On May 22nd I realized I’d forgotten my blogoversary, which I enjoy marking! I decided to write a “whoops, I missed it” post, and then realized I hadn’t yet missed 2016 because the date is on May 27th!

But in researching for 2016…I noticed I missed 2015. >.< My last celebration was in 2014, shortly after Adepticon 2014 when I was blogging out a storm because of the display board Patrick and I were making!

 

Post Count and Excuses

May 2013-2014 I wrote 139 posts.

May 2015-2016 I wrote 91 posts. 50 fewer is a lot! I have a few reasons, but no excuses. In November I went to a 4-day posting schedule instead of the 3 I’d been doing because during and after the wedding I was so busy with wedding stuff that I had to stretch out what I had.

In February of 2016, I stopped painting almost entirely. I assembled my Mek Guns and posted a photo of something I was about to throw away. The problem here, was that the universe ended because I had nothing to paint! I had recently decided that I didn’t want to play Hordes and I had nothing left to paint.

It picked up again in March with 40k, starting my naut (which is unfinished…) and writing 40k T&T. April I started doing more mini-posts with the naut just to show small progress, and then I picked up my Blood Bowl Undead team and Beyond the Gates of Antares (as regular readers will know)

Google Analytics

I still have no real idea of how to use Google Analytics. I mainly read it to see how many people are coming to the site, and how they are getting there. It also only shows monthly by default. But I just found the calendar range on it, so here’s some cool yearly numbers!

From May 27th 2015 to May 28th 2016:

• 2,943 users.
• 6,823 page views
• Average session duration was 1 minute 10 seconds. That’s how long you all spend looking at a page. 😛
• GA counts “session”, which I don’t understand, but the number is 3,776. Looks like it’s different from “users” and wildly different from “page views”. But of importance with this number, is that 77.2% of 2,915 of those sessions were new.
• Which means I think I have about 860 regular readers this year!
• 1,787 of you are in en-US, 384 en-GB, 319 fr, and 238 de.
• en-CA is not represented in the language list, which means most of you Canadians need to set your region in your browser/OS. Go on, do that now so you’re properly represented.
• Age ranges! 1,012 between 25-34, 617 between 35-44 and 12 65+!
• I had 156 female readers!
• 55.75% of you use Chrome, great job! Then Firefox, Safari then IE (version unstated)
• 76.62% of you are reading through the desktop, which is good, because I don’t know how good the site looks right now through mobile phones or tablets. I did a review of that a year or more ago, but I think my work was undone by a plugin or theme update at some point.

Notable Posts

• Sharing the hobby with Miranda’s little cousin.
• The end of Warhammer Fantasy Battle
• Got married!
• I got interested in phone batteries and wrote two posts on their care.
• Fire-kit making!
• I wrote this Year in Review post a few months ago, because I wanted to write. 🙂

The Future

I can see a lot of Blood Bowl in my continued future. It’s the only miniatures game that is both tactical, random and makes your heart race because every roll of the dice can screw you over!

Beyond the Gates of Antares is a fun game, and I’m really enjoying painting the models because they are pretty easy. We’ve been playing 500 point games, and I’m looking forward to larger point values to get some more variety in tactical options.

Folks in my club are pretty excited about Warmachine/Hordes mkIII, and given what they’re saying I think I might be able to be excited about it too. It sounds like they’re fixing some of my personal concerns – making it simpler (but not too simple) and less complex, adding pre-measuring. I like the ideas I’m hearing, and it could make it a game that I’d play again!

 

Here’s to a miniature future!