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By the numbers

You found it. Everything here is counted up from scratch every single time this site is built, so it is always exactly as true as the timeline itself. 114,152 words across 149 entries, and counting.

149 entries
114,152 words written
602,484 characters
9.5 hours to read
39 years covered
35 times I say "Todd"

Entries by the year they happened

Where each story sits on the timeline, all the way back to 1988. The tallest is 2020 with 12. Of 39 years, 37 have at least one entry.

The words I actually say

Top 25 across everything, with the usual filler (the, and, was, I, it…) thrown out. My own name does not count, but for the record I have written Todd 35 times.

  1. people 233
  2. game 232
  3. school 191
  4. grade 166
  5. through 165
  6. started 150
  7. life 142
  8. show 140
  9. love 130
  10. genuinely 129
  11. room 128
  12. house 124
  13. once 121
  14. world 121
  15. class 117
  16. person 116
  17. name 115
  18. later 110
  19. exactly 109
  20. remember 109
  21. teacher 107
  22. home 104
  23. friend 103
  24. last 102
  25. work 100
words that are very me
game 232school 191love 130friend 103computer 81sims 81music 48mom 48pinball 43japan 42dad 36internet 33bakery 28warcraft 27software 24dragonsiblings 24diana 20website 17code 16apple 12eiffel 8microsoft 2

When I actually wrote them

The stories reach back to 1988, but the writing all happened recently. Across 18 writing days, my busiest was Jun 10, 2026: 34 entries, 20,765 words in one day.

writing dayentrieswords
Jun 10, 20263420,765
Jun 9, 20263320,244
Jun 25, 20262112,609
Jun 16, 20261312,659
Jun 12, 2026119,013
Jun 18, 20261015,760
Jun 17, 2026914,079
Jun 11, 202643,711

Things I write about

34 distinct tags across the whole site.

  1. life 52
  2. nostalgia 34
  3. games 26
  4. school 25
  5. computers 24
  6. friends 20
  7. pinball 20
  8. anime 16
  9. work 14
  10. travel 12
  11. apps 10
  12. music 10
  13. japan 9
  14. tv 7
  15. projects 6
  16. web 5

Records and oddities

Longest entryJapan, Trip Two, Mountains, the Inland Sea & a White Mountain in the Distance3,591 words
Shortest entryA new fruit51 words
Most tags on one entryBuying my first home4 tags
Longest titleDestin & Miramar Beach, Fourth of July, the Best Salsa, and the Jellyfish I'll Never Forget91 chars
Average entry length·766 words
Median entry length·474 words
Backdated memorieswritten later than they happened139
Present-day entrieswritten about now10
Total characters (no spaces)·488,481
Images across the site·198
Internal linksposts pointing at other posts289
Exclamation pointsI get excited14
Question marksI wonder a lot67