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retainer




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  2. 1. meditate daily
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  3. 2. relearn calculus so I intuitively understand it
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  4. 3. insist on fun
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  5. 4. Take excellent care of rats
    5 entries . 38 cheers     		4 people
  6. 5. paint an oil painting
    5 entries . 65 cheers     		36 people
  7. 6. Read all the books in my "must read" pile
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  8. 7. Design, print and send fifty postcards
    5 entries . 62 cheers     		20 people
  9. 8. implement GTD
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  10. 9. Read "Code Complete"
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  11. 10. get rid of all my clutter
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  12. 11. build my own musical instrument
    5 entries . 57 cheers     		7 people
  13. 12. sew cover for unhoused people
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  14. 13. Take part in a collaborative creative endeavor
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  15. 14. play the violin better
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  16. 15. organize the garage
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  17. 16. Make a place in the garden for contemplation
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  18. 17. make Strawberry Cream Puff
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  19. 18. learn to knit socks
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  20. 19. check out "Elementary Analysis: the Theory of Calculus"
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  21. 20.
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  22. 21. Dig up the lawn
    4 entries . 10 cheers     		1 person
  23. 22. Become a better programmer
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  24. 23. develop a sensible disaster plan and survival kit
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  25. 24. make some decent pickled vegetables
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  26. 25. help eradicate polio
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  27. 26. understand graph-theoretic data segmentation
    2 entries . 7 cheers     		1 person
  28. 27. cable the house for ethernet
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  29. 28. buy a bicycle
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  30. 29. complete an olympic distance triathlon
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  31. 30. Learn to solder
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  32. 31. Complete my CS Degree
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  33. 32. Visit Japan
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  34. 33. Find 1000 things that make me happy
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  35. 34. learn ruby on rails
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  36. 35. visit my friend
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  37. 36. defend chocolate
    1 entry . 6 cheers     		1 person
  38. 37. Send love and hugs to Bookish
    57 team members . 2 entries . 6 cheers     		3 people
  39. 38. take an oil painting class
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insist on fun
Untitled 1 year ago

Man oh man, do I ever need to get going on this goal! I feel like I’ve just been keeping my nose above the water this year. One needs to remember why one is living. Life is not all just about duty and struggle and searching for meaning!

Nov 25, 2007, 04:58AM PST | 2 cheers | 0 comments


Dig up the lawn (read all 4 entries…)
More 2 years ago

I put in two fruit trees and am getting ready to compost the removed sod. The trees sit in close to the house so they will shade us, not our garden, from the afternoon sun.

Digging is a lot of work. The part of yard planned for the garden has between one and two tons of rock buried in it, within the root horizon of large vegetables. By the time my garden is in, probably some time around 2012, I should be pretty strong.

May 02, 2007, 04:31PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments


defend chocolate
Americans, please contact the FDA 2 years ago

Food manufacturers want to make chocolate in the US using vegetable oil instead of cocoa butter. They can make this chocolate-flavored food now; they simply aren’t allowed to call it chocolate. I hope the redefinition is stopped cold, partly because I would like to be able to buy chocolate in the US and know what I’m getting. Worse, with NAFTA, it is probably only a matter of time before your revolting new redefined “chocolate” is being sold in Canada as chocolate.

If you can tell the difference between “chocolatey” and chocolate, please stand up to food manufacturers and don’t let this obscenity come to pass. What will white chocolate be – sweetened margarine?

Here’s a link to a site where a fifth column for consumers in chocolate manufacturing has information about how to make your voice heard.

Apr 23, 2007, 11:07PM PDT | 3 cheers | 2 comments


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