2020: By the Numbers

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 Games

  • 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