Update type stuff
1) Learn to go more than a mile without stalling in a stick shift car. COMPLETED- Got from the park to my house and stalled in front of the house.
2) Watch all 3 Lord of the Rings movies back to back.
3) Get a draft of one of my stories to a publisher.
4) Get through my flight to Washington to see Ava in one piece. (Save for elbows in the ribs from EP to Phoenix, completed)
5) Try not to get into a LOT of trouble in Washington. (Completed)
6) Get through my flight home in one piece. (Completed)
7) Photograph a day in the life of an El Pasoan (breakfast, lunch, dinner, places to go and people to see, maybe some video?)
8) Pay off some more of my debts.
9) Open a savings account, drop a few dollars in there every check and watch it grow. And for the love of all that’s good, holy, and sacred, don’t touch unless it’s a bloody effing emergency!
10) Get my hands on a PS3 with Rock Band, Army of Two, Devil May Cry 4, Final Fantasy XIII (providing the battle interface isn’t like FF12, at which you can count me out!) and F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon)
11) Get some more schooling under my belt.
12) Go one day without saying something self-deprecating (unless it was provoked, I.E. walking into a wall) (Completed, much to my surprise)
13) Own all 6 of the Star Wars movies.
14) Complete any sagas I have in movies (Underworld for instance…I’m missing part 2 and am having a hell of a time finding it.) (Completed)
15) Finish all the Megaman games.
16) Finish all the Megaman X games. (In progress)
17) Fill my entire 30GB Ipod up.
18) Start searching for the good in people more often than the evil.
19) Take photographs during my days off of the scenery and post them. El Paso’s not a bad place when you look past some of my goofy shit.
20) Finish the storyline and script for “The Bouncer 2: The Nightclub” with Marius.
21) Be a more avid Dallas Cowboys fan. (Completed for this season)
22) Tell the social Dallas haters where to get off. (Complete, damn near got written up for it)
23) Establish and maintain a writing blog with random prompts for each of my characters.
24) Play through two of the hardest songs out of the Rock Band/Guitar Hero realm and score 80% or better on Hard mode.
25) Play through the Devil May Cry series and re-beat it.
26) Tell my girlfriend Jen I love her each and every day.
27) Try the twice a week posting thing for Random Things With DT and see how it works out. (Completed…didn’t work too well)
28) Become a more avid chef. (Learned a few new dessert tricks, so that’s a start…this one I can’t ever really call complete because you learn things throughout life)
29) Visit old friends more often. (Can’t ever really call this one complete either)
30) Realize that not everyone in my high school career was out to stab me in the back, and maybe reconsider my 10 year reunion (5 more years and that’s it…son of a gun) (Complete for the most part, still debating the reunion.)
31) Get a fishing pole, round up a few friends, take a day off and leave a sign that says “F*** ya’ll, we went fishing”
32) Organize a NaNoWriMo crew meetup from all corners of the globe.
33) The draft I mentioned thirty spots ago? Get it published and out to retailers!
34) Pick up at least one assignment as a freelance photographer, just so I can say I did it.
35) Figure out a humane way to keep the damn swallows off my front porch…if I get divebombed by those damn birds one more time, we’ll be having barbecued swallow for dinner. (Took the nest out, so hopefully that should help.)
36) Try a barbecue turkey for Thanksgiving.
37) Make something phenomenal for one of the holiday dinners.- COMPLETED (Butter cake for the win)
38) Learn something important. (Learned that before I can forgive anyone else I have to forgive myself.)
39) Become a better man, a better son, brother, and friend to all. (Forever a work in progress)
40) Make one of my worst enemies a close ally. (Umm, probably will never make this one happen. I got too many enemies.)
41) Make it a point not to be so quick on the trigger. (Short fuse, Scottish temper…you do the math.)
42) Try going one day without being a grouchy asshole. (Thursday when I didn’t have to get the maid and got a free lunch out of it?)
43) Have dinner with close friends at least once a month.
44) Help to mend bridges in relationships that I know have gone sour.
45) Defend a retail worker who’s being lashed out at because the customer isn’t getting their way.
46) Be more patient with children, even though I feel otherwise. (Getting there.)
47) Design a more kick ass logo for “Random Things with DT” and use it in my intro videos.
48) Do a blended video with the team of BSBitching.
49) Respond to one of the karaoke challenges, but I pick the song if I’m not called out.
50) Make someone’s day. (Made my niece’s day when I went and played with her at the Chuck E. Cheese…though she damn near ripped my thumb off while we were playing After Burner: Climax)
51) Tell someone who’s complaining for no reason to stop griping. (Completed- Had to tell someone that it could be worse, that he could be out of a job and as much as he hates this job, it’s paying the rent.)
52) Have a beer with my brothers. (Well, one brother had a beer, the other two had mixed drinks. I guess you could call this complete.)
53) Learn the words to “Through the Fire and Flames” (Drove my co-workers nuts on overnights with this when I was at Wally World.)
54) Give someone who’s disrespecting me the Taxi Driver routine (You talkin’ to me?) (Completed- Did it to a co-worker who was giving me a rash about Dallas losing to Pittsburgh)
55) Find my way into a bowling league.
56) Watch the first season of “Human Weapon.”
57) Watch the first season of “Fight Quest.”
58) Get to the top of the Black List in Need for Speed: Most Wanted.
59) Have my in-game car (Chevy Cobalt SS) maxed out.
60) Play through and finish Final Fantasy VII.
61) Play through and finish Final Fantasy VIII.
62) Play through and finish Final Fantasy IX.
63) Play through and finish Final Fantasy X.
64) Play through and finish Parasite Eve.
65) Unlock everything in Ghost Squad.
66) Finish Kingdom Hearts 2 (I’m with you on that one, Erin)
67) Finish Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within.
68) Make my Dragon Fable character a level 40.
69) Get at least 1 REALLY Special Dragon Chow (it’s worth 5 stat points man!)
70) Submit an idea for a Dragon Fable Mission Chain.
71) Walk into a den of Lakers fans wearing San Antonio Spurs colors. (Done…pissed ‘em off something fierce.)
71a) Avoid smarmy remarks as much as possible.
71b) Defeat attackers in ensuing fight.
72) Increase my water intake to 2 20 oz. bottles or 1 1 liter bottle a day. (Complete so far…been drinking one on my way to work and one when I get home.)
73) Watch 1 movie a week. (Complete so far…got the Netflix subscription to prove it.)
74) Organize the next family roast.
75) Make it evidently clear that if I organize said roast, it will be done my way and there will be no bickering.
76) Have standbys ready in case someone isn’t quite up to it.
77) Win NaNoWrimo. (Completed! 50279 words!)
78) Compete in Script Frenzy 2009. I missed the starting gun for 2008 because I thought it was in June.
79) Get up early on my day off without having a prior commitment.
80) Get my holiday shopping done ahead of time as money and time permit. (Done, finished with two weeks to spare.)
81) Do something completely crazy, such as getting on the radio as a guest DJ.
82) Take photos of the El Paso sunrise from the mountains.
83) Film one episode of “Random Things with DT” on the mountain and at Scenic Drive.
84) Make “Rise Today” by Alter Bridge my life anthem. (I want to rise today and change this world.) (Done, though as of late it’s become “War Zone” by Rob Zombie.)
85) Become a little more earth friendly. (Been recycling more as of late.)
86) Cut loose every once in a while. Some days it’s best to let someone else be the DD, or if it’s at someone’s house sleep it off there.
87) Fight for something I believe in.
88) Have a shot with my brothers when my younger brother turns 21. (Done.)
89) Make sure someone knows when I’m pissed off at them. (Done…got told off, but done none the less.)
90) Make a kick ass Black Friday Survival CD. (Gave it to my old manager, but completed…)
91) Organize and pull off successful kick off party (more than 4 people.) (Done)
92) Organize and pull off successful write-in. (Done)
93) Organize and pull off successful TGIO party.
94) Purchase one saga series every month (The Mummy/Mummy Returns/Scorpion King, Underworld/Underworld Evolution, Rush Hour 1/2/3, etc.) (Failed, epically…then again technically I did kinda bail on this one for a bit.)
95) Pull a great birthday prank on someone. (Out to dinner? Mention birthday. They listening to the radio at work? Call in a request.)
96) Own each of the Evanescence CDs. (Completed)
97) Get every song from Rock Band. (Completed)
98) Get every song from Guitar Hero 1/2/3/Encore Rock of the 80’s. (Unlocked and therefore completed)
99) Explain to Aerosmith fans why “GH: Aerosmith” isn’t such a smoking hot idea. (Completed)
100) Get some form of proof to validate each of these goals, and post them in some form of a blog. (Well, shit…you can’t win ‘em all can you?)
101) Finish this list with a minimum of one week to spare.