- 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
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
2014 by the numbers (a year of fewer logs)
Using last year as a guide:
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Books 2014
Another good year for reading, though not one for five-star efforts.
- The Girl who was on Fire
- The Rosie Project
- Millionaire Teacher
- The Lowland
- Teacher Man
- Truth in Advertising
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Long Lost
- Lonesome Dove
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the art of Battling Giants
- The Curiosity
- The Memory of Running
- Suburban Nation
- Little Bee
- Inferno
- The Circle
- The Art of Travel
- The Universe vs. Alex Woods
- The Meaning of Sports
- Screwball: A Novel
- Stitches
- Full Upright and Locked Position
- The Jelly Effect
- The Best American Short Stories 2012
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- The Diaries of Adam and Eve
- Attachments
- Play Dead
- Skippy Dies
- Hold Tight
- The Millionaire Next Door
- The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
- This is the story of a happy marriage
- Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing
- You Remind Me of Me
- Frog Music
- The Magician
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
- True Evil
- Landline
- Pilgrims Wilderness: A true story of faith and madness on the Alaskan frontier
- If only you people could follow directions
- The Luminaries
- Parentology
- Think Like a Freak
- The Power of Habit
- Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, do they live forever?
- The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
- The Financial Lives of Poets
- Tenth of December
- Jim Henson: The Biography
- Sycamore Row
- Let's Get Lost
- Alif the Unseen
- To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
- Yes Please
- The Buddha Walks into a bar
- Start with Why
- Dark Places
- The Cuckoo's Calling
- The Silkworm
- Missing You
- This is a book
- Slow Man
- 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:
- Jobs
- The Village Barbershop
- Road Trip (re-watch)
- The Internship
- Finding Bliss
- Bachelorettes (re-watch during chores)
- Her (theater)
- Monster University
- The Heat
- Cool Hand Luke (re-watch)
- Last Vegas
- Don Jon
- Ender's Game
- About Time
- The English Teacher
- Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
- Some Girl(s)
- Lost in Translation (re-watch)
- The Money Pit (re-watch)
- Veronica Mars
- To do List
- Rush
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- The Names of Love
- The Bling Ring
- Splinterheads
- A.C.O.D
- Nebraska
- The Book Thief
- The Jane Austen Book Club
- The Lone Ranger
- Definitely Maybe (re-watch)
- Thanks for Sharing
- Back to the Future (re-watch)
- Back to the Future III (re-watch)
- Take me home tonight
- 3 Idiots
- Next
- American Hustle
- Saving Mr. Banks
- Anchorman 2 (couldn't finish)
- The Details
- Sexting
- World War Z
- August: Osage County
- The Wolverine
- Boy (drifted in and out)
- Happy Gilmore (re-watch)
- Austenland
- RIPD
- Sleepless in Seattle (re-watch)
- Non-Stop
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Other Woman
- Music & Lyrics (re-watch)
- The Goonies (re-watch, Old Town square)
- Much Ado about Nothing (Joss Whedon)
- Terri
- Frankie Go Boom
- Dallas Buyers Club
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- Thor: Lost World
- The Night We Never Met (drifted in and out)
- Lee Daniels "The Butler"
- The Muppets Most Wanted
- Elizabethtown (re-watch, re-suffer)
- Mrs. Henderson Presents
- Wolf of Wall Street (quit at 2 hours)
- Hunger Games Catching Fire (re-watch, Old Town)
- Captain Phillips
- Divergent
- The Other Guys
- Delivery Man
- Lola Versus
- Monuments Men
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
- You will meet a tall dark stranger
- Gone Girl (Theater)
- The Way Way Back
- Lego: The Movie
- A League of Their Own (re-watch)
- The Fault in Our Stars
- Neighbors
- Groundhog Day (re-watch)
- The Brass Teapot
- Herbie Rides Again (re-watch)
- New York, I Love You
- Draft Day
- The Thomas Crowne Affair (re-watch)
- How to Fall in Love
- Sex Tape
- Future Boyfriend
- Acceptance
- Detroit Unleaded
- Bad Words
- Love Actually (re-watch, Christmas tree)
- The Love Bug (re-watch)
- Begin Again
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Hitched for the Holidays
- Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas
- I give it a year
- Gravity
That's two in the theater (wow!) and twenty second or more viewings. There was lots of disappointment. Considerable recency bias, but Nebraska, The Way Way Back, The Brass Teapot, Gone Girl and Gravity strike me as the most memorable.
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