Daniel Spils in 2006

2006 was 94% worth living.

In 2005, Daniel Spils did 57 things, went 501 places, met 55 people, and consumed 419 products.

Daniel Spils has written 1 year in review entry…

Years: 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. commission a series of 4 to 10 small photographs — completed about 1 year later
  2. learn to cook delicious soup — completed over 2 years later
  3. Learn to surf — completed 8 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Help victims of Hurricane Katrina — Worth doing!
  2. develop a sensible disaster plan and survival kit — Worth doing!
  3. find a great designer to collaborate with — Not worth doing
  4. Help Lee & Sachi Meet 43T Users on Their Trip Around the World in 2006 — Worth doing!
  5. erg — Worth doing!
  6. ride The Duck in Seattle — Worth doing!
  7. get a beer with Spils to discuss sarony — Worth doing!
  8. Celebrate the 1 year anniversary of 43 Things — Worth doing!
  9. start a band — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. fix seattle's transportation problem
  2. increase used media product donations to Eco Encore
  3. Explore drafting a new city charter for Seattle
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Seven Stars Pepper
  2. Paia — visited 11 days later
  3. Haleakala — visited 12 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Maui — Worth visiting!
  2. Southend Motorcycle — Worth visiting!
  3. Zig Zag Cafe — Worth visiting!
  4. University Of Washington Medical Center — Worth visiting!
  5. Harborview Medical Center — Worth visiting!
  6. Kuhlman — Worth visiting!
  7. Wonder Bread Bakery — Worth visiting!
  8. Outlet Store — Worth visiting!
  9. Burgermaster — Worth visiting!
  10. St. James Cathedral — Worth visiting!
  11. Crave — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. olke
  2. Riley
  3. twozdai
  4. Lia Steakley
  5. Pete Miser
  6. Susan Doering
  7. Amelia Ellis
  8. David Zapolsky
  9. maxmignon
  10. Brent Smith
Read:
  1. The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. Bowl and Pitcher Park: Poems — Worth consuming!
  3. The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition with 1,000 Recipes — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Bleach — Worth consuming!
  2. Songs in the Key of Life — Worth consuming!
  3. Wolfmother
Watched:
  1. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Psycho (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Goodfellas — Worth consuming!
  4. Midnight Cowboy — Worth consuming!
  5. Casablanca — Worth consuming!
  6. The Wizard of Oz — Worth consuming!
  7. The Godfather DVD Collection — Worth consuming!
  8. Some Like It Hot (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition with Bonus Disc) — Worth consuming!
  10. 2001 - A Space Odyssey — Worth consuming!
  11. Napoleon Dynamite — Worth consuming!
  12. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Full Screen Collector's Edition) — Not worth consuming
  13. Finding Neverland (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Citizen Kane — Worth consuming!
  15. Fargo — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Sushi — Worth consuming!
  2. Earl Grey tea — Worth consuming!
  3. Chinese Breakfast tea — Worth consuming!
  4. Licor 43 (Cuarenta y tres) — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Wikipedia — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. attend my 20 year West High School reunion in Anchorage, Alaska — completed over 2 years later
  2. help 43 Things win the SXSW People's Choice award — completed 10 days later
  3. Bike to work — completed over 2 years later
  4. stop the PSE law in japan — completed about 1 month later
  5. visit my Uncle George — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get a WA State motorcycle license — Worth doing!
  2. Learn to surf — Worth doing!
  3. run up the "rocky steps" in philly — Worth doing!
  4. wake up when my alarm clock goes off — Not worth doing
  5. Thank Bill Turner for creating Lists of Bests — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Westport
  2. Nu'u Bay — visited 23 days later
  3. Crow — visited 2 months later
  4. Dublin — visited 10 days later
  5. Wallingford — visited 3 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Plum Island — Worth visiting!
  2. Paia — Worth visiting!
  3. Haleakala — Worth visiting!
  4. Wings N Things Cafe — Worth visiting!
  5. Hana — Worth visiting!
  6. Napili — Worth visiting!
  7. Wailea — Not worth visiting
  8. Kapalua — Not worth visiting
  9. Mama's Fish House — Worth visiting!
  10. Alexander's Fish & Chips — Worth visiting!
  11. Kihei Caffe — Worth visiting!
  12. Makawao — Worth visiting!
  13. Kula — Worth visiting!
  14. Makena — Worth visiting!
  15. Big Beach — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Rob Jones — met 10 months later
  2. Cathy Wang — met 10 months later
  3. heung — met 10 months later
  4. droppyale — met 11 months later
  5. Weston Smith — met 21 days later
  6. TonyFlynn — met about 1 month later
  7. KatieReeves — met 19 days later
  8. bsamms — met 7 months later
  9. Ken Brown — met 14 days later
  10. norikoism — met 10 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Kanoa Kukaua
  2. tessamessy
  3. Wyoming
  4. Jenny Christal
  5. ChristinaOpalka
  6. gunbirk
  7. Molly James
  8. JohnHedlund
  9. Dana Hollenbeck
  10. Renate Campbell
  11. Nicole Forsi
  12. Jon Austin
  13. Kristin Hellen
  14. gordonanderson
  15. charolm
Read:
  1. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories — Worth consuming!
  2. Lonesome Dove — Worth consuming!
  3. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life, First Edition — Worth consuming!
  4. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets — Worth consuming!
  5. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists — Worth consuming!
  6. Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. A Night at the Opera — Worth consuming!
  2. The Joshua Tree — Worth consuming!
  3. Grace — Worth consuming!
  4. Kind of Blue — Worth consuming!
  5. The Bends — Worth consuming!
  6. The Beatles (The White Album) — Worth consuming!
  7. Abbey Road
  8. OK Computer — Worth consuming!
  9. Either/Or — Worth consuming!
  10. Nevermind — Worth consuming!
  11. XO — Worth consuming!
  12. Bitches Brew — Worth consuming!
  13. The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered) — Worth consuming!
  14. Led Zeppelin 1 — Worth consuming!
  15. The Shape of Jazz to Come — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
  2. A Fish Called Wanda — Worth consuming!
  3. Harold and Maude — Worth consuming!
  4. The Apartment — Worth consuming!
  5. Gladiator (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Caddyshack — Worth consuming!
  7. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  8. A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen Awards Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Chicago (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Princess Bride (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Swingers (Miramax Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
  12. Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Rain Man — Worth consuming!
  14. The Sting — Worth consuming!
  15. When Harry Met Sally... — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Casio Exilim EX-S500 5MP Digital Camera with 3x Anti Shake Optical Zoom (Grey) — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Visit my Aunt Evelyn — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. help 43 Things win the SXSW People's Choice award — Worth doing!
  2. stop the PSE law in japan — Worth doing!
  3. make peace with my hair — Worth doing!
  4. drive from seattle to san diego — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. La Puerta — visited about 1 year later
  2. Twist
  3. Northwest Film Forum — visited about 1 month later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Vancouver — Worth visiting!
  2. Washington, D.C. — Worth visiting!
  3. Geraldine’s Counter — Worth visiting!
  4. George's Sausage & Deli — Worth visiting!
  5. Progressive Missionary Baptist Church
  6. Seward Park — Worth visiting!
  7. Nu'u Bay — Worth visiting!
  8. Dublin — Worth visiting!
  9. AMBER — Not worth visiting
  10. Stonehenge — Worth visiting!
  11. Europe — Worth visiting!
  12. North America — Worth visiting!
  13. La Cabana Cafe — Not worth visiting
  14. Lifelong Thrift Store — Worth visiting!
  15. Assistance League Thrift Shop — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Anne Petersen — met 10 months later
  2. angela. — met 10 months later
  3. george — met 10 months later
  4. Jason Sutter — met 10 months later
  5. kimbalina — met 10 months later
  6. stacy — met 9 months later
  7. sierraswindler — met 3 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. ick
  2. Aubrey Sabala
  3. Daniel Delapava
  4. Roland Tanglao
  5. goldtoe
  6. moohaha
  7. Birgitte
  8. Danah Boyd
  9. Weston Smith
  10. KatieReeves
  11. Ken Brown
  12. seanpants
  13. John Knapp
  14. helenjane
Read:
  1. The Great Gatsby — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Achtung Baby — Worth consuming!
  2. Ten — Worth consuming!
  3. Jagged Little Pill — Worth consuming!
  4. Keep It Like a Secret — Worth consuming!
  5. Figure 8 — Worth consuming!
  6. Parachutes — Worth consuming!
  7. Chutes Too Narrow — Worth consuming!
  8. The Moon & Antarctica — Worth consuming!
  9. Funeral — Worth consuming!
  10. Antics — Worth consuming!
  11. Silent Alarm — Worth consuming!
  12. Ágætis Byrjun — Worth consuming!
  13. Out of Exile — Worth consuming!
  14. Appetite for Destruction — Worth consuming!
  15. Kid A — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Spanish Prisoner — Worth consuming!
  2. Bottle Rocket — Worth consuming!
  3. Heathers — Worth consuming!
  4. The Straight Story — Worth consuming!
  5. Adaptation (Superbit Collection) — Worth consuming!
  6. Finding Nemo (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Amores Perros — Worth consuming!
  8. Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai — Worth consuming!
  9. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Do The Right Thing - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  11. The Shining — Worth consuming!
  12. A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
  13. Reservoir Dogs — Not worth consuming
  14. A Bug's Life (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. Trainspotting
Consumed:
  1. Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  2. Oreos — Worth consuming!
  3. dark chocolate — Worth consuming!
  4. BBQ'd Salmon — Worth consuming!
  5. Kebab — Worth consuming!
  6. jambalaya — Worth consuming!
  7. Cheesecake — Worth consuming!
  8. Paella — Worth consuming!
  9. Venison — Worth consuming!
  10. Pasta — Worth consuming!
  11. Champagne — Worth consuming!
  12. Steak — Worth consuming!
  13. fish tacos — Worth consuming!
  14. Fresh fish — Worth consuming!
  15. Lobster — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. All Consuming — Worth consuming!
  2. 43 Things — Worth consuming!
  3. RADIO - KEXP, the best in the world — Worth consuming!
  4. 43 Places — Worth consuming!
  5. 43 People — Worth consuming!
  6. Googlewhack Adventure — Worth consuming!
  7. Lists of Bests — Worth consuming!
  8. Beastie Boys
  9. Flaming Lips — Worth consuming!
  10. Green Day — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. write down as many of my earliest memories from childhood as I can remember
  2. floss twice a day — completed about 1 month later
  3. Decrease my monthly expenses — completed 22 days later
  4. organize a weekly morning club — completed 18 days later
  5. Share insights about how to use 43Things to best advantage, how it can be an aid to accomplishment, not a distraction — completed 5 months later
  6. Have an out-of-body experience — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. fix my scooter — Worth doing!
  2. Work for the Robot Co-op — Worth doing!
  3. Fly fish in Alaska or Montana — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Zacatecas (State)
  2. Blue Star Cafe & Pub — visited 2 months later
  3. Neumos — visited 3 months later
  4. Manrique's Brasserie — visited 4 months later
  5. Tenderloin — visited 4 months later
  6. Haight-Ashbury — visited 27 days later
  7. Kimchi Bistro — visited 26 days later
  8. Portobello Road — visited about 1 month later
  9. Isle Of Berneray
  10. St. Clouds — visited 7 months later
  11. Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant — visited about 1 month later
  12. Camden — visited about 1 year later
  13. Rendezvous — visited about 1 month later
  14. TriBeCa — visited 7 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Spenard — Worth visiting!
  2. Crocodile Cafe — Worth visiting!
  3. Queen Anne — Worth visiting!
  4. High Dive — Worth visiting!
  5. Crow — Worth visiting!
  6. Zeitgeist Coffee — Worth visiting!
  7. Treehouse Cafe — Worth visiting!
  8. Alaska Zoo — Worth visiting!
  9. The Castro — Worth visiting!
  10. Financial District — Worth visiting!
  11. Hayes Valley — Worth visiting!
  12. Japantown — Worth visiting!
  13. Mission District — Worth visiting!
  14. Marina District — Worth visiting!
  15. Lower Haight — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. Twist
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Chris Campbell
  2. A AE
  3. Alex Ross
  4. marabcollins
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Aaron Post
  2. alexys pentecost
  3. ivanascott
  4. TonyFlynn
Listened to:
  1. Odyssey
  2. Hypnotize — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides — Worth consuming!
  2. TV Party — Not worth consuming
  3. Mouchette — Worth consuming!
  4. Hard Candy — Not worth consuming
  5. Friends with Money — Worth consuming!
  6. ATL — Worth consuming!
  7. Brick — Worth consuming!
  8. The Intruder — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Tarte l'Alsace — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Scrabble

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Do something...anything in the fight against RACISM
  2. have lunch with greg — completed 8 days later
  3. go to a ton of movies at the 2006 Seattle Int'l Film Festival — completed 26 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Decrease my monthly expenses — Worth doing!
  2. organize a weekly morning club — Worth doing!
  3. go to a Metallica concert — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. blog
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Faire
  2. Bratislava
  3. Meatpacking District — visited about 1 year later
  4. Skylark Cafe & Club
  5. Licorous — visited about 1 month later
  6. Summit Public House — visited 18 days later
  7. 1429 12th Ave
  8. Peter D's Restaurant — visited about 1 month later
  9. Bob's Java Jive
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Louisiana — Worth visiting!
  2. San Francisco — Worth visiting!
  3. Parsons Guitar Shop — Worth visiting!
  4. Cal Anderson Park — Worth visiting!
  5. First Hill — Worth visiting!
  6. Pike Place Market — Worth visiting!
  7. M.H. de Young Museum — Worth visiting!
  8. Northwest Film Forum — Worth visiting!
  9. Haight-Ashbury — Worth visiting!
  10. Kimchi Bistro — Worth visiting!
  11. Rendezvous — Worth visiting!
  12. Capitol Club — Worth visiting!
  13. New Orleans — Worth visiting!
  14. Avast! 1 — Worth visiting!
  15. Pedal Revolution — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. ali watkins — met 8 months later
  2. CriminalSalt — met 7 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Lele McLeod
Watched:
  1. Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Sabrina — Worth consuming!
  3. Crash (Full Screen Edition)
  4. The Man Who Loved Women
  5. Happily Ever After
  6. Sunset Blvd. — Worth consuming!
  7. The Man Who Loved Women
  8. United 93 — Worth consuming!
  9. American Blackout — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Build a deck.
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. stop drinking diet Coke — Worth doing!
  2. floss twice a day — Worth doing!
  3. have lunch with greg — Worth doing!
  4. go to a ton of movies at the 2006 Seattle Int'l Film Festival — Worth doing!
  5. Build out my entire neighborhood on 43 Places — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Edinburgh
  2. Caffe Mioposto — visited 29 days later
  3. Dukliansky priesmyk
  4. Victrola - Pike Street — visited 7 months later
  5. Manhattan — visited 5 months later
  6. Globe Cafe And Bakery — visited about 1 year later
  7. Apple Store — visited 2 months later
  8. Green Leaf — visited 8 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Alaska — Worth visiting!
  2. The Robot Co-op Office — Worth visiting!
  3. Caffè Vita - Pike Street — Worth visiting!
  4. Le Pichet — Worth visiting!
  5. Experience Music Project — Not worth visiting
  6. Spokane — Worth visiting!
  7. London — Worth visiting!
  8. Sky Church — Worth visiting!
  9. Wallingford — Worth visiting!
  10. Blue Star Cafe & Pub — Worth visiting!
  11. Portobello Road — Worth visiting!
  12. Meskel Ethiopian Restaurant — Worth visiting!
  13. Licorous — Worth visiting!
  14. Summit Public House — Worth visiting!
  15. Musashi — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Lane — met 7 months later
  2. heaveemetal — met 6 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. sierraswindler
Listened to:
  1. Blocked Numbers — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Battlestar Galactica (2003 Miniseries) — Worth consuming!
  2. Happily Ever After
  3. An Inconvenient Truth — Worth consuming!
  4. The Nightly Song of the Travellers — Worth consuming!
  5. The Heart of the Game — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Track my running
  2. organize a pro-bald Alopecia meetup
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. FIND OUT HOW TO BLOCK A WEIRDO ON 43THINGS! — Worth doing!
  2. Convert to green energy — Worth doing!
  3. understand my emotions — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. All City Coffee
  2. Dom Polski — visited 2 months later
  3. El Quetzal — visited 20 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Chop Suey — Worth visiting!
  2. Egyptian Theatre — Worth visiting!
  3. Town Hall — Worth visiting!
  4. Neumos — Worth visiting!
  5. Peter D's Restaurant
  6. Caffe Mioposto
  7. Kingfish Cafe — Worth visiting!
  8. Seattle Public Library - Capitol Hill Branch — Worth visiting!
  9. Swanson's Nursery
  10. Bimbo's Bitchin' Burrito Kitchen — Not worth visiting
  11. Waid's — Worth visiting!
  12. Bear Tooth Theater Pub & Grill — Worth visiting!
  13. Las Manitas — Worth visiting!
  14. Second Chance — Worth visiting!
  15. Daniel's Broiler — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Restinpieces
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. ?uestlove
Watched:
  1. District B13 — Worth consuming!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. see Snakes on a Plane — completed 6 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. gather participants to take my Ph.D. thesis survey — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Shi Shi Beach
  2. Lincoln Square Cinemas — visited 3 months later
  3. Vashon Island — visited about 1 month later
  4. Chapel — visited 3 months later
  5. RE·PC — visited 5 months later
  6. Cafe Stellina — visited 9 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Daniel's House — Worth visiting!
  2. Manrique's Brasserie — Worth visiting!
  3. Tenderloin — Worth visiting!
  4. Apple Store — Worth visiting!
  5. El Quetzal — Worth visiting!
  6. Lyn Ary Park — Worth visiting!
  7. Alaska Native Medical Center — Worth visiting!
  8. Alaska Native Medical Center Craft Shop — Worth visiting!
  9. Stewart's Photo — Worth visiting!
  10. One More Time Thrift Store — Worth visiting!
  11. Summit Lake Lodge — Worth visiting!
  12. Salon Dewi
  13. Bellevue
  14. Richard Hugo House — Worth visiting!
  15. Gossip — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Morgan Tepsic
  2. Sir Aaron — met 5 months later
  3. katherine k robinson
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. haikugirl
Read:
  1. Status Anxiety — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Cobra Verde
  2. Snakes on a Plane — Worth consuming!
  3. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby — Worth consuming!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. track everything I spend for a week — completed 2 months later
  2. consider selling my Fender Rhodes 88-key electric piano — completed 6 months later
  3. insulate my house
  4. Eat a burrito for all three meals one day — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Share insights about how to use 43Things to best advantage, how it can be an aid to accomplishment, not a distraction — Worth doing!
  2. See a moose (a live one...) — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. attend the 2006 Decibel Festival in Seattle
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Mediterranean Kitchen Express — visited 3 months later
  2. Seattle Mystery Bookshop — visited 4 months later
  3. Reykjavik
  4. Pizzarium
  5. Studio Seven
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Dom Polski — Worth visiting!
  2. Vashon Island — Worth visiting!
  3. Piroshky On Broadway — Worth visiting!
  4. McDonald's — Not worth visiting
  5. Kennewick — Worth visiting!
  6. Super Jock 'n Jill — Worth visiting!
  7. Hing Loon — Worth visiting!
  8. Feierabend — Worth visiting!
  9. BTG Coffee — Worth visiting!
  10. Taco Miendo — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Vladimir the Polar Bear — met 4 months later
  2. NYCinephile
  3. Will Larson — met about 1 year later
  4. John Maeda
  5. adamjh
  6. Jerry Case — met 4 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Gertie
  2. headapollo
  3. bsamms
Listened to:
  1. Destroyer's Rubies — Not worth consuming
Watched:
  1. Screaming Masterpiece — Worth consuming!
  2. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. clean out the garage — completed about 1 month later
  2. get the pigeons out of my attic — completed 8 months later
  3. Go camping more often.
  4. Make 43 Things Faster — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. mail a postcard to The Robots from one of my 43 Places — Worth doing!
  2. Eat a burrito for all three meals one day — Worth doing!
  3. mention 43 things in a social setting and find another person who is part of 43 things that I didn't KNOW was part of 43 things — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Dinette
  2. Angie's Food
  3. McLeod Residence — visited 2 months later
  4. Loreto — visited about 23 hours later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Wyoming — Worth visiting!
  2. Echo Park — Worth visiting!
  3. Broadway Vision Source — Worth visiting!
  4. Gig Harbor
  5. Nancy Lake State Recreation Area — Worth visiting!
  6. The Grog
  7. Newburyport Public Library
  8. Fowles — Worth visiting!
  9. Ipswich — Worth visiting!
  10. Crane Estate — Worth visiting!
  11. Marine Society Building — Worth visiting!
  12. Winslow — Worth visiting!
  13. Olympic Hot Springs — Worth visiting!
  14. Varsity Theatre
  15. Colfax — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. tylersookochoff
Watched:
  1. The Five Obstructions
  2. The Corporation — Not worth consuming
  3. Battlestar Galactica - Season One — Worth consuming!
  4. Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.0 (Episodes 1-10) — Worth consuming!
  5. Come and See — Worth consuming!
  6. The Departed — Worth consuming!
  7. Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.5 (Episodes 11-20) — Worth consuming!
  8. American Hardcore — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Manhattan — Worth consuming!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Nominate myself or others to be on The Learning Channel's new TV show about helping a handful of underdogs reach their goals — completed 27 days later
  2. save 6 months of living expenses — completed about 1 year later
  3. make a plan for financial independence
  4. poop in my pants — completed about 1 year later
  5. attempt to fix up the old soda machine for McLeod — completed about 1 month later
  6. have a geek night in Seattle — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. sell off my excess music gear — Worth doing!
  2. track everything I spend for a week — Worth doing!
  3. clean out the garage — Worth doing!
  4. get emo hair — Worth doing!
  5. go to a rock concert — Worth doing!
  6. Fly First Class — Worth doing!
  7. hold a snake — Worth doing!
  8. get a rabbit — Worth doing!
  9. make homemade applesauce in the fall — Worth doing!
  10. pay off credit cards — Worth doing!
  11. Fund your 401k to the maximum — Worth doing!
  12. pay off my credit cards — Worth doing!
  13. save $1,000 in an emergency fund — Worth doing!
  14. live within 80% of my income — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Egypt
  2. Youngstown Arts Center
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Lark — Worth visiting!
  2. Matador - West Seattle — Worth visiting!
  3. Capitol Hill — Worth visiting!
  4. TriBeCa — Worth visiting!
  5. Manhattan — Worth visiting!
  6. Lincoln Square Cinemas — Not worth visiting
  7. Chapel
  8. Loreto — Worth visiting!
  9. Phoenix — Worth visiting!
  10. Tucson — Worth visiting!
  11. Madison Park Cafe — Worth visiting!
  12. Matador - Tacoma — Worth visiting!
  13. Lowe's — Worth visiting!
  14. Stewart Lumber & Hardware — Worth visiting!
  15. Remo Borracchini's — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. CaseyLeigh — met 2 months later
  2. Absnasm
  3. royafork
  4. joeldaniel — met about 1 month later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. boo_urne
Listened to:
  1. Holy Diver — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Remains of the Day (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Door in the Floor
  3. Stranger Than Fiction — Worth consuming!
  4. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan — Not worth consuming
  5. Casino Royale — Worth consuming!
  6. The Queen — Worth consuming!

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. record an album in my basement — completed about 1 year later
  2. Ski Alyeska in Girdwood, Alaska — completed about 1 year later
  3. go skiing in Alaska in 2007 — completed 4 months later
  4. buy a robot co-op member a drink — completed about 1 year later
  5. reinvent my keyboard rig — completed 23 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. pay off my student loans — Worth doing!
  2. Nominate myself or others to be on The Learning Channel's new TV show about helping a handful of underdogs reach their goals — Worth doing!
  3. congratulate Benji and Speedy on completing their "secret" goal! — Worth doing!
  4. go on a seven day (or longer) road trip — Worth doing!
  5. shoot a gun — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. 1st Hill Bar & Grill
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. St. Clouds — Worth visiting!
  2. Mediterranean Kitchen Express — Worth visiting!
  3. McLeod Residence — Worth visiting!
  4. Downtown Cups — Worth visiting!
  5. Vito's — Worth visiting!
  6. Christmas Carousel — Worth visiting!
  7. Topolino's Pizza — Worth visiting!
  8. Wade's Eastside Guns — Worth visiting!
  9. Mayuri Indian Cuisine — Worth visiting!
  10. Berbati's Pan — Worth visiting!
  11. Los Angeles International Airport — Not worth visiting
  12. Terminal 3 — Not worth visiting
  13. Observation Deck — Worth visiting!
  14. The Harbor Public House — Worth visiting!
  15. Blackbird Bakery — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Artis The Spoonman
Watched:
  1. The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition)
  2. Children of Men — Worth consuming!
  3. Blood Diamond — Worth consuming!
  4. Mutual Appreciation — Not worth consuming

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The world wants to meet…

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