I Really Like This Tune

I am going to end my writing of blog posts with this post, which means for 2021, I will have 621 posts. By the numbers, it makes this year be ranked 7th out of 14 years I have been writing posts on this blog.

1. 2018 (1857) 
2. 2019 (1650) 
3. 2017 (1507) 
4. 2016 (1364) 
5. 2020 (742) 
6. 2014 (636) 
7. 2021 (621) 
8. 2015 (567) 
9. 2013 (433) 
10. 2009 (270) 
11. 2012 (259) 
12. 2008 (209) 
13. 2011 (140) 
14. 2010 (121) 

I feel like if I didn't make today be a final cut, I would create 20 "fluff" posts - 10 today, 10 tomorrow - in an effort to make this year's total be 640, thus moving 2021 to 6th place, which would be really meaningless because there is no way I can write 104 posts in 2 days to have 745 posts for the year and boosting 2021 to 5th place. Instead, I'll accept the reality of not writing as many posts in 2021 as I did in 2014, 2014, 2020, 2016, 2017, 2019, & 2018. Speaking of 2018, how in the hell did I write 1237 more posts than I did in 2021?!? That's a very high standard of writing 155 posts / month, whereas in 2021, I wrote 52 posts / month. 

There were a lot of great tunes that went into my ears in 2021. This morning, I realized that the tune "Ruthless" by Nonpoint may not be the "best" song of 2021, but it does represent the way I would describe 2021. It was a ruthless year of highs and lows. Obviously, yes, the COVID-19 pandemic is at the forefront of my mind and dictated the way I live. For example, COVID-19 dictated the following:

1. how many Masses I attended at Saint Thomas More
• not nearly as many as I did pre-COVID-19
  
2. how many concerts I attended 
1. Shinedown - August
2. Knotfest - September
3. ZZ Top - October
4. Kansas - November
3. how many movies I saw in the theater
• Spider-Man: No Way Home - December 28

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My sincere hope is that 2022 results in going to Mass at Saint Thomas More every week, going to more than 4 concerts, and definitely seeing more than 1 movie in the theater!

These are the final stats for my external hard drives:

Drive Letter	Capacity	Free Space	Used
A	10.9	4.94	5.96
E	7.27	4.68	2.59
E	3.63	1.34	2.29
F	4.54	1.21	3.33
H	9.09	6.51	2.58
I	4.54	2.23	2.31
J	3.63	1.16	2.47
O	9.09	1.03	8.06
P	9.09	4.06	5.03
	61.78	27.16	34.62

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See you in 2022!