I know where this photo came from, and I know what she was charged with, but I’m not sharing either and I forgot her name (it was under the photo). All I am saying is if you’re arrested you’re probably not having a good day, so you probably shouldn’t make it look fun.

Oh well, maybe she’s just doing her best to make the best of a bad thing.

Why do I have a sneaky suspicion that this is a “before” photo, but she just doesn’t know it yet?

I couldn’t quite come up with 100. I was shooting for 90 so I could leave myself a few to add later. The goals themselves started to get in the way though, so I pulled the trigger. I was afraid to do anything on the list until I had them all. Sort of like a race. You can’t start halfway down the track! So I ended up with 88. That’s not too bad. I’ll add to the list as I knock out some others. Yay me!

Day Zero Project. The premise, as I understand it, is simple. Pick 101 things you would like to do and then give yourself 1001 days to do them. Some of the things on my list have been there for a long time. 1001 days is just short of 3 years. I figure any of these things that I fail to get done I can give up on at that point (well, other than things like paying off credit cards).

Get new shoes.
Get a passport.
set up home recording studio
learn PHP/MySQL
Go to Stillwater for vacation
Take the cat in for a vet appointment.
Buy an expressionengine upgrade
get all my domains renewed
advertise my letters site
pay off Visa
pay off Mastercard
pay off Discover
Save $1000
Pay off home equity
resurface basement
refinish bathroom
get new kitchen counters
repair/replace dishwasher
get new glasses
go to a concert
pay off student loan
credit cards
Repair or buy a camera
Make or buy a monkey puppet
Put together Osculation chapbook
Put together new poetry chapbook

When I get paid and I sit down to start paying bills I am always somewhat excited and stupidly optimistic. By the time I’ve scheduled the last payment I often wonder how I’ll make it to the next check. Perhaps that’s overly dramatic, since I always seem to manage, but since a goodly potion of my bills land toward the beginning of the month I always wipe out that whole check plus more.

So I’ve been wanting to get a bit more serious about budgeting. I want a better grasp on what’s coming in and what’s going out. To this end I am going to make a list of projects I would like to accomplish. These are things that will cost me some cash or are finance related. I am then going to put them in a prioritized order and try to start attacking these. I’m not sure if this will help, or just make me feel like I am treading water. We’ll see.

I’m also wanting to try the 101 goals in 1001 days thing.

It occurred to me I never updated here to say I made it. I’d feel bad about this, but no one reads this site anyway (I know. I have the log files to prove it). This site serves no purpose other than to entertain me. It does that on occasion. I keep thinking it might be fun to do something new with the domain, use it as a clearinghouse to link to all the projects I have out there, but then I remember, there’s google for that.

Anyway, let’s see. Got my picture taken with the girlfriend. Successfully had a tumor removed from my head. Written a slew of new letters. What else? Got me. Seems I’ve been busy lately, but then pretty much anything will make me feel this way. I’m healing up and my brain is starting to go back to the way it was. No, I didn’t have brain surgery, but I think being out of it for hours messes with your head. Everyone forgets things, but this was happening to me at a more alarming rate after the surgery, or maybe I was just more aware of it when it did happen, but regardless I am back to my usual broken way of thinking. Well, at least I think I am. Who knows?

Well, off to go do some playing around on one of my other sites.