Due to the pandemic, 2020 ended up being the very first time I watched any substantial amount of television since I started this journal in 2003. Because I spent that most of that year on my bike I only had five seasons in my first every television yearly review.

In 2021, Birdie's arrival in January precluded going on multiple hour long bike rides ( Read more... )

Thanks to the pandemic, in 2020 I started watching television at home, at trend that has continued thus far in 2021 since the pandemic manifestly isn't over yet. When I summarized my 2020 television watching, I mentioned that the last time I could remember watching an entire season of a television show was the first season of South Park way back in ( Read more... )

Thus far this strange, weird, life changing year, I have:

- Read 99 books. You might think, that seems like an insane amount of books, by far the most of any of my mid-year reports and more than most yearly totals. And you would be right. Of those 99 ( Read more... )

Wait, what? I'm reviewing television shows? I, who didn't even have an television until M moved in, was watching television? Well, the pandemic changed all sorts of things. Beyond watching movies at home, the other thing I did this year for basically the first time as an adult was consistently watch television shows that weren't professional ( Read more... )