Daniel Spils in 2007

2007 was 90% worth living.

In 2005, Daniel Spils did 43 things, went 74 places, met 129 people, and consumed 33 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. figure out the secret team goal bug — completed 2 months later
  2. figure out the mysterious team goal bug — completed 2 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. buy and wear a 43 things t-shirt — Worth doing!
  2. attempt to fix up the old soda machine for McLeod — Worth doing!
  3. reinvent my keyboard rig — Worth doing!
  4. learn to bake bread — Worth doing!
  5. commission a work of art — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. start a post-modern theology discussion group
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Choo Choo Vending
  2. Gun Club
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Victrola - Pike Street — Worth visiting!
  2. RE·PC — Worth visiting!
  3. Seattle Mystery Bookshop — Worth visiting!
  4. Aoki — Worth visiting!
  5. Crossroads Trading Co. — Worth visiting!
  6. Red Light Clothing Exchange — Worth visiting!
  7. Husky Deli — Worth visiting!
  8. Olympic Sculpture Park — Worth visiting!
  9. Fish Tale — Worth visiting!
  10. Red Mill Burgers — Worth visiting!
  11. The Sea Monster Lounge — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Kevin Davis — met 20 days later
  2. emigrant
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Zen Spider
  2. Eric Hodel
  3. Buster McLeod
  4. Carrick
  5. kellan
  6. Anne Petersen
  7. angela.
  8. Maggie
  9. Todd Gehman
  10. Alyssa
  11. ivan opalka
  12. Lee LeFever
  13. Andrej Gregov
  14. chris
  15. nadineyap
Listened to:
  1. Get Good or Stay Bad — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Visitors
  2. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Volver — Worth consuming!
  4. Inland Empire

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. record a Maktub album in 2007 — completed 8 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Sell my Fender Rhodes to a deserving person — Worth doing!
  2. do 4 chin-ups — Worth doing!
  3. Help Deni celebrate her 43T 2-year anniversary (2/26/07). — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get corrective eye surgery or lasik
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Baguette Box - Fremont
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Hattie's Hat — Worth visiting!
  2. Backstage Thrift — Worth visiting!
  3. Wailuku — Worth visiting!
  4. Requests Music — Worth visiting!
  5. Tasty Crust — Worth visiting!
  6. Haliimaile — Worth visiting!
  7. General Store — Worth visiting!
  8. Sam Sato's — Worth visiting!
  9. Costco — Not worth visiting
  10. Fred's Mexican Cafe & Cantina — Worth visiting!
  11. Ioa Needle — Worth visiting!
  12. Ioa Valley — Worth visiting!
  13. West Beacon Hill Greenbelt — Worth visiting!
  14. Java Love — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Laurel Fan — met about 1 year later
  2. ettaVee
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Kevin Davis
Watched:
  1. Genghis Blues — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. learn how to use 43 Things — completed about 1 year later
  2. complete my 2006 taxes — completed 7 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. run a half marathon — Worth doing!
  2. commission a series of 4 to 10 small photographs — Worth doing!
  3. see Snakes on a Plane — Worth doing!
  4. go to SXSW Interactive — Worth doing!
  5. go to SXSW Interactive 2007 — Worth doing!
  6. Cheerbomb Laurel - Can you think of a better way to welcome the first female robot ? — Worth doing!
  7. become a MARC7 member — Worth doing!
  8. See Mastodon live — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. The Streamliner Diner — visited 3 months later
  2. Museum Of Glass
  3. Tougo Coffee Co. — visited 5 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Seattle — Worth visiting!
  2. Funkytown — Worth visiting!
  3. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park — Worth visiting!
  4. Green Leaf — Worth visiting!
  5. Carroll's Fine Jewelry — Worth visiting!
  6. Trinity Thrift Shop — Worth visiting!
  7. San Antonio — Worth visiting!
  8. The Alamo — Worth visiting!
  9. River Walk — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. John Edwards
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. sipes23
Watched:
  1. Little Miss Sunshine — Not worth consuming
  2. Talladega Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. 300 — Not worth consuming
  4. Doubletime — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. motorcycle from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Brush my shoulders off — Worth doing!
  2. consider selling my Fender Rhodes 88-key electric piano — Worth doing!
  3. have a geek night in Seattle — Worth doing!
  4. go skiing in Alaska in 2007 — Worth doing!
  5. figure out the secret team goal bug — Worth doing!
  6. figure out the mysterious team goal bug — Worth doing!
  7. do yoga — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. write down as many of my earliest memories from childhood as I can remember
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Tougo Coffee Co. — Worth visiting!
  2. Samadhi Yoga — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. ingopixel
Watched:
  1. The Host (괴물) — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Forêts

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Make a film about 43 Things
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Have an out-of-body experience — Worth doing!
  2. buy a sonicare toothbrush — Not worth doing
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Flynn's Cafe — Worth visiting!
  2. La Puerta — Not worth visiting
  3. Capitol Loans — Worth visiting!
  4. Mori Japanese Restaurant — Worth visiting!
  5. Union Jack's — Worth visiting!
  6. Smarty Pants — Worth visiting!
  7. Georgetown Records / Fantagraphics — Worth visiting!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Organize a Bay Area meet-up — completed about 1 month later
  2. cuss rarely and only when it will have high rhetorical impact
  3. visit all of the parks in Seattle
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Discover secret coves of wholesome fun in Seattle. — Worth doing!
  2. Drink more than enough water — Not worth doing
  3. eat breakfast — Worth doing!
  4. Write a note to my younger self about something I know now that I didn't know then — Worth doing!
  5. Determine one thing I can do this summer that would seriously change my life, and accomplish it before Labor Day — Worth doing!
  6. lol — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Ti Couz — visited about 1 month later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Netherlands — Worth visiting!
  2. Café Presse — Worth visiting!
  3. Cafe Stellina — Worth visiting!
  4. The Streamliner Diner — Worth visiting!
  5. B and W Antiques — Not worth visiting
  6. Central Vacuum Service — Worth visiting!
  7. Annapurna Cafe — Worth visiting!
  8. Beacon Avenue Shell — Worth visiting!
  9. Empty Lot in Old Ballard — Worth visiting!
  10. Cugini Cafe — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. brangien — met 28 days later
Listened to:
  1. Blood Sugar Sex Magik — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Jesus Camp — Worth consuming!
  2. Crazy Love — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Determine a single word that represents everything I'm trying to do, be, and learn in life. — completed 2 months later
  2. do slow weights for a year — completed 11 months later
  3. Observe my hometown with a traveler's eye
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get the pigeons out of my attic — Worth doing!
  2. Organize a Bay Area meet-up — Worth doing!
  3. buy an iphone — Worth doing!
  4. Track the geographical source of everything I eat for one day — Worth doing!
  5. fight a traffic ticket — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Harvard Exit Theater — Worth visiting!
  2. Columbia City Cinema — Worth visiting!
  3. Globe Cafe And Bakery — Worth visiting!
  4. Ti Couz — Worth visiting!
  5. Eyes On Fremont — Worth visiting!
  6. Aurora Suzuki — Worth visiting!
  7. Manastash Ridge — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. catattack — met 2 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Adar
  2. bookish
  3. apteryx
  4. SWAZ
  5. A Girl in the Curl
  6. brangien
  7. 43 Things
Watched:
  1. Kentucky Fried Movie — Worth consuming!
  2. Once — Worth consuming!
  3. Live Free or Die Hard — Not worth consuming

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. go to SXSW in 2008.
  2. walk to work — completed 11 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Start a company that survives longer than 2 years — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. start using the library
  2. cuss rarely and only when it will have high rhetorical impact
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Vermillion — Worth visiting!
  2. Valley 6 Drive In — Worth visiting!
  3. Pony — Worth visiting!
  4. Cha Cha Lounge — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. Zero Effect
  2. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — Worth consuming!
  3. The Bourne Ultimatum — Worth consuming!
  4. Rocket Science — Not worth consuming

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September

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. walk to work — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Camden — Worth visiting!
  2. Last Waltz — Worth visiting!
  3. Volunteer Park Cafe — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Dave Chapelle
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. catattack
Watched:
  1. Superbad — Not worth consuming

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Eat more fruits and vegetables — completed 7 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. complete my 2006 taxes — Not worth doing
  2. Determine a single word that represents everything I'm trying to do, be, and learn in life. — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. hold a koala bear
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Quinn's
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Meatpacking District — Worth visiting!
  2. Arlington — Worth visiting!
Listened to:
  1. Start It Over — Worth consuming!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. record a Maktub record in 2008
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Travel to Alaska twice a year — Worth doing!
  2. Spread the word that "door hinge," in fact, rhymes with orange - kind of. — Worth doing!
  3. record a Maktub album in 2007 — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Observe my hometown with a traveler's eye
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Stumptown Coffee — Worth visiting!
  2. Stumptown Coffee - Pine Street — Worth visiting!
  3. King's Discus — Worth visiting!
  4. Randy's Restaurant
  5. Space Oddity Vintage Furniture
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. MattBr0wn
Watched:
  1. The Lives of Others

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. keep a food journal for a week
  2. cross country ski — completed 5 months later
  3. sharpen my knives
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. visit all of the parks in Seattle
  2. keep a food journal for a week
Listened to:
  1. Come Away with Me — Worth consuming!
  2. Faith — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Juno (Single-Disc Edition) — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Caviar — Worth consuming!
  2. Greek Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  3. Salmon — Worth consuming!
  4. Chinese food — Worth consuming!
  5. Whale blubber — Worth consuming!

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