Helping Myself to Ensure Better Productivity
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Helping Myself to Ensure Better Productivity

I find as I get older, I am not so great at remembering everything that I really should be doing regularly. Not just necessary things, but things I want to to. I've been working out some better systems to push myself to keep up with all of these sort of little tasks. Microsoft ToDo Any ToDo list app works here, I use Microsoft ToDo. I used to use Wonderlist, but Microsoft bought them out and it's essentially folding into MS ToDo. I try to keep my lists somewhat streamlined down so it doesn't become a cluttered mess. For example... The…
My Music Listening Habits for March 2020
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My Music Listening Habits for March 2020

So, not a particularly exciting month in Music. Despite actual effort on my part, Sigrid still tops the chart by a large margin. Tessa Violet comes in second. I actually watched both of these artists doing online live(ish) shows due to the Corona-virus. Though the Sigrid segment of the Twitch Stream event was pre recorded and not actually live. Tessa Violet has been doing some live shows on Youtube. The soundtracks for Gris and Journey both make a return. They are both pretty similar in feel and are really great for "general distraction free listening". Lindsey Sterling also falls into…
My Music Listening Habits for February 2020
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My Music Listening Habits for February 2020

Not a whole ton that's overly exciting this month. I did listen to quite a bit of BT, whom is one of my all time favorite artists, even if my time listening to his stuff comes and goes. I think there was a bit of earlier stuff that I didn't associate as being BT that I liked, but I remember that Never Gonna Come Back Down was the track that really got me into listening to more of BT's music. It was on the soundtrack for Gone in 60 Seconds. In the actual movie, they play this really neat super…
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…