Daniel Spils in 2005
2005 was 93% worth living.
In 2005, Daniel Spils
did 69 things,
went 329 places,
met 0 people, and
consumed 182 products.
Daniel Spils has written 1 year in review entry…
- My year in review — 1 year ago
January
Added to 43 Things:
- stop drinking diet Coke — completed about 1 year later
- Buy an electric guitar that I love — completed about 1 month later
- Sell my Fender Rhodes to a deserving person — completed over 2 years later
- move to Alaska — completed about 1 month later
- Ban smoking in bars and restaurants in Washington State — completed over 3 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
- relax — Worth doing!
- just do it — Worth doing!
- floss more — Worth doing!
- roadtrip to Alaska — Worth doing!
→ See more from January
February
Added to 43 Things:
- Brush my shoulders off — completed over 2 years later
- visit all 50 states
Completed on 43 Things:
- Buy a House — Worth doing!
- shave my head — Worth doing!
- Learn to play the guitar — Not worth doing
- Quit my job — Worth doing!
- test 43 things — Worth doing!
- Floss Every Day — Worth doing!
- see the midnight sun — Worth doing!
- become a robotcooper — Worth doing!
- Buy an electric guitar that I love — Worth doing!
- move to Alaska — Worth doing!
- Own a nightclub — Worth doing!
- Add my city to my 43 Things profile — Worth doing!
- drink a beer or 12 with David Heinemeier Hansson — Worth doing!
→ See more from February
March
Added to 43 Things:
- Meet 43 Things users at Maktub shows this April & May 2005 — completed 2 months later
- create a list of my favorite restaurants in Seattle, WA — completed 4 months later
- run a 10k this fall
- find a decent bakery in boston — completed 2 months later
- Swim with dolphins — completed 4 months later
- Attend Maktub's listening party @ The Mirabeau Room on 4/2/2005 — completed 3 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
→ See more from March
April
Added to 43 Things:
- Use backpack — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Attend Maktub's listening party @ The Mirabeau Room on 4/2/2005 — Worth doing!
- Try out ideas.43things.com — Worth doing!
- play guitar — Worth doing!
→ See more from April
May
Added to 43 Things:
- get five people to watch The Five Obstructions — completed 3 months later
- Go fishing on the Kenai River — completed 26 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Meet 43 Things users at Maktub shows this April & May 2005 — Worth doing!
- Use backpack — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Alaska — visited about 1 year later
- Montana — visited 6 months later
- South Dakota
- Wyoming — visited about 1 year later
- Seattle — visited about 1 year later
- Snow City Cafe — visited 3 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Alabama — Worth visiting!
- Arizona — Worth visiting!
- California — Worth visiting!
- Colorado — Worth visiting!
- District of Columbia — Worth visiting!
- Florida — Worth visiting!
- Georgia — Worth visiting!
- Hawai'i — Worth visiting!
- Idaho — Worth visiting!
- Illinois — Worth visiting!
- Indiana — Worth visiting!
- Iowa — Worth visiting!
- Kentucky — Worth visiting!
- Maryland — Worth visiting!
- Massachusetts — Worth visiting!
Watched:
- Star Wars - Episode III, Revenge of the Sith — Not worth consuming
→ See more from May
June
Added to 43 Things:
- go to Alaska — completed about 1 month later
- visit Matt and Rachael in Scotland — completed 3 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- rock out with renewed authority — Worth doing!
- find a decent bakery in boston — Worth doing!
- Go fishing on the Kenai River — Worth doing!
- Ship it — Worth doing!
- Help test Tootietails: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op — Worth doing!
- see missy higgins live — Worth doing!
- go to New York — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Philadelphia — visited about 1 month later
- Douglas Fir Lounge — visited 2 months later
- Cuba
- Chop Suey — visited about 1 year later
- Baguette Box — visited 4 months later
- Alibi Room — visited about 1 month later
- Elysian Brewing Company — visited about 1 month later
- Condor Electronics — visited 3 months later
- Maui — visited 7 months later
- Kihei — visited 3 months later
- Spenard — visited 10 months later
- Praha
- Heaven
- Seward — visited about 1 month later
- Newburyport — visited about 1 month later
Visited on 43 Places:
- The Triple Door — Worth visiting!
- Osteria La Spiga — Worth visiting!
- 611 Supreme — Worth visiting!
- Italy — Worth visiting!
- Bathroom — Worth visiting!
- Tractor Tavern — Not worth visiting
- Matt's in the Market — Worth visiting!
- Fairbanks — Worth visiting!
- South Street — Worth visiting!
- New York City — Worth visiting!
- Wales — Worth visiting!
- Mumbai — Worth visiting!
- India — Worth visiting!
- British Columbia — Worth visiting!
- Germany — Worth visiting!
Watched:
- My Architect: A Son's Journey — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Scratch Track — Worth consuming!
→ See more from June
July
Added to 43 Things:
- find the biggest SPAM offenders on 43 Things — completed over 3 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
- create a list of my favorite restaurants in Seattle, WA — Worth doing!
- Swim with dolphins — Worth doing!
- go to Alaska — Worth doing!
- Give 100 cheers — Worth doing!
- see coldplay live — Worth doing!
- Master this shirt-folding technique — Worth doing!
- Throw a 43things Virtual Party! — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Manzanita
- University Of Alaska Anchorage — visited about 1 month later
- Reload Bags — visited 3 months later
- Dawson Plumbing — visited 3 months later
- Ballet Restaurant — visited about 1 month later
- Empire State Building — visited 26 days later
- Geraldine’s Counter — visited 8 months later
- Seattle Marriott Waterfront — visited 21 days later
- Matador - West Seattle — visited about 1 year later
- Humpy's Great Alaskan Alehouse — visited about 1 month later
- Via Tribunali — visited about 1 month later
- Le Pichet — visited 10 months later
- Experience Music Project — visited 10 months later
- Spokane — visited 10 months later
- The Showbox — visited 3 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Boulder — Worth visiting!
- Philadelphia — Worth visiting!
- Alibi Room — Worth visiting!
- Elysian Brewing Company — Worth visiting!
- Newburyport — Worth visiting!
- Dubai — Worth visiting!
- Absinthe Brasserie And Bar — Worth visiting!
- El Greco — Worth visiting!
- Whole Foods Market — Worth visiting!
- Stubb's Bar-B-Q — Worth visiting!
- Tok — Worth visiting!
- Erik's Place — Worth visiting!
- 22 Doors — Worth visiting!
- The Sylvia Hotel — Worth visiting!
- Bainbridge Island — Worth visiting!
Watched:
- Me and You and Everyone We Know — Worth consuming!
- Wedding Crashers — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- the island — Worth consuming!
→ See more from July
August
Added to 43 Things:
- Build a blog for Big Daddy Kane — completed about 1 month later
- Spread the word that "door hinge," in fact, rhymes with orange - kind of. — completed over 2 years later
- mail a postcard to The Robots from one of my 43 Places — completed about 1 year later
- begin planning the first 43Things users convention! — completed 19 days later
- hold a koala bear
Completed on 43 Things:
- get five people to watch The Five Obstructions — Not worth doing
- Reduce my ecological footprint — Worth doing!
- Get a gmail account — Not worth doing
- Remember to take earplugs to concerts — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Bad Juju Lounge — visited 23 days later
- Baltic Room — visited 23 days later
- Queen Anne — visited 8 months later
- The Harvest Vine — visited 3 months later
- Arctic Roadrunner — visited about 1 month later
- Kosice
- High Dive — visited 8 months later
- Parsons Guitar Shop — visited 8 months later
- Squire Park — visited over 2 years later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Snow City Cafe — Worth visiting!
- Douglas Fir Lounge — Worth visiting!
- Seward — Worth visiting!
- The Bake Shop — Worth visiting!
- Hotel Captain Cook — Worth visiting!
- Portage Bay Cafe — Not worth visiting
- Alta — Worth visiting!
- West Anchorage High School — Worth visiting!
- Bishop's Attic — Worth visiting!
- University Of Alaska Anchorage — Worth visiting!
- Empire State Building — Worth visiting!
- Seattle Marriott Waterfront — Worth visiting!
- The Showbox — Worth visiting!
- Golden Gate Park — Worth visiting!
- La Panzanella — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- Eric Hodel — met about 1 year later
- Buster McLeod — met about 1 year later
- Josh Petersen — met over 2 years later
- Robert Cottrell — met over 2 years later
- Carrick — met about 1 year later
- kellan — met about 1 year later
- Maggie — met about 1 year later
- Todd Gehman — met about 1 year later
- Alyssa — met about 1 year later
- ivan opalka — met about 1 year later
- Bill Turner — met about 1 year later
- Andrew Harbick — met about 1 year later
- David Heinemeier Hansson — met about 1 year later
- Caterina — met about 1 year later
- Matthew Round — met about 1 year later
→ See more from August
September
Added to 43 Things:
- Help victims of Hurricane Katrina — completed 4 months later
- develop a sensible disaster plan and survival kit — completed 4 months later
- pay off my student loans — completed about 1 year later
- complete construction of my basement studio — completed 3 months later
- get a WA State motorcycle license — completed 5 months later
- Sit on a jury — completed over 2 years later
- fix seattle's transportation problem
- Get my prostate checked — completed about 1 month later
- sell off my excess music gear — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Go fishing in Homer, Alaska — Worth doing!
- Build a blog for Big Daddy Kane — Worth doing!
- begin planning the first 43Things users convention!
- see the ghost of you video by my chemical romance — Worth doing!
- go to absinthe in hayes valley — Worth doing!
- cheer byzantium in fighting thyroid cancer — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Sky Church — visited 9 months later
- Cal Anderson Park — visited 7 months later
- Capitol Hill — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Condor Electronics — Worth visiting!
- Kihei — Worth visiting!
- Piecora's — Worth visiting!
- England — Worth visiting!
- The Glenwood — Worth visiting!
- Ballet Restaurant — Worth visiting!
- Humpy's Great Alaskan Alehouse — Worth visiting!
- Via Tribunali — Worth visiting!
- Bad Juju Lounge — Worth visiting!
- Baltic Room — Worth visiting!
- Arctic Roadrunner — Worth visiting!
- Tutta Bella — Worth visiting!
- Seattle Center — Worth visiting!
- Memorial Stadium — Worth visiting!
- The International Fountain — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- Zen Spider — met about 1 year later
- friedster — met over 2 years later
- Lee LeFever — met about 1 year later
- Andrej Gregov — met about 1 year later
- chris — met about 1 year later
- quincy — met about 1 year later
- Joe — met about 1 year later
- Eric Case — met about 1 year later
- trelnar — met about 1 year later
- lori — met about 1 year later
- Alex Edelman — met about 1 year later
- Brian Hsi — met about 1 year later
- pham — met over 2 years later
- brady forrest — met about 1 year later
- Michael McDaniel — met about 1 year later
Watched:
- The 40 Year Old Virgin — Worth consuming!
- Transporter 2 — Not worth consuming
→ See more from September
October
Added to 43 Things:
- increase used media product donations to Eco Encore
- release a Synth Club album
- Explore drafting a new city charter for Seattle
- convince the robots to add servers! — completed 7 days later
- attend the 2006 Decibel Festival in Seattle
- fix my scooter — completed 5 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
- refurnish my house with modern furniture — Worth doing!
- visit Matt and Rachael in Scotland — Not worth doing
- Get my prostate checked — Worth doing!
- attend the 43T/Carrick party today 10/5/2005 at 4pm @ The Elysian — Worth doing!
- edit my 43Things so that they are what I really want to do and not just things that seemed cool when I first signed up — Worth doing!
- Learn to play a musical instrument — Worth doing!
- win a webby — Worth doing!
- get a fake ID — Worth doing!
- Actually meet face-to-face with someone from 43 Things — Worth doing!
- Add all the bloggers I read to 43 People — Worth doing!
- Buy original art — Worth doing!
- Find the hidden 43 Things store — Worth doing!
- ride a motorcycle — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- First Hill — visited 7 months later
- George's Sausage & Deli — visited 5 months later
- Plum Island — visited 4 months later
- Town Hall — visited 8 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Baguette Box — Worth visiting!
- France — Worth visiting!
- Mirabeau Room — Worth visiting!
- Dawson Plumbing — Worth visiting!
- Beacon Hill — Worth visiting!
- Central District — Worth visiting!
- Tacos El Asadero — Worth visiting!
- Bud's Jazz Records — Worth visiting!
- Barbacoa — Worth visiting!
- King County Courthouse — Worth visiting!
- Jury Assembly Room — Worth visiting!
- Interstate 5 — Not worth visiting
- Chapel of St. Ignatius — Worth visiting!
- Hair Fair Wigs — Worth visiting!
- Leroy Menswear — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- nadineyap — met about 1 year later
- Allen Murray — met about 1 year later
- Ben Hosken — met about 1 year later
- Chris Morse — met over 2 years later
- tinoo — met about 1 year later
- linden — met about 1 year later
- JordanHay — met about 1 year later
- Davis — met over 2 years later
- Joe Mannix — met over 2 years later
- k — met about 1 year later
- Bruce Moore — met about 1 year later
- jpak — met about 1 year later
- abosco — met about 1 year later
- Megan — met about 1 year later
- Amy Arnold — met about 1 year later
Watched:
- A History of Violence — Worth consuming!
- Separate Lies — Worth consuming!
→ See more from October
November
Added to 43 Things:
- blog
- do 4 chin-ups — completed about 1 year later
- see Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire — completed over 2 years later
- organize a 43Things meetup in Atlanta
- find a great designer to collaborate with — completed about 1 month later
- gather participants for the first 43T european meet-up — completed over 2 years later
- Help Lee & Sachi Meet 43T Users on Their Trip Around the World in 2006 — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
- convince the robots to add servers! — Not worth doing
- get a flu shot — Worth doing!
- eat an apple — Worth doing!
- eat a banana — Worth doing!
- spend at least 10 minutes every day cleaning, organizing or decluttering — Worth doing!
- encourage everyone to post the least appealing & funniest picture of themselves they have, as a cathartic exercise — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
- Flynn's Cafe — visited about 1 year later
- Andy's Diner
- Pike Place Market — visited 5 months later
- Progressive Missionary Baptist Church — visited 3 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Reload Bags — Worth visiting!
- Kula Botanical Gardens — Worth visiting!
- Mendez Ranch — Worth visiting!
- The Hideout — Worth visiting!
- La Vaca Burrito Express — Worth visiting!
- Mira — Worth visiting!
- Galerias — Worth visiting!
- Adam Tailor — Worth visiting!
- La Carta De Oaxaca — Worth visiting!
- Top Pot Doughnuts — Worth visiting!
- Schuck's Auto Supply — Worth visiting!
- Neptune Theater — Worth visiting!
- New Hampshire — Worth visiting!
- Windorco — Worth visiting!
- Sears Roebuck & Co. — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- Hannah Barton — met over 2 years later
- rsnodgrass — met about 1 year later
- Kaki King — met about 1 year later
- Ellie Lum — met about 1 year later
- Steve Fisk — met about 1 year later
- Joe Chiccarelli — met about 1 year later
- Conrad Spils — met about 1 year later
- Deanna Spils — met about 1 year later
- Carol Spils — met about 1 year later
- bigsanford — met about 1 year later
- Charlie Villanueva
- Printz Board — met about 1 year later
- Pete Miser — met about 1 month later
- ?uestlove — met 8 months later
Read:
- On the Road — Worth consuming!
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference — Worth consuming!
- 1984 (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? — Worth consuming!
- Led Zeppelin II — Worth consuming!
- Absolution — Worth consuming!
- American Idiot — Worth consuming!
- Get Behind Me Satan — Worth consuming!
- Master of Puppets — Worth consuming!
- Very Best of Phoebe Snow — Worth consuming!
- Birth of the Cool — Worth consuming!
- The Meadowlands — Worth consuming!
- Voodoo — Worth consuming!
- Off the Wall — Worth consuming!
- Live It Out — Worth consuming!
- The Low End Theory — Worth consuming!
- Louder Than Love — Worth consuming!
- The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombation In 12 Bursts — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
- City of God — Worth consuming!
- American Splendor — Worth consuming!
- The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version) — Not worth consuming
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
- Saw
- Hotel Rwanda — Worth consuming!
- Star Wars, Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Star Wars, Episode IV- A New Hope (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter 4) — Not worth consuming
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding — Not worth consuming
- Me and You and Everyone We Know — Worth consuming!
- Walk the Line — Worth consuming!
- Good Night, and Good Luck. — Not worth consuming
- Broken Flowers — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Baguette Box's tofu sandwich — Worth consuming!
- Drunken Chicken Sandwich — Worth consuming!
- Beets — Worth consuming!
- Truffle Fries — Worth consuming!
- Croque-Madame — Worth consuming!
- San Pellegrino Mineral Water — Worth consuming!
→ See more from November
December
Added to 43 Things:
- get a houseplant (or two) — completed over 2 years later
- buy and wear a 43 things t-shirt — completed about 1 year later
- erg — completed about 1 month later
- ride The Duck in Seattle — completed 27 days later
- get a beer with Spils to discuss sarony — completed 21 days later
- commission a large painting
- Celebrate the 1 year anniversary of 43 Things — completed 4 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
- complete construction of my basement studio — Worth doing!
- Go to a Radiohead concert — Worth doing!
- be interviewed for a newspaper article on 43Things — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
Added to 43 Places:
- M.H. de Young Museum — visited 5 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
- Anchorage — Worth visiting!
- Montana
- The Harvest Vine — Worth visiting!
- Miami — Worth visiting!
- Herban Pottery & Patio — Worth visiting!
- City People's Garden Store — Worth visiting!
- Pigeon Point — Worth visiting!
- Madison's Cafe — Worth visiting!
- Buzz Stop — Worth visiting!
- Starbucks Corporate Offices — Worth visiting!
- Peco's Pit BBQ — Worth visiting!
- The Cathedral Of St. Mary Of The Assumption — Worth visiting!
- Dottie's True Blue Cafe — Worth visiting!
- The Moore Theatre — Worth visiting!
- Satellite Lounge — Not worth visiting
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- andrea — met about 1 year later
- Sara — met about 1 year later
- Chadwick Dahlquist — met about 1 year later
- alexys pentecost — met 4 months later
- stagger
- Lia Steakley — met 15 days later
- Susan Doering — met 20 days later
- Amelia Ellis — met 20 days later
- David Zapolsky — met 16 days later
Read:
- The Giving Tree — Worth consuming!
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition — Worth consuming!
- Fahrenheit 451 — Worth consuming!
- Galapagos (Delta Fiction) — Worth consuming!
- Breakfast of Champions — Worth consuming!
- Into the Wild — Worth consuming!
- Slaughterhouse-Five — Worth consuming!
- On Bullshit — Worth consuming!
- Ok Computer: Radiohead : Guitar, Tablature, Vocal — Worth consuming!
- A Dumb Little Book About Love — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
- Blue — Worth consuming!
- Like Water For Chocolate — Worth consuming!
- A Rush of Blood to the Head — Worth consuming!
- Elephant — Worth consuming!
- Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds, Vol. 2 — Worth consuming!
- Dark Side Of The Moon — Worth consuming!
- A Love Supreme — Worth consuming!
- When It Falls — Worth consuming!
- Version 2.0 — Worth consuming!
- Separation Sunday — Worth consuming!
- The Battle of Los Angeles — Worth consuming!
- Exit...Stage Left — Worth consuming!
- Mama's Gun — Worth consuming!
- Brown Sugar — Worth consuming!
- Queen - Greatest Hits — Worth consuming!
Watched:
- The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection) — Worth consuming!
- Spirited Away
- Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
- Raising Arizona — Worth consuming!
- The Matrix — Worth consuming!
- Run Lola Run — Worth consuming!
- Chinatown — Worth consuming!
- The Shawshank Redemption — Worth consuming!
- The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
- Galaxy Quest — Worth consuming!
- Memento — Worth consuming!
- Rushmore - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
- Kill Bill, Volume 1 — Not worth consuming
- Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
- Kill Bill, Volume 2 — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
- tuna sandwich — Worth consuming!
- Diet Coke — Not worth consuming
- Ballet teriyaki — Worth consuming!
- Bubble Tea — Worth consuming!
- Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
- Flickr — Worth consuming!
- alka-seltzer — Worth consuming!
