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  2. 1. Finish workplace Biggest Loser contest in top 10
    1 cheer     		1 person
  3. 2. Potty train my boy
    1 entry . 13 cheers     		1 person
  4. 3. Lose 33 pounds to not destroy the scale
    2 entries . 8 cheers     		1 person
  5. 4. Guess the meanings of a favorite song every day for a month
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  6. 5. Buy a Vespa when I hit my goal weight
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  7. 6. Finish a charitywater.org campaign
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  8. 7. Meditate daily for a month
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  9. 8. Get rid of 1 item a week for a year
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  10. 9. Finish editing my home movies
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  11. 10. Drink decaf coffee at work until the new year
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		1 person
  12. 11. Rid my diet of cheese
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  13. 12. Make a vegetable garden
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  14. 13. Reduce natural and artificial sweetener use
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  15. 14. Floss regularly
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  16. 15. Take a photo a day for a year
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  17. 16. Help someone start a podcast
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  18. 17. Fix small drywall holes in my house
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  19. 18. Wake up when my alarm clock goes off
    1 entry . 7 cheers     		7,470 people
  20. 19. Be a great manager
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  21. 20. Redo my office at work
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  22. 21. Learn to use Visio
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  23. 22. Write a book
    3 cheers     		31,072 people
  24. 23. Visit all 50 states
    7 cheers     		8,960 people
  25. 24. Setup financial software
    		1 person
  26. 25. Give up commercialized television
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  27. 26. Someone make me a mix tape
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  28. 27. Keep a clean car
    1 cheer     		7 people
  29. 28. Make my own video game
    1 cheer     		48 people
  30. 29. Learn karate
    1 cheer     		439 people
  31. 30. Establish bedtime rituals with the boys
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  32. 31. Go to bed with a clean sink
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  33. 32. Juice detox for 2 weeks
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  34. 33. Brew some beer, then DRINK!
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  35. 34. Take my kids to a concert in a park
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  36. 35. Learn Japanese
    3 cheers     		10,759 people
  37. 36. Read 8 books by the EOY
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  38. 37. Organize my movies
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  39. 38. Make a playlist of songs to scream along with while driving just to get stares
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  40. 39. Make some 3 year goals
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  41. 40. Log everything: diet, finances, exercise, happiness for a month
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How I did it
How to do NaNoWriMo
It took me
20 days
It made me
Giddy

How I did it: In NaNoWriMo you have to write a novel consisting of 50,000 words in 30 days. In the past few years I always chose a story that was doomed from the beginning or that made me bored just to write about.This time around I set out to win this thing once and for all!  Knowing that I was going to do it in November I spent October hashing out ideas for a good plot.  I added in some twists and named most of the characters.  I start… Read how I did it…

Nov 27, 05:18AM PST | 2 comments | 14 cheers


How to try a new vegetable a week
It took me
18 days
It made me
meh

How I did it: My wife and I had bought a juicer in the past few weeks. So this opened up a plethora of opportunity to try new vegetables.  I honestly grew up eating Green Beans, Broccoli, Peas, Carrots, and Potatoes.Now I have tried almost every single vegetable my local store sells.  It is impressive how little I cared when making some of these juices.  I began thinking of vegetables on how long it takes me to cut them up… Read how I did it…

Sep 25, 07:29AM PDT | 0 comments | 12 cheers


How to watch 100 movies in 2012
It took me
260 days
It made me
happy

How I did it: I mean, lets be honest here without preaching. One word: Netlfix.A close second is streaming movies from my iTunes to my Apple TVs. I gotta hand it to Apple for making this stuff ridiculously simple to setup and run.I have an impressive internet speed, current computers (Mac AND PC for both types of haters out there!), Apple TVs on all my entertainment centers, a home theater powered by a PS3, and an iPad2 for watching around the house. &… Read how I did it…

Sep 20, 08:23AM PDT | 0 comments | 2 cheers


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Recent entries
Read 8 books by the EOY
Reading list so far:

1. Dragon Wing by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman – 100%
2. Elven Star by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman – 100%
3. YOU: On A Diet by Dr Oz – 40%
4. My own untitled NaNoWriMo book! – By Me – 0%
5. A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony – 5%
6. The Hobbit by Tolkien – 10%
7. Dragondoom by Dennis McKiernan – 0%
8. Block-aid by The Farlanders – 0%

Yeah, I know… I spend so much time in reality that fantasy is my escape.

Dec 03, 11:31AM PST | 0 comments


organize my mac (read all 2 entries…)
Organizing the unorganizable

I tried to keep it simple. I moved the obvious stuff to the appropriate folders like docs, photos, videos, etc.

Next on all the internal drives I separated them into gaming, work, videography projects, and lastly my podcast show stuff.

I keep nothing on the desktop anymore, and even organized the launcher at the bottom to only apps I use, and not the standard Apple apps.

Now my Mac and I love each other again. I treated it with a brand new 2Tb Time Machine drive. You are welcome Mac. (Tussles the Mac’s hair)

Nov 27, 05:34AM PST | 2 cheers | 0 comments


organize my mac (read all 2 entries…)
Progress in organizing

I have updated everything. I have begun organizing folders for specific tasks that I always perform on my Mac. Being a podcaster, gamer, and film maker…I have a Mac Pro with 8 Tbs of drive space that is nearly full of god knows what. This is taking some time, but I am making great steps forward.

In the past 2 weeks I have been religious about making sure that I put files and projects in to my new organized spots. Now to move all the old stuff!

Sep 27, 04:44PM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments


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find the symbol for my next tattoo pass biology fall in love again createkg wants to Lose 30 pounds be more patient Share a night under the stars Lose Weight and Get Healthy Run around town in a bear suit learn to play bass guitar visit every MLB stadium write music watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies play the game halo online make a free layout for my imvu home page Lolly wants to get rid of things I don't need financial independence Appreciate people for who they are lose 20 lbs Read every Far Side Comic Strip stop procrastinating hotwire a car lose weight meditate daily be more outgoing celebrate my benign schizophrenia Buy a House Clean out my closet.
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