I track some data from my life, some purposefully, some randomly from various services. Here are some areas to look back at this year.

Reading

I read a lot. It’s an escape for me from a busy life and a good hobby. I track my books on Goodreads and tag the ones I finish with the year in which I finish them. As of a couple days before Christmas, I was at 117 in the 2021 tag. Quite a bt of growth in books read:

• 2021 – 117
• 2020 – 82
• 2019 – 128
• 2018 – 79

Before this I wasn’t tagging.

Fitness

I try to work out regularly. A few items from 2021

• 328 workouts
• 118,736 kcal burned
• 225:32 hours working out
• 319 miles of distance. Unfortunately yoga and weightlifting don’t cover distance

Not a great year, but not bad. I was hoping to be above 365. I tend to do do things on weightlifting days, so I’ve missed too many days this year.

Music

I love listening to music. I’ve had lots of music players, and went with an iPhone a few times specifically because the music support was better. These days I am mostly on Spotify, which is a fantastic service for me. It’s in the Tesla, on my devices, and I’ve got stuff playing often.

I love the wrap up from Spotify this year. A few stats:

• 33,449 minutes listening
• Top song – 3 Nights (36 listens) (also Old Town Road, California Dreaming, Who Says, and Short Skirt)
• Top artists – John Mayer (2,243 minutes), with Beatles, Jay-Z, Notorius BIG and Stevie Wonder rounding out the list.
• Top genre – Classic Rock (lots of guitar riffs I like here)

Language

• 30,043 XP (experience points)
• Top 1% of learners
• French and Japanese
• 5978 minutes learning (99.6 hours)
• 85 minutes on one day
• 1074 words learned, probably more Japanese
• 334 days when the stats came, 575 days on a streak. I used 2 streak savers in 2021, 3 in 2020, so not really all those days.
• 258 days in the Diamond league (top league)

I got this icon/image/prize:

Travel

With the pandemic still going on and not many events, I didn’t think I’d travel much, but I ended up with a good year.

• 12 trips for me
• 1 new country (Belgium)
• 1 UK trip
• 3 trips to Florida
• 5 work trips
• 48 trips according to Google

The spread in the US:

We ended up with 4 or 5 trips in the living quarters, camping out in various places.

Not bad, and hoping for more in 2022.

I also renewed my United 1K status. With a few trips and some promotions from them, I ended up back at the top tier that can be earned. That’s good as I hope to get back to more travel in 2022 and would prefer to get upgrades across the ocean.