101 THINGS IN 1001 DAYS
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2. Get my personal shit sorted so that I can be a better friend, son, roommate, and person. (this is a biggie that I’m not going to get specific on, but it is very important)
3. Write + Blog far more frequently.
4. Try at least 12 new restaurants. (I tried 3 new ones during ECCC and they were all good)
5. Writing Project.
6. Writing Project.
7. Writing Project.
8. Writing Project.
9. Writing Project.
10. Writing Project.
11. Get something I wrote published somewhere.
12. Work out more frequently.
13. Go bowling at least once a month, even if I’m “that guy there by himself in the middle of the day”.
14. GET A NEW JOB!
15. Pay off my credit cards completely.
16. Read all of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus.
17. Flesh out and get people to play a Knightwatch D+D game. (it’s a D+D world I cooked up in high school that has never really seen SERIOUS gaming)
18. See “Rocky Horror Picture Show” in a theatre with a bunch of friends.
19. Go to Victoria, B.C. again.
20. Succeed on medium difficulty vocals at least on a few Rock Band 2 songs.
21. Read all of Christina Vincent’s “The Occult Consult” (http://occultconsult.blogspot.com/) & give her my honest opinion of the piece.
22. Get my art & posters from this year’s ECCC framed.
23. Move out of my parents’ house.
24. Go on a date.
25. Get people to play a Birthright D+D game. Birthright is still one of my favorite D+D worlds.
26. Go Back to School.
27. Writing Project.
28. Purchase a new bed. (my current bed/bookshelf combo is on its last legs)
29. Buy new bookshelves… it’s like kismet…
30. Get some money in my savings account, in case of fiscal issues.
31. Do something aquatic-y on the Great American River (damn that’s a fancy name)
32. Go see Mariners vs. Rangers game at Safeco Field.
33. Go see a Sounders game at Qwest Field
34. See at least a couple UW basketball games (men’s & women’s) at UW.
35. Take Wally down to the dog beach in Edmonds in the Summer.
36. Make it to all the Storm games this year.
37. Writing Project.
38. Write and record the Two Ethnically Confused White Guys album with B-Money.
39. Somehow pull off a practical joke with the creepyquins at the ON while I’m still there.
40. Finish at least 3 Fallout 3 play-throughs.
41. Clean my lair.
42. Organize my comics and books.
43. Go to the Seattle Film Festival at least once.
44. Go to the zoo. The Woodland Park Zoo is one of my favorite places to go in Seattle and I haven’t been in years.
45. Go on the Underground Old Seattle tour. I’ve lived up here for over a decade and have still never been to the underground.
46. Go on a brewery tour. We have tons of great breweries up here and again I haven’t been.
47. Go to a theme park/fair/something. I love going on rides and shit. (damn right I’m mentally 12!)
48. Writing Project.
49. Writing Project.
50. Writing Project.
51. Read some of the books that I have bought and never read.
52. Do some yard work around the house… it needs it.
53. Get the monitor on my new (hand me down) laptop fixed.
54. Finally finish the weaning off caffeine and make chocolate an occasional thing and not an everyday thing. Yes, this one sucks.
55. Get all my music together and into some sort of playlist.
56. Do something else artsy. Even though a lot of other artsy things are difficult for me on account of the shaking hands I have, expanding my repertoire won’t hurt and will spark inspiration.
57. Get back to a more regular practice/exploration of my spirituality. My new age-y voodoo ways must get back on track.
58. Discover 3 new bands/artists to listen too regularly.
59. Eat at Blue C Sushi at least once a month, and try something new each time. I love me some sushi.
60. Make some more personal gifts for people for birthdays/Christmas. I did this once last year and it was a hit, so I need to do it for more people now.
61. Hunt down & read the rest of Grant Morrison’s “Invisibles”. The first one was really good.
62. Hunt down & read “Whatever Happened to The Man of Tomorrow”. It looks really interesting.
63. Go to at least 2 more of Kyle Stevens’ performances. Kyle is a buddy and I enjoy his music, so I shall go enjoy more of it live.
64. Go see a concert of some kind.
65. Meet some of my awesome Twitter friends in real life. Since getting on Twitter I’ve met some really cool people and it would be nice to meet and hang out with them at some point.
66. Spend some quality time hanging out with Dan & Rachell. They are some of my awesome former co-workers that I don’t hang out with enough. (Note to Dan: quality does not = sexy)
67. Try out a home brewing kit… and make drinkable beer with it.
68. Go camping. I used to go camping a lot back in my Boy Scout days. It’s been many years.
69. Go canoeing. See above.
70. Go hiking. See above.
71. Add at least 5 new full meals to my cooking repertoire.
72. Improve my ability to sell my projects (and by extension myself) to other people, particularly people in a position to help me bring them to life. (Note to Dan: not “sell myself” like that, you pervert)
73. Get “Taco Tuesday” going as a regular household tradition. Because GIANT MEXICAN BEER AND DELICIOUS TACOS! Oh and something about friends and family too.
74. NOT drunkenly forget my stuff at any of the ECCC’s in the future…
75. Win a Superbowl in one of the Madden games with my roommates competing against me.
76. Do a better job of commenting on blog posts and such that I enjoy.
77. Spend some time outside just relaxing. Because I seriously need to learn to sit back and relax.
78. Do a better job of bringing in stuff for co-workers birthday’s while I’m still at the ON. Sometimes the more awesome of my co-workers are the only things that make that hellhole bearable.
79. See a few theatrical productions. We have a lot of college and professional theatre in the area, I should go see some.
80. Hang out more with Raina & Jeff. Raina’s another awesome former co-worker I don’t get to hang out with enough and Jeff is her boyfriend whom Jack and I shoot things on the video gaming machines. We’re trying to resurrect a weekly go over and hang out, it’s just a matter of sticking with it.
81. Writing Project.
82. Completely clean, outside and in, the Loser Cruiser.
83. Build something. Anything. Just be constructive… that may also be a pun, status unknown.
84. Get a couple long term investments going. Even if they’re just small CDs or something, plan for tomorrow a little better self.
85. Plan better, be better prepared for the things I know are coming.
86. Lose at least 50 lbs. I’ll feel fitter, faster, stronger, and significantly decrease my risk of heart disease, diabetes, etc.
87. See the following movies, “Phantom of the Paradise”, “Sixteen Candles”, anything else people glare at me for not having seen or looks crazy/insane/wacky good.
88. Read “Paradise Lost”.
89. Get all my gaming gear organized. There seems to be an all-encompassing them of getting my shit together.
90. Get myself some more sports team apparel.
91. Go to Yost Park here in Edmonds and see how the years have treated my Eagle Scout project.
92. Bust into the vaults and play some old video games. Can’t go wrong with a classic. Wait, make it a semi-event, with friends!
93. Play through all the regular Nintendo Mega Man games. Because they’re awesome!
94. THE DIE HARD THING! (the other person involved in this knows what I mean, hopefully this can be accomplished safely within 1001 days…)
95. Go to the Olympic Rainforest. Yep, just across the sound is an amazing rainforest and I’ve never been… this should be remedied.
96. Once I have my hand-me-down laptop, get it set up perfectly for my writing, twitter, chat, time-wasting needs.
97. Go to a Seahawks game at Qwest field. I’ve only been to one, but it was a blast!
98. Take a real vaction, were I just get away from stupidity for a while.
99. Re-read "The Death & Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra", because it is AWESOME!
100. Cook a giant meal just because, not for Thanksgiving or a holiday, just as a nice fun thing for the family.
101. Have an awesome 3 years! (yeah I totally stole this one from Kristina, but its a good one!)
Well, there you have it, time to get cracking!










