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jazzfishHard to believe it's been a thousand days since I started the previous one of these. Expect a post-mort analysis... mm, probably over the weekend.
I can't really improve on my blurb from then: 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: 2015/09/23-2018/06/20
Completed: 42
(Abandoned: 3)
1) Write up a postmortem on the previous 101 in 1001. 2015-09-26
2) Write a letter to myself, to be read when the 1001 days are up. 2015-10-04
PLACES
3) Travel somewhere in Canada I've not been, somewhere further than 50 miles from Vancouver (other than the island). Williams Lake, 2017-05-02
4) Travel outside North America.
5) Visit Karawynn & Jak.
6) Take the train somewhere further than Seattle.
7) Make a pilgrimage to Powell's Books in Portland. 2016-09-18
8) Visit Vancouver Island. 2018-04-23
9) Visit Blacksburg.
EVENTS
10) Go to NorWesCon.
11) Go to Fourth Street.
12) Go to a reading at the University Bookstore in Seattle.
13) Go camping for a weekend. 2017-08-13
14) Go backpacking for a weekend.
15) Have a bread-and-cheese-and-berries picnic with at least three other people.
16) See ten movies at the Vancouver International Film Festival. (10/10) 2015-10-04
17) See a play that I'm entirely unfamiliar with, including playwright and cast & crew. A Canadian history comedy, 2017-06-02
18) See a Shakespeare play.
19) See a concert by an artist I'm unfamiliar with. Crow and the Canyon / Full Moon Riot, 2016-11-11
20) See a concert by an artist I've listened to for at least five years. Tylan Greenstein (Mouths of Babes), 2017-01-28
PEOPLE
21) Make a new local 'close friend' (can be a previously existing acquaintance). Erin, 2016-09-27
22) Make another new local 'close friend'. Mya, 2018-01-10
23) Find a mentor/partner for [REDACTED]. 2016-10-03
24) Write to three dozen new people (23/36).
25) Collect a dozen rejections (4/12).
26) Visit Jenn P. in her new house.
27) Host a non-local friend in the spare bedroom. 2015-12-31, ckd
28) Inbox Zero (nothing in the mailbox that wants a response).
PHYSICAL
29) Get my eyes checked, and new glasses if required. 2016-11-08
30) Get my hearing checked.
31) Get my sinuses/snoring looked at. 2018-06-13
32) Find a dentist and get a cleaning etc. 2016-03-08
33) Get into something physical: yoga, tai chi, martial art, dance, something. Yoga, 2017-05-02
34) Climb the Grouse Grind at least once each summer. (0/2)
35) Do thirty pushups at a go.
36) [REDACTED]
WRITING
37) Complete a first draft of The Drowned City.
38) Revise and submit The Drowned City.
39) Expand, revise, & submit "One Only."
40) Finish, revise, & submit "Blood on Her Hands and a Stone at Her Throat."
41) Write, revise, & submit story #3.
42) Write, revise, & submit story #4.
43) Write, revise, & submit story #5.
44) Write, revise, & submit a story for a themed anthology.
MUSIC
45) Learn to play "Baby Elephant Walk".
46) Play at RCM Grade 3 level.
47) Play at RCM Grade 4 level.
48) Work out a decent way to record myself.
49) Harmonize with myself.
50) Arrange and record "Peter Gunn" for two violas.
51) Play with someone else. 2017-08-26
52) Play for an audience. 2017-08-26
53) Play in public. 2018-04-21
BOOKS
54) Read or purge one-quarter of the books currently tagged "unread" in LibraryThing (60/60). 2016-10-30.
55) Read or purge the second quarter of the "unread" books (9/60).
56) Read or purge the third quarter of the "unread" books (0/60).
57) Read or purge the last quarter of the "unread" books (0/60).
58) Finish acquiring and read/reread the entire Complete Peanuts (0/25). (Abandoned 2017-01-28)
59) Add fiction ebooks to LibraryThing.
60) Add RPG ebooks/PDFs to RPGGeek.
GAMING
61) Play Commands & Colors: Ancients.
62) Play Ogre (the big box).
63) Play Fire in the Lake. (Half-cred; replaced by Falling Sky 2016-03-21, played that 2016-07-17)
64) Play 50 18xx games (50/50). 2017-04-15
65) Play 20 different 18xx titles/scenarios (20/20). 2018-04-17
66) Bring the LG&S campaign to a rousing conclusion.
67) Run Night's Black Agents, with or without an Ashen Stars mashup. 2016-03-24
68) Run a Walpurgisnacht one-shot.
69) Play in an RPG campaign.
70) Sort the Steam library.
MONEY ETC
71) Update budget with new-job numbers. 2015-11-16
72) Get savings back to six months' living expenses. 2016-03-15
73) Get savings up to a year's living expenses. 2017-01-31
74) Get an RRSP set up. 2016-03-07
75) Start a couch-potato-type investment. 2016-06-01.
76) Get some financial advice from a financial advisor. 2016-08-05
77) Develop a Five-Year Plan with real numbers in.
78) Move to a less frustrating apartment. 2016-12-19
79) Make a list of all absences from Canada since landing, for citizenship application. 2015-12-27
STUFF
80) Clean & organize the office. 2016-12-05
81) Clean & organize the top of the dresser. 2016-12-17
82) Stabilize or replace Taranis the laptop. 2016-03-31
83) Purge unwanted clothes.
84) Purge unwanted CDs. 2017-01-22
85) Purge unwanted DVDs. 2015-12-29
86) Dispose of unwanted comics.
87) Dispose of PS2 and games.
88) Either play Wii/Gamecube games, or dispose of them.
89) Purge unwanted boardgames.
90) Reduce physical library to three figures. 2016-10-30
MISC
91) Find a better backup solution than "ad-hoc Time Machine". 2016-04-24
92) Reread and watch Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (0/2).
93) Rewatch The Wire.
94) Cook something new. Apple rice, 2017-01-19
95) Send a postcard through PostCrossing.
96) Get myself some sort of author website.
97) Develop a new-to-me contact juggling maneuver.
98) Ride the tall spinny ride at Playland. (Abandoned 2017-08-29)
99) Resolve the situation around [REDACTED]. 2017-06-26
100) Donate $10 to Planned Parenthood for each incomplete item on this list.
101) Make a new 101 in 1001 list.
I can't really improve on my blurb from then: 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: 2015/09/23-2018/06/20
Completed: 42
(Abandoned: 3)
PLACES
4) Travel outside North America.
5) Visit Karawynn & Jak.
6) Take the train somewhere further than Seattle.
9) Visit Blacksburg.
EVENTS
10) Go to NorWesCon.
11) Go to Fourth Street.
12) Go to a reading at the University Bookstore in Seattle.
14) Go backpacking for a weekend.
15) Have a bread-and-cheese-and-berries picnic with at least three other people.
18) See a Shakespeare play.
PEOPLE
24) Write to three dozen new people (23/36).
25) Collect a dozen rejections (4/12).
26) Visit Jenn P. in her new house.
ckd28) Inbox Zero (nothing in the mailbox that wants a response).
PHYSICAL
30) Get my hearing checked.
34) Climb the Grouse Grind at least once each summer. (0/2)
35) Do thirty pushups at a go.
36) [REDACTED]
WRITING
37) Complete a first draft of The Drowned City.
38) Revise and submit The Drowned City.
39) Expand, revise, & submit "One Only."
40) Finish, revise, & submit "Blood on Her Hands and a Stone at Her Throat."
41) Write, revise, & submit story #3.
42) Write, revise, & submit story #4.
43) Write, revise, & submit story #5.
44) Write, revise, & submit a story for a themed anthology.
MUSIC
45) Learn to play "Baby Elephant Walk".
46) Play at RCM Grade 3 level.
47) Play at RCM Grade 4 level.
48) Work out a decent way to record myself.
49) Harmonize with myself.
50) Arrange and record "Peter Gunn" for two violas.
BOOKS
55) Read or purge the second quarter of the "unread" books (9/60).
56) Read or purge the third quarter of the "unread" books (0/60).
57) Read or purge the last quarter of the "unread" books (0/60).
58) Finish acquiring and read/reread the entire Complete Peanuts (0/25). (Abandoned 2017-01-28)
59) Add fiction ebooks to LibraryThing.
60) Add RPG ebooks/PDFs to RPGGeek.
GAMING
61) Play Commands & Colors: Ancients.
62) Play Ogre (the big box).
66) Bring the LG&S campaign to a rousing conclusion.
68) Run a Walpurgisnacht one-shot.
69) Play in an RPG campaign.
70) Sort the Steam library.
MONEY ETC
77) Develop a Five-Year Plan with real numbers in.
STUFF
83) Purge unwanted clothes.
86) Dispose of unwanted comics.
87) Dispose of PS2 and games.
88) Either play Wii/Gamecube games, or dispose of them.
89) Purge unwanted boardgames.
MISC
92) Reread and watch Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (0/2).
93) Rewatch The Wire.
95) Send a postcard through PostCrossing.
96) Get myself some sort of author website.
97) Develop a new-to-me contact juggling maneuver.
98) Ride the tall spinny ride at Playland. (Abandoned 2017-08-29)
100) Donate $10 to Planned Parenthood for each incomplete item on this list.
101) Make a new 101 in 1001 list.
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Date: 2015-09-23 11:37 am (UTC)Are you guys planning on dual citizenship, or switching over entirely?
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Date: 2015-09-24 01:55 pm (UTC)Undecided, but probably dual citizenship; there's no particular advantage to renouncing US, since we're not making enough for taxes to be an issue.
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Date: 2015-09-23 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-09-24 01:56 pm (UTC)