I mentioned in my (late) anniversary post that I was thinking of changing my update schedule. This post is to announce that I am following through with that and this will mark the end of daily updates, a schedule I maintained without exception for over a year. During that time I posted at least once a day. Every day I had a sidewalk stamp or other sidewalk feature except for a scant few times when snow made it impossible to find anything. It’s hard to give up a habit so solidified, but I have to admit it is time. As regular readers will have noticed, it has become difficult for me to find stamps from contractors that haven’t already been thoroughly covered in the blog on my daily walks. (It hasn’t helped that the recent heat waves forced me to walk after dark, which limits where I can walk and how many stamps are illuminated.) I would rather update less frequently than subject you to five Cantu & Sons stamps each week.

The other issue is that in-person work has begun for me again, increasing my weekly commute from zero to eight hours. I will have less time for blogging, and my daily walks – a habit that previously intertwined with my blogging habit – will often be in the city where I work instead of in Lansing.

Previously I also had a rule that a stamp I posted had to have been captured that day. I never broke this rule, even though it sometimes meant choosing the best of several good stamps I saw on a walk and throwing the rest of the photos away to force myself to go back for the others later. A few times this caused me to temporarily lose track of where I saw one, and I had frustrating moments walking back to where I thought one was only to be unable to find it. In the future I will try to stick to stamps photographed as recently as possible, but I won’t totally bar myself from banking photos anymore.

I am planning to try doing an update schedule of three times a week, and see how that goes. I haven’t decided which days yet and may need to experiment with that a little while before settling on it. Thanks to everyone (anyone?) who has actually been reading so far.