Some months it's slow and steady wins the race, and other months, nothing much is in your control. You keep putting your thoughts, ideas and creations out there, and for the most part, nada. Maybe a couple of dollars here, but mostly cents arrive in the form of rewards.
June was pretty much like the latter. Drip, drip, drip, and then at literally the last possible moment, WHAM!
What was the wham? I'll get to that. In the meantime, welcome to my monthly personal statistical report. I hope you find something of interest here as I go through the results.
Quick Summary
Well, after receiving two curie upvotes in May, the curation trail did stop by again in June, but it was more like a mini upvote, since most of their members passed on the same post, and curie's own upvote was smaller than usual. Regardless, I'm grateful for any and all of the upvotes my posts bring in, be it the curation trails, the autovote brigade, independent larger accounts, and every smaller account. Thank you all.
But because of the drip, drip method working throughout nearly all of June, that meant heading into the last day or two, I would be fortunate to reach 90 SP for June, meaning I would fall short of triple digit earned SP for a second month. Last year, 90 SP would have been among the higher earnings for the first six months. In 2019, not so much.
As I teased above, something else happened late in the month to not only get me to 100 SP, but well beyond it. More on that when I get to SP. Let's dive into the numbers.
Posts (no comments)—24
Up two from May, I feel like I accomplished something with this category. As I've mentioned, the full-time job took over the latter part of the month, and so trying to figure out when to write has been interesting. Like this post. I started it in the morning, went to work, and now it will be published late because I wasn't able to finish it earlier.
I did manage to write nearly every week day in June, and make up for it toward the weekend if I missed one.
Comments—403
Considering I began working the letter part of the month, and almost doubled the comment output from May, I'll take this number. It's not what I've done in the past, but I'll be lucky if it's the new norm. Unless I'm not writing a post a day, commenting on other people's posts are taking a hit because of the time I'm spending off STEEM.
Upvotes given—180/717
Honestly, I'm surprised by this. It's a 40 user increase in spread, and a 245 upvote jump in total from May. It's not stellar, but again, with not all day to work on STEEM, it feels okay, anyway.
I still haven't set up any autovoting, but depending on what happens after the next hardfork, that could change. I think I may be getting to the point where I have to consider it more strongly than I have previously.
Upvotes received—582/1455
Yeah, so this looks quite a bit different from May, simply because the full curie upvote didn't show up twice. So, a third of the spread and a little less than half of the total upvote from last month. I guess it makes the this month's SP increase even more surprising.
SP increase—167.178
All the way through June 28, I had accumulated earned SP into the upper 80s. It was well after 8 pm my time that night when I published my weekly Food Fight Friday post. Initially, it got it's normal fare—less than $1 and so I thought okay, I've got maybe one more chance Saturday for a post, and that's it. Saturday was a long day because of my birthday out, and I came back and wrote about Avengers: Endgame. That post ended up with just over $1. I as of late Saturday, I'm estimating I might make 90 SP.
Then, came Sunday. Somewhere in the late afternoon, a large upvote from blocktrades hit it (as part of the OCD) trail. Not only was it large enough to put me over 100 SP, but it nearly doubled what I already had paid and pending. I guess it wasn't exactly eleventh hour with the upvote, but it's as close as I've seen it come at the end of the month so far.
I didn't quite double last June's earned SP, but it's nice to see the increase nonetheless. I am running 671.588 SP ahead of last year through the first half of 2019. It's the last quarter of 2018 which will be the reckoning, however.
Total earned SP now sits at 2,688.526. Total SP is 7,205.052 including all payouts through earnings on posts to June 30.
Highest single payout—13.347 SBD/38.797 SP
Grandpa Gotta Cook—CARNITAS: Crockpot Style was the runaway highest single payout. It's been a while anything I've done was that high—nothing since the value of STEEM dropped.
I kind of tossed out a resteem stat last month, and I'll do it again. The same post was resteemed five times, which is above average for me.
Self-Upvotes—0
No accidents or real ones.
Contests—2
I received one STEEM on two separate occasions due to no self-upvotes and getting into the Top 20 of the Curation and Engagement Leagues that 
Flags given/received—0/4
Three from the Steemit Defense League and one from a user named deito, who joined last month, apparently, so they could downvote me. Okay. Probably not downvoting just me. They're making the rounds.
Reputation Ranking—65
Just like the last minute ocd upvotes got me into triple digit earned SP territory, so, too, was it enough to change my reputation ranking from 64.9-something to over 65. I don't know why I get antsy if more than a couple of months go by without ranking up, but I do.My reputation ranking doesn't have to mean anything to anyone else, but it does to me.
Investment—0
As the price of STEEM continues to bounce around between $0.35 (now) and $0.45 USD, I've not tried to invest anymore. Now that I'm working, maybe I will, but I'd prefer to hold for a lower price if it's coming, or get more debt out of the way that's been building up as of late. There are some things happening on STEEM that could help the price out, as in go up, which is really what I'd rather see, anyway. If any of that manifests, I will feel much better than it dropping to $0.10, where I've been saying I might buy more.
Miscellaneous
All in all, a good month, I think.
I announced in a post that I became an orca. No one really took the bait, which is probably for the best, since it wasn't for STEEM, but SNAX. I understand that it's not worth much still, but there's something about stacking SNAX at a pace of thousands per day as opposed to stacking STEEM at mostly fractions of STEEM per day that I like.
Total SNAX by June 30 was 68,752.5361. Not as awesome as some, but again, this is more a personal gauge of how I'm doing, since SNAX uses different metrics to reach their attention rate payouts.
I am also stacking PALs, and am approaching 900 total (600 staked, the remainder in PAL).
Other STEEM-Engine tokens of any great amount that I had by the end of June included ENGAGE (3,125).
Fini
That's it for this month. Last year at this time is when life started getting in the way, bringing the SP and other numbers down. Work's already doing that, so maybe the other parts of life will hold serve.
I wouldn't hold your breath on that if I were you.
Until next month...
Onward and upward.