My Music Listening Habits for 2020
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My Music Listening Habits for 2020

Yeah, those monthly updates were kind of bleh, so I dumped them. But I still want to do a yearly wrap up. Though overall there isn't a lot that's surprising to me about the yearly stats. The year was dominated by most of the artists I would expect it to be dominated by. Sigrid, Tessa Violet, Aurora, CHVRCHES have 14 of my top 25 albums. This grid doesn't even include a few additional Sigrid "Albums" of live tracks that don't properly show up so they get filtered. Anyway, a bit better breakdown... I am actually surprised that Sigrid still topped…
2020 Reading List
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2020 Reading List

How to Be Black Baratunde R. Thurston Published: 2012 | Pages:254 My Rating: 4/5 Description: Caliban's War (Expanse, #2) James S.A. Corey Published: 2012 | Pages:583 My Rating: 4/5 Description: In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun . . . The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America…
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Endlessly Learning

One thing I have always done in my life is worked to constantly be learning something. It may not actually be a useful something, but it's something. Back when I was finishing up my degree in 2003, I was telling people that I wanted to get the RA job in the dorms so I could just live there for the rest of my life taking classes. Granted, the RA position only meant your room was covered, I don't think it covered any of the course work expense. Fortunately, we live in a world of connected possibilities, or whatever buzz word…
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Reading for April 2020

So, yeah, I missed a few months. I also didn't actually finish any books in those two months, so it's kind of a non issues. I didn't really finish a ton fo books this month wither, but hey, progress is progress. Transformers The Manga Volume 1 So, technically this one was a March read. This is the first of (I believe 2) collections of the old Transformers G1 Manga from Japan. It's honestly, really weird, and kind of awful, but it's also charming for both of these reasons. The stories are all more or less self contained. They all have…
My Music Listening Habits for April 2020
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My Music Listening Habits for April 2020

Well, it finally happened. After a very long, very strong, 9 month reign as Queen, Sigrid has been dethroned from my top artist for the month. And by a rather huge margin. Funny enough, she has been dethroned by someone she knows, who is also a Norwegian singer, AURORA. It was a one-two punch though, because Sigrid has dropped to number three, not number two, with Tessa Violet sliding in at number two. I can't honestly blame the VierLive show entirely for Aurora's rise here, she has been on sort of a slow bubble for a while now in my…