Reading for January 2020
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Reading for January 2020

I've had an up and down relationship with being motivated to read. I pushed myself back into reading round 2016 and had a lot of success at 35 books for the year, but then it fizzled out again with like, 1 book in 2018. It doesn't help that I have a huge backlog of books to read. I feel more guilty about my unread books than my unread video games. Possibly part of my problem is the refusal to accept that I'm not enjoying a book and move on. I'm not really over that one quite yet. As part of…
My Music Listening Habits for January 2020
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My Music Listening Habits for January 2020

I keep wanting to change these up to be by artist instead of album but there doesn't seem to be a 5x5 generator that does artists and has images. Sounds like an excuse to do some coding, but I'm not sure it's possible because it feels like something someone would have done. So anyway, it's back to albums. Which gets a little sloppy looking this month. So, there has been one major change this month. Around the turn of the year, I got an email through work for 6 months of Spotify Premium. I usually don't really go for limited…
2019 Reading List
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2019 Reading List

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) J.R.R. Tolkien Published: 1954 | Pages:398 My Rating: 5/5 Description: One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkeness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages…
One Year, One Decade, in Music
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One Year, One Decade, in Music

A lot of people recently started posting their Spotify year end reviews to social media. I don't really use Spotify for music, but I do use Last.fm. In fact, I've used Last.fm off and on since 2005. There are a few low points, I had basically zero Scrobbles for 2015 for example, and it was a lot lower while I was using Windows Phone, in general, but it's still a pretty good snapshot of music habits. and changes. So rather than just settle for a year, i wanted to look over a year, and the last decade of music. The…
My Music Listening Habits for November 2019
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My Music Listening Habits for November 2019

Another month, another round of music. There's not as much need for as much intro this round so I'm just going to jump right into it. So, while Number 2, 3, 9 16, and 19 are all Sigrid albums, the top spot this month goes to Lusine with Sensorimotor. I've been enjoying the whole album, but I've had this particular video in rotation on Youtube for a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Jg_25ytU0 It's got a nice sort of ambient feel to it. Speaking of Ambient, While moving the Lusine album to my phone, I remebered I had the Overwatch based Lucio album downloaded.…