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Saturday, December 27, 2008
Mandatory New Years' Resolution Post
Will Take Work on a Daily Basis
  • 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.
Will Take Work on a Weekly Basis
  • 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).
Will Take Work on a Monthly Basis
  • 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.

One-Time Events:

Winter:
  • 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.
Spring:
  • 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
Summer:
  • Get to a water park.
  • Write a short (20-page) religous-political treatise.
VW Work:
  • 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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Friday, October 31, 2008
The In Box
There's something truly gratifying about clearing out one's email in-box. The one I have at work hasn't been emptied since I got the thing (it bottomed out, once, at 30 emails; it usually hovers around 70-80), but my own personal in-box doesn't see as much action anymore.

So I spent a few hours sorting and deleting about 1,100 emails today. Wow. Now, of course, I have a list of things to do that a bunch of those were supposed to remind me of (checking the electric bill, sending stuff to people, checking in on old friends, and so on), but at least the in-box is clear.

Well, the electronic one. My physical in-box has all sorts of things in it, but thankfully not 1,100 things in it. Tougher to ignore when it is right there on my new awesome desk.

For now.

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