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- Complete a 26 Things project.
Photos of 26 things in one month. http://www.sh1ft.org/26things/
Completed May 25, 2006. Click for details.- Create a new 101 in 1001 list that starts on September 9, 2008.
- Start creating it in advance and have it ready. Items from this list must be added to the list (making it longer).
- Post a review for each of my 50 favorite movies.
A short review. (One of my other items is make a list of 50 and buy them if I don't already own them).
- Post a review of every book I read.
- Do this for a three-month period.
- Post a review of every movie I see in a theater.
- Do this for a three-month period.
- Post this list on-line.
Get this (101 in 1001) list formatted so that I can get it imported into Movable Type and on-line.
Completed March 8, 2006. Click for details.- Do the Hines Drive lights drive again.
Do their Christmas lights tour.
Completed January 1, 2008. Click for details.- Go to the Detroit Zoo.
- I haven't been in years and I don't live that far from it. (If they close it before I get there, go to the Toledo Zoo, I've never been there.)
- Go to the Greenfield Village Christmas celebration.
They have lights and fireworks, I live a few miles away and I've never been.
Completed December 17, 2007. Click for details.- List 50 favorite films, buy them!
- Watch them and if I don't own them, then buy them. These don't have to be great/best films, just favorites.
- See Anna Nalick in concert.
Completed December 8, 2005. Click for details.- See Audra Kubat in concert again.
She opened for Aimee Mann in 2006 and she was great. She's local and I want to see here again.
Completed July 1, 2006. Click for details.- See Blondfire in concert again.
- (The band formerly known as Astaire).
- See Conjure One in concert again.
- I saw them once when the opened for Delerium and I really enjoyed them.
- See Delerium in concert again.
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- See Liz Phair in concert again.
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- See a movie every day for a week.
- At a theater.
Completed July 14, 2007. Click for details. - Have the extended family over once a year.
Do this once a year, planned in advance. (Hmmm. I wrote this wrong, I probably could have counted this as three items.)
December 23rd 2006 is the first one. That was for Christmas.
September 6th, 2007 is the other. This was for Mom's surprise party. Technically they weren't over at my house, but I did gather them in one place.
I'll still have to do this one more time...- Host family Christmas at my house one year.
Have it closer to Christmas, it's been celebrated too early lately.
Completed December 25, 2006. Click for details.- Make sure I see Mom once a month (and get a meal with her).
- Do this for one year (I'm not sure if this will make me feel better or crazier?).
Completed September 15, 2007. Click for details. - Bicycle 101 miles.
- Do this in one year. This will actually be harder since it's work to take my bicycle places.
- Drink a half gallon of water a day.
Do this for three weeks and see if you feel better(?) or how you feel..
Completed September 18, 2006. Click for details.- Eat Healthier.
- Do this by going three weeks with no fast food.
- Get an eye examination.
It's been a long while and the close stuff is fuzzy sometimes...
Completed December 20, 2006. Click for details.- Get my hearing checked.
- It's been years.
- Go two weeks without Coca Cola.
No other caffeinated beverages, either.
Completed December 25, 2006. Click for details.- Roller Blade more.
- Once every two weeks in the summer (for some 4 month period).
- Rollerblade 101 miles.
- Do this in one year.
- Sleep better.
- Try at least three new gimmicks/systems/drugs/etc. to see what might help.
- Take a yoga class
Just take a short community class to try it.
Completed October 23, 2006. Click for details.- Walk daily.
- Walk daily (1-2 miles) for a month and see how you feel.
- Clean out the junk room.
- Do this to be able to actually set up the spare bed. This one may not be possible.
- Decide if I might actually want to live in Costa Rica.
- I've talked about this for years so make a life plan or decide not to.
- Frame all of my college degrees.
It's been 10 years, isn't it about time?
Completed March 15, 2006. Click for details.- Frame more vacation photos.
Then hang them up.
Completed December 20, 2006. Click for details.- Get a better kind of projector for the living room.
To watch television with. The one I have is good, but the technology for that stuff just keeps getting better and I really need want a brighter one (with more features).
Completed December 25, 2006. Click for details.- Get a new carbon monoxide detector.
The old one is pretty old and doesn't look like it could detect much.
Completed March 3, 2006. Click for details.- Get a new desk chair.
I think my current one is from 1986(?)
Completed January 15, 2006. Click for details.- Get a new desk for the landing.
I've got a spot upstairs that needs a nice desk. I've kinda wanted one since I moved in...
Completed March 11, 2006. Click for details.- Get new living room couch and chairs.
- I'd really like this, my new ones (1999) just didn't hold up, I've had hand me down furniture longer than that.
- Get new living room tables and end tables.
I so need these.
Completed August 8, 2006. Click for details.- Get some kind of window drapes/treatments for the living room.
I need something a little nicer since I pretty much just have blinds.
Completed August 8, 2006. Click for details.- Get the drywall re-taped and painted in my condo.
- It's settled since moving in...
- Move somewhere else local?
- I keep looking at places a little northwest of where I live (or at least decide I'm not going to).
- Paint the inside of the garage
- Paint it with anything, even primer, would make it look better than the taped off drywall I have.
- Reverse the door on my office at home.
- I think I'd have more options if the door opened out vs. opening in.
- Adopt a Baby?
- Make some progress in adopting one or make one (or decide not to).
- Attend church every week for a three-month period.
- For three months try getting up and out to church. Being ut of town excludes this, but I have to extend the time to make it up.
- Find a church I like (try several new ones).
- Try at least six different ones. Go to the top three three times each.
- Get some new suits.
- It's been a while, get at least 3 new ones.
- Order the brown dress shoes that I like.
I own several pairs in black but need to order the ones in the color brown. I hate shopping for shoes and I'm definitely lacking nice brown shoes. So the guy at the Hush Puppies store said he could order them for me cheaper than I could buy on-line (and they were cheaper). I just wasn't sure what my size was (I always get confused if I like the 10 or 10.5 better) so I wanted to check my black ones at home.
Completed March 16, 2006. Click for details.- Release at least 50 bookcrossing books.
- Do this in a 3 month period. http://bookcrossing.com/
- Take another community education class.
One that lasts more than one night.
Completed June 2, 2007. Click for details.- Take at least 10 photos a day.
- Do this for one month. Post the 5 (or more) best each day.
- Take lunch to work everyday for two weeks.
- (I like to get out of the office during lunch so this'll probably be in the summer) I'm not sure if this is for health, money or other reasons, but there seems to be multiple benefits in doing this.
- Try ice skating.
- It's been years since I tried and I love rollerblading so...
- Do my current taxes.
Mail by April 15, 2006.
Completed April 15, 2006. Click for details.- Do my taxes for last year.
And actually mail them. (These are the 2004 taxes).
Completed March 11, 2006. Click for details.- Do my taxes for the year before last.
And actually mail them.
Completed February 17, 2006. Click for details.- Do my taxes in 2007.
Mail by April 15, 2007.
Completed February 7, 2007. Click for details.- Do my taxes in 2008.
Mail by April 15, 2008.
Completed February 9, 2008. Click for details.- Figure out a plan for my mortgage.
I pay a extra on my mortgage, but bank interest payment rates are about to exceed my 4.25% mortgage interest rates I need to figure out a better plan to pay this off.
Completed March 6, 2006. Click for details.- Go one week without using any cash.
- Must use charge, debit or EFT. Keep track of the very few times you have to use cash.
- Make Money On-Line.
- Something consistent. More than just ad(?)s, unless I can somehow get a reliable check out of it.
- Sell at least 15% of my comic books.
- I have thousands that I'd like to get rid of.
- Sell something on eBay.
- Anything, just get it going so you can sell more...
- Switch to a charge card with better rewards.
My current car rewards expire after 3 years and I don't update cars that often so it's kind of a waste.
Completed December 11, 2007. Click for details.- Change all exterior bulbs in my car.
- Do them all at once so I don't need to change any of them for a long time.
- Clear out my Amazon Wishlist.
Buy everything or delete it!
Completed January 24, 2007. Click for details.- Get some updated content going on all the web sites that I own.
- Update 50 sites at least once a month for three months (or stop paying for the domain).
- Get up the minute that the alarm goes off.
- Do this every day for a month.
- Take my telescope out of the city.
Use it at least three different nights.
Completed October 22, 2006. Click for details.- Be an early adopter for the next new Palm OS phone.
It needs WiFi, BT, a camera, high speed Internet and a whole lot of memory. (Or some similar solution)
Completed May 31, 2006. Click for details.- Figure out a better backup system for my computer info
such as: music, photos, data, etc. Something off site(?) or a server at a friend's(?)....
Completed October 2, 2007. Click for details.- Finish converting my Xbox into a media system.
- I picked it up ages ago and never finished (barely started).
Completed December 9, 2007. Click for details. - Get Mom hooked up with a TiVo or something similar.
This I can probably do. I'll see what she keeps with her cable plan and maybe just get her hooked up with their DVR.
Completed May 24, 2008. Click for details.- Get Mom using the Internet.
I'm not sure how to make it happen, but I've got almost 3 years to do this...
Completed March 2, 2007. Click for details.- Get a new battery for my digital camera.
I've needed this for a while.
Completed April 6, 2006. Click for details.- Get an SLR digital camera.
Something SLRish with a better zoom and lens(es).
Completed April 7, 2006. Click for details.- Get most of my digital photos online.
- Have them be sorted and organized (at least 50%).
- Get some kind of faster Internet connection for while I'm on the go.
EVDO? What happens when I'm somewhere without this? Can I use older tech to get on-line? (My current slow tethered solution works in many places). We'll see what the future brings...
Completed May 31, 2006. Click for details.- Get something for my car to integrate my iPod better.
- Something that powers it and lets me view the songs and control it from something other than the iPod display.
- Scan my old photos.
- At least 25% of my photos.
- Upgrade (replace) the desktop Macintosh computer.
- Not top of the line, just something newer than what I have (circa 2001).
- Attend Burning Man.
- A big concert event in the southwest. http://www.burningman.com/
- Attend SXSW.
- Am interactive media/film/music event. http://www.sxsw.com/
- Fly first class.
- Pay the extra to fly in first class. I got bumped once but it was just for a short leg of the trip once (a rushed rerouted trip that added an extra leg), I need to do it for real.
- Get in the car and just travel for 10-14 days.
- Load up the car and visit a few towns and hang out. This could be somewhere big or somewhere little.
- Go back to the kite festival in Grand Haven.
- I've gone before and it's great. Be sure to see the night flying.
- Go to France.
- Be sure to go up the Eiffel Tower.
- Go to a Hot Air Balloon festival.
- There are several in Michigan each year and I've always wanted to go.
- Live out of the country for at least two weeks.
- Don't travel much, just stay in one general area (except for a few day trips).
- Take Mom to England.
- Mom needs to see another continent. I did talk her into getting her passport a year ago. And they speak English (sort of) in England, so I think that's the place.
- Take a Geek Cruise.
- These guys do tech cruises to exotic places. http://geekcruises.com/
- Take a warm vacation in winter 2006-07.
To somewhere sunny and warm (even a short trip counts).
Completed December 30, 2006. Click for details.- Take a warm vacation in winter 2007-08.
- Somewhere sunny and warm (even a short trip counts).
Completed December 9, 2007. Click for details. - Vacation in Egypt.
Be sure to see the pyramids!
Completed April 18, 2006. Click for details.- Visit Costa Rica again.
Explore the western peninsula and spend some time in Jaco again.
Completed December 30, 2006. Click for details.- Visit Roswell, New Mexico.
- To see where they landed.
- Visit friends in Boston.
- I've got several sets of friends there and I've been meaning to for ages. Actually 1/2 of them just moved to Portland, OR so I figure that counts as an option also...
- Watch all the Egypt specials I've taped.
I've taped (TiVoed) at least a dozen specials/documentaries about Egypt. Watch at least six before leaving arriving.
Completed May 10, 2006. Click for details.
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- Get Mom hooked up with a TiVo or something similar.
- Do my taxes in 2008.
- Do the Hines Drive lights drive again.
- Go to the Greenfield Village Christmas celebration.
- Switch to a charge card with better rewards.
- Finish converting my Xbox into a media system.
- Take a warm vacation in winter 2007-08.
- Figure out a better backup system for my computer info
- Make sure I see Mom once a month (and get a meal with her).
- See a movie every day for a week.
- Take another community education class.
- Get Mom using the Internet.
- Do my taxes in 2007.
- Clear out my Amazon Wishlist.
- Take a warm vacation in winter 2006-07.
- Visit Costa Rica again.
- Host family Christmas at my house one year.
- Go two weeks without Coca Cola.
- Get a better kind of projector for the living room.
- Frame more vacation photos.
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