Wednesday, December 31, 2014

2014 by the numbers (a year of fewer logs)

Using last year as a guide:

  • 66 books read (down 10 from last year) or 23,192 pages (down about 4,000 from last year)
  • 103 movies watched (down 9, 2 fewer in theaters, 2 fewer re-runs)
  • 1059 holes of disc golf in 58 rounds (down from 114) of disc golf at 13 different courses (7 new ones from last year)
  • 3 aces at the new short Johnny Roberts on 9/4 hole 16, 10/14 hole 1, 12/18 hole 14
  • 6 rounds of disc golf random draw doubles (although 2 were Cali/doubles alone) with Winter Warriors
  • 16 meals of pizza
  • 1 labored 10k
  • 2 job applications
  • 0 job interviews 
  • 1 move down the street to a new old house
  • 2 road trips, one to Missouri and one to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks
  • 1 family trip to San Diego
  • 1 wedding trip to Wisconsin
  • 9 states visited, none new
  • 0 foreign countries visited, however we did go glamping in Montana. That's similar, right? 
  • 1 wedding attended
  • 0 Ultimate tournaments played 
  • 1 torn ACL resulting in my first surgery and a long long long long recovery (ongoing)
  • 184 miles of bike-riding across the plains of Colorado in 3 days

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Books 2014

Another good year for reading, though not one for five-star efforts.


  1. The Girl who was on Fire
  2. The Rosie Project
  3. Millionaire Teacher
  4. The Lowland
  5. Teacher Man
  6. Truth in Advertising
  7. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future
  8. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  9. Long Lost
  10. Lonesome Dove
  11. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the art of Battling Giants
  12. The Curiosity
  13. The Memory of Running
  14. Suburban Nation
  15. Little Bee
  16. Inferno
  17. The Circle
  18. The Art of Travel
  19. The Universe vs. Alex Woods
  20. The Meaning of Sports
  21. Screwball: A Novel
  22. Stitches
  23. Full Upright and Locked Position
  24. The Jelly Effect
  25. The Best American Short Stories 2012
  26. The Wolf of Wall Street
  27. The Diaries of Adam and Eve
  28. Attachments
  29. Play Dead
  30. Skippy Dies
  31. Hold Tight
  32. The Millionaire Next Door
  33. The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
  34. This is the story of a happy marriage
  35. Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing
  36. You Remind Me of Me
  37. Frog Music
  38. The Magician 
  39. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
  40. True Evil
  41. Landline
  42. Pilgrims Wilderness: A true story of faith and madness on the Alaskan frontier
  43. If only you people could follow directions
  44. The Luminaries
  45. Parentology
  46. Think Like a Freak
  47. The Power of Habit
  48. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, do they live forever?
  49. The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
  50. The Financial Lives of Poets
  51. Tenth of December
  52. Jim Henson: The Biography
  53. Sycamore Row
  54. Let's Get Lost
  55. Alif the Unseen
  56. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
  57. Yes Please
  58. The Buddha Walks into a bar
  59. Start with Why
  60. Dark Places
  61. The Cuckoo's Calling
  62. The Silkworm
  63. Missing You
  64. This is a book
  65. Slow Man
  66. Running with the Buffaloes
Most excited by The Lowland, Lonesome Dove, The Circle, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, Running with the Buffaloes.

Movies 2014

This doesn't include the many TV shows I also watched, but as tradition dictates, here we go:


  1. Jobs
  2. The Village Barbershop
  3. Road Trip (re-watch)
  4. The Internship
  5. Finding Bliss
  6. Bachelorettes (re-watch during chores)
  7. Her (theater)
  8. Monster University
  9. The Heat
  10. Cool Hand Luke (re-watch)
  11. Last Vegas
  12. Don Jon
  13. Ender's Game
  14. About Time
  15. The English Teacher
  16. Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
  17. Some Girl(s)
  18. Lost in Translation (re-watch)
  19. The Money Pit (re-watch)
  20. Veronica Mars
  21. To do List
  22. Rush
  23. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
  24. The Names of Love
  25. The Bling Ring
  26. Splinterheads
  27. A.C.O.D
  28. Nebraska
  29. The Book Thief
  30. The Jane Austen Book Club
  31. The Lone Ranger
  32. Definitely Maybe (re-watch)
  33. Thanks for Sharing
  34. Back to the Future (re-watch)
  35. Back to the Future III (re-watch)
  36. Take me home tonight
  37. 3 Idiots
  38. Next
  39. American Hustle
  40. Saving Mr. Banks
  41. Anchorman 2 (couldn't finish)
  42. The Details
  43. Sexting
  44. World War Z
  45. August: Osage County
  46. The Wolverine
  47. Boy (drifted in and out)
  48. Happy Gilmore (re-watch)
  49. Austenland
  50. RIPD
  51. Sleepless in Seattle (re-watch)
  52. Non-Stop
  53. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  54. The Other Woman
  55. Music & Lyrics (re-watch)
  56. The Goonies (re-watch, Old Town square)
  57. Much Ado about Nothing (Joss Whedon)
  58. Terri
  59. Frankie Go Boom
  60. Dallas Buyers Club
  61. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  62. Thor: Lost World
  63. The Night We Never Met (drifted in and out)
  64. Lee Daniels "The Butler"
  65. The Muppets Most Wanted
  66. Elizabethtown (re-watch, re-suffer)
  67. Mrs. Henderson Presents
  68. Wolf of Wall Street (quit at 2 hours)
  69. Hunger Games Catching Fire (re-watch, Old Town)
  70. Captain Phillips
  71. Divergent
  72. The Other Guys
  73. Delivery Man
  74. Lola Versus
  75. Monuments Men
  76. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
  77. You will meet a tall dark stranger
  78. Gone Girl (Theater)
  79. The Way Way Back
  80. Lego: The Movie
  81. A League of Their Own (re-watch)
  82. The Fault in Our Stars
  83. Neighbors
  84. Groundhog Day (re-watch)
  85. The Brass Teapot
  86. Herbie Rides Again (re-watch)
  87. New York, I Love You
  88. Draft Day
  89. The Thomas Crowne Affair (re-watch)
  90. How to Fall in Love
  91. Sex Tape
  92. Future Boyfriend
  93. Acceptance
  94. Detroit Unleaded
  95. Bad Words
  96. Love Actually (re-watch, Christmas tree)
  97. The Love Bug (re-watch)
  98. Begin Again
  99. Guardians of the Galaxy
  100. Hitched for the Holidays
  101. Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas
  102. I give it a year
  103. Gravity
That's two in the theater (wow!) and twenty second or more viewings. There was lots of disappointment. Considerable recency bias, but NebraskaThe Way Way Back, The Brass Teapot, Gone Girl and Gravity strike me as the most memorable.