Summer 2010 To-Do List
The summer of 2009 saw me run a certain To-Do List here at Shufflingdead.com, and to great success. Pursuing the list led me to all kinds of fun adventures, ranging from the simple act of cackling like a comic book villain, to the staggering accomplishment of writing every day, and yet it did so much more, as well. I began the summer of 2009 lethargic and unmotivated, in fact, I was leading a largely sedentary life. By the end of the summer, I was employed, slightly physically active, and on my way to taking Shufflingdead.com to the dizzying heights of near-success we are at today.
I concluded the summer of ’09 promising to annualize the list and bring it back for 2010. I’m a lot busier heading into the summer of 2010, largely thanks to last year’s work, and undertaking this endeavour will certainly be difficult, but that’s exactly the sort of exciting challenge that define these kinds of lists.
Please note: there are repeats from last year, some because I never got them done, others because I’m excited to try them again. Instead of the weekly updates I ran last year, I will only be posting monthly updates for 2010, one each in the early days of June, July, August, and September.
- write a monthly update for this list
- write monthly “The Dungeon’s Boss” updates
- write a “Video Game Character Analysis: Furry Abominations” article
- write a “Nerd Hovel” article
- write more “Cosplay Idol” articles with sulci
- do a Rock Band Stage Kit video review
- start a new video series for the site, and run one episode a week
- clean out folders of story source links
- build or purchase some form of a backdrop for videos
- figure out lighting for our videos
- buy a microphone for podcasting
- 400 YouTube subscribers
- 200 Facebook fans
- 100 Twitter followers
- vigorously promote site
- increase podcast listenership to the point that we have regular feedback
- run four updates a day, with only half of them being mine
- average 1154 daily hits in June
- do a content swap with at least one other website
- make enough money from the site to “quit my day job”
- do a shirtless photo-shoot with DMUSER, and hold a contest on the site to give away the results
Movies, TV, and Books:
- buy and watch the complete Daria TV series
- see The Expendables
- see Resident Evil: Afterlife
- finish watching Cowboy Bebop
- participate in an all-day Star Wars marathon
- see Twilight: Eclipse – know thy enemy!
- see Iron Man 2
- watch all of Freaks and Geeks
- watch a TV series of my lady friend’s choosing
- read Mona Lisa Overdrive
- read The Subtle Knife
- read The Amber Spyglass
- read Watchmen
- read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- read Blade of the Immortal
- read god is not Great
- read Your Money or Your Life
Traditional Games:
- make a huge Magic: the Gathering order
- build a “garbage” draft cube for MtG
- play in an MtG draft
- buy MtG Deck Builder’s Toolkits with my lady friend
- decorate my MtG box
- play D&D
- create and run another D&D campaign
Video Games:
- buy and beat Super Mario Galaxy 2
- buy and beat Sin and Punishment: Star Successor
- replay Donkey Kong Country 3
- buy and replay Resident Evil 4 for Wii
- replay No More Heroes 2
- own Final Fantasies I through VI, beating the ones I haven’t already
- beat Final Fantasy VII
- own all Ace Attorney games, beating the ones I haven’t already
- get an SNES Mouse
- attend a video games media event
- meet game creator legend Shigeru Miyamoto
- steal his powers
- best Reggie in a one-on-one battle of masculinity
- buy, play, and “beat” Personal Trainer Walking
- earn 600+ Club Nintendo points by June 30, and get something cool with them
Fitness and Self Improvement:
- learn Japanese
- demolish all comers in Shufflingdead basketball
- finish learning how to ride a bike
- finish learning how to drive/get license
- play Jai Alai
- participate in free running
- try zorbing
- get in good enough shape to do the above three goals with my lady friend
- go for an actual early-morning jog like real runners do
- learn how to do laundry
- learn how to cook
- go walking with Dubious
- learn how to swim
- attempt yoga
Personal/Other:
- move out
- get a cell phone
- create a cheap, easy, and healthy diet for independent living
- take lady friend on mystical oddeseysyesy (sp?)
- learn how to spell “odyssey”
- jerk off
- attend Animethon
- write every day
- find another reason to say “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe”
- clean out university email account
- perform stand-up comedy
- visit Japan
- sing “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding” in a Japanese karaoke box
- get a frame for my picture with Leonard Nimoy
- get frames for pictures of Miyamoto, Reggie, and Iwata – the ultimate ironic triptych
- do at least one drawing
- dance and drink and screw, quite possibly because there’s nothing else to do
- get a dakimakura
- hold a stupid fake wedding with a random nerdy physical object and get internet famous for it
- keep nose hair trimmed
- attend another Shakespeare play
- start an internet holy war between Sonic and Dragon Ball fans
- replace the burned out light bulb behind me
- get flowers for my lady friend, possibly in apology for the following two goals
- titty fuck Christina Hendricks
- two chicks at the same time
Site Goals:
16/100 goals accomplished.
Strikethrough indicates goals I have accomplished.
If you end up going to Japan, I can give you a basic “low down” on how to get around, etc. I’ve been there :D
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