Nothing.
I got nothing.
It may well be because of recency bias and the garbage we have collectively had to deal with in 2020 but I honestly have nothing to add to the post from five years ago.
I am not sure that is even a bad thing. Again this is quite possibly due to recency bias but the past seven months have, in a way, forced me to appreciate small accomplishments:
- I am cooking again!
- I am healthier!
- I moved the couch!
- I organised the kitchen drawers!
- I showered today!
Yah, none of those (well, maybe the showering one) is going to upend any of the great, life-defining moments I listed five years ago now.
On the other hand, in all honesty, I am getting great satisfaction out of what are definitely mundane, personal moments. That may be a function either of the experience gained through 20K+ days and the maturity it has granted me or, well, of how fucken boring my life is. Some of these moments:
- Spotting a wild turkey on Sussex Drive this summer. (As God is my witness, I am pretty sure it could not fly.)
- At various times, seeing with the naked eye Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in the night sky over Ottawa. I still, surprisingly, have never witnessed the northern lights.
- Making it through the entire Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums, 2012 version. No, I do not plan on doing the new version. (This was sparked by a friend of mine telling me about how he had begun doing so and, eventually that night, the two of us drunkenly serenading the bartendress at Sir John A's with Beth. Yah, OK, that needs to make the list of life-affirming moments...)
- Becoming aware of the word 'bartendress'. So awesome!
- As of today, roughly 40 per cent through re-listening to my entire rock/pop/folk/jazz (i.e., not classical) CD collection (alphabetically, then chronologically, by artist; why do you ask?), which is so, so much better than RS's list. I had been meaning to do this for years; it is an amazing re-discovery (sometimes, discovery!) of what albums I, at some point since 1989 (I think?) , decided to own.
Ok. That's it.
Were you expecting something deep?
I have nothing else.
Well, maybe...
Come back in 1 826 days.
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