert?
2025-05-17: 50 in 50: Workspace Decor
2025-05-16: 50 in 50: Political Life
2025-05-15: 50 in 50: Am I retired or working?
2025-05-14: 50 in 50: What hobbies have I had in the past that I no longer have?
2025-05-13: 50 in 50: What are my favourite books and why?
2025-05-12: Weeknotes 2025-W19
2025-05-12: 50 in 50: What are my feelings about alcohol?
2025-05-11: 50 in 50: What is my relationship with technology?
2025-05-10: 50 in 50: What is my relationship with my phone?
2025-05-09: 50 in 50: Do you have an /interests page?
2025-05-08: Pointless Ten Challenge
2025-05-08: Love
2025-05-08: Fifty in Fifty
2025-05-07: Aesthetics
2025-05-05: Weeknotes 2025-W18
2025-05-02: Month in Review: April 2025
2025-04-28: Weeknotes 2025-W17
2025-04-28: Dating apps
2025-04-21: Weeknotes 2025-W16
2025-04-21: Pea and rosemary risotto
2025-04-20: Weeknotes 2025-W15
2025-04-18: Search engines
2025-04-18: Having a space everyday for my own time
2025-04-16: Weeknotes 2025-W14
2025-04-13: Reconsidering life
2025-04-05: Side-effects
2025-03-31: Weeknotes 2025-W13
2025-03-31: Month in Review: March 2025
2025-03-24: Weeknotes 2025-W12
2025-03-23: Digital (quote unquote) Progression
2025-03-22: Book Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses
2025-03-17: Weeknotes 2025-W11
2025-03-17: Money
2025-03-16: Book Review: Altered Traits
2025-03-12: Review of my Leuchtturm notepad
2025-03-11: Blogging as social media
2025-03-09: Weeknotes 2025-W10
2025-03-08: Nature doesn't want me to sleep
2025-03-03: Weeknotes 2025-W09
2025-03-03: Using psychology
2025-03-01: Compression is utterly magical
2025-02-28: Month in Review: February 2025
2025-02-25: Re: A Call for Unity
2025-02-23: Weeknotes 2025-W08
2025-02-21: ISO 8601
2025-02-21: Growing desires
2025-02-21: Forgetting and remembering
2025-02-21: Completed 100DaysToOffload!
2025-02-20: Blog Update (2)
2025-02-17: Forgive me, this is a cheat entry
2025-02-16: Weeknotes 2025-W07
2025-02-11: Weeknotes 2025-W06
2025-02-11: Countryside friendliness
2025-02-07: Over many years
2025-02-06: Tony's Chocolonely, and, the dont-eat-it-all-at-once-you-fat-bastard phenomenon
2025-02-06: Obviously simple
2025-02-04: Partway pride
2025-02-02: Weeknotes 2025-W05
2025-02-02: Play
2025-02-01: Audience, and things to say
2025-02-01: It feels almost like two days
2025-01-31: Prospective: February 2025
2025-01-31: Month in Review: January 2025
2025-01-30: Re: you’ve been traumatized into hating reading
2025-01-29: Life is become tedium
2025-01-27: Un blog multilingue
2025-01-26: Weeknotes 2025-W04
2025-01-26: Fast deciding, slow orienting
2025-01-26: Chocolate
2025-01-24: Jenufa
2025-01-22: Fussing about the details
2025-01-19: Weeknotes 2025-W03
2025-01-18: Finding the perfect system
2025-01-18: lowercase
2025-01-16: Remote is reality
2025-01-16: Consumption
2025-01-15: Change
2025-01-13: Bear Blog Questions Challenge
2025-01-12: Weeknotes 2025-W02
2025-01-12: Priority in the singular
2025-01-07: Wasted Time
2025-01-05: Work in progress
2025-01-05: Weeknotes 2025-W01
2025-01-05: Media minimalism
2025-01-05: Careless caring
2025-01-04: Taking things one day at a time
2024-12-31: 2024 Year in Review
2024-12-30: Appropriate is often disappointing
2024-12-29: Weeknotes 2024-W52
2024-12-29: Excellence, and compromises
2024-12-26: Hobbies, and conversation
2024-12-26: Cycling, and dreams about Europe
2024-12-22: Weeknotes 2024-W51
2024-12-22: December 2024 Update
2024-12-22: Christmas
2024-12-08: Weeknotes 2024-W49
2024-11-29: Next year
2024-11-28: Ego
2024-11-26: Habits
2024-11-24: Weeknotes 2024-W47
2024-11-24: Reading List for 2025
2024-11-23: Petase, and the future of plastic
2024-11-23: Blog Update (1)
2024-11-22: Activism
2024-11-19: On tracking
2024-11-19: Themes for 2025 (and late 2024)
2024-11-19: Plastic, and worries about health
2024-11-17: Weeknotes 2024-W46
2024-11-14: Maybe it's cute
2024-11-13: How fast time goes
2024-11-13: 25 goals for 2025
2024-11-10: Weeknotes 2024-W45
2024-11-10: Hung up on being good
2024-11-09: Interpretation
2024-11-07: External to nature
2024-11-07: Blog gardening, and implicit restrictions
2024-11-05: LEDs and livable cities
2024-11-03: Weeknotes 2024-W44
2024-11-03: Attention
2024-11-01: Disarray
2024-10-30: Small Moments of Terror
2024-10-28: Non-flow
2024-10-28: Forgotten Concerns
2024-10-27: Weeknotes 2024-W43
2024-10-24: Theories and Uninformation
2024-10-24: Brevity and Verbosity
2024-10-23: Leisure and Productivity
2024-10-23: A blog as a series of collected thoughts
2024-10-21: Natural Beauty
2024-10-21: Being by way of being
2024-10-19: Youth and Blogshame
2024-10-19: Bologna: Eighth Day
2024-10-18: Bologna: Seventh Day
2024-10-17: Watchlists (and other lists)
2024-10-17: Clean up the toilet
2024-10-17: Dressing well
2024-10-17: Bologna: Sixth Day
2024-10-16: Bologna: Fifth Day
2024-10-15: Bologna: Fourth Day
2024-10-14: Bologna: Third Day
2024-10-13: Bologna: Second Day
2024-10-12: Bologna: First Day
2024-10-09: Veganism, and being a nuisance
2024-10-08: Trying too much
2024-10-06: Weeknotes 2024-W40
2024-10-05: Too far, too soon
2024-10-04: Intermediation
2024-10-02: Eugene Onegin
2024-10-01: Linux is a waste of time
2024-09-26: First weeknotes and what the blog could be
2023-09-15: Timelessness