I'm doing 39 things
If you don’t believe me watch this video about The Mississippi Squirrel Revival which can be traced back to a single squirrel in a church on a Sunday morning.
Celtic Christian's Life List
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1. ┌────────── Life Values ──────────┐
19 cheers1 person -
2. live with no boundaries between the sacred and the secular
4 entries . 145 cheers7 people -
3. Be the mystic I want to be
1 entry . 79 cheers3 people -
4. Drink tea in mindfulness
3 entries . 46 cheers1 person -
5. simplify my life and material possessions
5 entries . 49 cheers2 people -
6. make the most of my 30s
7 entries . 44 cheers29 people -
7. overcome my struggle with compulsive binge eating
4 entries . 27 cheers1 person -
8. ┌───────── Long Term ─────────┐
12 cheers2 people -
9. become ordained
4 entries . 48 cheers5 people -
10. keep my virginity until I'm married
5 entries . 81 cheers147 people -
11. Buy a kilt
3 entries . 90 cheers37 people -
12. get my weight below 200 pounds
53 cheers9 people -
13. Write a book and get it published
2 entries . 56 cheers482 people -
14. swim under a waterfall
2 entries . 118 cheers165 people -
15. shave my head
2 entries . 18 cheers990 people -
16. take the 100 things challenge
3 entries . 18 cheers22 people -
17. ┌────────── Reading ──────────┐
11 cheers1 person -
18. Read through the entire Bible in 2012
3 team members . 3 entries . 8 cheers5 people -
19. Do the 2012 TBR challenge
1 entry . 6 cheers5 people -
20. Read Dostoievski's Crime and Punishment
27 cheers2 people -
21. Read Chekhov's short stories
14 cheers2 people -
22. Read through William Barclay's Daily Study Bible series
1 entry . 5 cheers1 person -
23. read at least 43 of the World's 100 Greatest Books
4 team members . 21 entries . 30 cheers4 people -
24. read Desiring God by John Piper
6 cheers1 person -
25. read When I Don't Desire God by John Piper
5 cheers1 person -
26. read Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper
7 cheers1 person -
27. ┌────────── Mid Term ──────────┐
10 cheers1 person -
28. lower my blood pressure
1 entry . 46 cheers137 people -
29. make homemade beef jerky
1 entry . 35 cheers8 people -
30. Lose 30 pounds
9 entries . 29 cheers5,621 people -
31. clean my desk (for real this time)
6 entries . 30 cheers2 people -
32. Simplify my computer
2 entries . 23 cheers0 people -
33. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
61 cheers1,040 people -
34. watch all episodes of Home Improvement
2 entries . 15 cheers1 person -
35. keep a commonplace book
3 entries . 12 cheers12 people -
36. Scan all my papers
12 cheers2 people -
37. Post periodic updates about what I am doing to make progress on my goals
4 entries . 10 cheers1 person -
38. become an early riser
1 entry . 10 cheers232 people -
39. master markdown
2 entries . 6 cheers2 people
How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: I used a computer program to generate a month reading schedule that took chapter length into consideration. Each day for the month I slowly read through the day's reading aloud as a prayer to God while taking in the beauty of the Hebrew poetry in the process. Read how I did it…
Recent entries
Just discovered Pandoc which is a platform independent command line program that can handle Markdown files. My favorite feature about Pandoc is that it can even convert HTML files to Markdown encoded TXT files. Which is just what I needed as now it is trivial to convert the few format dependent documents that I have from DOC or RTF to HTML before taking them to Markdown files. Also if one uses windows MarkdownPad is another great program which provides a text editor on the left side for writing Markdown text files with a few shortcut features with a real time HTML preview on the right side. Only thing that I have against it is that unlike Notepad++ it does not have spellcheck but oh well the combination of the two programs still get the job done.
Kidnap the cheer fairy and have a stern talk with her about the (un)availability of cheers when I need them (read all 4 entries…)
Ok so as I mentioned before I had the cheer fairy in my trap who was refusing to listen or work with me. Which made it clear that a more forceful approach was clearly needed. I must admit that it was really tempting to take out a pair of scissors and slowly start clipping away at tiny parts of her wings until she started to listen. Although in the end I’m happy to report that I did not give in to the temptation to torture the little cheer fairy of 43 Things. I just settled for the good old American alternative to torture known as water boarding, which I stepped up a level with ice water. Which in theory should have worked fine, although the problem was that nobody told me that fairies or at least the cheer fairy variety melts when submerged in ice water. So now instead of a cheer fairy problem we are left with a little pile of soggy pixie dust. Although that is nothing to worry about as it turns out that the now deceased cheery fairy apparently was not behind the delivery of cheers as I still receive cheers after that little water boarding accident. So it turns out that this cheer fairy variety appears to be a subset of or a confused tooth fairy type fairy which mistakes our cheers as something that we are leaving out to be taken away. So until it becomes clear that there was only one cheer fairy that is now gone, I suggest keeping your extra cheers in a glass of ice water just in case there was more than one cheer fairy in order to make sure they stay safe until you are ready to use them.
