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Health, Fitness & Looks

1. Find & Reach my target healthy weight
2. Begin and stick to an exercise plan (look good naked)
3. Quit smoking cigarettes
4. Get my teeth fixed and keep them in good order
5. Eat the majority of my meals on a regular schedule
6. Practice T’ai Chi Ch’uan (Yang Long Form) daily for one year
7. Have Cain finish my left-arm sleeve tattoo
8. Stretch my ear piercings to 3/4″
9. Be fitted for a suit on Saville Row
10. Ride my mountain bike every week for a year

Mental & Emotional

1. Learn to speak, read & write en français
2. Learn to speak, read & write auf Deutsche
3. Enroll in a degree program in Philosophy
4. Practice daily meditation for one year
5. Obtain a FIDE Class E chess rating
6. Obtain a FIDE Class D chess rating
7. Go outside every day for at least an hour for one year
8. Learn 10 poems by rote

Money & Finances

1. Earn a large enough income from my web projects to replace our current income
2. Retire our only remaining debt
3. Save 10% of our income for one year
4. Get Jen’s craft business up and running

Creative

1. Become a published poet
2. Perform at a Performance Poetry event
3. Do all of the exercises in Nicolaides’ The Natural Way To Draw
4. Learn to play guitar
5. Get a blog of mine in to the Technorati Top 100 Blogs
6. Become a published travel writer
7. Learn to bind books
8. Put modified Moleskines up for sale
9. Take a class to improve my photography skills
10. Sell one of my photographs
11. Finish and submit a short story
12. Take a photograph a day for a year

Travel & Adventures

1. Attend Oktoberfest in Munich
2. Attend a West Ham FC match
3. Attend the Love Parade in Berlin
4. See (and photograph) the Aurora Borealis
5. Circumnavigate the globe by boat
6. Set foot on all seven continents
7. Visit Amsterdam, Netherlands
8. Visit Paris, France
9. Visit Copenhagen, Denmark
10. Visit Budapest, Hungary
11. Visit Riga, Latvia
12. Visit Dresden, Germany
13. Visit Sofia, Bulgaria
14. Visit Istanbul, Turkey
15. Visit Moscow, Russia
16. Visit Saint Tropez, France
17. Visit Dubai, UAE
18. Visit Monaco
19. Attend a Carolina Hurricanes playoff game
20. Attend the Glastonbury Festival
21. Visit the Oscar Wilde statue in London
22. Visit Casablanca, Morocco
23. Visit Rotterdam, Belgium
24. Climb to the top of St Paul’s Cathedral in London (above the Whispering Gallery)
25. Visit the Beckton Alps in East London
26. Stay at the Sidi Driss hotel in Matmata, Tunisia
27. Tour the Laphroaig whisky distillery in Scotland
28. Tour the Macallan whisky distillery in Scotland
29. Visit Dublin, Ireland
30. Go snowboarding in the French or Swiss alps
31. Spend a month in an isolated cabin in the mountains with no contact with the outside world

Media

1. Get every album on Pitchfork Media’s “Top 100 Albums of the 1990s”
2. Get every album on Rolling Stone’s “Readers’ 100″
3. Get every album on Virgin Records Top 100 Albums
4. Read the SF Book Club’s “The Most Significant SF of the Last 50 Years”
5. Read everything on BBC’s “The Big Read - Top 100 Books”
6. Read everything on Robot Co-op’s “Suggested Reading Guide”
7. View all of Entertainment Weekly’s “The Top 50 Cult Movies”
8. View all the entries in AFI’s “100 Years… 100 Movies” list
9. See every film in Entertainment Weekly’s “20 Scariest Movies of All Time”
10. See every film in IMDB’s Top 50 Independent Films
11. Write reviews of all of the books I own

Culinary

1. Eat everything on BBC’s 50 things to eat before you die
2. Eat on £1 per day for a month
3. Get serious about meal planning and menus
4. Become proficient in French cuisine
5. Become proficient in German Cuisine
6. Be able to explain and demonstrate every technique in La Methods and La Technique
7. Eat fugu
8. Attend WSET classes at Vinopolis
9. Dine at every 2 and 3 star restaurant in London
10. Become competent in Boulangerie and Patisserie
11. Attain a basic proficiency in maki, inari and nigiri
12. Have afternoon tea at The Wolseley
13. Visit a coffee plantation
14. Visit a tea plantation

Cultural, Social & Familial

1. Volunteer on a regular basis
2. Obtain an EU passport
3. Call my mother every week for a year
4. Email all my close friends once a week for a year
5. Visit a different museum every month for a year
6. Attend a staging of The Ring Cycle (bonus points for Beyreuth)
7. Join a social club
8. Take someone dangerous to dinner
9. Take a ballroom dancing lesson
10. Heckle at Speaker’s Corner
11. Join a philosophical debate society