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I’m jumping on the 101 (things) in 1001 (days) bandwagon. Making the list was kinda fun; it went in bursts. I jotted down about 30 in 10 minutes, then got stuck for a couple days, then got up to about 90 in another day or two, then needed a week or so to decide on the last few. And then I sat on the whole thing for way too long. But, I figured I needed to finalized the list and officially start before I start finishing things.

The start date for this was Oct 26, when I began #94. That puts the end date at July 23, 2009. Here’s the list, lightly categorized:

• 1) Establish a regular yoga practice
• 2) Get regular aerobic exercise
• 3) Go skiing (it’s been 6 years since the last time I went) (post)
• 4) Go sailing (almost 10 years!)
• 5) Go backpacking
• 6) Go mountain biking
• 7) Ride in the Bridgepedal (post)
• 8-10) Find a good spa/salon for men and: get a facial, get a manicure, get a straight razor shave (post 1)
• 11) Do something new/different with my hair
• 12) Lose 10lbs. (Strictly speaking, 10lbs of fat. If I replaced fat with muscle and kept my current weight, that would be okay.)
• 13) Further research polyphasic sleep and give it a try if it doesn’t seem to be actually crazy. (posts)

• 14) Learn a new programming languages (Haskell)
• 15) Learn a new programming languages (Ruby)
• 16-17) Write 2 green-field applications (Taplister)
• 18-19) Give 2 conference or 4 user group talks (2 user group talks given, 1 conference talk given)
• 20) Learn Sanskrit: read/write/pronounce basic alphabet
• 21) Learn Sanskrit: basic vocabulary
• 22) Read Higher Order Perl

• 23) Reduce Trash Output (once per month pickup)
• 24) Create functional spaces in the basement
• 25) Figure out a workable composting system
• 26) More baking (at least once every two weeks) (posts)
• 27) Learn to cook a new type of cuisine
• 28) Create a new budget and actually track it
• 29-30) Buy 2 pieces of art created by people we know (or at least have met and had a conversation with)
• 31) Figure out a way to share 1 iTunes library between multiple users
• 32) Figure out a way to sync iTunes libraries between machines
• 33) Set up a multi-room music system (in the end, an iPod speaker unit)
• 34) Do regular meal planning
• 35) Figure out enough grown-up, eat-at-home lunches that I'm not tempted to just walk a couple blocks to one of the local restaurants for lunch each day
• 36) Establish regular bedtime for the little one
• 37) Create a chore board or similar
• 38) Find a babysitter
• 39) Have at least 1 date night a month
• 40) Find a shared online calendar system (Google Calendar)
• 41) Get an orchid to flower (photos)

• 42) Buy A House (post)
• 43) Furnish House with grown-up furniture: Bed
• 44) Furnish House with grown-up furniture: Couch & Chairs
• 45) Furnish House with grown-up furniture: Dining room (post 1)
• 46) Live with 1 car (or less!)
• 47) No Monthly Checks (all bills auto-paid) (post 1)
• 48) Get Renters Insurance
• 49) Figure out correct amount of life insurance and get it
• 50) Make a will
• 51-54) 4 Family Camping Trips
• 55) Blog More Regularly
• 56) Eat More Locally (75% of produce?)
• 57) Drink More Locally (50% of beer and wine?)
• 58) Find a locally roasted coffee I like to replace the Peet's Mocha Java rut that I've been in for too long
• 59) Set up a data backup system
• 60) do most errands (including groceries) on bike or foot
• 61) have dinner with friends once a week
• 62-63) Develop 2 father-daughter rituals/traditions
• 64) Write down my personal philosophy

• 65) Organize books. (No books in boxes. Either organize and shelve, or get rid of.)
• 66) Simplify finances (close excess accounts)
• 67) Organize old financial records: throw out unneeded stuff, create a system for archiving the remains. (post 1)
• 68) Rip all CDs to MP3 (AAC, whatever) and get rid of all but a modest number of absolute favorities, rarities, or particularly high quality recordings.
• 69) catch up on my stack of books to be read (post 1)
• 70) get rid of excess computer equipment (currently down to 1 desktop, 24 port switch, and a laptop(?))
• 71) buy enough clothes to go 2 weeks without doing laundry
• 72) get rid of clothes I don't wear (haven't worn in 1 year)
• 73) repair clothes in a timely manner (1 month?)
• 74) get rid of laserdiscs and player
• 75) get rid of LPs

• 76) Portland Chinese Garden (post)
• 77) Climb Mt. Hood
• 78) Greece
• 79) Southeast Asia
• 80) Crater Lake
• 81) Appalacians
• 82) Alaska

• 83) Resume playing an instrument (piano or guitar)
• 84) Brew beer
• 85) Buy a Digital SLR (post)
• 86) Post a photo a week
• 87) Frame Photos which I've printed but not gotten to
• 88) Develop a photo processing / publishing workflow
• 89) Go whale watching
• 90) Go to a kirtan

• 91) Make personal business cards
• 92) Improve blog design to the point that I'm happy with it
• 93) Clean up the rest of my website
• 94) migrate from CVS to subversion (post 1, post 2)
• 95) move blosxom.com to sourceforge
• 96) Get blosxom test suite to the point where others can (i.e. do) contribute tests
• 97) Learn to make fancy designs on top of a latte
• 98) Resume some type of community service activity (Search & Rescue?)

99-101 are private. They are well-defined (and probably the most challenging items on the list), but not things I want to talk about in public, for various reasons. I might reveal some of them if and when they come to pass.

It’s possible that I’ll change some items on this list on the future if I decide that something is basically impossible or somehow because irrelevant or just totally uninteresting to me. But, I’ll try not unless I really have to.