Sunday, January 01, 2017

Books 2016


  1. Slade House
  2. The Gift of Failure- How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
  3. Mr. Timothy
  4. The Shadow of the Wind
  5. Go Set a Watchman
  6. The Roald Dahl Omnibus- Perfect Bedtime Stories for Sleepless Nights
  7. A Guide to the Beasts of East Africa
  8. Gold
  9. The Secrets of Happy Families- Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
  10. One False Move- A Myron Bolitar Novel
  11. In Other Words
  12. All the Light We Cannot See
  13. Trigger Warning- Short Fictions and Disturbances
  14. The Bone Clocks
  15. Circus Mirandus
  16. We Were Liars
  17. Station Eleven
  18. One More Thing- Stories and Other Stories
  19. The Life and Death of Sophie Stark
  20. Willful Creatures- Stories
  21. Unbecoming
  22. The Two of Us
  23. Night Film
  24. Scarcity- Why Having Too Little Means So Much
  25. A Man Called Ove
  26. The Grownup
  27. The Boys in the Boat- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics
  28. Life Moves Pretty Fast- The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies
  29. A Girl Named Zippy
  30. The Happiest Toddler on the Block
  31. The Heart Goes Last
  32. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She‘s Sorry
  33. No Bad Kids- Toddler Discipline Without Shame
  34. The Underground Railroad
  35. Home (Myron Bolitar #11)
  36. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
  37. The Poser
  38. The Woman in Cabin 10
  39. Hag-Seed
  40. No Man‘s Land
  41. All the Good Parts
  42. In a Dark, Dark Wood
  43. I‘mThinking of Ending Things
  44. Seinfeldia

Movies 2016


  1. Paper Towns
  2. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
  3. Pixels
  4. Pitch Perfect 2
  5. The Last Five Years
  6. Jurassic World
  7. Ant-Man
  8. Star Wars The Force Awakens (theater)
  9. Trainwreck
  10. Avengers, Age of Ultron
  11. Field of Dreams (re-watch)
  12. The Martian
  13. Talledaga Nights (re-watch)
  14. Intern
  15. Chappie
  16. Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
  17. Are You Here
  18. A few Best Men
  19. Hunger Games, Mocking Jay Part III
  20. The Big Short
  21. Room
  22. St. Vincent (re-watch, re-cry)
  23. Sisters
  24. Spotlight
  25. Spectre
  26. White House Down (not in order)
  27. Star Wars The Force Awakens (re-watch)
  28. How to be single
  29. The Age of Adaline
  30. The DUFF
  31. Deadpool
  32. Adventures in Babysitting (re-watch)
  33. Zoolander 2, The Magnum Edition
  34. Wreck-it Ralph
  35. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
  36. Mike and Dave need wedding dates
  37. Popstar
  38. Ghostbusters- Answer the Call
1 move in the theater, 5 movies watched a second time. I also watched several TV shows including Master of None and the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. 

2016 by the numbers


  • 43 books or about 14,600 pages, down from previous years, but still up from DC years. Favorite was Slade House.
  • 38 movies, Star Wars was the best and only one I saw in the theater, but I also enjoyed Wreck-It Ralph
  • 1, 236 holes of disc golf in 67 rounds at 21 courses (10 courses new to me).
  • 1 5k Turkey Trot in 21 05, 1 other trail race
  • 1 family trip to Wisconsin, 1 family/work trip to California
  • 2 family trips to Kentucky
  • Lots of work travel, with at least 7 states and a district visited for work, none new though it was nice to see friends and family in South Dakota and Iowa
  • 2 family camping trips in primitive camp sites
  • over 7,972 photos taken, at least 1 every day 
  • Year 3 of Pedal the Plains completed
  • 0 weddings attended- the streak of at least 1 per year since 2001 is over. 
  • Roughly 1,800 diaper changes, though I probably did less than half of those