101 in 1001

One of the reasons I wanted to start this blog was to have a place to keep track of my 101 in 1001 goals. I had it on the fridge, but felt a little weird about people who visit our house seeing it. Someone (maybe Eric McCauley??) once told a long story about visiting someone's house where they had goals on the fridge, and how weird they thought it was. So, I don't want to be THAT guy. A lot of these goals are Boston focused, so I may have to update some once we figure out where we are moving.

101 Goals in 1001 Days (26 May 09 – 21 Feb 12)

 Places to Visit

1.       Boston things

a.       New England Ski trip

b.       New Hampshire/Vermont in fall Oct09

c.        Boston MFA

d.       Boston Harbor Islands

e.        Cape Cod in Summer July09

f.         Northern Beaches in Summer

g.        Arboretum

h.       ICA

i.         Harpoon Brewery

j.         Sam Adams Brewery

k.        Walden Pond

l.         Nantucket with TD

m.      Boston Public Library July09

2.       Everglades

3.       Machu Picchu

4.       Amazon

5.       NYC with TJD Oct09

6.       Girls trip with Abby & Mom

7.       Camping trip with James

8.       Weekend at Aunt Lisa’s Nov09

9.       Utah

10.    Trip with Carolyn and Brian

Health

11.    Get eyebrows professionally done

12.    Maintain 125 lbs weight

13.    Lift weights 2x/week for 2 months

14.    Do 1 month of the Shred

15.    7 day master cleanse

16.    Take a daily vitamin in progress

17.    Floss daily

18.    Whiten teeth

19.    Run half marathon

20.    Complete bike race

21.    Wear sunscreen daily in progress

Skills to learn

22.    Attend premarriage counseling

23.    Take spanish class fall09

24.    Photography class

25.    Learn to drive a manual car

26.    Play tennis with TD

27.    Harvard Extension class fall09

28.    Bayesian methods in Ecology class Aug09

29.    Dog obedience class

30.    Try 50 new wines & log in wine journal (4 of 50)

31.    Read 10 non fiction books

a.       Genuine happiness

b.       Lifting a ton of feathers

c.        Speciation

d.       Speciation in Birds

e.        Getting to 50/50

f.         Inferring phylogenies

g.        Species diversity in space & time

h.       In defense of food

i.         Omnivores dilemma

j.         Zinn’s people’s history of the US

32.    Read 10 fiction books

a.       Wind up bird chronicles

b.       Crying of Lot 49

c.        Lolita

d.       Age of innocence

e.        Infinite Jest

f.         Brother’s Karamazov

g.        Persuasion

h.       The satanic verses

i.         War and Peace

j.         Aeneid

33.    Watch AFI top 100 films (17/100)

34.    Host dinner party 1x per quarter (3 of 15)

35.    Try a new bar each month (8 of 33)

36.    Try a new drink/beer each month (12 of 33)

37.    See Tracy, Kate and Joy 1x per year 2009

Things to own

38.    Flat screen TV

39.    Buy more quality clothes

40.    Comfortable/orthotic sandals

41.    Better vacuum (dyson)

42.    Buy one new book a month (10 of 33)

43.    Buy one new album a month (8 of 33)

Financial milestones

44.    Develop and stick to family budget

45.    Make wills for TJD and me

46.    Make sure beneficiaries are updated

47.    Advance Healthcare directive for TJD and SEC

48.    Continue to put 20% in 403b

49.    Continue to put $5000 (max) in Roth

50.    $12,000 in personal emergency fund

51.    Have monthly finance night with TD (6 of 30)

52.    Start family savings fund 5% salary

53.    Start college savings fund 5% salary

54.    Sell condo

55.    Save $70,000 for down payment

56.    Family cell phone plan with TD

Philanthropy

57.    Adopt a family each Christmas 2009

58.    Donate clothes 2x per year (1 of 6)

59.    Find a volunteer job

60.    NPR membership each year 2009

New things to do

61.    Make new recipe out of Gourmet (RIP) archive each month (3 of 33)

62.    Red Sox game

63.    Celtics Game Oct2009

64.    Bruins game

65.    Harvard Athletics Game

66.    Ride bikes to Concord

67.    Monthly Date night (3 of 22)

68.    Attend classical concert

69.    Restaurants 1 nice dinner/month

a.       Hungry Mother

b.       Helmand

c.        B&G Oysters Nov09

d.       Neptune Oyster

e.        No 9 Park

f.         Wollensky and Smith

g.        Ruth Chris

h.       L’Espalier

i.         TW Food Nov09

j.         Uni

k.        Cuchi cuchi

l.         Sorellina july09

70.    Attend play or dance performance

71.    Take Jack and Grant on camping trip

72.    Host Diane for a visit to Boston

73.    Make photo book each year

74.    Make nice wedding album

75.    Wedding album for parents x2 + M&P

Risks to Take

76.    Go mountain biking with TD

77.    Go Salsa dancing with TD

78.    Go two-step dancing with TD

79.    Get Married!!!

80.    Get a dog

81.    Change name

82.    Do weekly electronic sabbatical w/ TJD

83.    Make a new friend

84.    Join/organize a book group

85.    Major cooking project with AYK sausage 2010

Business

86.    Apply for Full NSF grant

87.    Apply for Mexus fellowship

88.    Apply for jobs in Austin

89.    Prepare job package with statements

90.    Have someone review job package with statements

91.    Become familiar with Unix (cluster)

92.    Use R for statistical analyses

93.    Learn Python or other program

94.    Publish Gnyps paper

95.    Publish mtops paper

96.    Publish snail paper

97.    Publish Yosemite paper

98.    Publish Chipmunk

99.    Publish Carpentaria paper

100.Publish NA paleo paper

101.Publish Sri Lanka modeling paper