An abbreviated version of my annual look back at the last year, by the numbers.

Blogging

My blogging output was way down this year.  I am not exactly sure why, it was a busy year not leaving as much time to care and feed the blog as I would have liked.  On my to do list for this year is to give the blog theme a much needed update, and hopefully get back to posting a little more regularly

Twitter

Much like blogging a big drop off in the number of Tweets from 2012 to 2013.  I can’t say I specifically tried one way or the other to tweet more or less it just happened, I am not going to invest too much time in figuring out why.

2011 Twitter Statistics provided by Tweetstats. 2012 & 2013 Twitter Statistics provided by Tweetnest

Photos

I take a lot of pictures, I was actually surprised at the total number for the year and the increase over last year.  I definitely used my phone as my camera more this year than in the past.  In the second half of the year when I discovered Google Auto Awesome I definitely started shooting more in burst mode to see what awesomeness Google would create out of my images.

Emergency Room Visits

The one category I actually care about where the number ends up. We only paid one visit to the ER all year for a middle of the night Asthma attack that we couldn’t get under control at home.

This was our one ER visit in July, where they managed to get the Asthma under control quickly, you always know Abe is better when he asks for food.

So that was 2013, onward to see what 2014 has in store starting with a nice snow storm across the Northeast United States.

2012 by the Numbers

2011 by the Numbers

2010 by the Numbers

2009 by the Numbers

2008 by the Numbers

All charts created using the Google Chart API

You should all know by now I don’t write end of year recaps, instead I once again present a recap of the year in numbers.

Blogging

Once again blogging remained consistent from year to year, the numbers skew a little differently with Lotusphere split between January and February in 2011, but overall no big changes in numbers here.  I covered a more diverse range of topics on the blog this year, a trend that should continue in 2012.

Twitter

For the second year in a row Twitter use has grown dramatically, I definitely participated in more conversation on Twitter not simply broadcasting information which was a factor in the increase in numbers.  The numbers always go up in the fall with all the NFL and Giants related tweets on Sundays.

Twitter statistics provided by Tweetstats

Photos

I didn’t really think I took fewer pictures this year, but the numbers don’t lie. They don’t really matter all that much either, so I will just move on.

Amazon Orders

A new category makes it in to the roundup this year, mainly because I just discovered you can see your Amazon purchase history by year, all the way back to your first Amazon order (2002 for me).  I definitely find myself using Amazon more out of convenience, as well as for Subscribe and Save items.

Emergency Room Visits

I used to call this category “hospital visits”, but I don’t even want to think about how many times this year I was in good old St. Barnabas Medical Center this past year.  I have renamed the category “Emergency Room Visits” and we managed 3 of those this year all for the kids. Abe racked up two visits, one for croup cough in April and another for severe stomach pain at 2:30 AM (which turned out to be nothing).  Jack managed one visit for a Febrile Seizure.  Of all the numbers presented here this is the only one that matters, and I really hope we reverse this trend in 2012.  I probably should track visits to the pediatrician, I am the Foursquare mayor of our pediatricians office, and according to Foursquare I was there 13 times this past year.  That of course does not includes visits where I forgot to check in (it happens) and the times my wife took the kids to the doctor.

Wrapping Up

2011 will always be defined by this one event which shaped the latter half of the year and will carry over in to the first part of 2012.  2011 will never be the year we look back on and remember fondly, but what we will always remember is the incredible support we received from family and friends (near and far) in every imaginable way. You can’t put a number on that.

Goodbye and good riddance to 2011…… bring on 2012

2010 by the Numbers

2009 by the Numbers

2008 by the Numbers

All charts created using the Google Chart API