{"id":4462,"date":"2014-12-31T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/paul\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:41:10","slug":"2014-review-year-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/2014-review-year-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 review: the year by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last post of the year! It\u2019s been a really excellent year all round and time for my traditional post counting down some of the numbers that have been my life this year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10068445\u00a0(roughly): the number of page views across my blog according to Google (up around 9% from 2013)<\/li>\n<li>105881: the number of miles I flew on United<\/li>\n<li>31968: my current tweet total (up 2308\u00a0from 2013)<\/li>\n<li>12267: the number of emails I sent (up 207\u00a0from 2013)<\/li>\n<li>11621: the number of subscribers to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/join-the-sqlskills-insider-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">Insider<\/a>\u00a0mailing list (up 1331 from 2013)<\/li>\n<li>9395: the number of people who follow my Twitter ramblings (up 1714\u00a0from 2013)<\/li>\n<li>1474: the number of books (real ones) that I own (up 144 from 2013)<\/li>\n<li>812: the number of books I own but haven&#8217;t read yet (up 105\u00a0from 2013)<\/li>\n<li>185: the number of nights away from home (all with Kimberly, so not *too* bad)<\/li>\n<li>122: the total number of hours of online training we have available on Pluralsight<\/li>\n<li>103: the number of feet down on my deepest dive this year (taking both girls down to 100 feet for the first time)<\/li>\n<li>93: the number of dives I did this year in Kona\u00a0and Indonesia, taking my total to\u00a0400<\/li>\n<li>81: the number of minutes of my longest dive this year<\/li>\n<li>80: the number of days in Immersion Events and conferences<\/li>\n<li>56: the number of SQLskills blog posts, including this one<\/li>\n<li>53: the number of books I read (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/2014-year-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>50.68: the percentage of time we were away from home (which is why we call it our vacation home!)<\/li>\n<li>45: the number of flights this year<\/li>\n<li>38: the number of Pluralsight courses we have available<\/li>\n<li>20: the number of different places we slept apart from our house and on planes<\/li>\n<li>20: the number of new bird species I saw, taking my total to 484<\/li>\n<li>20: the number of airports I flew through this year<\/li>\n<li>15: the number of monthly magazines I subscribe to<\/li>\n<li>7: the number of years I&#8217;ve been married to Kimberly<\/li>\n<li>6: the number of \u00a0SQLskills full-time employees, all of whom are fabulous and indispensable (soon to be 7, with Tim Radney joining in January)<\/li>\n<li>5: the number of countries we visited this year<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">2: the number of new airports I flew through, taking my total to 82<\/span><\/li>\n<li>2: the number of\u00a0times we visited Australia this year, for four weeks in total<\/li>\n<li>2: the number of awesome daughters we have,\u00a0who both qualified as Rescue Divers this year, one level below Master Diver<\/li>\n<li>2: the number of me and Kimberly who qualified as PADI Master Divers this year &#8211; the highest non-professional dive qualification<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the one and only best person in my life: Kimberly, without whom I would be lost\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thank you to everyone who reads our blogs, follows us on Twitter, sends us questions, watches our videos, comes to our classes, and generally makes being deeply involved in the SQL community a joy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I sincerely wish you all a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheers!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Giving a chin tickle to an old wallaroo in December at a wildlife sanctuary a few hundred kilometers from Sydney)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10850298_10205310703509099_8622221409002578133_n.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10850298_10205310703509099_8622221409002578133_n.jpg\" alt=\"10850298_10205310703509099_8622221409002578133_n\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10850298_10205310703509099_8622221409002578133_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10850298_10205310703509099_8622221409002578133_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10850298_10205310703509099_8622221409002578133_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10850298_10205310703509099_8622221409002578133_n-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(On top of the Sydney Harbor Bridge in March)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1956929_10152329459415452_551473595_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4464 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1956929_10152329459415452_551473595_o-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"1956929_10152329459415452_551473595_o\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1956929_10152329459415452_551473595_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1956929_10152329459415452_551473595_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1956929_10152329459415452_551473595_o-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1956929_10152329459415452_551473595_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last post of the year! 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