2020 was a tough year for a lot of people due to the COVID-19 pandemic and all the challenges associated with it. For me, it was certainly an interesting year, but in a lot of ways, it was much better than I'd had the past few years. Between 2016 and 2019, I had a pretty rough go of things and I'm fortunate to be through that now. When I look back at 2020 I see it as the year where I really found myself again. There were some real hilights for me. I got to spend a lot of extra time with my kids that I wouldn't have had if not for the shutdowns. I met a few amazing people, despite the pandemic, who really helped me re-build some confidence that I had lost over the rough years. I wrote more songs than I've ever been able to write in such a short time. I discovered my love of kayaking.
I'm not going to talk too much about all that. What I am going to do is show you how much of a nerd I am.
I decided for my New Year's Resolution for 2020 that I would keep statistics on a bunch of different areas of my life, and I did it; I met that resolution. And being the nerd that I am, I want to share some of those statistics with you. So below you have my 2020 in statistics.
Music
Albums listened to - 1,135
Songs written - 11
Concerts attended - 0 🙁
Most albums listened to in a day - 13 (January 4)
Top 20 artists by album listen
- David Bowie - 31
- Elliott Smith - 25
- Otis Redding - 21
- Fiona Apple - 19
- Willie Nelson - 17
- Iron & Wine - 17
- Radiohead - 16
- Elvis Costello - 16
- The Beatles - 15
- The Little Willies - 14
- Brandi Carlile - 14
- Nickel Creek - 13
- Jim Sullivan - 13
- Dawes - 12
- Blind Pilot - 12
- Aretha Franklin - 12
- The Rolling Stones - 10
- Talking Heads - 10
- Ray Charles - 10
- John Prine - 10
Most listened albums
- Jim Sullivan - U.F.O. (9)
- Elliott Smith - XO (8)
- The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (8)
- Elliott Smith - Figure 8 (8)
- David Gray - White Ladder (7)
- Blind Pilot - We Are The Tide (7)
- The Little Willies - The Little Willies (7)
- Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong (7)
- Jon Brion - Meaningless (7)
- The Little Willies - For the Good Times (7)
- Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters (7)
- Elliott Smith - Either/Or (7)
- Tom Petty - Wildflowers (6)
- The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (6)
- Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (6)
- Weezer - Pinkerton (6)
- Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You (6)
- R.E.M. - Automatic For the People (6)
- Nickel Creek - This Side (5)
- Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger (5)
- Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (5)
- Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (5)
- Cake - Fashion Nugget (5)
- Clem Snide - End of Love (5)
- Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line (5)
Favorite albums first listened to in 2020
- Jim Sullivan - U.F.O.
- Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- The Delfonics - The Delfonics
- Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
- Al Green - I'm Still in Love With You
- Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
- Sam & Dave - Hold On, I'm Coming
- Toots & the Maytals - Just Like That
- Black Pumas - Black Pumas
Movies
Movies watched - 147
Movies seen at the theatre - 5
Fully animated movies - 23
Black and white movies - 6
Movies watched by country:
- USA - 123
- Japan - 12
- UK - 3
- Ireland - 3
- Sweden - 1
- Spain - 1
- South Korea - 1
- New Zealand - 1
- Germany - 1
- Canada - 1
Favorite movies first watched in 2020
- Parasite
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Black Swan
- Baraka
- Fateful Findings
- Boyhood
- 12 Angry Men
- Hands on a Hard Body
- May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
- Wolfwalkers
- Jacob's Ladder
- Princess Mononoke (but only because I'd already seen Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro; all the Hayao Miyazaki movies are great)
Driving
Total miles driven - 12,473.5
Most miles driven in a day - 1,075.1 (December 26)
Days without any driving - 12
Dining
Restaurant meals - 180 (most of these were carryout/drive thru)
Coffee out - 95 (Panera rewards is a dangerous thing!)
Local restaurants patronized more than once:
- Uncle Bob's Homemade Ice Cream - Eureka, IL
- Pegasus Pizza - Morton, IL
- M&M Twistee Treat - East Peoria, IL
- Leaves 'n Beans - Morton & Peoria, IL
- The Fox Pub - Peoria, IL
- Italian Villa - Henry, IL
- Ice Cream Shack - Washington, IL
- Cranwill's Drive In - Pekin, IL
- BBQ Smokewagon - East Peoria, IL
- 30-30 Coffee - Peoria, IL
Books
For a year with so much down time, this was in incredibly slow reading year for me. Astericks indicate books I read out loud to the kids.
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- American Gods - Neil Gaiman
- Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- *The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
- Theft By Finding - David Sedaris
- *The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
- *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
- *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling (unfinished)
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Konrad (unfinished)
- Total distance run - 739.3 miles
- Time run - 121 hours, 48 minutes, 47 seconds
- Longest run - 11.02 miles
- Average pace - 9:53
- Longest daily running streak - 5 days (9/21-25 & 11/3-7)
- Write 12 new songs
- Start a band
- Record most of the songs I've written
- 3-year goal - Watch a movie from every country in the world
- Run at least one marathon in 2021
- I lost 30 pounds between fall 2019 through 2020. I want to lose 20 more in 2021.
- Write at least 6 blog posts
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