 I'm doing 26 things |
| 1. |
take a photo every day for one year
5 entries . 2 cheers |
90 people |
| 2. |
Understand PowerShell
2 entries . 2 cheers |
1 person |
| 3. |
Learn Mono and C#
1 cheer |
12 people |
| 4. |
learn Esperanto
3 entries . 7 cheers |
411 people |
| 5. |
identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
15 entries . 8 cheers |
7,969 people |
| 6. |
Do the Draw Squad book on my computer
10 entries . 2 cheers |
3 people |
| 7. |
find the Amulet of Yendor
1 entry . 4 cheers |
3 people |
| 8. |
read the quran
2 entries . 16 cheers |
188 people |
| 9. |
finish reading The Little Schemer
1 entry . 4 cheers |
6 people |
| 10. |
Get (or renew) a passport
1 entry . 15 cheers |
346 people |
| 11. |
Learn Lisp
1 entry . 5 cheers |
265 people |
| 12. |
visit New Zealand
11 cheers |
1,569 people |
| 13. |
Learn Japanese
5 cheers |
10,615 people |
| 14. |
live outside the united states
15 cheers |
195 people |
| 15. |
read the Kalevala
1 entry . 5 cheers |
10 people |
| 16. |
set aside food storage
1 entry . 4 cheers |
27 people |
| 17. |
Learn DBT
1 entry . 2 cheers |
1 person |
| 18. |
To follow Fly Lady's Weekly home Blessing Hour
3 cheers |
3 people |
| 19. |
knit 2 socks on 2 circulars
1 entry . 2 cheers |
2 people |
| 20. |
decorate my cubicle at work
2 entries . 9 cheers |
10 people |
| 21. |
Knit a light scarf for my mom
1 entry . 6 cheers |
1 person |
| 22. |
read all 200 books in the BBC's Big Read
1 cheer |
59 people |
| 23. |
find the roots of my family kudzu
1 entry |
1 person |
| 24. |
draw a leaf
1 entry . 4 cheers |
1 person |
| 25. |
watch all doctor who episodes
1 entry . 2 cheers |
17 people |
| 26. |
learn blender
1 entry |
56 people |
How I did it: How did we do it? Eating better and exercising regularly.For the last few years Mrs. Geek and I have been subscribing to a weekly menu mailer. That takes care of the "eating better." Okay, so we haven't held to the menu every week. But we did a pretty good job. That knocked about thirty pounds off for me, and about forty pounds for her.For the last eight or nine months, we have been attending "hydrofit" classes at the local pool. It's bas… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I kept my project list small. Easy enough considering that I share a one bedroom apartment with my wife. My knitting stash and current projects go in one lone basket in the closet.Obviously I'm going to keep knitting more projects. I just wanted to close this goal out. Read how I did it…
How I did it: Most of the work was in transforming the whole-site-in-one file format I was using for WebMake to the one-file-per-page format for Webgen. I definitely like the accompanying designs, and the tags are easy to work with. I *know* I'll be fiddling with it more, and I may even migrate away from Webgen later. Read how I did it…
I finished the first chapter of the PowerShell book. PowerShell is definitely a worthy scripting language / environment. This will be slow going, though. I spend a fair amount of time in Linux, and won’t want to boot into Windows all the time just so I can experiment with PowerShell.
Still. Bound to get through it sooner or later.
I just haven’t been doing a good job of posting them the last few days.
Here. It’s the last of the Christmas chocolate salmon. Mrs. Geek and I sang “Fish Heads” as we ate it.
The rain has started. This guy was waiting to cheer me up after I finally managed to get past the snow plow slush blocking the parking lot.
He’ll be gone by tomorrow at the latest.
(What is RSS?)
ComicMedal wants to drink less alcohol
be a vegetarian for a week
stop being lazy
get up on time
Learn to cook
Do NaNoWriMo
play sims online
learn to pick a lock
Let go of the past
Design and build my own house
KatyLove wants to Grow in Christ
be a good daughter
go green
grow my own vegetables
Learn to play keyboard
run with the bulls in Pamplona
stop eating fast food
learn fencing
learn to sail a sailboat
do yoga
visit every MLB stadium
See Pearl Jam live
