A chill mix featuring Glass Animals, Azuni, Empire of the Sun, and Eli & Fur.

1. HAAB - Emotions (Original Mix)
2. Ornette - Crazy (Noze remix)
3. Big Wild - City of Sound (Crooked Colours Remix)
4. Glass Animals - Gooey (Wild Culture Remix)
5. Azuni - Nightshifter
6. Lissat and Voltaxx - Closer to Me (Andrey Exx & Fomichev Remix)
7. Empire of the sun - We Are The People (FlicFlac Remix)
8. Kings of tomorrow - Finally (Extended Mix)
9. Eli and Fur - You're So High
10. The Blaze - Territory
11. Lee Burton - You've Got Me (Nhar Firefly Remix)
12. Bonobo - Linked

At the end of every year I usually try to write a summary for my travelogue but 2020 and 2021 have been ... special. Anyway, it was interesting to try to summarize two years with a few photos, and here is the result.

Year 2021 was marked by three important events: two of them happy, one sad. The sad one was that my father in law, Ramon Leyton, passed away in August 2021. The happy ones were that we moved to a nice penthouse with a sunny terrace, and that I got tenured.

Year 2020 was the year of the lockdown due to COVID-19. Right before it I co-organized a large conference in Barcelona. During the lockdown, I learned to cook and to do nail stamping, live streamed DJ sets, and enjoyed some quiet time with Fabiola. After the lockdown we were able to do small trips inside Catalonia.

Last night I dreamt that there was a crowd of people outside the building where I work, so to get to my office I had to go through the underground parking lot. While I was crossing it, a limousine arrived and Ariana Grande got out... so I made a joke and greeted her "Hey Miley!" and she angrily replied "It's MARIANE!" [for reasons that will be obvious in a moment] ... to which I answered "I know, just kidding". I didn't know what to say so I said something like "people seem to be very excited to have you here", to which he replied "whatever, did you know so-and-so was signed today by so-and-so " to which I replied "by whom?" And she said "DMG Records" and I pretending to know who she was taking about was like "Wow, that's huge!" [Note: DMG is a label from the 1980s, for years now it just manages a back catalog] and she said "You didn't know?!" and me smiling "No, some of us have jobs, you know, which reminds me of ...", and I made the gesture that I had to go, "... so have fun!" I said bye and went up to my office.

I wanted to tell my co-workers, but I couldn't remember the name of the artist and, oddly enough, in my dream I knew that "Mariane" was wrong, so I looked online who was in the cast of "Don't Look Up", there I found her name "Ariana!" and woke up. In my dreams, I've internet access :-)

My Christmas message is this: if you are analyzing data don't discretize a continuous variable *just* because you're way more familiar with tests and methods for categorical variables than for continuous variables. I'm not saying don't do it, but don't do it just for that reason. It's a bad habit of computing people, I find myself doing it all the time -- but others such as economists don't do it as much. Learn methods that can handle continuous variables and use them. Ho ho ho.