101 in 1001...101 goals for the next 1001 days
February 19, 2013 - November 16, 2015
NOT STARTED - 37
IN PROGRESS - 13
COMPLETED - 51
IN PROGRESS - 13
COMPLETED - 51
CREATIVITY
1. Write a short story 2. Create a new kickball video 3. Make a stop-motion video 4. Finish a painting 5. Have an online portfolio for creative work 6. Build a creative website for friends to promote/sell their work 7. Make money doing something creative (art, photography, video, animation, graphic design, etc - Wedding Videography) 8. Buy a good video camera 9. Design a board/card game 10. Collaborate with someone on a project 11. Get/make a green screen 12. Build a new computer CREATIVE COMPETITIONS 13. Submit an animation to a festival/competition 14. Submit a live-action video to a festival/competition 15. Submit a photograph to a competition 16. Submit a design to a t-shirt company PICTURES & PHOTOGRAPHY 17. Take a random picture once a week for a year and make a photobook of them (52/52) 18. Post 100 new photos to Instagram (100/100) 19. Post an old picture of me online once a month for a year (8/12) 20. Scan pictures from at least 5 old photo albums (2/5) 21. Print and frame 10 pictures I've taken (5/10-Machu Picchu, Taj Mahal, Maroon Bells, Dubrovnik, Jon & Kristina Mt. Evans) 22. Take photos of 25 different animals (25/25) TRAVEL & OUTDOORS 23. Visit Asia 24. Visit Africa 25. Visit Australia 26. Visit two of the New 7 Wonders I haven't been to (1/2 - Taj Mahal) 27. Visit two of the runner-ups of the New 7 Wonders I haven't been to 28. Visit one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature 29. Use couchsurfing.com to either stay with someone or host someone 30. Attend an event promoted on couchsurfing.com 31. Camp in five different states (2/5-Utah, Colorado) 32. Camp in a different country (Canada) 33. Stand at the highest point in two states (1/2 - Colorado) 34. Hike to the top of five "fourteeners" (1/5 - Elbert) 35. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro 36. Get a stamp in my National Parks Passport for each region that is currently empty (Mid-Atlantic, D.C.) 37. Visit ten different National Parks (8/10-Arches, Canyonlands, Muir Woods, Chapada Diamantina, Banff, Yoho, Jasper, Rocky Mountain) 38. Visit ten museums I haven't been to (3/10) 39. Attend a multi-day music festival (Shaky Knees 2014) 40. Attend a non-music festival (Moab Arts Festival) 41. Visit 3 of the 11 states I've never been to (3/3-MN, WI, ND) 42. Visit ten countries I've never been to (5/10-India, Singapore, Brazil, China, Costa Rica) 43. Go to a zoo I haven't been to 44. Keep up with a travel journal for a full trip (Costa Rica) 45. Reach 100 written reviews on Trip Advisor (100/100) 46. Put up a wall map with push pins for places I've traveled SPORTS & LEISURE 47. Read ten books (10/10) 48. Read a graphic novel (Comics Trips) 49. Send and receive one book each on Paperbackswap.com (1/2... Sent - Horror Stories, Received - World War Z) 50. Attend a professional or national soccer match (USA v Costa Rica) 51. Attend a Red Sox game (Red Sox vs Mariners 7/8/13) 52. Go to a Colorado Avalanche game 53. Go to a playoff game (any sport) (Nuggets Rd 1, Gm 2) 54. Attend a sporting event at a stadium/arena I've never been to (Oakland-Alameda Coliseum O's vs A's) 55. Join a new soccer team 56. Take ski/snowboard lessons 57. Go to an amusement park I haven't been to (Lakeside Amusement Park) ENTERTAINMENT 58. Watch 20 films I haven't seen from the AFI 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary) list (15/20) 59. Watch 10 non-English language foreign films I haven't seen (10/10) 60. Watch 5 documentaries (5/5) 61. Watch a movie I haven't seen released each year from 1929 (Academy Awards began) through 2008 (60/80) 62. Watch a movie I haven't seen beginning with each letter of the alphabet (25/26) 63. Write reviews of 50 films (0/50) 64. Choose a TV show that I've never seen that is no longer on the air and watch every episode (Freaks and Geeks) 65. Send and receive one DVD each on Swapadvd.com (2/2 - Sent Black Hawk Down, Received Super) 66. Attend a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater (The Lumineers) 67. See 10 musicians in concert that have appeared on "The Beard and the Greek" (10/10) 68. Reach 50 podcasts on "The Beard and the Greek" (34/50) 69. Attend a live musical I haven't seen PERSONAL WELLNESS 70. Complete a 5K 71. Complete a 10K 72. Complete an obstacle-oriented or themed race (Mustache Dash) 73. Get a professional massage WELLNESS OF OTHERS 74. Volunteer for something 75. Raise money for a charity 76. Donate to a charity 77. Inspire someone else to write a similar list 78. Reach 500,000 grains of rice donated on Freerice.com (500,000/500,000) FOOD & DRINK 79. Try 10 new recipes (10/10) 80. Have a beer I've never tried in ten different breweries/microbreweries I've never been to (10/10) 81. Eat at ten restaurants I haven't been to in Denver (10/10) FAMILY & FRIENDS 82. Host 10 people visiting me in Denver (10/10 - Kevin, Marie, Danielle, Mom, Dad, Jon, Ben, Billy, Ladd, Kristina) 83. Write and send 10 hand-written letters/postcards (10/10) JUMP 84. Take jumping pictures in ten new places (10/10-Victoria Island, Ferry from Victoria to Vancouver, Cascades at Independence Pass, Marina Bay Singapore, Taj Mahal, Garden of the Gods, Po Lin Monastery, Hanging Lake, Crested Butte, Chapada Diamentina ) 85. Take tandem jumping pictures with five different people (5/5-Billy, Lucas, Mike, Monica, Kelly) 86. Take a jumping picture with a new pose (Darth Vader Choke) 87. Make a photobook of jumps EXPERIENCES 88. Earn a new college degree 89. Pass the CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) exam 90. Give a presentation at a conference (HALT - An Effective Tool for Streamlining Reliability Program Processes and Reducing Cost @ ARS North America 2013) 91. Attend a conference/convention that isn't work-related (Denver Comic Con 2013) OTHER 92. Learn a new language (or touch up French) 93. Start a journal or sketchbook 94. Learn and master a card trick 95. Make 10 sales on eBay to reduce unnecessary possessions (9/10) 96. Buy a new car 97. Grow something from a seed 98. Get a Colorado drivers license 99. Get a Colorado license plate 100. Write a letter to myself to open on the last day of the list 101. Complete a new list to start when this one ends |
Films Watched for the ListForeign Films
1. Life is Beautiful (Italian) 2. The Flu (Korean) 3. Chennai Express (Hindi) 4. Taxi Taxi (Singaporean) 5. The Perfect Stranger (Spanish) 6. Das Boot (German) 7. [REC]3 (Spanish) 8. Journey to the West (Mandarin) 9. Even The Rain (Spanish) 10. [REC] 4: Apocalypse (Spanish) AFI 100 1. The African Queen 2. The Grapes of Wrath 3. Double Indemnity 4. Annie Hall 5. Gone With The Wind 6. Casablanca 7. Duck Soup 8. MASH 9. All About Eve 10. Sunset Boulevard 11. The Apartment 12. The Deer Hunter 13. Silence of the Lambs 14. Ben-Hur 15. The Sixth Sense Documentaries 1. National Geographic: Inside North Korea 2. The Captains 3. 30 for 30: Four Days in October 4. Crash Reel 5. The Real Story: The Amityville Horror Microbreweries/Beers1. Faultline Brewing Co. - Sunnyvale, CA
- Irish Red - Spring Bock 2. Moab Brewery - Moab, UT - Dead Horse Amber - Baja Especial 3. Mountain Toad Brewing - Golden, CO - Apex Amber 4. Granville Island Brewing - Vancouver, BC - Uncle Monty's Best Bitter - Honey Lager - Raspberry Ale 5. Milly's Tavern - Manchester, NH - Fisher Cat Ale 6. Redhook Brewery - Woodinville, WA - ESB - Audible Ale - Wise Cracker Wit - Double Black Stout - Long Hammer IPA - Pilsner 7. The Pike Brewing Co - Seattle, WA - Clam Digger Pail Ale 8. Red Dot Brewery - Singapore - Monster Green -Lime Wheat 9. Firestone Brewing - Paso Robles, CA - DBA (Double Barrel Ale) 10. Dillon Dam Brewery - Dillon, CO -Wilderness Wheat Denver Restaurants1. Mici Handcrafted Italian
2. Zengo 3. City Grille 4. Tony P's Cherry Creek 5. Ondo's Spanish Tapas 6. Mecca Grill 7. Bayou Bob's 8. Crepes 'n Crepes 9. Ace 10. Lucile's Creole Cafe The Beard and The Greek Bands in Concert1. Alabama Shakes
2. Matt and Kim 3. Youngblood Hawke 4. Shiny Toy Guns 5. The Killers 6. Kate Nash 7. The Mowgli's 8. MC Chris 9. Phoenix 10. Blitzen Trapper 11. Cold War Kids 12. The Lumineers 13. Electric Six 14. Man Man 15. Dropkick Murphys 16. The Airborne Toxic Event 17. Spoon 18. The National 19. Portugal. The Man 20. Jenny Lewis 21. Modest Mouse 22. Local Natives 23. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zero 24. Foster the People 25. OK Go 26. Jack White 27. New Found Glory 28. Gogol Bordello 29. Weezer Visit 10 Museums1. Clyfford Still Museum, Denver
2. History Colorado Center, Denver 3. Strong Museum of Play, Rochester Read 10 Books1. World War Z
2. The Dharma Bums 3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 5. Flowertown 6. Anna Karenina 7. Zero Hour 8. Life, The Universe & Everything 9. Escapement (The Neumarian Chronicles Vol. 1) 10. Invasion USA (Book 1): The End of Modern Civilization 11. Invasion USA (Book 2): Battle For New York 12. Chasing the Ripper 13. Pendulum (The Neumarian Chronicles Vol. 2) 14. Balance (The Neumarian Chronicles Vol. 3) 15. The Time Machine 16. A Touch of Deceit 17. Dead Will Rise 18. Into The Wild 19. Trainspotting 20. War of the Living 21. Russian Hill New Recipes1. Pesto Stuffed Pork Chops
2. Chicken Tikka Masala 3. Parmesan Crusted Zucchini 4. Orange Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread 5. Thai Soup 6. Chile Rellenos 7. Dynamite 8. Pumpkin Pie 9. Beef Stew with Bacon, Onion and Sweet Potatoes 10. Baked Sweet Potato Fries 11. Vietnamese Noodle Bowl |