2017 for me was…
12,270 lastfm scrobbles – 33 per day on average, from 1714 artists, including 2590 albums and 9846 different tracks
70 films as logged on letterboxd
67 books from Goodreads
And 503 km of running on Strava.
Any others quantifying the year just gone?
Wow. Probably divide most of those figure by 10 for me
Apart from the running. Which you could divide by 100
The only record I keep is a little Excel year / holiday planner on my desktop, which only records nights out. 3 stand up comedy shows, 2 musicals, 1 play, 3 operas, 2 (one day) festivals, 15 gigs, and a couple of unclassifiable talks and other events. I fear the number of books started would be significantly higher than those finished if I did take notes.
ooh, I’d never heard of letterboxd. I’ve just signed up for that, ready for this thread in 365 days time….
It’s actually a pleasure to use, unlike IMDB
87 gigs and 1 talk attended.
Many CDs and Box Sets bought. 1 Squeezer painting bought. Acoustic bass guitar bought. Several books bought (mainly on Kindle). SLR camera bought.
No movies watched. Some TV watched.
13503 digitised tracks played via music library on laptop. Most played in a month was January ’17 (2062 tracks). Least played in a month was August (395 played).
Unknown number of CDs played. No vinyl played.
Not enough exercise taken. Waist has expanded necessitating purchase of new larger strides. Some old t-shirts no longer wearable with dignity.
Beard style settled upon.
87 gigs is good going.
I ran 574km last year. No records of much else except I only saw 8 gigs.
This makes me wonder if anyone has followed a band on tour on foot? Let’s say Shed Seven hit the road for 15 dates across the UK. They could have a running enthusiast Sheds fan who would pound the pavement in hot pursuit of the Shed Seven Bedford van.
Or kraftwerk leading a tour de
France style roll out for the audience
Well I did a pre-gig run for one of the shows: Wilco in Chicago. I was already in the city though!
I am a year older.
No other stats are available.
3386 songs played on my guitar. I try to play 10 on average every day, so I failed I suppose.
5577 songs played on iTunes.
I ran about ten yards for a bus sometime in the spring.
I’ve lost this competition, haven’t I?
1 engagement.
Why get married to the woman you love when you should be running across mountain ranges, lifting oil tankers and wrestling alligators (see above^), you big wuss?
Aren’t those the lyrics to Mr. Apollo by the Bonzo Dog Band?
Ran 1,100 km.
That’s the only stat I track, beyond lifts in the gym, all of which stayed static in 2017.
They stopped the lifts working to encourage you to take the stairs.
Since I happen to have the stats to hand:
Ran 1003 miles.
Walked 2518 miles.
Devoted 11.7 more hours to my work than I was actually paid for.
2 nights camping with much upgraded camping kit (£500 a night so far then).
2 nights out – one stand-up, one semi-stand-up.
– The younger dog (17 months) is more or less ready to be left unattended for an evening so Mrs never and I hope to do more nights out this year.
Only 11.7 hours unpaid? Amazingly good going. Don’t you count travelling time?
In the year before I retired I spent anything from 1 to 3½ hours a day driving to the depot and driving home from wherever my last call was and at least another 2 hours every week cleaning my work vehicle and recycling/disposing of work-related rubbish. Plus another half-hour or more every day doing work-related paperwork after I got home.
All unpaid, and a mandatory 30min lunch break was deducted every day even though I often had no time to take a break because of the number of calls I was expected to make. Not wanting to work late during the week or work at the weekend was frowned upon.
Prime reasons why I retired the very week I became eligible for my state pension.
Sounds like a very tough gig – IE a “proper job”. I’ve been in IT for 37 years and never considered myself as having a proper job in all that time.
These days I cannot count travelling time as time eaten up by work. It’s my best listening time (45 mins each way) and it’s a straight-forward journey with not to much traffic to contend with. As an only somewhat reformed petrol head I enjoy my commute. Obviously there are some bad days and, when the time comes. I won’t miss the tired, dark winter evening journeys.
I’m also lucky enough to have flexible working so at lunch time I go for a run, or, if I’m working at home, take the dogs out. I have found that running / dog walking is not good listening time. I’m sure that it is for many but not for me.
I used to enjoy driving, mostly, until I had that job, where I had to drive to the office and then around north and central London between jobs all day and then drive home again from the last one.
Grew to absolutely HATE driving and I’m only recently starting to take some pleasure in it now and again.