Daily Success May 18 scored a solid “Very Good.” It could have been better, but the Leg Strength exercises I really don’t like doing somehow got delayed until it was too late. Shame on me. That said, they can still be claimed today … stay tuned …

But my distance was good and slightly over half of it was with the backpack.

The shoulder is still tender, but it appears to be one very specific motion. I’ve reached out to Monika with the details and hope she has a suggested path forward.

I uploaded a new video to YouTube yesterday as part of the August 4 2021 My Camino Day post. That included visiting the summary of my videos and I was stunned to see that my earlier upload for the start of that day had amassed over 1,300 views. Only one of my earlier videos reached double digits. Three of my earlier videos were shorter, so that’s not it. Four were longer, but still less than a minute long. Those seven videos managed a total of 36 views, so it’s not likely to just be the length.

The answer, finally, is that this was the rare video I’ve made with the phone vertical. That qualifies it for YouTube’s “Shorts” thingie, so it must have been featured there.

Learning.

Another new thing is that being certified or whatever on YouTube allows me to include links back to my Camino website in the YouTube video descriptions. I will have to do that with all of them.

But overall progress is less than I want. Part of the problem is reliving my time on the Camino. That is both necessary as I work to select pictures and videos and write about them AND a distraction as I have a tendency to spend too much time enjoying the memories and not enough writing about them. ¡Discipline! ¡Is! ¡Needed!

Today is Nabila and Sam’s Zoom. Meanwhile, important chores, including the bookkeeping, are lagging. This is just not good.