Gavin




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  1. 1. Buy a House
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  2. 2. Contribute to an open source software project
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  3. 3. Take more pictures
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  4. 4. Learn to fly a helicopter
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  5. 5. write a book
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  6. 6. be a race car driver
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  7. 7. gain 10 pounds
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  8. 8. stop procrastinating
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  9. 9. Get (or renew) a passport
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Worry less.
Eliminate Worry 4 years ago

I’ve realized that very little in life is worth worrying about. So I don’t anymore. I have virtually eliminated wory from my life. I’ve become a much happier person.
Everything will work itself out eventually, until then just go with whatever, can it really be that bad? If it is change it.
Another thing i’ve done that helps is become more active in the things I care about. Why worry about it if your not willing to change it. If your working to change it don’t worry about it.

It sounds simple, but it’s worked for me.

Example:
This might sound kind of evil but whatever.
I was best freinds with this girl for a long time. We have a long involved history, and we have always fought a lot. A while back i realized that reason that I was soo upset by some of the things that happened was because I was disapointed, or worried about what had happened. She’s not my friend anymore, I don’t expect her to be. I’m not disapointed when she does something I dissagree with. I’m not worried that something i do is going to dissapoint her. I still love her with all my heart, but she’s not my friend.
It’s entirely mental, but isn’t that what worry is? By lowering my expectations I’m no longer worried about the outcome of my decisions.

I love my life!



learn to snowboard
Untitled 4 years ago

Rules! I got pretty good really quick, and I’m not usually good with sport crap. So it’s been crazy fun and I’ve been lucky to go with people that push me to do better every time. After 5 times boarding i’m hitting jumps and actually landing them occasionally.
Now to find a summer sport, or just make enough money to travel and board. Wakeboarding looks good.



Make Firefox my default browser
Still a couple things holding onto IE 4 years ago

The main thing i still end up using IE for is yahoo photos. Their massive more than 10 at a time upload utility is activeX and i don’t want to install that firefox activeX support dealy, so i just use IE for that.
I have gotten into this whole tabbed browsing thing and love it. I find myself upset that i can’t close all windows by middle clicking them. I’m a little upset that Ctrl-G doesn’t go to the google bar by default, I’m sure i could change that, but all in all i’m happy.

Does anyone know how to force Adobe Acrobat to open links with firefox rather than IE?



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