Living the Dream: August 2007

101 Things in 1001 Days

Professional/Graduate School
~~1. Finish Qualifying Exams~~
~~2. Finish Dissertation Proposal~~
3. Finish Dissertation
4. Finish Designology Paper
~~5. Publish a Paper~~

Self Improvement
6. Learn Spanish
7. Learn to Ballroom dance
8. Learn Photoshop
9. Change the oil of my car
~~10. Learn to iron~~
~~11. Floss once a week (143/143)~~
~~12. Learn to fold clothes properly~~
~~13. Become educated on presidential candidates and their stands~~
14. Learn to Sing in Key
15. Take a relevant Home Improvement class
16. Take Agent Cooper’s advice
~~17. Learn to tie a Windsor tie knot~~
~~18. Buy a sweetass suit~~

Family
~~19. Attend basketball games for each cousin (4/4)~~
~~20. Play in a doubles Disc Golf tourney w/Dad~~
21. Visit graves of grandparents w/o needing a holiday excuse
~~22. Come up with good names for boys~~

Entertainment
~~23. Watch Goonies~~
~~24. Go to the symphony~~
~~25. Attend an ATP match~~
~~26. See Metallica live~~
27. Get book recommendations from friends and read em (7/10)
~~28. See the Cats in Enemy Territory~~
29. Go to the Opera
30. Go to the Kentucky Derby
~~31. Read 1 non fiction book a month (34/34)~~
32. Watch Ken Burns “The Civil War”
~~33. Go Curling~~
34. Fly a Kite
~~35. Go to the Sunsphere~~
36. Visit the Dayton Air Force Museum
37. Get an isketch game going
38. Learn to play bridge

Physical Activities
39. Dunk on a 10ft. Rim
~~40. Run a Half Marathon~~
~~41. Run a Marathon~~
~~42. Complete an Oly Tri~~
~~43. Complete a HIM~~
~~44. Complete an IM~~
~~45. Complete a Muddy Buddy~~
~~46. Bike from Dayton to Cincinnati~~
~~47. Play in a disc golf tournament~~
~~48. Climb a mountain~~
49. Participate in an Orienteering event
~~50. Compete in an adventure race~~
~~51. Play tennis on a surface other than hard court~~
52. Obtain a first serve consistency level of 60% and learn a second serve
53. Get a 6 pack and prove Peyton Manning wrong
54. Play Horseshoes
55. Determine Max/Min heart rate and use them to train with
~~56. Buy a GPS for running/biking~~

Food
~~57. Eat at one of Tom Colicchio’s restaurants~~
~~58. Cook something from a Top Chef recipe~~
~~59. Eat Escargot~~
60. Eat Kangaroo
~~61. Eat Caviar~~
~~62. Discover 5 new awesome local restaurants (5/5)~~
~~63. Add 5 new tricks to the rotation (5/5)~~
~~64. Eat at new ethnic restaurants (~~Korean~~, ~~Vietnamese~~, ~~Filipino~~, ~~Jamaican~~)~~
~~65. Grow something and eat it~~

Travel
~~66. Visit Europe~~
67. Finish visiting all 50 states (35/50)
~~68. Eat lobster in Maine~~
69. Go to the Grand Canyon
70. Take advantage of friends for vacations! (Visit Colorado, Maryland, ~~Louisville~~, etc)
71. Go to Mammoth Cave
72. Go whitewater rafting
~~73. Go somewhere at night where there isn’t a lot of ambient light and stargaze~~
~~74. Go to a baseball game in a park I’ve never been, keep score, and pound some peanuts~~
75. Use the tent
76. Stop at three of the “interesting locales” in between Knoxville & NKY (1/3)

Home Projects
~~77. Finish bagging and boarding funny books~~
~~78. Finish the bookshelf~~
79. Get frames for SI covers (UK and Bengals)
~~80. Get a barcode scanner and start Project Home Library~~
81. Revisit genealogy research and organize it
82. Get degree framed
83. Build a computer

~~Get the House!~~
~~84. Find a good realtor~~
~~85. Buy a house~~

Charity
~~86. Participate in Relay for Life~~
87. Give a Kiva loan
88. For each uncompleted task donate $5 to charity
89. Release 5 books I enjoy into the wild

Life Stuff
~~90. Get life insurance~~
~~91. Make a will~~
~~92. Get a passport~~
93. Get a check-up (test for cholesterol etc)
~~94. Get neck looked at~~
95. Hit Goal on retirement money
96. Get a professional massage
~~97. Start an account for my wife’s godson~~
98. Write letter to Macy’s

List Organization
99. Keep a consistent blog about list
100. Each week, develop a plan/schedule for one of the longterm goals of this list
101. Make a new list

2008 Reading Diary

1. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
2. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
3. The Best American Science Writing 2006 edited by Atul Gawande
4. Duma Key by Stephen King
5. The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein
6. Home is the Sailor by Day Keene
7. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener the Father of Cybernetics by Flow Conway & Jim Siegelman
8. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
9. Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
10. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
11. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
12. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
13. The Best American Science Writing 2007 edited by Gina Kolata
14. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
15. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
16. To the Castle and Back by Vaclav Havel
17. Faith of My Fathers by John McCain
18. The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop
19. Big Planet by Jack Vance
20. I was a Kamikaze by Ryuji Nagatsuka
21. Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again by Norah Vincent
22. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
23. John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand by Richard Reeves
24. Passion Play: A Cycle by Sarah Ruhl
25. Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain
26. Just After Sunset by Stephen King

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