I'm doing 28 things
Next week I go back to work, and I’ve gotten rid of a ton of stuff that I could just throw away, and made it through most of my backlog of “non-critical” snail mail. Things aren’t perfectly the way I want them yet, but getting closer. Now I’m trying to work out a plan for keeping them that way. http://unclutterer.com has become a daily resource, and I’m skimming 30 Days to a Simpler Life and Scaling Down : Living Large in a Smaller Space, both of which have good ideas. I also really like Cindy Glovinsky’s Making Peace with the Things in Your Life: Why Your Papers, Books, Clothes, and Other Possessions Keep Overwhelming You and What to Do About It and One Thing at a Time: 100 Simple Ways to Live Clutter-Free Every Day. I’ve got a huge pile of stuff on the dining room table that are going to go outside next Saturday for a yard sale… Boy, it sure feels good to get rid of all this crap.
Mark Boszko's Life List
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1. exercise regularly
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2. eat healthier
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3. learn ruby
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4. write an application on Rails
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5. Learn Cocoa
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6. write a small commercial application for OSX
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7. Learn Objective-C
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8. stop procrastinating
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9. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
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10. Learn Japanese
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11. learn ukranian
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12. Learn Irish Gaelic
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13. make a film
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14. See all of the films listed on the American Film Institute's Top 100 American Films of the 20th Century
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15. Get organized
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16. convert my VHS tapes to DVD
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17. spend more time with my kids
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18. Learn to say no
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19. get out of debt
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20. Buy a House
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21. Save money
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22. lose weight
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23. Learn to play the guitar
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24. Visit Japan
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25. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
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26. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
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27. develop an app for the iphone
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28. Find a good doctor
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I’ve spent at least an hour (usually more) each day this week going through a chapter in the PickAxe 2nd Ed. I’m up to the RegEx section in Chapter 5 right now. I’ve been through a bunch of other tutorials, and this time, it really feels like it’s sinking in and I’m getting more of it. It helps that I have a project in mind this time as well. I think I’m going to go through the PickAxe for another week or so, then I’ve got an automation project using RubyOSA that I need to build to reduce my workload. Yay!
It’s been 4 weeks since the start of my exercising “regularly,” and even through I pretty much missed week three because of a business trip, I’ve gotten back on track and feel pretty good about things. Now if I could only figure out how to write code while I exercise…
