Everybody has a story about what he or she did during the pandemic to stay sharp or stay sane or however we want to describe it.

Hard to believe it, but that was six years ago, and I don’t think I’ve ever disclosed one of the two projects I began in Spring 2020 while we were all in quarantine.

Watch every episode of The Simpsons.

Sure, I’d already seen probably 85% of them, but yeah, there were plenty I hadn’t seen, and many that I hadn’t seen in 20 years, so it was worth going through all the episodes, in order, here in 2020.

And 2021, and 2022, and 2023…

The journey ended Sunday night, when I watched the last episode.

Well, the most recent episode.

Seeing every episode of The Simpsons, all 800-plus of them, took me only six years.

Or 37 years, depending on how you look at it.

(Pause for effect.)

My other pandemic goal?

I’ve mentioned this one before. That I was to read (yes, read) every issue of Playboy magazine.

I just finished the July 1970 issue.

Just another half century to go.