LIST.TTD

[jazzfish]

Some people give themselves treats for Xmas. Me, I give myself a list of things to do. The idea is that a) a concrete and wide-ranging list of 101 items, b) a not terribly restrictive but still somewhat limiting timeframe of 1001 days, and c) public accountability can all combine to form a sort of Voltron of extrinsic motivating factors, since I'm not doing so hot with intrinsic motivation lately (or ever, really).

Note that 101 tasks in 1001 days works out to roughly three tasks per month, on average.

101 in 1001: 2012/12/25-2015/09/22
Completed: 55
Ongoing / partial: 6
Abandoned: 5

PLACES
1) Travel outside the US/Canada. 2013-02-15, San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
2) Do it again, somewhere else. 2014-02-22, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico
3) Ride in a float-plane.
4) Take the train somewhere further than Seattle. 2014-05-06, Portland, OR
5) Visit Vancouver Island.
6) Make a pilgrimage to Powell's Books in Portland.
7) Go backpacking for a weekend somewhere in BC.

PEOPLE
8) Make a new local 'close friend' (can be a previously existing acquaintance). 2015-01-22
9) Talk to someone new at a convention. 2013-09-29/30, Cera, Farthing Party
10) Find a mentor/partner for [REDACTED].
11) Collect a dozen rejections. (2/12)
12) Visit Steph and Ryan in Minneapolis. 2013-05-27
13) Visit Ed. 2013-05-12
14) Hold up my end of an online friendship with Karawynn in a reasonably timely manner. Begun 2012-12-28, ongoing.
15) Catch up with Sarah K. with some consistency.
16) Have another of those long conversations with Jenn P. 2013-05-14, though that's no reason not to have another.
17) Stay in touch with Maureen.
18) Inbox Zero (nothing in the mailbox that wants a response).

EVENTS
19) Go to one of the groups that Sandra W. suggested. 2013-08-19, Ink Club
20) Go to NorWesCon. Abandoned 2014-04-05
21) Go to a [REDACTED]. 2013-06-20
22) Host a reading.
23) Have a bread-and-cheese-and-berries picnic with at least three other people.
24) See ten movies at the Vancouver International Film Festival. (10/10) 2014-10-01
25) See a play that I'm entirely unfamiliar with, including playwright and cast & crew. 2013-07-19, The Farnsworth Invention
26) See a Shakespeare play. 2015-07-21, King Lear
27) See a concert by an artist I'm unfamiliar with. 2013-03-22, Veronica Falls
28) See a concert by an artist I've listened to for at least five years. 2013-03-17, Tylan, formerly of Girlyman

WRITING
29) Post publicly to DW at least once a week. 2015-09-21
30) Write a medialog entry at least once a month. Abandoned 2013-03-01.
31) Submit 100 stories to paying markets. (18/100)
32) Write & submit a story for a themed anthology.
33) Expand, revise, & submit "One Only."
34) Expand, revise, & submit "In the City of Memory." 2015-02-19
35) Write, revise, & submit "Blood on Her Hands and a Stone at Her Throat."
36) Write, revise, & submit story #4. "We Service All Imported Vehicles," 2014-05-24
37) Write, revise, & submit story #5. "No Deal", revised from "On the Cold Hill-Side," 2014-10-15
38) Write, revise, & submit story #6.
39) Write, revise, & submit story #7.
40) Write, revise, & submit story #8.
41) Write, revise, & submit story #9.
42) Write, revise, & submit story #10.

GAMING
43) Play each of the GIPF games at least once. (0/7) Abandoned 2013-09-30.
44) Play an in-person game of Commands & Colors: Ancients.
45) Play an in-person game of Ogre.
46) Play in a Netrunner tournament. 2013-06-08
47) Play or purge all the unplayed boardgames in my collection, except for Italia. (13/13) 2014-06-14
48) Complete or purge uncompleted video games. (0/10)
49) Run an online Do game, since rbandrews was good enough to put a server together.
50) Run an Ashen Stars game based loosely on JMF's "Roadshow".
51) Run a Walpurgisnacht one-shot. Abandoned 2015-05-01.

PHYSICAL
52) Get my eyes checked, and new glasses if required. 2013-08-23
53) Get my hearing checked.
54) Get my sinuses/snoring looked at.
55) Figure out something to be done for my stupid lungs.
56) Go running or swimming three times a week for a month. 2013-06-28
57) Go running or swimming three times a week for three months. 2015-02-28
58) Go running or swimming three times a week for six months. Abandoned 2015-03-31.
59) Run 5 km without stopping to walk. 2013-08-16
60) Run 5 km in 25 minutes.
61) Run 10 km without stopping to walk.
62) Run in an official 5K race.
63) Climb the Grouse Grind at least once each summer. (3/3) 2015-09-14
64) Do thirty pushups at a go.

ORGANIZING
65) Organize the storage closet. 2013-01-14 (This was mostly uilos.)
66) Organize the downstairs storage unit. 2013-01-06
67) Clean the office. 2014-08-10
68) Clear the top of the dresser and pick up that one corner of the bedroom. 2013-04-04
69) Reduce the Last Two Lousy Boxes to a single Last Lousy Box. 2013-03-24
70) Dispose of unwanted comics.
71) Dispose of unwanted games. 2013-10-07
72) Deliver unwanted RPGs to a good home. 2013-07-20
73) Purge the dresser and the clothes closet. 2013-06-24, though very little went.
74) Verify and tag my books in LibraryThing. 2014-11-05
75) Add my mass-market paperbacks to LibraryThing. 2015-07-09

MONEY
76) Update budget with RSP numbers. 2013-01-15
77) Stay under budget on discretionary purchases for a month. 2013-02-01
78) Stay under budget on discretionary purchases for six months. 2015-06-01
79) Convert my 401(k) into something that's useful in Canada. Deemed unnecessary 2013-12-08
80) Get some financial advice from a financial advisor.
81) Develop a Five-Year Plan with real numbers in.
82) Determine whether it makes any sense at all to a) buy a place or b) move. 2014-08-11

PERSONAL
83) Get back into t'ai chi.
84) Take a sabbatical from work of at least three months. 2014-11-25
85) Sort out my relationship to my parents, sister, & niephlings. 2015-07-10
86) Write that one thing I think about writing once a week or so. 2013-04-28
87) Resolve the situation around [REDACTED].
88) Spend less than a week 'hiding' before asking myself "what am i hiding from?" 2015-01-17
89) Ask for help, without waiting to be noticed or asked.

MISC
90) Read or purge everything currently on the To Be Read shelf. (18/25)
91) Reread Middle-Earth: Hobbit, LotR, Silmarillion. (5/5) 2014-07-07
92) Reread the oeuvre of John M. Ford. (10/13)
93) Try out OmniFocus.
94) Sort out my problems with Scrivener's RTF export/compile. 2014-03-22 (I hope)
95) Get myself some sort of author website.
96) Send a postcard through PostCrossing.
97) Develop a new-to-me contact juggling maneuver.
98) Load "The Hire" short films onto my phone, as a proof-of-concept. 2013-02-13
99) Give blood four times in a year. 2013-09-18
100) Donate $10 to Planned Parenthood for each incomplete item on this list. $382.61
101) Make a new 101 in 1001 list.

Comments

[rbandrews]

45) Play an in-person game of Ogre.

This shouldn't be hard once your 20-lb box of it shows up next year. (...Oh wait, you said "of", not "on")

47) Play or purge all the unplayed boardgames in my collection, except for Italia. (0/13)

One, you only have thirteen unplayed games? And two, you want to neither play nor purge Italia? Huh?

70) Dispose of unwanted comics.
71) Dispose of unwanted games.

So... You can mail boxes from the US, right? :)

95) Get myself some sort of author website.

So an actually helpful comment: I helped Cassie set hers up and I'd be happy to do the same thing for you. It's a Wordpress site that she's customized the theme of. I can give you an ssh / ftp account, etc.

[jazzfish]

That thirteen is a) not counting expansions, and b) not counting games that I've played but not this copy. Also, my game acquisition has slowed down a lot in the past few years.

I'm willing to make an exception for Italia because it's a big complicated game ("like Britannia but twice as long"). I own it because it's a neat idea and I occasionally enjoy getting it out and poking at it. If people were to show up wanting to play it I'd be happy to but I'm not willing to put forth the effort to find someone to play. I'll have a hard enough time finding one C&C:A player.

Mailing: *You* want all the Diceland there is? More seriously, I'm hoping to get some small amount of cash or trade for them.

Website: I may take you up on that when I'm ready to start poking at that. Thanks!

[rbandrews]

Diceland: it unfortunately has a very low fun-to-storage-hassle ratio. :) I was more interested in the comics, and I'd be happy to pay you something for them once you decide what you'd like to get rid of.

[jazzfish]

Ha, you realised that as well, did you?

For comics, the things I know I want to get rid of include a complete run of Transmetropolitan and an almost-complete run of 100 Bullets (missing #75 for some reason). I may be unloading my Hellblazers as well, although those suddenly have some cachet since they're finally cancelling the series.

[rbandrews]

I'm reading Hellblazer now (scanned, since I don't think they ever actually collected it, did they?). After some experiments to see if it caused nightmares (no correlation, either with that or reasonably-violent games) I've been reading it a lot lately.

I'm a little after #50. I had no idea the series has been going on all this time. I thought it was 200 issues (still massive!) and then it ended.

I would like 100 Bullets maybe. I never finished it, I'd like to read it again.

[shanaqui]

Oh, I love these lists. The way you've organised yours is really sensible, too! Good luck!

[jazzfish]

:) Thanks! I'm kind of looking forward to seeing how much of it I can get done.

[thanate]

oh, very nice. I like the accountability inherent in #100. :)

My to-do lists this year are probably going to remain pretty short-term, given the unpredictability of the near future...

[jazzfish]

Thanks! I think "bring another human being into the world and take care of her" makes for a reasonably full to-do list. :)

[mixofsun]

That's a really nicely organized list! ^_^ I think that I need to do something similar, because I seem to get so much more accomplished when I make detailed lists.

[jazzfish]

Yeah, as I said to a friend earlier today (er, yesterday. whatever), just having the list has been a huge motivator for getting started on some things I've been meaning to do for ages.