I was looking at the 2008 Feltron Annual Report (you know that graphic designer who produces those cool reports summarizing his personal life each year) and started thinking about my own personal data for 2008. I don’t have time to make nifty infographics but here are my most notable quantitative and qualitative data for the year. These skew very much in the fitness area because I’ve been so focused on that (and I have tons of that data stored in WalkerTracker).

  • net pounds lost - 18.8 (I say net because I kept yo-yoing last year)
  • weight milestones reached - -40, -50
  • miles hiked (estimated) - 96
  • miles run (estimated) - 130.5 (I didn’t count my training run/walks)
  • number of days I did not workout (I’m counting walks, hikes, swims, and resistance training as workouts) - 58 (this felt really bad until I figured out that that means that I worked out an average of 5.9 times/week)
  • average steps taken - 10,500
  • total steps taken - 3,843,149
  • places visited - Seattle, Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Austin, Las Vegas, Yosemite
  • trips to Seattle - 4
  • trips to St. Louis - 2
  • nights spent at the W Seattle - 9 (clearly not enough)
  • most awesome place visited - Yosemite
  • most fun place visited - Las Vegas
  • number of times votes - twice (Hillary then Barrack)
  • number of concerts attended - 4 (Bridge School, Death Cab for Cutie, The Police, John Mayer)
  • swimming instructors acquired - 3
  • level of swimming competency - I won’t drown but I can’t say that I know how to swim either
  • bicycle riding instructors acquired - 1
  • level of bicycle riding competency - I can ride a bike but I still have a fear of riding near cars
  • cool new toys acquired - iPhone, Macbook
  • months without cable/pay TV - about 7 - 8
  • best film watched at the movies - Milk
  • best film watched through Netflix (three-way tie) - Confessions of a Superhero, Caramel, La Vie en Rose
  • most boring/painful thing I decided to do that I vow to never ever do again - taking a stats class (at night after work)
  • notable teeth invisaligned - 2 front teeth (plus other ones I didn’t notice)
  • number of photos taken and posted to flickr - 2118 (this might include old photo scans)
  • most listened to artist (according to last.fm) - Death Cab for Cutie (followed by Dido and Sarah McLachlan)
  • most listened to album (according to last.fm) - Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
  • most listened to track (according to last.fm) - Death Cab for Cutie – Bixby Canyon Bridge
  • amazingly awesome healthy meals prepared - spinach lasagna, mushroom lasagna, chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, cranberry chicken with baked parsnips, sweet potatoes, and apples
  • best meal eaten - mom’s grape leaves (I don’t think anything can ever top this one)
  • ounces of Diet Pepsi consumed - way too many
  • ounces of water consumed - way too little
  • new cats acquired - one (Scully)
  • cats deceased - one (OJ)