Start date: 13 September 2010
End date: 10 June 2013
Complete: 49/101 (+ 7 more after the 1001 days)
- Done! — Clean out the ill-fitting clothes from my closet [13 Nov. 2010 — I filled five bags of clothes to donate]
- Switch brokerage firms to one that doesn’t charge for inactivity
- Scan the Commonwealth project slides
- Visit and photograph 100 Massachusetts towns
- Done! — Make a photo book [16 Nov. 2010 — book review]
- Done! — Bicycle in Provence [14-27 Sept. 2011]
- Done! — Visit London again
- Ride from Williamstown to P-Town – Part 1: Williamstown to Central Mass
- Ride from Williamstown to P-Town – Part 2: Central Mass to Milford
- Ride from Williamstown to P-Town – Part 3: Milford to Cape Cod Canal
- Done! — Ride from Williamstown to P-Town – Part 4: Woods Hole to Provincetown [19 Sept. 2010 — ride recap]
- Do the epic Six Gaps ride in Vermont
- Done! — Read The History of Insulin [17 Oct. 2010 — recap and call to action]
- Read Pumping Insulin
- Done! — Read The Diabetic Athletes Handbook [8 July 2011 — I'll post notes soon, but in a nutshell: "Whatever works . . ."]
- Read Empire of Liberty
- Read What Hath God Wrought
- Done! — Read Taliban by Ahmed Rashid [4 Oct. 2010 — Amazing! Book notes to follow.]
- Empty out the big tub o’ stuff in the office closet
- Done! — Clean up the closet
- Done! — Meet @BernardF in person [11 Nov. 2011 — We had breakfast at Panera. He's a great guy!]
- Done! — Meet @karen_mst in person [WEGO Health meet-up, 16 Sept. 2010]
- Done! — Make an omelette
- Done! — Watch the “Firefly” series [21 December 2010 — Lisa and I really enjoyed it. We may have been the only ones who saw it.]
- Watch the “MillenniuM” series
- Done! — Watch season 3 of “Deadwood” [Lisa and I finished this up in the spring of 2013. What a great show. What a pity that HBO cancelled it. How fitting that it just kind of ended.]
- Watch season 2 of “Extras”
- Listen to all of the Arvo Pärt recordings
- Snowshoe up Mount Greylock
- Done! — Go cross-country skiing [17 January 2013 — I skied at the Weston Ski Track]
- Done! — Run a 5k [29 May 2011 — I ran the Holliston 5K for Children's Hospital in 21:48]
- Done! — Run a 10k [26 June 2011 — 49:27]
- Done! — Run a half-marathon [20 March 2011 — 1:52:41]
- Done! — Ride a century [19 Sept. 2010]
- Done! — Do a flip-turn at the pool [6 Nov. 2010 — They weren't pretty, but I did three while swimming laps.]
- Done! — Ride one of the ADA Tours de Cure
- Done! — Hike Mount Tom [5 June 2011]
- Hike in the Adirondacks
- See a game at the new Yankee Stadium
- See a game at Citi Field
- Done! See a game at Philly’s new ballpark [April 2012]
- See a National’s game in DC
- Post a bunch of my old MATLAB code
- Done! — Try to refinance our loan [Nov. 2010 - May 2011 — I'm gonna say we tried, though no one was very interested in helping us. Fortunately our loan adjusted downward.]
- Done! — Finish paying off my student loans [Dec. 2010]
- Done! — Go to a Boston Symphony concert with Lisa [Jan Sibelius' "Symphony #2"!]
- Done! — Go to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC [August 2011]
- Done! — Go to the new Art of the Americas wing of the Boston MFA [5 January 2011 — I really love the new wing! I'm going to see it again and again.]
- Done! — Visit Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art [14 December 2011 — We had a team outing.]
- Done! — Read a book of contemporary poetry [23 December 2010 — I read Slamming Open the Door by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno and very much enjoyed it.]
- Read Harry Potter et la coupe de feu
- Done! — Go to Toronto
- Done! — See Niagara Falls (for once) [23 March 2012 — I saw them during my amazing ATB weekend]
- Make my way through the Rosetta Stone course in Hindi
- Make my own saag paneer
- Done! — Have lunch/dinner with Gillian [5 November 2011]
- See Kerry in Atlanta
- Go to a Braves game
- Read all of my recent issues of Aperture
- Done! — Update to WordPress ver. 3 [5 April 2011]
- Done! — Update my WordPress theme
- Install an online portfolio for my website
- Done! — Start the “Test Strip Rebellion” [6 April 2011 — first shot]
- Go inside the Vermont state capitol
- Done! — Go inside the New Hampshire state capitol
- Done! — Go inside the Maine state capitol
- Go inside the Rhode Island state capitol
- Go inside the Connecticut state capitol
- Get my Netflix queue to under 100
- Go camping in Baxter SP again
- Attend more than ½ of a season of the Newton Camera Club
- Done! — Make 10 mix-tape CDs for Lisa
- Done! — Decide whether to get a CGM [My transmitter and new sensors should arrive 5 January 2011.]
- Read Perfect Exposure
- Done! — Print big photo of Paris [24 Oct. 2010]
- Done! — Develop and print big photo of Uluṟu [23 Oct. 2010]
- Done! — Finish reading Sag Harbor [14 Nov. 2011 — It's a good read.]
- Done! — Update the “Burying Grounds” and “New England Iconography” pages [Posted 129 photographs of headstones.]
- Done! — Finish reading The Judgment of Paris
- Done! — Get all of the photos from the crashed hard drive into Lightroom [Sadly, a bunch of the scans are gone forever. Fortunately, I still have the slides.]
- Done! — Post about diabetes and the “Black Swan” phenomena (robustness of artificial pancreas as a “cure”) [11 Nov. 2010 — (Devil's) Advocating for the Artificial Pancreas]
- Done! — Improve the comment workflow on my web site [5 April 2011]
- Done! — Add a medical disclaimer to my web site [5 April 2011]
- Visit Boston cemeteries: Granary Burying Ground, Kings Burying Ground
- Walk around Mount Auburn cemetery
- Finish reading The Age of Wonder
- Interview coworker about her green card saga
- Read Inhuman Bondage
- Done! — Swim in the Atlantic
- Take a Photoshop class
- Update Flickr every week with something from the archives
- Done! — Use a pinhole camera [I used my Holga pinhole camera in June 2011]
- Figure out how to interrogate my BG meter from MATLAB
- Done! — Improve my BG analysis software in MATLAB [The "diabetes fusion" app is a huge improvement, but it isn't done yet.]
- Post my BG analysis software
- Done! — Learn about Photoshop smart objects and smart filters [Not much to it really]
- Done! — Ride around Mount Washington, NH
- Create an outline for a survey of Indian photographers
- Done! — Improve my web site’s 404 page [5 April 2011]
- Fix all of my basal and bolus rates
- Done! — Ride RAGBRAI