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The AJ Chronicles: 23 February 2024

Recent moments, plus my latest Medium stories

Too expensive for me! 😆 I took this photo during a shopping trip with my son and modified the price tag to make the price clearer

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Recent moments

Medium stories

Recent moments

1. Time away from writing ⌛️
2. Photo renaming 🎞
3. Cleaning Stephanie’s gutters 🪣
4. Simplifying things by refunding my Substack subscribers and closing my Patreon page 🔄
5. Stephanie’s toaster tripped off the power 🔌
6. High blood pressure and anxiety 😟
7. My son’s car problems 🔧
8. This week’s TV 📺
9. Confusion at the post office ✉️
10. A quick shopping trip 🛍

1. Time away from writing ⌛️

My Medium earnings have been poor since I was followed by almost 2000 bot accounts in January. It’s disheartening to go from the high of a story with 26k reads in December to ones with under 100, and some failing to reach 10.

Doing a daily writing challenge for the first half of February was a fun change, but it did nothing to help my stats. Therefore, I decided to focus some…