Day Zero

The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in 1001 days

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (i.e. represent some amount of effort on your part).

The Tasks:

1. Set up an emergency fund of at least $500 and maintain it
2. Put at least 10% of each paycheck into savings account
   
3. Apply to graduate schools
4. Apply to AmerCorps NCCC program
5. Read War and Peace
6. Watch all movies that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture (12/84)
7. Watch all of the movies on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list (25/100)
   
8. Travel to Europe
9. Get a DSLR
10. Take a photography course
11. Apply for the San Pietro Travel Prize (Completed 2/27/2009)
12. Try out Postcrossing by sending 10 postcards (10/10) (Completed 4/4/2009)
    
13. Knit a wallet
14. Try vegetarianism for a month
15. Complete the One Hundred Push-Ups Program successfully (i.e. stick with it until I can do 100 push-ups, not just for six weeks)
16. Get re-certified in CPR and First Aid
17. Participate in NaNoWriMo
18. End a year with a higher net worth than I started it with
19. Cook all weekend meals for three months (0/3)
20. Drink only water for twenty (not-necessarily-consecutive) weeks (0/20)
21. Avoid all fast food for three months (0/3)
22. Do my own taxes (1/3)
23. Get my own place to live
24. Get a decent bike and use it
25. Learn how to maintain the bike
26. Start and complete the Zelda title screen cross stitch
27. Knit a goomba hat
28. Give only handmade gifts and/or donations to charity for Christmas
29. Register and release a book through BookCrossing.com
30. Get down to a healthy weight, either as determined by BMI or by plateauing at a weight for a couple of months with a healthy diet and regular exercise
31. Implement an organization system (e.g. GTD) and test it for at least two months
32. Read 10 "classic" books (0/10)
33. Complete all of my homework and exams on-time for a term
34. Learn how to tie a full windsor knot
35. Visit a counsellor at the career center
36. Don't eat or drink anything other than water after 9 PM for at least two months (0/2)
37. Put loose photos in a photo album (or albums)
38. Create a binder full of recipes I like
39. Visit SE Asia
40. Visit South America (probably Argentina)
41. Start an herb garden
42. Play Brain Age every day for three months (0/3)
43. Play Brain Age 2 every day for three months (0/3)
44. Use My Weight Loss Coach every day for three months (0/3)
45. Take Aikido lessons
46. Read the Constitution again
47. Read Thomas Paine
    
48. Calculate how much time on average I spend on the computer in a week
49. Reduce that time by 10%
    
50. Contribute to an open-source project
51. Buy produce at a farmer's market
52. Read all the books I have before buying new ones (new textbooks, Scott Pilgrim, and Queen and Country exempt)
53. Go to five concerts (0/5)
54. Make a family tree
55. Try six new recipes (2/6)
56. Go camping five times (0/5)
57. Sign up to be an organ donor
58. Vote in every election (not just the major ones)
59. Learn to play guitar (achieved by being able to play two songs well)
60. Complete Couch-to-5K program
61. Read a book in Japanese
62. Spend a day a week off of the computer for at least ten weeks (0/10)
63. Clean out my room in Oregon
64. Finish the computer games I have now before buying new ones
65. Learn to make three different cocktails (0/3)
66. Eat a piece of fruit a day for a month
    
67. Write an article for The Tech
68. Set up a 401k plan
69. Read a page of The Intellectual Devotional each day (165/365)
70. Go through my music collection and purge music I'm never going to listen to
71. Take a cross-country road trip
72. Organize my digital photos
73. Participate in a GimmeYourStuff swap
74. Drive up the Pacific Coast (at least from Southern California to the Canadian border)
75. Learn to Salsa dance
76. Have a celebration to remember for my 25th birthday (it's a quarter of a century after all)
77. Learn how to drive a car with a manual transmission
78. Volunteer in a foreign country
79. Learn Esperanto
80. Brush and floss daily
    
81. Attend Comic-Con International one year
    
82. Make an electronics project found in MAKE Magazine
83. Build a MAME cabinet
84. Learn Morse code
85. Volunteer at a zoo or animal shelter
86. Document my travels in a travel blog
87. Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
    
88. Learn two magic tricks
89. Learn how to play craps
90. Learn blackjack and craps strategies
91. Get in touch with two old friends (0/2)
92. Take a photograph of an astronomical object through a telescope
93. Treat my social anxiety
94. Develop and implement a strategy to curb my procrastination habit
95. Be able to identify and locate five new constellations (0/5)
96. Know the mythology behind five constellations (0/5)
    
97. Learn to identify five species of bird from their call (0/5)
    
98. Learn Python (Completed 3/11/2009)
    
99. Learn Common Lisp
    
100. Set up a media server
     
101. Paint a portrait of Emmy