Sheer's list of things to do when I need 'something to do'
Bonus points for things that involve reletively little financial outlay.
Bolded are ones that would make me feel much better about myself.
Italics are ones that I think would involve much joy, though they might take a few false starts.
H2s are things that would make me feel more secure
But, here's the list:
1)Redo the studio's MIDI setup, and draw out a complete system map of the studio
2) Get a logo made for the studio, and build a web page for it
3) Go to the zoo
4) Rollerblade around greenlake while listening to aggressive 80s rock
5) Walk to the space needle and back.
6) Get my bicycle working, take it down to Recycled Cycles, and get it's 1-year checkup
7) Install the VW's new car stereo and MP3 player and screen
8) FInd a skating rink and go skating
9) Join a amatuar soccer team and learn how to play
10) Rip the rest of my CD collection
11) Clean the house
12) Learn several hundred Kanji symbols
13) Get a guitar-banjo and record a track with a pickin'-and-grinnin' attitude
14) Relearn 'Angel from Montgomrey'
15) Relearn how to play a trap kit. Take lessons from a actual drummer.
16) Get a brass instrument for cheap somehow. Learn to play it. ($)
17) Take tae kwon do lessons. ($)
18) Plant a seed and watch it grow
19) Fix Whirlwind ($)
20) Clean the studio
21) Clean the garage
22) Change the EV's pack ($$)
23) Write a letter to Natalie
24) Write a song for Natalie
25) Write a letter, period. There are lots of people I'd like to talk to..
26) Work the steps of the 12 step program
27) Out of order..
28) Backwards..
29) Write a book
30) Write a short story
31) Pet a dog
32) Hug a cow. (May be inpractacal)
33) Play Squiggle with Bruce
34) 20 situps a day for 20 days
35) 20 pushups a day for 20 days
36) 20 jumping jacks a day for 20 days
37) Get rid of the gas 'cycle and scooter
38) Find some good solution for storing ethernet cables, and store them
39) Sort all my little wrist words
40) Get rid of all but one box of MC cds, by giving them out to people.
41) Build a charge shuttling reg system.
42) Write a EVIL-regbus monitoring app for CE
43) Build a IRDA transcever.
44) Build a LCD driver system.
45) Get a embedded linux machine working in QM.
46) Reverse engineer the Siemens drive interface protocol.
47) learn about CAN.
48) Learn about the MSP430. Write 'hello world' for the widget Bruce gave me.
49) Get a C compiler for the AtMEGA series working. Build the match-to-the-beat LED gloves that I conceived in my mind.
50) Build a beatboard.
51) BUild really, really big VU meters out of the LED modules I bought.
52) Build. Period. Just build shit. Keep going until it starts to be soothing. Strive for quality. Strive for well built stuff. Try to get at least one friend who will get involved in constructication projects with me.
53) Winamp plugin to control lights
54) Check out the DMX software that 'dude with the hat' uses.
55) Go hang out at 'that coffeehouse' - the one where MC played.. If I could only remember the name...
56) Hang out at coffeehouses period. Learn how to hang out.
57) Be a friend.
58) Go hang out in Fremont.
59) Go to a party/gathering
60) Let happiness find you there.
61) Watch some of the movies I bought on Amazon.
62) Find at least one friend who I can enjoy playing multiplayer strategy games with.
63) Learn to negotiate. At least the basics.
64) Read some new books, cover to cover. Spend a day reading a book, and enjoy it.
65) Learn to beatmatch
66) Get the Amiga permenantly on the internet
67) Join Seattle Wireless Network, or start a CWN wherever I end up
68) Read the Koran
69) Clean up my office in general
70) Research getting rack rails for the DJX700, and mounting it in a rack
71) Find some appropriate people to donate my excess computer equipment to. Get a computer to Jessica
72) Hang out with Lee Hart for a week
73) Get a G.P. and have him look me over to see how bad the situation is
74) Go to the dentist
75) Master flying in flight sim
76) Find out what it would take to land a real plane, with a instructor in the pilot's seat and me in the copilot's one, and the instructor not taking over until I goof up
77) Learn about switching power supplies until I can be a actual help to the power shuttling project, and not just a supplier of dumb ideas
78) Learn about op amps until I am over my fear of analog electronics
79) Run a pirate radio station for a day, with at least a couple of hundred watts. Alternately, get licensed by the FCC for micropower operation
80) Help Brenda get all the way to where she wants to be with her radio station
81) Apologize to Tavian. (Not looking forward to this one.. but hopefully he can forgive me)
82) Write Sam and Amy and see how they are
83) Explain to Enyc why Gateway will keep it's current OS as long as is feasable
84) Make friends with a cat. (Any one want to volunteer their feline friends for my attempts?)
85) Volunteer for time at the humane society, without coming home with any dogs. (Good luck on that one, Sheer)
86) Improve my backup system until it's ironclad, with a regular offsite plan
87) Work out a budget and a system for keeping the books.
Okay, on Day 8 that's all I've got.
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