Dear Xangans,

Although I have been reading occasionally reading your posts whenever they show up in my inbox I admit I have been less than engaged as of late. To begin, I dug this old post out of my now rusty and neglected LiveJournal account. Turns out I have accomplished a few more of the things I set out to do before I die. Enjoy.

101 list
Everyone else is doing it so I will follow suit. I havn't had an original idea since 1993.

1. Make hummus. July 21st 2006
2. Compose a beat or two.
3. Learn an entire song on the guitar.
4. Grow a vine in my room.
5. Swim in the Pacific.
6. Swim in the Atlantic.

Visit:

• 7. British Columbia


• 8. Nova Scotia


• 9. France


• 10. West Africa


• 11. Amsterdam


• 12. Montreal September 8th 2006


• 13. Jamaica

14. See Leonard Cohen perform.
15. Build a boat.
16. Design and build a house.
17. Do some actual work on SudburySucks.com.
      sudburySucks.com expired some years ago.
18. See the underground lab at SNO. August 29th 2006
19. Host a LAN party.
20. Graduate from university. June 2008. about damned time.
21. Write an open source software application.
22. Get my own dog.
23. Start working out consistently. Sep 2008 and still going for a little over a year now.
24. Bike to camp.
25. Find a sweet part time job.  Early summer 2008. island inkjet was fun in that it was zero stress. I watched many an episode of House.
26. Organize a zombie march.
27. Attend a Blue Man Group performance.
28. Tour South America.
29. Be able to touch my toes.
30. Enter into a relationship again. although I am single at present this task was accomplished.
31. Go snowboarding in BC.
32. Write a book.
33. Get my pilot license.
34. Move somewhere with adequate public transportation. Grand River Transit in KW is not great, but adequate.
35. Travel to space, somehow. Commercial space flight?
36. Enter a chess tournament.
37. Write to PostSecret.
38. Finish my Distributed Computing course. I never started it because I am an idiot who apparently loves wasting money.
39. Buy a nice SLR camera and learn some basic photography principles. This was hands down the best expensive impulse buy ever!
40. Learn to develop my own photos.
41. Go tree planting for a summer.
42. Join a fire crew for a summer.
43. Cross the entirety of Canada by train.
44. Buy a nice telescope and a book of constellations.
45. Open a free computer center in a third world nation using donated computers and Linux.
46. Fund some sort of cultural endeavour.
47. Be asked out on a date. July 21st 2006
48. Start/join a band. the roommates and I bought a ps3 with Rock Band. close enough, I guess. the drums are fun.
49. Buy a diesel car and modify it to run on used grease.
50. Have a portrait of myself painted.
51. Get another show on CKLU.
52. Buy a nice fedora. it truely is awesome.
53. Grow dreadlocks.
54. Learn to scuba dive.
55. Have a mural painted in my room. I may not have a mural in my room but Chris and I painted an entire wall in our dining room with chalk board paint.
56. Cover myself in mud and let it dry (ala Lucia Y El Sexo).
57. Kill Chris Bell. Don't worry, he knows it's coming.
58. Gather enough free parts to build a computer for a friend.
59. Acquire dual citizenship.
60. Donate blood again. September 20th 2006
61. Mail Alaina a copy of Erotic Nights of the Living Dead. August 11th 2006
62. Give up the internet for an extended period of time.
63. Claim whistleblower status.
64. Improve my DDR skills.
65. Make my own wine.
66. Deface a corporate and/or government website (not necessarily the Canadian government).
67. Be Slashdotted.
68. Buy a motorcycle.
69. Get drunk on Tucker Death Mix.
70. Learn how to give proper props. July 27th 2006
71. Make an excellent dish using tofu as the main ingredient. ooooh weee oooh, killer tofuuuuuuu...
72. Have a photograph published. Alex was kind enough to pimp my photos in lambda a few times.
73. Replace the batteries in my keyboard. August 2008. they lasted two years. two freakin' years!
74. Stay in the hammock for twenty four straight hours. Five minute bathroom breaks every two hours are allowed.
75. Try blowfish.
76. Go sailing. July 29th 2006
77. Get a professional shave at a nice barber shop. Contrary to what America would have you believe, letting an Iranian get close to your neck with a razor isn't dangerous at all. I recommend Black & White barber on King St. in Kitchener.
78. Eat Empanadas in Lima.

so..... buttons. nothing has really changed. photobucket is a little more annoying this time around. the days are still hot.

in seven days I am moving to a new house just down the tracks. I will have a backyard complete with fire pit and a garden. a rhubarb patch grows prominently.



I need more things to take pictures of. I need to get where the ACTION is! Dell just started selling mo-fuggin' Linux computers. it's amazing how cheap computers can be when you're not paying a hundred and fifty dollars for Window$. two hundred if you're buying a Vi$ta computer. Ubuntu kicks ass anyway. a monkey could use it. infact they already have, probably.

1. I've come to realize that my ex is... a complete stranger? This question is stupid.

2. I am listening to... Tracy Chapman

3. I talk … when it's necessary. I prefer to listen.

4. I love… the idea of love. Like Soviet Communism, it works on paper.

5. My best friends... live in other cities, mostly.

7. I lost... most things that make me happy.

8. I hate it when people... think they know all about me.

9. Love is... a luxury.

10. Marriage is… a legally binding arrangement.

11. Somewhere, someone is thinking... far too much.

12. I'll always be... waiting for you.

13. I have a crush on... someone I can't have.

14. The last time I cried was because... I was repeatedly punched in the testicles.

15. My cell phone… comes in handy sometimes.

16. When I wake up in the morning... I think about going back to sleep for a couple years.

17. Before I go to sleep at night... I make my bed.

18. Right now I am thinking about... all the stress in my life.

19. Babies are... more humans this planet does not need.

20. I get on myspace... very seldom.

21. Today I... incubated a new cold.

22. Tonight I will... put this day behind me.

23. Soon I will... give up.

24. I really want... a clean slate.

25. The person who is most likely to repost this... me, right now.