Here’s some stats to put the last year into personal perspective:
Video Games:
Minecraft
- Minecraft total hours: 300
- Minecraft Survival mode hours: 50
- Minecraft Creative mode hours: 250
- Minecraft stadiums built: 5 (football, baseball, basketball, track & field, aquatics)
- Minecraft castles built: 2 (plus several minor towers/forts/royal halls)
- Minecraft homes built: 25
- Minecraft treehouses built: 1
- Minecraft hot air balloons built: 1
- Minecraft beekeepers’ houses built: 1
- Invitations to students’ Minecraft servers: 1
Diablo 2
- Diablo 2 total hours: 775
- Softcore hours: 700
- Hardcore hours: 75
- Diablo 2 Amazon hours: 150
- Diablo 2 Assassin hours: 50
- Diablo 2 Barbarian hours: 50
- Diablo 2 Druid hours: 75
- Diablo 2 Necromancer hours: 100
- Diablo 2 Paladin hours: 150
- Diablo 2 Sorceress hours: 200
- MECC Odell Lake hours: 7
- MECC Odell Down Under hours: 3
- MECC Pizza-to-Go hours: 5
All other computer/video game hours: 100
LEGOs
- Movies made: 3
- Houses made: 20
- Towers made: 30
- Robot Monsters made: 60
Sports
- Championships won by my teams: 0
- Playoff appearances by my teams: 2
- Happy hours watching the Rams: 10
- Neutral hours watching the Rams: 15
- Sad hours of watching the Rams: 20
- Keyboard drawers broken while watching the Rams: 1
Writing
- Elegies written: 1
- Manuscripts edited: 1
- Rejections received: 3
- Rejections pending: 12
Teaching
- Class sections taught/managed: 22
- College students taught/advised: 1600
- Preschool students taught/advised: 1
Reading
My Recommendations:
- Best nonfiction read: Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Best fiction read: Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
James’s Recommendations:
- The Mario Encyclopedia
- The Berenstain Bears Go to the Dentist
- The Beginner’s Bible
- The Pokémon Essential Handbook
- The Color Monster
- Spend It!
- Rhinos Don’t Eat Pancakes
- The Very Bad Bunny
- Fox in Socks
Visual Media
- Movie, drama: The Irishman
- Movie, comedy: Back to the Future
- Television drama: Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
- Television comedy/reality: Nathan For You
- Television dramedy: Cobra Kai
Audio Media
- Rock song of the Year: U2, “Bad”
- Canadian Rock Song of the Year: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, “Cortez the Killer”
- Pop song of the Year: Kate Bush, “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)”
- Alternative song of the Year: The Cure, “Disintegration”
- Short form Music Performance Video of the Year: U2, “Bad,” performed at Live Aid
- Long form Music Performance Video of the Year: Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
Work Emails
- Emails received: 15,000
- Emails answered: 51,000
Weather
- Snow days: 0
- Smoke days: 20
Food
- Fast food restaurant visits: 100
- Other restaurant visits: 10
- Favorite self-developed meal: Mini-corn-dog-stuffed burritos
- Weight: 165
- Potato Diets: 1
- Weight lost: -10 pounds
Living
- Houses purchased: 0
- Years in current apartment: 6
- Years I had planned to be in current apartment: 1
Wives
- Wives: 1
- Wives loved: 1
- Wives worshiped: 1
- Wives obeyed: .5
Deities
- Gods worshiped: 1
- Idols installed: 100
Sleep
- Average sleep hours: 6
- Post-quarantine average: 7
Exercise
- Miles run: 300
- Miles it felt like: 3000