• Turns out that computer is as loud as I thought -- from 48 db to 57 in the living room
• The quietest spot in the house I could find was a pretty-darn-quiet 28 db.

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• Finish organizing my photo collection (~17,000 photos). Get at least 1/4 of the way through tagging, rating, and eliminating duplicates.
• Get a real start on organizing my old design/writing work files.
• Create a good organizational system for ITP work files.
• Rate 40 days worth of music.
• Average one blog post every 3 days.
• Stay on-budget every month.
• Make some babies~!
• Use my 'power tower' (ugh hate the name) Christmas gift. I have yet to determine actual numbered goals. Get more sexy! This involves about 45 minutes of workout per day in 10, 10, and 25 minute sections.
• Eat well (almost no corn syrum, limited sweets, good snacks like carrots and nuts, more but smaller meals, drinking 2.5 litres of water a day).
• Take 4,000 photographs, including 400 5-star photos. Post the best to Facebook/Flickr.
• Consistently shoot 80% on freethrows.

• Create a home inventory for insurance purposes, including all photos, reciepts and serial numbers.
• Finish Ignition. This means professionally mastered and with a new website to promote it.
• Start re-learning piano and/or theory (haven't set up specific goals for this yet).
• Go on at least 25 hikes or other outdoor excursions.
• Consistently (at least 2x a month) do little things for my wife that would make her want to date me if we weren't married.
• Stay connected to friends via Facebook. Use it to get together with friends while we're still young and sexy.
• Get a good, highly-productive routine going at work that encourages me to take carpal-tunnel saving breaks and keeps me alert through the day (this relates to the eating and exercising).

• Begin to learn PHP in depth, preferably through classes that work pays for...
• Set up a long series of doctor's appointments to check for just about everything one can be checked for, to deal with any problems I might have before they're problems. That is - abuse the fact that I have a job with semi-decent medical care.
• Work on some way of respectfully resolving some core differences of belief between me and the in-laws.
• Get out of town 8 times (including at least 5 to family).
• Read a book a month.
• Reaquaint myself with all the outdoors knowledge I had as a Boy Scout.
• Learn to properly tune up my car.

• Pay taxes by Valentine's Day.
• Visit my co-workers in San Francisco (I work from home 700 miles away and have yet to meet them).
• Use our new toboggan.

• For the Prius: Replace scratched rear turn signal assembly.
• Redo my homepage/portfolio again in such a way that it all actually works.
• Create "A Ninja Wedding"
• Create the Impulse Nine TF2 frag video
  

• Get to a water park.
• Write a short (20-page) religous-political treatise.

• January: Scrape off all the tar board from the floors and put down rust-preventing primer. Install aluminum side panels.
• February: Install floor drains. Put down floor lining. Install side brush bars. Install larger brake fluid reservoir.
• March: Create map pocket and cup holder in side panels. Install fire extinguisher holder.
• April: Install Dynamat (weather permitting).
• May: Buffer time.
• June: Begin working with simple fiberglassing by making rear trunk covers.
• July: Replace all the wiring with Jordan, adding circuits for all the new stuff to be installed later. Add gravel guards. Replace turn signal. Install air horn.
• August: Powdercoat rims, bumpers, brush bars, gravel guards, and door panels.
• September: Buffer time.
• October: Replace rims and tires. Raise rear suspension.
• November: Install new headlight system.
• December: Replace door and window rubber.

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