jackjanderson: (The Long & Winding Road)
I'm not normally one for insomnia. Sleep and me, we're good friends. And so I have no idea why I'm wide awake at 5:15 on a Saturday morning, and have been awake since about 3:30. Something woke me and I couldn't get back to sleep. I've given up trying and so coffee.

I suspect the fact we're all off schedule due to the Christmas break. Routines have gone out of the window, as they often do when work isn't happening. Samantha goes back to work on Monday though so hopefully we'll get back to what resembles normal around here.

This current bout of insomnia has me actually reading emails and I came across my year in music report from last.fm - I scrobbled 575 tracks, averaged 1 scrobble a day and spent a total of 1 day and 10 hours listening to music.
My top played artist was Franz Schubert with 27 scrobbles, my top played album was Die Schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 by Franz Schubert and my top played track was The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
I scrobble most between 9 and 10 am, and listen most on a Sunday. My top genres were classical, piano, instrumental, romantic and ambient - although I'm not exactly sure what 'ambient' really is. Last.fm defines it as
Ambient music is a musical genre that is generally identifiable as being broadly atmospheric and environmental in nature.
which to be perfectly honest doesn't exactly help!

If anyone's on last.fm and wants to be my friend, I'm jackjanderson - I know, I'm very original when it comes to usernames!

I also came across my Year In Books on Goodreads. I read 23,761 pages across 66 books. I'd challenged myself to 70 so didn't quite make that. I'm aiming for 65 this year.
The shortest book I read was The Simpsons Annual which was 72 pages and the longest book I read was The Blood Gospel by James Rollins at 802. The average length of book I read was 360 pages.

About Me

I'm Jack, a recent retiree looking for a new hobby. Apparently 'annoying my girlfriend' isn't the best use of my days. Her opinion, not mine

I'm a life-long science-fiction and superheroes fan, and a voracious reader. I enjoy movies, fishing, astronomy, and gardening.

I live in Wales with my wife, our girlfriend and an ever growing collection of four-legged friends.

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