And another year is wrapped up.
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1. Finish 1st Draft of my Novel
Start - Again on the list.
2. Drop weight to 167
Start - This has also been on the list since the beginning. Starting at 183.8
Month 1 - 182.0
Month 2 - 185.2
Month 3 - 190.7
Month 6 - 187.2
Month 7 - 190.2
Month 8 - 186.3
Month 9 - 181.4 - Yay, weight loss!
Month 10 - 180.4
Month 11 - 183.1 Yay Thanksgiving
Month 12 - 183.3
3. Read 1 of the Top Ten Books on Zane's List
Start - In the middle of The Stories of Anton Chekhov.
4. Done! Read 7 books on the Sybervision Book List (including 1 in the Science or Philosophy sections)
Start - Current count is at 78.
Month 1 - Finished
The Prince and the Pauper. 6 to go.
Month 2 - Reading
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Month 6 - Finished reading
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. 5 to go.
Month 7 - Reading
The Way of All Flesh.
Month 8 - Finished
The Way of All Flesh. 4 to go.
Month 9 - Finished
The Tragedy of Faust. 3 to go.
Month 10 - Finished
Tess of the D'Urbervilles. 2 to go.
Month 11 - Finished
Lady of the Lake. 1 to go.
Month 12 - Finished
Critique of Pure Reason
6. Finish 1 more Geological Movie Review
Start - Earthquake still looks like the best bet.
7. Watch 10 of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
Start - Current count is at 75.
8. Finish 56 things on the Blog/Website Things to do List (~1 a week)
Start - The list currently has ~150 things on it.
Month 1 - Started working on some stuff but have nothing finished.
Month 2 - Finished 3/56. 53 to go.
Month 3 - Finished 4/56. 52 to go.
Month 6 - Finished 5/56. 51 to go.
Month 7 - Finished 10/56. 46 to go.
Month 8 - Finished 15/56. 41 to go.
Month 9 - Finished 19/56. 37 to go.
Month 10 - Finished 28/56. 28 to go.
Month 11 - Finished 34/56. 22 to go.
Month 12 - Finished 36/56. 20 left to go.
9. Finish 10 things on the House Things to do List
Start - The list currently has 29 things on it.
Month 1 - Finished fixing all the "sweating" toilets. 9 to go.
Month 7 - Finished fixing the crawl space door. 8 to go.
Month 8 - Busy month, fixed 6 more things. 2 to go.
Month 12 - Fixed 1 more item. 1 left.
10. Finish skinning the top of the hovercraft
Start - I started working on it 2 years ago but with wood purchased last year I hope to finish that part.
11. Get my Sprint Triathlon time under 1:25:00
Start - My current official best is 1:41:45.2
12. Get my 5K time under 23 minutes
Start - My current unofficial best is ~28:30
Month 6 - New Nike Running app keeps a record of these things now. Current record is 28:32.
13. Catalog and Photograph the Comics portion of my Star Wars Collections
Start - Currently I have some of the comics photographed so if I get the time this should
Month 11 - Been working on organizing my comics for some time and finally got time to take some pictures. Need to finish up before the end of the month.
Month 12 - I changed how I was going to do this and I ended up only photographing complete comic series'. So for next year I am going to try and collect all of the Star Wars comics. Currently have 3/8 boxes photographed.
15. Submit 3 Scientific Manuscripts to Journals
Start - I have 3 manuscripts in the almost there phase. I hope to get these submitted soon.
Month 1 - These will get submitted once the dissertation is completed.
Month 6 - With the dissertation finished, these are mostly complete and ready for submission.
Month 8 - One of the manuscripts is in the preparation stages and should be submitted early this month.
Month 9 - One manuscript submitted. Now working on prepping the next one. 2 to go.
Month 10 - One more manuscript is all set to be submitted and should be done this week.
Month 11 - Second manuscript has been submitted.
16. Defeat 5 Star Wars Games
Start - With collecting so many games that I have not had time to play I want to set aside some game time.
Month 3 - I finished Angry Birds Star Wars. 4 to go.
Month 12 - Finished 2 more games. 2 to go.
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I had a good holiday season and I had some time to finish up many projects that I had going and clean up others. This along with training for my first half marathon took up the majority of my time. But I think that starting next year I should be able to accomplish more of my goals.
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(DONE) 5. Read 2 books on the BBC Book List
Start - Current count is at 48.
Month 2 - Finished
Vicky Angel. 1 to go.
Month 7 - Reading
Watership Down.
Month 9 - Finished
Watership Down. Done.
DONE! 14. Finish Dissertation
Start - Currently I have to finish up analyses, finish writing, and format it. Not much work at all.
Month 1 - Working steadily on this. Finished 1 chapter out of the remaining 3, with another one almost done.
Month 2 - Continuing to work on this almost every day. Down to one set of analyses left.
Month 3 - Finished up my analyses and 1 out ~5 appendices that needs to be built.
Month 6 - The dissertation is currently written and approved by my committee. I am awaiting the thesis office to get back to me with formatting edits that need to be made.
Month 7 - The dissertation is DONE!!!!
