I didn’t realize it at the time, but a few days ago I officially passed the 4,000 hour mark of The Dan Plan. I suppose hitting a number like that can either be seen as a milestone or just a step along the way. 5,000 will most definitely have large implications, but crossing 4k was just another day working in the right direction. Nothing overly special about it.

Even so, large round numbers provide a good opportunity to reflect on where we’ve come and what lies ahead. This number just happened to almost exactly land on the 3-year anniversary of the project, too. It was three years ago that I left a cozy little work place and started standing in the rain for hours at a time attempting to roll a small ball into a 4.25 inch hole.

I like to periodically check in on The Dan Plan as I love what he is doing. I'm glad to see that he is still going hard after three years, overcoming slumps, making some money to continue his project.

I sometimes wonder if I should start tracking the hours I put into things. I know from game stats that I've put 200 hours into skyrim and probably that many into each of the previous elder scrolls titles and I've put at least 1000 hours into MUDs over the years. I find that incredibly sad in retrospect.