I'm doing 42 things
Well, I haven’t heard anything back for a while from my project manager on this. So I guess I’m going to assume it is done.
DJStroky's Life List
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1. Win a Cat 3 bike race
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2. Never Receive a Snail Mail Letter Ever Again
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3. become a PTV Vision Certified Trainer
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4. turn one of my bicycles into a scraper bike
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5. wake up and immediately think of God
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6. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
2 entries . 20 cheers7,970 people -
7. lay in a hammock
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8. watch a Chuck Norris film
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9. jump in a puddle
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10. get to know my neighbors
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11. Cook all the meals in my Cookbook
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12. get into the habit of doing the dishes whenever I pass the kitchen sink
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13. fill up my play stock portfolio with 40 stocks
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14. see the demolition of a large structure
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15. invest in the stock market
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16. Advocate for more greenways and parks in Seattle
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17. become a millionaire
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18. Sell stuff on ebay
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19. learn chinese
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20. complete a list of 1001 places to see while you are alive
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21. complete a list of 1001 things to do while you are alive
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22. be part of a support crew that will help climbers summit K2
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23. communicate more often with my parents
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24. stop getting wasted
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25. try 10 new vegetables
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26. Make a best friend
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27. Be on time
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28. improve my website
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29. write about my adventures on public transit
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30. be happy
1 entry . 1 cheer24,437 people -
31. Bike between Tacoma and Seattle in less than 2 hours
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32. Implement security features into my next website
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33. Find a comfy, but sleek road bike sadle
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34. learn how to cook curry
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35. play around with Graphserver
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36. not have an anti-car attitude
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37. figure out how to run python on a server
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38. see Moodymann perform live
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39. Collect music files for every Essential Mix between 1993 and 2011
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40. fly in a seaplane
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41. Learn to kiteboard
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42. Compete in the Portland Urban Iditarod
1 cheer1 person
How I did it
It made me
non-miserable. 
How I did it: It's all about keeping yourself comfortable enough to keep riding in the rain. That mainly means keeping warm and the cold rain out. To really get it right will cost a fair amount of money. A number of items will need to be bought for the bike, but even more in terms of clothing. For the bike, it's good to have some tires at least 25c or wider so that there is enough traction in the rain. Then both front and rear fenders need to be … Read how I did it…
It made me
Satisfied
How I did it: Regular bicycles didn't cut it. I needed to borrow a trailer and a cargo bike from a friend to haul the large stuff. Then it was all just a matter of packing and being creative in loading everything. Read how I did it…
It made me
obligated 
How I did it: I started looking at condos through one of the numerous online searching sites. However, a local blog also posted information on a condo auction. I toured some regular condos for sale with a Realtor, but toured the condo for auction on my own. I made a ranking system in excel to rate which properties I liked best.I made another excel sheet to see what the financial situation would look like depending on the price. … Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
The year is 2010 in December. I go to check the mail of an apartment that has been resided in 3 mere days. The mailbox is full and overwhelmed with junk and personal letters including bank account information from the previous tenant. But the most surprising thing to me is just how expected yet nonsensical this situation is. Why does our society even bother with snail mail at a time when we have email and electronic billing? Any email provider would block spam and even try to bring spammers to court, yet the USPS must make bank off of mail spam. Aren’t things a little backwards here?
Tonight I have decided that my number 1 goal has changed to riding the world of snail mail. Snail mail is obsolete and pointless for a whole variety of reasons:
- 90% of what I seem to receive is advertisements
- Snail mail kills trees to be used for the letters
- Snail mail pollutes the world from the transportation emissions
- Snail mail WASTES MY TIME
- Can you say email and online-bill-pay??
The time it takes to sift through all the junk that comes in my inbox is astounding. Buy this! Buy that! $6,000 free now, but you have to pay $10,000 later. And during October: Vote for me because I’m spamming you! WHAT THE FUCK? If you don’t know me don’t fucking send me mail you fucking motherfucker.
I was able to make it through a weekend of camping with my drinking friends who have a biking problem without blacking out. I’m pretty stocked about that. I came prepared with a shot glass to measure how much I drank and tried to avoid people passing around bottles of booze as best I could.
