Start Date: 3/6/09
Completion Date: 12/2/2011
Not Started / In Progress / Completed
1. Take a trapeze lesson
2. Learn how to ride a motorcycle
3. Design a Wordpress theme from scratch
4. Have an offline conversation with Rosanne Cash
5. Ride a horse
6. Drive a zamboni
7. Complete at least 3 AFF jumps (post-4/2/10)
8. Five new race tracks (post-4/2/10, not counting Anderson in list item #85, nor New Jersey Motorsports Park, rainouts count as long as I’m physically at the track when it’s called)
9. D.C.
10. Atlanta
11. East Jesus Nowhere, Nebraska
12. This is private list item, the sequel.
13. Bring back the long hair. BSL minimum.
14. Take guitar lessons
15. Run a 5K barefoot/VFF-style
16. Take another creative writing class or attend a workshop
17. Take a photography class
18. Take a PhotoShop class
19. Buy 2 new lenses for my camera (50mm, February 2010)
20. Learn how to sew
21. Go to BlogHer (2009, Chicago)
22. Attempt to knit, once, just to say I did
23. Complete NaNoWriMo
24. Read 25 books: 1.) Ghost Rider, 2.) In Defense of Food, 3.) On the Road, 4.) Traveling Music, 5.) The Book Thief, 6.) Born to Run
25. Get a new pet turtle
26. Reupholster my grandfather's rocking chair
27. Make 2 more Minica movies
28. Try 100 new recipes
29. Bake bread from scratch
30. Learn how to roll sushi
31. Figure out/learn great-grandma's kuchen recipe
32. Post something to blog daily for 90 days
33. Buy the equipment and get back into thermal biofeedback
34. Complete a Flickr 365 project of some sort, even if it's not self-portraits
35. Lose 40 lbs
36. Complete the P90X program
37. Go 30 days without eating meat
38. Go 15 days without consuming HFCS
39. Attempt to ski, snowboard, or wakeboard once
40. Take swimming lessons
41. Roller skate Baumann Park
42. Get a manicure
43. Get a pedicure
44. Add $5,000 to my emergency savings account
45. Make a car payment to myself every month for one year
46. Take a vacation by myself
47. Visit 1 state I've never been to before (New Jersey, October 2009)
48. Leave the country
49. Put my feet in an ocean (in Atlantic City, October 2009)
50. Return to North Dakota for no reason (no funeral, wedding, or other event) and with no plan and giving no notice
51. Ride in a hot air balloon – Modified to Skydiving, completed 9/1/09
52. Go to the Chili Bowl one more time, even if it kills me (DONE. ALIVE. 2010.)
53. Go to the Knoxville Nationals one more time
54. Tour the Farnsworth House
55. Spend a night in a skyscraper
56. Visit Marc at school (January 2010)
57. Visit a national landmark I've never seen before
58. Play a game of tennis with my mother
59. Go to at least 2 "Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives" restaurants with my Dad - (1) 3/22/09, Donatelli's in White Bear Lake, MN, (2) Glenn's Diner in Chicago.
60. Write a song with Wags
61. Sing a karaoke duet with Pipes
62. Volunteer at a no-kill shelter or dog rescue group
63. Volunteer for a political campaign
64. Join a community organization
65. Raise $1,000 for Little Angels: 2009 total: $1,010.
66. Spend one day on ride-along with a service technician
67. Spend one day in the field with an installer
68. Practice Inbox Zero for 30 days straight, both email and paper variety
69. Figure out how to program my "new" phone that is almost 3 years old
70. This one is private.
71. Make 5 new friends that I didn't know at all on the start date
72. Go an entire weekend (Friday, 4:30 pm to Monday, 7 am) without checking my email, cell phone text messages, signing into IM, Twitter, Facebook, or any other social network that may or may not be invented yet
73. Grow my hair to my tailbone – Completed 9/4/09 and verified by independent witness Dano
74. Learn how to put my hair into 3 different up-dos by myself
75. Get a tattoo
76.Change a tire 100% by myself
77. Install my new car horn (5/28/09)
78. Clean out my car once a week for a month
79. Go at least 6 months without eating at a Hooters: Last visit March 11th, 2009
80. Learn to play poker or any other card game of Duke's choosing - Euchre, 3/21/2009
81. Host a Sequence tournament
82. Buy chaps
83. Ride in a combine again
84. Spend one more night scraping mud from a sprint car or midget
85. Go to a race track I've never been to before (May 24th, 2009, Anderson Speedway)
86. See 10 movies in the theater: 1.) Taken, 2.) The Soloist, 3.) Terminator: Salvation, 4.) Away We Go, 5.) Up!, 6.) Bruno, 7.) Funny People, 8.) District 9, 9.) 500 Days of Summer
87. Make every effort to track down my old friend Bill from the old AOL sprint car message board
88. Write snail-mail letters to 10 different people, out of the blue. 1.) 6/16/09
89. Send holiday cards, but the holiday doesn't have to be Christmas
90. Replace my entire wardrobe
91. Buy a hat that has nothing to do with keeping warm or keeping the sun out of my eyes
92. - 101. Go to at least one event of each: MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, NHRA (Joliet, June 2009), NASCAR, IRL (Milwaukee, May 2009), WoO (Eldora, May 2009), PBR (January 2010)