I'm doing 40 things
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Riley's Life List
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1. do one thing every day that scares me
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2. record my dreams
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3. master grade 1 Kanji
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4. Research my genealogy
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5. learn German
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6. train as a barista
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7. eat bread and cheese more often
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8. find the locations in Spain where the spaghetti westerns were shot
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9. read Ancient Greek
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10. see 43 great films
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11. rid myself of envy
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12. learn to catch
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13. rank the Presidents of the United States
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14. formulate a coherent political philosophy
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15. find out how a college education got so expensive
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16. repeal the U.S. drinking age
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17. learn chess openings
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18. Learn to identify plants, flowers, and trees
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19. never get a tattoo
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20. let people know about "Open Source" radio
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21. understand Rhetoric
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22. write a play
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23. be more like Camus and less like Sartre
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24. convert Robert Moses' grave into a highway traffic divider
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25. warn people about Constance Garnett's translations of Dostoyevsky
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26. recognize musical intervals
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27. learn walking bass
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28. Improve my photography
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29. Stop using paper cups
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30. make a will
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31. learn more about statistics
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32. Understand game theory
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33. learn to invest
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34. take the MAT
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35. learn ANTLR
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36. learn natural language processing
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37. stop hoarding data
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38. get rid of everything I don't need
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39. put William James' words to the test: "Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
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40. learn to play a new song on the guitar every day
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How I did it
It made me 
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go "whew". 
How I did it: I downloaded the renewal form in PDF from the State Department web site, printed it out, filled it out, and sent it in with my old passport, a check and two passport photos. I ordered expedited service because I hate being without a passport. Read how I did it…
Recent entries
Signed up for github today, and imported my current project from subversion. Keeping the Cheat Sheet close at hand.
...one realizes that at heart we’re all compulsive hoarders, albeit some of us less consistently than others.
