101 Things In 1001 Days

Taking inspiration from The Day Zero Project I will be attempting to complete 101 things in 1001 days, or 2.75 years. The starting date is the 2nd August 2009, which means the ending date for me is the 28th April 2012.

Each item on the list is marked as not done, in progress or completed (or, Heaven forbid, fail). If I can I will try and post up a photo or video on my Flickr account to prove that I have indeed completed the task.

Completed challenges: 55.5/101

Experience

1) Bungee Jump
2) Eat exotic foods
- insects
- crocodile
- cat
- dog
- shark
3) Visit:
- The North of Argentina
- The South of Argentina
4) Go to a foreign beach
5) Go SCUBA Diving
6) Go Sky-Diving
7) Visit my friend in Norway
8) Visit my friend in the USA
9) Visit my friend in Pakistan/India (I can’t remember which)
10) Visit my friend in Germany
11) Gamble in Las Vegas
12) Go skiing/snowboarding
13) Go to a comic book convention
14) Witness a Summer Solstice at Stonehenge
15) Visit the National History Museum in London
16) Go to a 24 hour supermarket in my pyjamas.
17) Go to a rock/metal nightclub outside the UK
18) Go hiking somewhere outside the UK
19) Go hunting
20) Go fishing
21) Watch a horror stage show
22) Watch 3 movies in spanish
- Nueve reinas
- El Secreto de Sus Ojos
- Biutiful
23) Get a cutlass shave from an old-school barber
24) Go crowd surfing in a festival
25) Dance in a Mosh Circle at a festival
26) Meet a blogger I read regularly in real life
27) Watch a sunrise
28) Watch a sunset
29) Spend New Year’s in an exotic location
30) Attend a Spill.com party
31) Go Zorbing

Self Improvement

32) Learn Spanish (target date December 2009)
33) Continue to learn Spanish until the end of this list and rate how good I am at Spanish.
34) Have at least ten 5 minute conversations purely in spanish (10/10)
35) Learn Flex
36) Relearn programming languages
- php
- html
- css
- javascript
37) Reach my realistic target waist size (40”) and stick with it for 2 months
38) Reach my unrealistic target waist size (38”) and stick with it for 2 months
39) Reach my insane target waist size (36”) and stick with it for 2 months
40) Develop a dish washing habit (AKA wash the dishes nearly every day)
41) Tidy my bedroom everyday for one month (30/30)
42) Go one month without chocolate (not even DARK chocolate)
- Repeat and count how many months you can do (1/1)
43) Learn how to give good massages (take a class?)
44) Memorise at least 10 cooking dishes (besides my trademark dinners)
45) Do 100 push up straight
46) Do 100 sit up straight
47) Do 100 chin ups
48) Do a hard-core body detox for one week
49) Go to the gym 6 days a week for a month (1/1)
50) Do a basic car mechanics course to learn how to fix cars
51) Learn 50 phrases in Sign Language
52) Learn how to Tango (basic)
53) Learn how to Merengue (basic)
54) Make a photo scrap book of all the photos that I have on my hard drive (wait until nearer the end of this list’s deadline)
55) Learn how to meditate
56) Go a whole week without saying a swear word
57) Become First-Aid certified
58) Eat as a Vegan for one week

Indulgance

59) Buy decent speakers for TV
60) Buy decent speakers for my PC
61) Buy a decent video camera for vlogging
62) Buy a decent video camera for vlogging away from my computer
63) Get a decent video editing software for vlogging
64) Make business cards
65) Buy a media shuttle PC for home TV/entertainment (or an equivelent tower pc)
66) Get a professional massage
67) Go to a day out at a spa
68) Buy some good stomping boots (for hiking, festivals and general stomping)
69) Get a custom dog tags
- Ork themed
- Has my blood type information
70) Get Wii Fit
71) Use Wii Fit every day for 3 months (0/3)
72) Get a smoking pipe
73) Get a plant for my office (preferably with a pretty flower on it)
74) Keep that plant alive until the end of this list’s deadline

To Do

75) Get an allergy blood test
76) Give blood.
77) Paint all my orks
78) Become debt free
79) Save enough money to survive 3 months without a job
80) Redesign Grax Domain
81) Redesign CV/Portfolio website
82) Create 5 Flash/AS3 thingys using techniques I’ve learnt at work (0/5)
83) Read A Scanner Darkly
84) Watch A Scanner Darkly
85) Read 50 books that I have never read before (3/50)
86) Write a short novel/story
87) Get 101 YouTube subscribers on my YouTube Channel

Random

88) Go skinny dipping
89) Streak (Run naked in a public place)
90) Give 10 selfless gifts
- Gave away a copy of Sin City on DVD
- Gave away a box of donuts
- Gave away a smoking pipe
- Bought a new CD Boom-Box to my local gym
- Gave £50 to my brother to help buy him a suit
- Donated two box of comics to charity
- Donated money to Mitu for her mountain walk
- Dontated a doll from Argentina to charity
- Gave money to a stranger to buy ice-cream
- Bought Awesome Kev a copy of Left 4 Dead 2 (with some help from Orta)
91) Try herbal viagra
92) Send a message in a bottle
93) Grow a beard again (AKA don’t shave for at least 1 month)
94) Do Ceroc dancing to heavy metal
95) Get a henna tattoo on my face
96) Go through a Mucoidal Plaque colon cleansing process
97) Take a picture in a snow storm
98) Take a picture of a lightning storm
99) Add an entry on Wikipedia
100) Memorise at least one Spanish song (0/1)
101) Shave/wax all the hair off my body