101 Things: Day Zero

[bugshaw]

It seems like that time again - for 101 Things in 101 Days. 14.5 weeks. Starting November 1st, it takes me up to February 9th. I'm particularly keen on things that take me away from the computer and involve social activity and/or different sorts of thinking from the analytics of work. Health and fitness are also good, I really want to be able to get out more. The list is a work in progress - suggestions are welcome! And don't be worried that I'm overcommitting and will get upset if I don't complete it, this is more by way of a delicious buffet of tasty activities (with a wafer thin chance of completion :-)


Currently: Day 101
1. Eat 505 portions of fruit and vegetables. DONE
2. Drink 505 pints of water. So far: 503
3. Read 9 books by New Year (making 31 this year). DONE
4. Read another 6 books by Day 101. DONE
5. Leave Cambridge 3 times. DONE (London, Boffoonery; London Comica + Hope Sandoval; London and Farnham for Grandma birthday)
6. Cook 3 interesting dinners for people. DONE sort of - through many new party-type dishes rather than sit-down meals. Candied sweet potato casserole, mince pie brownies etc.
7. Walk 101 hours. So far: ~72h
8. Do Pilates 33 times. So far: 16
9. Make five things #1
10. Make five things #2
11. Make five things #3
12. Make five things #4
13. Make five things #5
14. Upload 50 photos to Flickr
15. Draw something every day. So far: 12
16. Find three new comics to read. So far: Astro City (new only to me), The Boys
17. Finish Portal (I might need help)
18. Robot/gerbil war!
19. Try to reach CNPS 550. (Starting at 516). Current: 537
20. Learn to use the scanner, scan my grandma's photos and some line art
21. Do TAFF accounts
22. Do 2008/09 tax return DONE with many thanks to ms_cataclysm
23. Track all my spending for a month DONE £19.27 more out than in.
24. Mooch some books with my BookMooch points DONE
25. Make 50 Christmas cards. DONE.
26. Speak to/write to 14 family members (which is most of them!) So far: Mum, sister, great aunt, nephew
27. Loc every fanzine that comes through the door/email
28. Close my Cix account. Which will necessitate finding some other web hosting. DONE
29. Plan my personal/development objectives for work for the next year AND how to go about achieving them DONE
30. Give a decent presentation on my work (on Jan 5)
31. Spring clean the study
32. Finish a piece of cross stitch DONE
33. Mend the lovely 50s dress I'll probably never fit into
34.Find the three things in my wardrobe I'd most like to wear but never have the opportunity, and make those opportunities. DONE (purple corset and tailcoat to burlesque club, blue ballgown, stretchy bright sequinny thing)
35. Raise £101 for charity
36. Do silk painting kit DONE
37. Hang three pictures in the house
38. Make baklava DONE
39. Make theremin
40. Make thing with polymorph
41. Go to three art exhibitions. DONE: Helena Almeida, Kettle's Yard. Anish Kapoor, Royal Academy. World Press Photo, Royal Festival Hall.
42. Organise my towels
43. Have seven screen-free days (aieeee!). DONE
44. Sort the fanzines
45. Get the printer working
46. Let cat in and out 7007 times (or as required). So far: no, really, I'm not counting this one.
47. Do ten press ups with good form. So far: 6, probably not great
48. Do a chin up??
49. Make some postcards (who wants one?)
50. Write three chapters of TAFF report
51. Make sock puppets in the form of famous artworks
52. Spend 14.5 hours thinking about art (I know what this one means in my head more than I can express it)
53. Go to Carlton Arms on a Thursday DONE
54. Go to Cambridge Blue monthly pub meet DONE
55. Play boardgames three times. DONE (2xArkham Horror with Monkeys; SPANC with P)
56. Drink more tea (currently one cup/week despite the array of interesting coloured packets in the cupboard). So far: a cup most days. Yum! DONE
57. Have a jolly nice dinner at a jolly nice restaurant
58. Write an end-of-year books-I've-read post DONE
59. and a films-I've-seen post DONE
60. Play viola for 14.5 hours (quietly). Anyone know how to tune a viola?
61. Mend stained glass
62. Make secrit confectionery DONE
63. Get a new default icon
64. Go round Cambridge photographing sculpture
65. Try a new sort of chocolate DONE. Nice Xmas present single bean, and rather horrid Plamil vegan chocolate.
66. Something involving ducks
67. Make a micro loan DONE
68. Eat vegan for a week DONE
69. Go for a day without making lewd innuendo or puns DONE (if you count "trying extremely hard but letting a few slip")
70. Watch/discard 8 home-taped videos DONE
71. Accept three invitations (should I receive them). DONE. Burlesque Club, Christmas dinner, service at Kings
72. Electrocute a gherkin
73. More a statement of intent than a thing to do: no computer between midnight and 6am. So far: ~30. From Day 70: 12
74. Have some sort of personal insight into my feelings about procrastination and productivity
75. Do Tai Chi 14 times. Ideally I'll be fit to get to the regular Tuesday class.
76. Some sort of clothing/makeup thing - maybe in January. I don't shop much...
Added since the 101 days started:
77. Take up my trousers DONE.
78. Get someone to fix the lights in the kitchen
79. Stop Life Insurance
80. Go out dancing till 2 in the morning. DONE.
81. Make the telly work. DONE.
82. Do some proof reading. DONE.
83. Watch all of Battlestar Galactica (original series) DONE
84. Fix toilet flush buttons
85. Make an Xcelsius dashboard
86. Archive LJ entries for the last few years
87. Find Dad's gold watch and chain (they'll be in a Safe Place in another dimension)
88. Do a newspaper crossword DONE (except for one word I didn't know)
89. Sort read/unread books DONE (491 unread fiction)
90. Get inbox to zero
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Comments

[angoel.livejournal.com]

Anyone know how to tune a viola?

Throw it at the wall until it stops crunching.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

All of a sudden, the hundreds of viola jokes come back to me. *shudder*

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

101 A day without lists !

... ducks !

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I like my lists!

Okay, what should I do with the ducks? :-)

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

If you do a day without lists, I'll do a day without books.

Viola tuning

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I can lend you an electronic tuning widget, but I presume there's something more subtle to it than playing each string carefully and turning the knobs at the top until the tuning widget says 'A' and its in-tune light goes green.

Re: Viola tuning

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Perhaps that would help - I'll use tamaranth's link first and see if I can get it tuned that way or if I have a tin ear and need a machine to help :-(

Hm fine dining. Are you game for a trip some time?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Theatre!
Learn to cook a new thing
... this notion, the 101 things list, strangely tempts me: I may try to organise my own vague to-do plans into something similar.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

http://www.get-tuned.com/viola_tuner.php
caution: may make a loud noise

[redbird]

Try a new kind of chocolate?

Also, I'm just wondering about some of those numbers. Is that 14.5 hours for art and viola an hour a week? Also, it's your project, but five pints of water a day is a lot: have you found that useful in the past? The idea that everyone should drink 8 cups her day--the usual U.S. version, and significantly less than what you have there--seems to have morphed from a misreading of the total water intake most people need, including what they get from salad, melon, juice, etc., possibly including tea. I know people vary, and if that is the amount that works for you, go for it, but I like water and it would feel like a burden for me, especially phrased as something to be done every day for 14.5 weeks.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Yes, an hour a week. I'm not planning on doing some extreme viola marathon!

I usually manage 5-7 pints of water a day, and feel much better when I hit the five. I suspect part of this is an encouragement to myself to choose water as the default rather than Diet Coke; I can easily manage 4 pints of Coke a day, at the expense of water, but it doesn't leave me feeling healthy.

New chocolate, eh? I shall have to go exploring...

[pjamesharvey.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the 69!

For board games, I'll happily play Tobago or Dungeon Lords with you, although I have copies of neither. But I have copies of Bunny Bunny Moose Moose and Hard Furry Pets.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I have Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls...

[pjamesharvey.livejournal.com]

subscirbe!

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Arts cinema film quiz!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Ooh, is that tonight? The web site says both "first Monday" and "November 5th"... I'd be up for that :-)

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Argh, it's November already isn't it? I was thinking the quiz was next Monday. I don't think I'm organised enough to do it tonight. How about the December one?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

December would be good, especially as I got back from the chiropractor and fell soundly asleep today...

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Next Monday, then?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[mgspiller.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I'm one of many that can help with portal. Do you want help yet? Where are you stuck?

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Admit I was wondering the same thing.

[leeky.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing.

"The snake is a pie!"
"The lake is a tie!"

See? I remember it all.