Shorter comments, and fewer pictures will certainly save some time, I know. It takes a long to to decide on the picture, then to start doing the words, then well one picture doesn't fit so you want to find a different picture. I have tried to start limiting myself to three or less pictures, I almost always tried to keep it 5 or less just because of page load times for the images. but then steemit sort of fixed that by resizing the images on the fly to save a little.

Auto votes I guess work, I mean some days I have a hard time finding 20 post to vote on, and when I find one, I want to leave a comment, so a double win there for you.

I think I have only managed to post one post a day for seven days in a row twice. A couple of times I tried real hard to do that, but it just did not work for me. I can not believe there are people that can put out 4 post a day 7 days a week, they must be posting machines is all I can figure.

I go days sometimes without doing a post, I still try to get my votes out everyday, but if I have things to do, they wait, plus I can vote on my phone, so It doesn't matter where I am as long as I have a signal.

Happy New Year, and remember your life comes before steemit life. You should not feel bad about missing a day or two or heck even a week while away enjoying an outing, that is life.