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suntoad




I'm doing 18 things
  

suntoad's Life List

  2. 1. Write a Novel
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  3. 2. Write a Travel Book
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  4. 3. buy a new car
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  5. 4. Buy a house on the beach
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  6. 5. Hack a USB Flash Drive
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  7. 6. daytrade
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  8. 7. own an alpaca
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  9. 8. build a pro website for myself
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  10. 9. Learn to surf
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  11. 10. Win a trifecta
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  12. 11. Learn to play the ukelele
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  13. 12. Start my own business
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  14. 13. Learn Spanish
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  15. 14. create my own website
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  16. 15. Participate in Nanowrimo
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  17. 16. Exhibit my photographs.
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  18. 17. learn to speak Japanese better
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  19. 18. organize my mp3s
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learn to speak Japanese better (read all 2 entries…)
Getting There 15 months ago

On the plane back to Japan last week I was able to watch a movie in Japanese without benefit of any subtitles, and today I began reading a book in Japanese.

The Movie was Departing Osaka at 0:00, the book is ダーリングは外国人.

I’m pretty pleased with that.

Apr 07, 2008, 08:37PM PDT | 0 comments


learn to speak Japanese better (read all 2 entries…)
Did it! Kinda. 17 months ago

The results came in yesterday and, congratulations me, I passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, level 3.

What’s bothering me is that I just barely passed. 65% cumulative when I had been hoping and expecting to get closer to 75% or 80%. Essentially, after a full year of studying and working at the language, my test scores were up by 6%.

I don’t know quite how to feel about this other than to say that studying on my own just isn’t working. So now I’m thinking about hiring a Japanese teacher and getting deep into the books again, but I am frustrated.

Still, we soldier on, right?

Feb 06, 2008, 06:17PM PST | 0 comments


Switch to linux (read all 2 entries…)
Switched 18 months ago

During the past month I have successfully refurbished an older (2003) eMachines box. I removed Windows and installed “Gusty” Ubuntu Linux and assorted software to re-make the machine into a Linux powered media pc.

I am using Miro for television and video podcasts, Audacity for audio recording, Skype for phone calls, and Ubuntu’s native software for CD and Mp3 playback.

This is an easy, fun, project, and I have been enjoying the results so much that my next computer, someday, will be a linux box from the ground up (as in, I’ll build it myself). For anyone who is as sick and tired of Windows as I was, I highly recommend switching to Linux.

Dec 30, 2007, 09:32PM PST | 0 comments


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Run a 5k in 21 Minutes see a psychiatrist learn to love myself more join a political party annhearts wants to become more organized find my dad get a tatto Visit the Galapagos learn to salsa dance be more flirty Learn to speak english fluently and to improve my communication skills sing karaoke go ice-skating again Fall Ridiculously and Wrecklessly, head-over-heels in Love win a poker game be nice crochet a blanket play the sims life stories online for free Have a massive fish tank with tropical fish Ride on a gondola Smartest snail wants to make a smaller ecological footprint be on Jeopardy! see more sunrises DONLOAD INUYASHA MOVIES,EPISODES see the grand canyon Memorize "Moonlight Sonata" kiss someone in paris
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