HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT
       
       2024-01-10
       
       I wrote about the best (birthday) gift I could receive last week -
       conveniently right before my actual birthday at the weekend! - but my
       employer's CBBQTTO Matt has an even more abstract wish: he wants people to
       blog more! (Matt's three years younger than me, almost exactly to the day.)
       
       Conveniently, that's a gift I'm able to provide, because my (now trackable)
       blogging output has been way up so far this year. I expected that to be the
       case because of my Bloggy Pen Pals project, but I've not even managed to get
       around to writing about my experience of exchanging emails with my first
       penpal partner Colin yet! Instead, I've been swept up with writing posts as
       part of Bloganuary 2024!
       
       Making a conscious daily effort to write more has been... challenging. I feel
       like my thoughts come out half-finished, like I'm writing too trivially,
       without sufficient structure, or even too-personally. But I'm loving the
       challenge!
       
       Anyway - happy birthday Matt! Forty is a great age, highly recommended. Hope
       you love it.
       
       LINKS
       
 (HTM) My blog post, "The Gift of Time"
 (HTM) My blog post about aging, posted on my birthday this weekend.
 (HTM) Automattic, my employer.
 (HTM) Matt Mullenweg
 (HTM) Matt Mullenweg's blog post, "Birthday Gift"
 (HTM) My blog post about how there are now live stats available about my blogging.
 (HTM) Live stats on my blogging frequency and output.
 (DIR) My blog post seeking pen pals for my Bloggy Pen Pals project
 (HTM) Colin Walker, my first penpal partner
 (HTM) Posts I've written for Bloganuary 2024
 (HTM) Bloganuary 2024