Hello again! It’s been a while, and for someone with a decent sense of how to read a calendar you may notice that my daily blog skipped 35 days. Now, this could mean one of two things: I was lazy and didn’t write any posts, or in fact this was part of my master plan, as I’ve been up consecutively all 35 days to set a world record, hence this is the next day’s blog post. I think you can tell which one it is.

            So let’s examine this failure! And hey, let’s begin a multi-day wrap up to my summer blog. This should leave me at 30 blog posts even, giving me 2 days off before school starts and I “begin” my weekly blog that has nothing to do with this one at all. Just kidding, this and that will be the same, but I won’t be sorting posts into my summer 2026 category, and this is a huge difference I swear.

Failure Point 1: Not Giving Myself a Standard for a Post

            This is both the blessing and curse of this blog: I let a post be anything. On one hand, this theoretically made it a lot easier for me to squeeze in a post every day, even if it’s just 50 words and a link to a cool video I found. I also was definitely a bit too relaxed on this at the same time; I let myself miss a day and just do a make-up post the next day. The second I did that, my fun daily blog turned into every 3 days I post two YouTube videos and write a post saying how I was very sleepy because I went on another college tour (that’s another failing point, this is foreshadowing. Be ready.)

            I really do think I should’ve been tighter on myself. Now this is a little unfair considering this was a blog I wanted to do just for myself as a little task to do over the summer, but I let the great procrastinator take over, which was obviously not a fun time. I know I planned to do a Rock Band 1, 4, and Riffmaster review, and got to none of them! I easily had the time on all three to have a good review, but by that point I had just lost interest. If  I was on myself a little more, I feel like I could’ve had a fun challenge in trying to make the mundane interesting, or paying attention to the little moments throughout this summer, and it would’ve been a fun blog to write due to that.

Failure Point 2: College Tours

            I hesitate to call this a failing point, because at the same time this was a great part of my summer. It was very nice to see different colleges and find what I like and dislike in them, because college is important! The tours themselves were worthwhile! But the tours are something of what Pet Sounds and Smile are to the Beach Boys: fantastic times that also doomed it in the long run. Whereas the Beach Boys released some of their best work, and had to reconcile studio experimentation and what was more popular, I had to reckon paying attention to my future and not being too tired for writing silly blog posts. I think you can see why I went with college tours, even if I know it doomed the blog, because this is where I started doing skip-a-day blog posts.

            So is it really a failing point for my summer? No! I actually wouldn’t say I have one of those! It’s just a failing point for my abandoned silly summer blog posts, which I wanted to be a bigger part of my summer at the start.

Failure Point 3: Not Finding My Own Niche

            You have to be yourself! Obviously there’s a lot to a person, but writing about everything led to this insane focus of my blog. If I tried to narrow it in more I could’ve probably had a great motivation to write. I say this because just like in how I could’ve forced myself to learn to make the mundane interesting, I could’ve tried finding some new knowledge to write on: whether that be a fun bit of technology or even just my ever-evolving thoughts on film as I watch more of them. Maybe even gains at the gym, as I started going there this summer. But regardless, trying to write about everything was fun, but led to me not really knowing what to do next. Instead of having something to write every day, I hesitated to find something to write about; this meant for every day I had something to write, I had three without.

So, do I regret trying to write summer blog posts? Hell no! It was fun when I did it, and it’s fun now in this semi-post-mortem, and I guarantee it’ll be fun for the next few days as I wrap up the summer. It was also nice to somewhat try and keep up my writing quality throughout the summer, despite how many days I wrote 50 words or less on how I didn’t want to write today actually.

            Even so, it’s almost something of a learning lesson. I now know what did and didn’t work for the summer, and I’ll probably keep writing as a hobby throughout the school year. It’s better than doomscrolling Twitter, and I know that for certain! Thank you for reading this one, and have a fantastic rest of your day.