Mark




I'm doing 13 things
 

Mark's Life List

  1. 1. Learn to play the guitar
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  2. 2. Learn Japanese
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    9,752 people
  3. 3. exercise 3X a week
    621 people
  4. 4. Make my own clothes
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    2,198 people
  5. 5. learn to use a sewing machine
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    290 people
  6. 6. Try a new recipe every week
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    69 people
  7. 7. lose 100 pounds
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  8. 8. learn welsh
    229 people
  9. 9. kotatsu
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  10. 10. build a kotatsu
    1 entry
    22 people
  11. 11. Visit Japan
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  12. 12. Do the Couch to 5k running plan
    312 people
  13. 13. Complete the 100 push ups program
    16 people

How I did it
How to learn Hiragana & Katakana
It took me
30 days
It made me


Recent entries
build a kotatsu
Some ideas on a kotatsu 19 months ago

I’ve been thinking about cheap ways to do this for a while now and have found a couple of decent heater option ideas here in the states and have decided to cut costs on the top to be able to afford a decent heater

The base is a fairly straightforward frame but I’d like a nice looking top and to do it well costs a bit. However I’ve seen several busted coffee tables and small dining tables that could have the top knocked off of out in the trash. I wish I’d thought to grab one before now. I was looking for one I could just cut down and unbolt the top, and while that would be easy, it’s not much harder to take one apart where the top is glued in and part of the frame work .

I think with scavenged parts it cane be done for less than $150 and a third of that is to get the heater that I want.

I’m going to update here but also put up a page at my main site as I go



clean my room
Untitled 22 months ago

Now if I could just keep it that way



go to an onsen
On hold 22 months ago

for 2008 I am limiting myself to five goals. This one is one of the ones I would like to do at a future date but am not going to focus on this year



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