Running: In a typical year my mileage increases slowly from January to May then explodes in June, July, and August. This year I moved from Michigan to Connecticut at the end of June while finishing up a couple grad classes. My lack of mileage reflects that busy period. I’ve mentally committed to training for a marathon in 2009, so it’ll be interesting to compare 2008 stats to 2009. There’ll be a Annual Report III competition, right?

Photographs: I think this slide reflects the move from MI to CT pretty clearly as well. Lots of picture points around CT illustrate some exploration of the new area. It also highlights vacations: A week in Isle Royale National Park, a long weekend in NH and ME, as well as several day trips/weekend visits to NYC. I can also pick out where my family lives pretty clearly, though I know where to look.

Movies: Not sure if there are any real strong trends here. I guess I can see the time we had free HBO & Showtime for two weeks after hooking up our cable in CT reflected the Movie TV slice. I’ve been trying to watch more “classic” films, so the earlier decades are larger than they may have been in other years. I’m somewhat shocked by the poor representation from the ’90s and the total lack of anything from the ’70s.

Gasoline: I really like the graph of gasoline prices over the year, and in retrospect I wish I had added another graph showing mileage driven on a week to week basis. I think that would’ve highlighted the driving trips between CT & MI and the vacations where we didn’t drive much at all.

@Sarah: I’m not sure why I started keeping track of all my running mileage. I don’t really use it for anything. I guess it just satisfies that urge to know how many States I’ve run across by the end of the year. The driving mileage I keep track of for maintenance purposes, though I think I find it more fascinating as a way to track the price I’ve paid for gas over time.