 I'm doing 11 things |
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Read non-first world fiction
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1 person |
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Do a long distance hike
1 entry . 1 cheer |
1 person |
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Donate blood
1 cheer |
2,478 people |
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Start Finnish lessons again
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1 person |
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turn off the internet (sometimes... eek scary)
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1 person |
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Get new contact lenses
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3 people |
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Knit socks
1 entry |
128 people |
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contribute to an open source project
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111 people |
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Make a hula-hoop
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1 person |
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Learn the C programming language
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157 people |
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Take out the recycling
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2 people |
How I did it: I started going swimming off and on, and then saw a brochure for the Aspire swim challenge at the pool - 22 miles in 12 weeks. This is equivalent to 1416 lengths of my pool - works out to about 60+ lengths 2 or 3 times a week. I'm at 900 lengths now, going strong! It's a charity swim, so I'm supposed to be collecting funds for Aspire - they work with spinal injuries- but I'm not very much good at that kind of money so probably… Read how I did it…
Finally got around to fixing up my bike up to a usable condition, and rode it quite a bit in the summer/early fall. However now it’s been getting dark earlier again and so the poor bike has been standing in a shed for weeks. Must take it inside sometime, if I’m not going to ride it anymore…
My programming ‘mother tongue’ is python, but a lot of my work is data and computationally intensive, and python is often simply too slow. Hence the desire to learn C. At the moment I’ve found a middle ground – use python for the input/output scripting, and where necessary use scipy’s inline for C speeds. Debugging does take much longer though, but hopefully that’ll improve.
I started and finished one very silly-looking practice sock yesterday – it fits, even if it looks more like a moth hotel in terms of holes where they shouldn’t be (i.e. heel). I haven’t yet decided whether to tear it up or to keep it as a memento. I have small feet, but the speed was encouraging – definitely better than boring scarves!
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nina wants to do my job well
create my own tattoo
Visit Las Vegas
Read the bible cover to cover-even deuteronomy
leave the country
build a water fountain
Run the Boston Marathon
Watch all the episodes of Supernatural
become rich
Today I will...
Build an Online MMORPG
find my cousin
Improve my French
butterlfy wants to learn french
Walk two miles a day.
get an invader zim bed set
buy a car
date a beautiful female contortionist
start my own company
Sing
get out of debt
forget him
be less lazy
join the army
sit by a fire and drink red wine
take my dog for more walks
see the northern lights
