Numbers: May 23,2022

It has been three weeks since my last Magic Monday report, has I enter the last leg of this year’s journey, there´s only 15 days left, there´s a strong tendency from my part to get over focus on the reading tasks left, and not enough on writing how things are progressing. But in its imperative for me to share how things are shaping up for the season finally.

My challenge of 52 books in 52 weeks it’s in the bag , starting week number 50 , my total is 54 books, this pass few weeks where dedicated to dwell on a galaxy, far, far away, from which, I read three books from the non-canon Legends section of the Universe, this part of the Star Wars Universe is one that I intended go get thru in it’s entirety, but more on that later.

The fore mentioned book where: Legacy of the Force: Betrayal, Rebel Force: Target, and The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi, which I just started this morning.

Now let’s talk about MY NUMBERS, the current total is 62,686 of the 64,952 pages of this year’s goal, a pretty decent progress of 4,584 registered pages since the last update.The next 15 days of reading are solely focus on the 2,266 pages to reach the ultimate goal.

Judging from my end of the year projection of total pages ,currently 65,365 pages, the finally tally of pages will be more that satisfactory, there can be potentially some surplus pages to help out the upcoming years. My reading schedule, is as always playing with my emotions, now it stands, I believe for the first time since the very beginning of the year, 1 day ahead of schedule, and it couldn’t come in better timing for the final push.

The mantra, one step at a time, one page at a time, is paying off some dividends.

I start the reading week with a deficit of 928 pages, and a total 2,174 pages to get back to balance. I achieved this week quota plus 26 pages. The total for the month of May is 4074 pages, which represent around 74% of the projected total, leaving only 1,444 pages for the month, inching ever closer to a step those reading badges.

For the first 500,000 pages, I have only 86,737 pages left, and the new date of reaching that goal is May 13, 2025, that’s 43 days earlier than the last projection, my sights are still pointed at March 20, 2023 as the desired date to reach the first half of the challenge, 302 intense days of reading.The gap narrowed from 787 to 744 days behind schedule.

The second part of the journey, or the other 500,000 pages, my weekly pages needed are now 1,550 with a daily average of 221 pages, 5 pages less than the last projection.

Now for the golden prize of 1,000,000 pages, to my delight, the projections puts it 7,062 days away, a 105 day gain from the last projection, making the end date is September 22, 2041 that’s 3,762 days after the original plan, 84 days less that the last projection. I have to keep reminding myself that my goal is to reach my goal by my 50th birthday, right now, I would be 60 years 3 months, and 17 days old.

To summary the numbers from my Journey Back.

• Pages to reach 500,000: 86,737 pages
• Days to reach 1,000,000: 7,062 days
• Days behind schedule: 3,762 days

Now back to work on the final goal of the year.

Off to read.

azr.