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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 31/8/25: 497.
Right now on Sunday 7/9/25 (observed): 493.
Target for end of Sunday 7/8/25: 489.
More videos to watch, fewer pages of news stories and dubious-at-best '70s ska lyrics to read. Judge Dread ain't played nobody Pauauauauaul.....
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A friend is staying with me this weekend for the excellent DASH 12. Their company and conversation this evening are more than worth a second, larger donation to the hated NUFC charity. Accountability at https://www.justgiving.com/charity/nufc (and see also two months ago).
Right now on Sunday 14/9/25: 586.
Ich nichten lichten, as Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan would say.
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Where were we? I think the target for the end of the 21st should've been 484.
Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 14/9/25: 586.
Right now on Sunday 21/9/25 (ish): 465.
Target for end of Sunday 28/9/25: 479.
This got up to 731 last night but is better today. It helped that I found a clear ten which I have bookmarked and that's OK by me.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 21/9/25: 465.
Right now on Sunday 28/9/25 (ish): 477 vs target 479.
Target for end of Sunday 5/10/25: 474.
And I've been out playing board games today and got home only a little while ago so plenty to close fairly easily at some point.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 28/9/25: 477.
Right now on Sunday 5/10/25 (ish): 465 vs target 474.
Target for end of Sunday 12/10/25: 469.
Back to where I was last week, by coincidence. I will be using my fourth and last mulligan for 19th October, which might be a mistake, but we shall see.
Down 200 vs the start of year's not a lot, but it's not nothing.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 5/10/25: 477.
Right now on Sunday 12/10/25: 451 vs target 469.
Target for end of Sunday 26/10/25 (as 19/10 is the fourth and final mulligan): 464.
Not posting much. Bit sad for the last few days, but I've been doing things to keep me going. The Lateral podcast live show today was lots of fun, for example.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 12/10/25: 451.
Right now on Sunday 26/10/25: 460 vs target 464.
Target for end of Sunday 2/11/25: 459.
Been a busy couple of weeks, to the point where this has been a "catch up with all the tabs I've opened" weekend and little else. The number had got to a good 710, maybe 730, at its peak. OK again now, though.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 26/10/25: 460.
Right now on Sunday 2/11/25: 439 vs target 459.
Target for end of Sunday 9/11/25: 454.
I've set up a "Some Day" bookmark group with four subgroups and shuffled some of the tabs therein, for review Some Day. Is this cheating? I'm happy with this degree of "out of sight, out of mind", so that's the main thing.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 2/11/25: 439.
Right now on Sunday 9/11/25: 453 vs target 454.
Target for end of Sunday 16/11/25: 449.
Fairly late night as the number had got up to almost 600 before I saw to it... and briefly opened another 20 or so on the way as I dealt with the excess. Lots of videos to watch, too, but 453 < 454 so OK for now.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 9/11/25: 453.
Right now on Sunday 16/11/25: 447 vs target 449.
Target for end of Sunday 16/11/25: 444.
At least 642 at the start of Saturday, about 477 by the end of Saturday and it's been a struggle to get the last ~30 down. Lots of videos to watch, and all the short ones have been taken care of.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 16/11/25: 447.
Right now on Sunday 23/11/25: 436 vs target 444.
Target for end of Sunday 30/11/25: 439.
Recent peak was 622. Still many videos to be watched. I am hopeful of getting an earlier night and a better night's sleep tonight, hopefully to set me up for a less consistently tired week.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 23/11/25: 436.
Right now on Sunday 30/11/25: 419 vs target 439.
Target for end of Sunday 7/12/25: 434.
Much less difficult, though still well over 50 YouTube videos to watch. If I can get down to under 400 by year-end then it'll have been a 40% trim over the year, which would not be bad at all.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 30/11/25: 419.
Right now on Sunday 7/12/25: 434 vs target 434.
Target for end of Sunday 14/12/25: 429.
it's been a very good weekend, hence the extremely late night. It did get down to about 413 at one point... then it got back up to 526, but we're on target (exactly) and now I can go to bed.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 7/12/25: 434.
Right now on Sunday 14/12/25: 417 vs target 429.
Target for end of Sunday 21/12/25: 424.
The end is in sight, and the timing is more reasonable tonight, but I have a card or two to write and some washing-up to do, and a car to move.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 14/12/25: 417.
Right now on Sunday 21/12/25: 422 vs target 424.
Target for end of Sunday 28/12/25: 419.
Got back up to about 570 at one point, but back where it needed to be now. Hopefully I can be in the mood for a bigger push on Thursday to Sunday.
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Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
End of Monday 21/12/25: 422.
Right now on Sunday 28/12/25: 387 vs target 419.
Target for end of Wednesday 31/12/25: 400.
I guess this was my Christmas present to myself, closing a load of tabs, many of which were videos I had been saving to watch later, while remaining reasonably true to myself and following through on things I'd saved.
#closeallthetabs for the last time for now.
Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665.
Right now at the end of 2025: 373.
I admit there are 42 more tabs in directories to be looked at eventually; you might not count these as closed, but I count these as dealt with for now.
The experiment of public check-ins on the progress of a resolution has mostly had the desired effect, though there were definitely times when I felt I was serving it rather than it serving me. Let's see how I fare in '26 without it.
Chris D.