24 versions in 24 hours on 24 days

Last New Year's Eve, while waiting for the countdown to begin, I wondered what band would be the best to cover Fairytale of New York, and I settled on Dropkick Murphys as the current act closest to The Pogues.
One quick YouTube search later and I discovered that yes, the Boston group had covered the Christmas classic, and posted it online

Closing out the year with Dropkick Murphys covering Fairytale of New York.
You're welcomehttps://t.co/cYdPZWrIzf

— tetsujin1979 (@tetsujin1979) December 31, 2019

An idea formed in my head, if this cover existed, how many others did? Was there enough to post a new one for each of the 12 days of Christmas?
Back to YouTube, and a search of "Fairytale of New York cover" yielded multiple versions of the song: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fairytale+of+new+york+cover

 
The idea expanded with the results of the search - were there enough to post one version of the song for the month of December? Indeed there was, from acts as diverse as folk singer Christy Moore and punk outfit No Use For A Name.

Thus was the plan finalised - post one version of the song online, using each of the 24 hours of the day, in the 24 days leading up to Christmas Day, December 2020
Fortunately twitter has a "schedule tweet" option, so I didn't have to be awake at 3am to post Lauren Paige and Henry Newbury's version on December 14th.

Lauren Paige and Henry Newbury - Fairytale of New Yorkhttps://t.co/L9W8yFJ3E3

— tetsujin1979 (@tetsujin1979) December 14, 2020

Unfortunately, facebook reserves the "schedule post" option for company pages, so not all versions were posted there. Thanks, Mark.

I've listened to around 40 versions in choosing the ones that were posted, from a drum and bass remix to a heavy metal version that Megadeth would call "heavy on the bass"

And so, twenty four versions posted on each of the twenty four hours in a day, on each of the twenty four days before Christmas, later, the original, the classic
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York



PS Here's a table with the full list of covers posted, with the hour it was posted on

Hour	Artist
0	Florence and the Machine, featuring Billy Bragg
1	Kahoons, featuring Anna McLuckie
2	Stars
3	Lauren Paige and Henry Newbury
4	Becky Hill
5	Cast of Once
6	Maverick Sabre
7	Russell Crowe and Alan Doyle, NYC Indoor Garden Party 3
8	Raven Kits
9	The Whistlin' Donkeys
10	Gabrielle Aplin, Hannah Grace and Hudson Taylor
11	Alex James Ellison and Natalie Gray
12	Christy Moore
13	Damien Dempsey and Sinead O'Connor
14	Stirling Bridge
15	Black Water Country
16	Walk Off The Earth
17	Katie Miller and Amanda Palmer
18	Dropkick Murphys
19	Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill
20	Coldplay
21	Gavin James
22	Paloma Faith and Roy Stride
23	No Use For A Name

WFH

With the nation now on lockdown for the next two weeks, I've seen more than one person post on social media that they're at home, and setting up their office away from the office. As an IT worker, I've been fortunate to have the option to work from home for about 15 years now, so I offer you this advice

• Follow your normal morning routine - get up at the same time, wash, brush your teeth, have breakfast. If you don't, having to get back into the routine when you go back to work is nigh on torturous
• If you normally have a long commute, and hence now have more time in the morning, before your normal start time, go for a walk. Exercise is important (I'll come back to that one)
• You want to be comfortable, but not relaxed. If you don't have an office chair at home, use a kitchen chair. 
• Do not sit in your favourite seat. You will not be able to work in the same place where you relax, and (more importantly) when you finish for the day, you will not be able to relax if it is in the same place where you work
• Don't turn on the TV - Netfix/Amazon Prime/YouTube are out. You might not be in the office, but you are at work. TV is a distraction you don't need. You wouldn't watch these at your desk, you're not going to watch them here
• The radio, podcasts, and music, are fine, but only if you listen to them at work - see above.
• Take lunch at the same time, and for the same length of time. 
• If you normally go for a walk at lunch, go for a walk now
• Leave the house at the end of the day. You need that disconnect between "where I work" and "where I live". If you do yoga, or pilates, do it at home, but try to do it in a different room to your office

If you succeed in doing all these, be sure to tell me how