Untappd, RateBeer, Foursquare, TripIt, a photo library, a blog, a fuel log and a watch · 2003 to 2026

Life Log, Public Cut

Twenty-three years of self-tracking, read end to end: 11,841 beer check-ins, 17,666 place check-ins, 93,900 geotagged photographs, 298 trips, 332,000 vehicle miles, 1.6 million blog words, and 1,430 nights of measured sleep. This is the version without the medical chart; places are named at the city level and nothing finer.

5,899

unique beers from 984 breweries in 37 countries

5,897

distinct places checked into since 2010

countries in the photo library, 45 US states

1,430

nights of sleep measured on the wrist since Sep 2022

The strip

Fifteen years on one axis

Every row shares the same 2012 to 2026 timeline. Amber rows are from the beer apps, blue rows from everything else. Hover any point for the value.

Beers per weekstandard drinks, yearly mean

Drinking days% of days with a check-in

Unique beersper year

Place check-insFoursquare, per year

TripsTripIt, per year

Photosper year

Blog postsper year

Steps per dayyearly mean

Sleep durationhours asleep, yearly mean

Sleep starts in 2022, when a watch began being worn to bed consistently.

The beer ledger

11,841 check-ins, 12,376 standard drinks

A standard drink is 0.6 fl oz of pure alcohol (14 g), the NIAAA unit. Each check-in is converted from its ABV and an assumed pour: 14 oz on an ordinary day, 1.5 oz on a day with more than four unique beers, which by your own rule means a brewery flight or a bottle share. Beers with no ABV on file take the median of their style. These are floors: untracked drinks of any kind are invisible here.

Drinks per week, by month, with the 12-month rolling mean in the darker line.

2012 ran at 22.1 a week with a check-in on 83% of days. The floor came in 2023 at 8.77 a week and 36% of days. 2026 to date is 15.1 a week on 63% of days. The early years assume 14 oz pours; if those were mostly 12 oz bottles, scale 2012 to 2016 down by about 14%.

Year	Check-ins	Unique beers	Breweries	Drinking days	Drinks / week	Per drinking day	Median ABV	Share at 10%+	Tasting days	Your mean rating
2012	1,091	729	225	83%	22.1	3.8	7.5%	19%	73	4.19
2013	1,157	833	248	71%	17.8	3.6	7.7%	25%	71	4.05
2014	1,692	1,100	276	81%	19.6	3.5	7.2%	25%	116	4.06
2015	1,295	941	289	66%	16.0	3.5	7.0%	25%	74	4.44
2016	826	542	194	57%	15.0	3.8	7.0%	27%	44	4.74
2017	965	604	222	64%	16.6	3.7	7.4%	25%	48	4.63
2018	813	484	157	68%	19.6	4.1	8.0%	37%	28	4.66
2019	599	397	117	54%	14.1	3.7	7.5%	34%	25	4.57
2020	549	334	76	58%	16.4	4.0	8.0%	40%	22	4.59
2021	414	263	62	49%	14.0	4.1	8.0%	41%	12	4.59
2022	367	269	88	44%	11.6	3.8	8.0%	39%	12	4.44
2023	309	245	68	36%	8.8	3.4	7.6%	35%	9	4.43
2024	546	403	124	58%	15.3	3.7	7.0%	29%	18	4.70
2025	632	409	70	67%	17.3	3.7	8.0%	22%	21	4.67
2026	536	402	84	63%	15.1	3.4	7.9%	25%	19	4.73

What you drink has shifted twice. Share of check-ins by style family.

StoutIPAFarmhouseLambicEverything else

Stouts climbed from 12% of check-ins in 2012 to 35% in 2020, then fell to 17% in 2025 as IPAs doubled to 41%. Tree House alone is 108 check-ins in 2025 and 115 so far in 2026, after 18 in the 13 years before.

Strength. Median and 90th percentile ABV of what you checked in.

The top decile has sat at 14% or above since 2018: barrel-aged stouts and barleywines. The share of check-ins at 10% ABV or higher peaked at 41% in 2021 and is 25% this year.

Time of day. Share of check-ins by hour, 2012 to 2014 versus 2024 to 2026.

The whole curve has moved earlier. In 2012 to 2014, 34% of check-ins came at 9 PM or later; in 2024 to 2026 it is 14%, and the peak hour is 6 PM instead of 8 PM. Only 0.3% now land after midnight versus 6% then.

Day of week. Mean standard drinks per day, 2022 to 2026.

Friday through Sunday carry 53% of all alcohol over the whole record. Weeknights have stayed flat at about 1.4 drinks per day since 2022.

Breweries, all time. Check-ins per brewery.

Hill Farmstead is 2,603 check-ins, 22% of everything, and more than the next three combined.

Where. Check-ins by city, all time.

Check-ins were tagged in 66 states or provinces and 17 countries; beers came from 37 brewing countries. After the US, Belgium is second, almost all lambic and farmhouse.

Streaks

Longest dry runs

2022-03-21: 25 days
2021-07-19: 24 days
2022-09-01: 24 days
2020-11-23: 22 days
2019-01-16: 21 days
2021-08-16: 20 days

Longest consecutive drinking run: 27 days starting 2013-03-26. Your longest dry streak since 2023 is under three weeks; 2022 and 2023 each had five dry streaks of a week or more, 2024 had two, 2025 and 2026 none.

Heaviest days

Full-pour days, by computed drinks

2013-05-31: 10 beers, 23.9 drinks
2019-06-30: 4 beers, 16.4 drinks
2012-02-15: 6 beers, 15.5 drinks
2018-07-04: 4 beers, 14.3 drinks
2022-12-17: 4 beers, 13.3 drinks
2016-01-23: 5 beers, 13.2 drinks

2013-05-31: ten full pours in one day computes to 23.9 standard drinks. These assume 14 oz each and are the least certain numbers on this page.

Tastings

Biggest flights and shares

2014-11-16: 45 unique beers, mean 6.7% ABV
2015-11-28: 44 unique beers, mean 8.7% ABV
2018-08-18: 44 unique beers, mean 8.2% ABV
2016-02-20: 41 unique beers, mean 8.7% ABV
2015-07-20: 40 unique beers, mean 7.8% ABV
2015-08-22: 40 unique beers, mean 9.9% ABV

592 tasting days in total. At 1.5 oz pours, a 44-beer day at 8.7% ABV is about 9.6 standard drinks.

Taste

You rate generously

4.29

Mean rating across 6,611 rated check-ins; the median is 4.5 and 3,071 beers got a 5. Your scores track the Untappd crowd at r = 0.6, running 0.16 above it on average. Yearly means rose from 4.19 in 2012 to about 4.7 since 2024, which reads as selection: you drink fewer, better-chosen beers now.

9,050 photos attached, 34,497 toasts received.

The places ledger

17,666 check-ins, 5,897 places, 298 trips

Foursquare from 2010-03 to 2026-10, TripIt from 2009. Read the top venues by year and the career writes itself: a startup and the MUNI in 2010, TomTom's office for a decade, Credit Karma in 2022 to 2024, King Arthur since 2025, and in between, the lake, the Co-op, and Hill Farmstead. 1,364 days on 298 trips, 453 airport check-ins at 80 airports.

Check-ins per year.

2,095 in the first nine months of 2010; 296 in 2020; back to 1,266 in 2024.

Trips per year, TripIt.

59 trips in 2012 at the peak of the travel years; four in 2017 and in 2020.

Year	Check-ins	Places	Most frequent
2010	2,095	632	Starbucks, Forest Hill MUNI Metro Station, San Francisco Caltrain Station, Brightkite, TomTom
2011	782	319	home, TomTom, Starbucks, River Valley Club, Tele Atlas HQ
2012	865	423	Starbucks, TomTom, D'Angelo, home, Hill Farmstead Brewery
2013	495	253	TomTom, Starbucks, Hill Farmstead Brewery, home, Lebanon Co-op
2014	798	409	home, TomTom, Hill Farmstead Brewery, Apple - City Center 2, Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)
2015	810	305	TomTom, Lebanon Co-op, Hannaford, home, Subway
2016	1,884	772	TomTom, Lebanon Co-op, Shell, home, Subway
2017	2,325	809	home, TomTom, Lebanon Co-op, Shell, Enfield Shaker Dog Park
2018	1,494	569	home, TomTom, Lebanon Co-op, Lebanon, NH, KFC
2019	864	464	TomTom, home, Shell, Lebanon Co-op, Lucky’s Coffee Garage
2020	296	233	TomTom, KFC, Shell, Lucky’s Coffee Garage, Taco Bell
2021	550	384	home, Shell, Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), Delta Sky Club, KFC
2022	663	448	home, Credit Karma, KFC, Delta Sky Club, Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)
2023	790	436	Credit Karma, Regal Stonecrest at Piper Glen 4DX, IMAX & RPX, home, Crunch Fitness, McAlpine Creek Park
2024	1,266	808	Credit Karma, Point Blank Range, home, Crunch Fitness, American Legion Memorial Stadium
2025	973	471	home, King Arthur Flour Co., King Arthur Flour: Bakery, Café, School, & Store, Jake’s Car Wash, Starbucks
2026	716	413	home, BJ's Gas Station, King Arthur Flour Co., Jake’s Car Wash, Starbucks

Airports. Check-ins by airport, all time.

Check-in hour, 2010 vs 2026. Share of Foursquare check-ins by hour of day.

In 2010 you were checking in at 2 AM. In 2026 the day starts at noon and the evening ends by 11.

The camera roll

5,206 days with a photograph

93,900 photos since 2003, the oldest daily signal in the record. The peak is not the smartphone era; it is 2009 and 2010 at 7,000 to 8,800 a year, the San Francisco years with a camera in hand. It falls to 892 in 2015, then climbs steadily to 11,545 in 2024. The busiest single day was 2022-12-06 with 1,038 photos.

Photos per month, 2004 to 2026.

Where the photos were taken, by city, all time.

Year	Photos	Outside the US
2008	3,311	China
2009	7,155
2010	8,795	Netherlands
2011	2,240	India, Netherlands
2012	1,721	Belgium, Netherlands
2013	1,121	Belgium, Canada, Denmark
2014	1,208	Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Poland
2015	892	Belgium, Canada, France, Sweden, Türkiye
2016	2,044	Bermuda, Canada
2017	2,209	Belgium, Canada
2018	2,486	Canada
2019	2,877	Belgium, Canada, Germany, Netherlands
2020	4,293
2021	5,287	Canada
2022	9,248	Canada, The Bahamas
2023	5,270	Canada
2024	11,545	Belgium, Canada, El Salvador, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
2025	9,076	Canada
2026	7,058	Canada, Saint Kitts and Nevis

The star chart

Everywhere the camera and the phone said you were

No map tiles, just points. 20 countries, 45 US states, 1,251 named places. Two clusters hold most of it: the Bay Area years and the Upper Valley, with a third in Charlotte. The faint line of dots across the Atlantic is Belgium and the Netherlands, and the lone dot on the right is the top of the Burj Khalifa.

World.

United States.

Each dot is a city, sized by the number of photos taken there (cities with 20 or more). No addresses, no coordinates finer than a city.

The voice

1.6 million blog words, 368,206 words of beer reviews

3,394 blog posts since 2009 and 5,759 RateBeer reviews from 2012 to 2020, each with five sub-scores. In 2012 the median review ran 575 characters; by 2013 it had settled at about 220 and stayed there for seven years. The words changed more than the length: the early reviews lean on "nice," "sweet," "great," "chocolate," "oak" and "vanilla"; the late ones on "sweet," "vanilla," "tasty," "juicy" and "thin." Your average score was 6.88 on overall against the site's 7.09, and you tracked the crowd at r = 0.63.

Output by year. Blog posts and beer reviews.

The blog peaked at 502 posts in 2015 and 486 in 2011; reviews peaked at 1,126 in 2014. Both fall off after 2017. The blog keeps going at 24 to 57 a year.

What the blog was about. Posts per year mentioning each subject.

beerApplemotorcycle

Beer posts peaked at 272 in 2012. Apple posts at 208 in 2011. Motorcycle posts never dominate but never stop: 10 to 37 a year for seventeen years.

The adjectives. Most-used flavor and judgment words in reviews, 2012 to 2013 versus 2018 to 2020.

Early: nice (995), sweet (891), great (436), chocolate (388), oak (367), vanilla (365), coffee (332), tart (322)

Late: sweet (195), vanilla (161), good (111), tasty (105), chocolate (97), juicy (93), coffee (87), tart (76)

"Nice" went from the most common word to eleventh. "Juicy" did not exist in your vocabulary in 2013.

You loved, the crowd didn't. Your score vs site score.

Beer	You	Site
Bock	8.9	5.35
Bud Light Lime Raz-Ber-Rita (6%)	8.9	5.48
Ritas (Bud Light Lime) Mang-o-Rita	8.3	4.94
Ritas (Bud Light Lime) Straw-Ber-R	7.0	3.79
Ritas (Bud Light Lime) Lemon-ade-R	7.1	4.31
Michelob Ultra	5.8	3.04

On the Bud Light Lime Raz-Ber-Rita: "HOLYC RAP ULTRA RARE 6% RAZY. ONLY IN SHORT CANS?!?!?! I’M LOSING MY MIND. MOM, THE MEATLOAF. NAO! Dark purple, no head. jolly rancher, sweet tart, fruit by the foot, and ring pops.pop rocks with raspberry, ring pop and certainly a candy taste, man, this woul"

The crowd loved, you didn't.

Beer	You	Site
Porter	2.4	6.74
Imperial Hyper Dog	2.5	6.69
X-mas Porter 2008 Fra Til (From To	3.4	7.53
Coffee Break Abduction	3.4	7.51
Orange Truffle Abduction	3.0	7.07
Parabola	4.4	8.36

On the Harpoon Porter: "Had this at Harpoon Brewery in Vermont on tap. A - blacker than oil. This is a very deep and dark beer! One head produced with a dark tan appearance. Left quickly. S - I’m getting nothing. No smell at all. it’s a Porter but there’s no scent. T - No taste. Maybe malt and some vanilla but yeah. "

Your highest scores ever.

Beer	You	Site
Art	10.0	7.93
Old Stock Cellar Reserve: Bourbon	9.9	8.05
Damon - Port	9.8	8.08
Le Sarrasin	9.8	8.38
Damon	9.6	8.42
Arthur	9.6	7.87

The only 10 you ever gave was Hill Farmstead's Art. Four of your top six are Hill Farmstead.

The clock

A day in 2013 beside a day in 2026

Each dial is 24 hours, midnight at the top. The grey shape is where Foursquare check-ins fall by hour, the amber shape is where beers fall. The blue arc on the 2026 dial is the median night's sleep, 11:47 PM to 7:01 AM. In 2013 there was no watch, and the dial shows why it would have mattered: beer check-ins ran past midnight, with 2.9% of them between midnight and 1 AM. In 2026 the amber shape ends at 11 PM and the day starts at noon.

places (dashed)beers (filled)asleep (2026)

2013. Age 27, TomTom, Lebanon NH.

2026. Age 40, King Arthur, the Upper Valley, a toddler.

The sleep ledger

1,430 measured nights

Median night: asleep 7.0 hours, in bed at 11:58 PM, up at 7:22 AM. 16% of nights are under six hours and 15% are over eight. Bedtime varies by 87 minutes night to night. Saturday is the earliest bedtime (11:19 PM) and the longest sleep (7.4 h); Thursday is the latest and shortest.

Bedtime by weekday, 2022 to 2026.

How long you sleep. Distribution of hours asleep.

Oct 21, 2023

Before and after

A child was born on Oct 21, 2023. The watch had 253 nights on record in the year before and 259 in the year after. The honest finding is that total sleep did not change: 7.00 hours before, 6.94 after. What changed was the shape of the night. Time awake inside the night went from 17.8 to 26.8 minutes on average and the first 90 days averaged 44.0 minutes awake a night, two and a half times the old normal, on 6.8 hours of sleep. Bedtime became less regular (standard deviation 68 to 98 minutes).

Hours asleep by month.

Minutes awake inside the night, by month.

The first-90-days block is the newborn signature: 44.0 minutes awake a night versus 17.7 afterwards.

Night	Year before	Year after	Adjusted	p
hours asleep	7.00 h	6.94 h	−0.10 h	0.265
bedtime	12:17 AM	12:07 AM	−0.10	0.404
wake time	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	−0.05	0.683
awake min	17.8 min	26.8 min	+9.0 min	0.004
efficiency	0.96	0.94	−0.02	0.003
bedtime SD (min)	68	98
% nights under 6 h	17%	14%
% nights with 30+ min awake	12%	26%

Life	Two years before	Two years after
Drinks per week	10.7	15.6
Days with a beer (%)	42	60
Beers after 9 PM (%)	17	12
Steps per day	5,150	6,417
Exercise min per day	16	20
Check-ins per month	61	94
Distinct places visited	876	1220
Brewery and bar check-ins	63	98
Trips	22	27
Days away	100	103
Photos per day	19.5	27.5
Blog posts	78	65

Adjusted column controls for weekday, drinks that evening, and travel. Life table compares the 730 days before the birth with the 730 after. The after period includes the 2024 to 2025 move of work to King Arthur and the 2024 ten-country year, so it is a different life in several ways at once.

The barcode

1,273 nights, one stripe each

Every night the watch recorded, Sep 2022 to Oct 2026, left to right. Stripe height is hours asleep. Grey stripes are dry evenings; amber stripes had beer, darker amber for more. The dashed line is the night our child was born.

Hover a stripe for the night. The quiet grey runs are the dry weeks; the tall amber blocks are weekends.

The motorcycle years

89,151 miles on nine motorcycles

Fuelly has every fill-up since 2011: 1,164 of them across 16 vehicles, 243,298 car miles and 89,151 motorcycle miles, estimated from gallons and each machine's median mileage. The first bike fill is Apr 2016 and from then to 2024 the bikes ran 8,000 to 14,500 miles a year, peaking in 2024. Then 2,580 in 2025 and 1,068 so far in 2026, a fifth of the 2024 pace, which is what a two-year-old does to a riding season. The ring has detected 17 rides since Sep 2025, 17.6 hours in all.

Miles per year, cars and motorcycles.

Odometer entries in Fuelly are trip meters and often blank, so miles are gallons times median MPG per vehicle. Cars: "S" for Slow, Bertha, GUMBY, Pearl, RAWR20, Shadow, Trish.

Motorcycle	Years	Miles	Fill-ups	MPG
Roxanne	2016 to 2017	15,355	60	39.3
Black Betty	2017 to 2018	13,051	63	38.8
Alpha	2018 to 2020	1,610	17	45.6
Rosie	2018 to 2024	32,145	138	40.5
Felicity	2018 to 2021	1,944	13	40.8
Big Cheez	2021 to 2026	5,678	26	53.6
OREO	2022 to 2024	6,070	35	43.3
Ol' Blue	2024 to 2026	13,298	64	40.6
Thumper	2025 to 2025	0	1

By the numbers

The totals

years of daily record, from the first geotagged photo in 2003

17,666

Foursquare check-ins

93,900

photographs with a location

1.6M

words on the blog

368,206

words of beer reviews

298

trips, 1,364 nights away

332,449

vehicle miles fuelled, 2011 to 2026

688 gal

of beer, give or take the pour size

58.0 gal

of pure ethanol in that beer

22.5M

steps counted since 2014

9,996 h

of measured sleep

2,603

Hill Farmstead check-ins, 22% of all of them

Farthest check-in from home: the top of the Burj Khalifa, 10,677 km away, Nov 2024. Hill Farmstead's Juicy: rated 0.25 or 0.5 by you on 8 separate occasions. The crowd gives it 4.40.

Methods and limits

How this was built

Sources: Untappd check-in export (11,841), RateBeer reviews via Brewver (5,759), Foursquare (17,666 check-ins, 2010 to 2026), TripIt (298 trips), Apple Photos EXIF (93,900 geotagged photos, 2003 to 2026), WordPress export (3,394 posts), Fuelly (1,164 fill-ups), and Apple Watch sleep and step data (1,430 nights since Sep 2022).
A standard drink is 0.6 fl oz of alcohol. Each check-in is converted from ABV and an assumed pour: 14 oz on an ordinary day, 1.5 oz on a day with more than four unique beers (a flight or a tasting). These are floors; anything not logged is invisible.
Locations are shown at city level. The home town is in the data as a city, never as a point, and the home venue is labelled "home" where it appears in lists.
A private edition of this page carries the medical chart, the physiology and the risk modelling. None of it is here.

Built Oct 27, 2026 from data through Oct 26, 2026.