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26 June 2006
Three-point big picture to-do list. We've got to simplify, people.→[More:]
1. New Job
2. Guitar Lessons
3. Successfully prove evolutionary fitness by making a baby or two and then playing with them for years until they cast me off like so much chaff.
1. Attempt to sleep, fail. (procrastinate)
2. Go to coffee house for a quick cuppa, fail. drink 4 cups plus two long doubleshots, begin vibrating so badly that sketching thumbnails is impossible. (procrastinate)
3. Return home and attempt to do comps for design project - fail upon discovering corrupt applications and lost fonts - begin noodling on the internet, selecting music for "work time". (procrastinate)
4. Ponder where rent money is coming from. Consider arson-based insurance fraud, but reconsider when A) you have no insurance, and B) Nothing you own is valuable enough to insure.
1. Find me a husband
2. Complete graduate training
3. Cultivate revival of anti-establishment, counterhegemonic, independent, locally-based community cultural expression.
1. Make sure the kid turns out okay.
2. Get back into home-ownership before the IRS takes my last dollar. And so I can get my pool table out of fucking storage.
3. Go on a fifth date.
1. Find mates for all my computer friends.
2. Evict goddamn groundhogs.
3. Apologize for getting drunk and yelling at my wet-blanket sister to spend less time worrying about her "crotch droppings" and more time having fun.
I want someone to create a randomizer that puts all of these in a bucket and then displays 1. from one list, 2. from another list, and 3. from another list.
1. Find a wife.
2. Evict goddamn groundhogs.
3. Profit!
1. Watch kids grow up. And hopefully leave. In a good way.
2. buy some land not in New Jersey (for retirement someday)
3. retire before I die and live long and healthfully enough to enjoy it.
1. Shepherd kids 2 through 4 into late teenhood without any unplanned pregnancies, drug overdoses or criminal convictions
2. Ensure that above kids get the fuck out of our house as soon as they turn 18
3. Drive off into the sunset and actually start to enjoy life at last.
1. Lose enough weight to make another Wendell.
2. Turn the 22 wacky domain names I've registered into the most entertaining network of sites on the web.
3. Watch the rest of the world go crazy and laugh at it all.
To NOT Do List:
1. Die in less than 14 years.
2. Get within 100 miles of my Crazy Ex.
3. Share residence with father ever again (in less than 10,000 square foot house)
Yeah, we've had this conversation before. We are not quite at the "crossing off the days" stage, but thinking about it a lot. Only about 5,500 more days to go ;-(
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