Coming to an end

I would not have guessed how the end of MyVinylCountdown would affect me. Is something supposed to happen?

I find myself slowing down, on MVC and in real life. The technical side of this thing is getting harder. When I was subsumed with hallucinations in 2020 I lost some of my know-how. Passwords, photos, videos, etc.

I used to take a photo of every album on the list and display it on my blog post, but for some reason I can’t upload photos onto the web page any more. But that’s OK; I just use links to video’s to give some extra element to each blog post.

As I inch toward the finish line –my 678 records reviewed — it gets more complicated. It’s like planning for retirement: It’s OK if you go past the target date if finances work out. But you don’t want to come up short.

With about 25 left to do, I’m trying to make sure I have enough of the good stuff.

I don’t want to be left at the end with a dozen albums that I really should have put on the list. The reverse is also true, I don’t want to come up 5 short and then fill the holes with those I had rejected for not meeting the criteria. The criteria being, that albums must have been obtained before the countdown started. (I have made some editorial decisions to allow some of these ‘unqualified’ albums on the list, however.) In a few cases I have made errors of omission by forgetting that the blog post contained two or more albums and incorrectly omitting the countdown number. See Led Zeppelin review. For now I’m just going to leave as is because there’s too much of a ripple effect by adding that second number. Heck, maybe I should end it with Mr. Zeppelin (insert smiley face Emoji here).