My Where's George Week in Review: 01/22/12 - 01/28/12

In the past week, I received 29 hits in 7 States [AR, CA(21), IL(2), NC, NM(2), NY, OR]. This makes it four weeks in a row with 29 hits: very strange consistency in this random hobby. Of those, 1 was the 3^rd hit on the bill, 4 were the 2^nd hit on the bill, and the rest (24) were the initial hit on the bill. The longest bill active from the bunch was re-entered 3 Years 101 Days 17 Hours 45 Minutes after I originally entered it making it my second longest active bill and the longest active bill with more than one hit. Seems ironic to get this hit after last week's near miss of 3 years active with 2 hits.

The 7 hits on Sunday make it the biggest hit day of the month (and year). I hadn't had a 7 hit day since December 11^th. My hit streak continued throughout the week although once again I had a scare that it would end. Wednesday's sole hit didn't come until after 8 PM. The streak is now at 32 days tied for my fourth best streak ever. Third best is 54 days, so I'm still quite a ways away from that.

With 116 hits so far this month, I'm 8 away from tying my monthly best (October 2011). With just three days to go, it's going to be close. There has only been one stretch of three days with 8 hits or less, so it'd be unfortunate if I had to hit the slump now.

Taking a look at how my predictions regarding bill entries and hits are going so far, I had another light week of bill entries and am now nine bills behind pace for the year. I'm surprised I'm so close with going on no trips this month. Total hits and bills with hits are still quite a bit ahead due to how well the month has been going. I expect this will eventually cool off.

	SoY	SoW	EoW	WΔ	YΔ	P	P/W	PtD	WvP	DvP
Bills Entered	16720	17009	17094	85	374	21720	95.6	17103	-11	-9
Bills with Hits	2430	2503	2527	24	97	3445	19.4	2508	+5	+19
Total Hits	2799	2886	2915	29	116	4030	23.5	2893	+5	+22

Based on the goal of 5000 bill entries, here's how I'm doing towards my bill entry goals. Starting off with my goal of increasing the percentage that $1s make up of my entries by 1% (started the year at 86.29% so the goal is 87.29%), my percentage is now 86.42% [+0.13%]. I pretty much entered the correct percentage needed of ones this week to hit the goal therefore maintaining my slight lead on this goal:

	SoY	SoW	EoW	WΔ	YΔ	G	GfW	GtD	WvG	DvG
$1s Entered	14427	14695	14772	77	345	18959	77	14766	0	+6

As for the goal of having series 2009 pass series 2003A in number of entries, I had a fantastic week. Only 1 2003A was entered allowing 2009 to catch up a bit. I'm still behind the needed pace, but I don't expect that to change until late in the year.

	SoY	SoW	EoW	WΔ	YΔ			WΔ	YΔ	WvG	DvG
2003A	3603	3623	3624	1	21		Goal	41	169	+14	-11
2009	1339	1462	1518	56	179		Actual	55	158

And for my goal of decreasing San Francisco "L" FRB entries below 50.0% while increasing Boston "A", Cleveland "D", St Louis "H", Philadelphia "C", Minneapolis "I", and Kansas City "J", progress was made on decreasing San Francisco this week although I'm still behind where I need to be. Cleveland is way ahead (since I've actually acquired a bunch of extra "D" bills). Kansas City is now ahead thanks to my recently acquired "J" bills. I'm working on acquiring some Boston bills as Boston is the farthest behind on the "want to increase" list. St. Louis is ahead but not by any extra effort on my part.

	SoY	SoY%	SoW	SoW%	EoW	EoW%	Goal		GtD	DvG
San Francisco "L"	8532	51.03%	8689	51.08%	8720	51.01%	< 50.0%	49.94%	8705	-15
Boston "A"	461	2.76%	465	2.73%	466	2.73%	> 2.8%	2.85%	473	-7
Cleveland "D"	395	2.36%	425	2.50%	440	2.57%	> 2.4%	2.45%	405	+35
St. Louis "H"	382	2.28%	390	2.29%	396	2.32%	> 2.3%	2.35%	392	+4
Philadelphia "C"	376	2.25%	381	2.24%	382	2.23%	> 2.2%	2.25%	384	-2
Minneapolis "I"	352	2.11%	357	2.10%	358	2.09%	> 2.1%	2.15%	361	-3
Kansas City "J"	290	1.73%	294	1.73%	299	1.75%	> 1.7%	1.75%	297	+2

I broke in the top 1000 Georgers nationwide on Thursday (999^th) and maintained that through Saturday (where I moved up to 993). I'm sure that I'll bounce out and in for a while, but it's nice to break through a milestone.

When the hits are hot, Georging is a lot of fun, and the hits have been rolling in this year. I'm cautiously optimistic about January 2012 taking over the "highest hit month" crown. I'm not sure when this hot streak will end, but I'm enjoying the ride.