Summer 2010 To-Do List: Weskimo Edition
Every year, I read Newbs’ list for the summer and think “none of that is going to happen…” This time, something was different, though. This year, I got some kind of seventeenth sense that some of it might actually get done! I don’t know how, and for most of it, I most assuredly do not know why, but he’s going to do it!
This left me thinking, as I often do, of myself. I also have goals for every summer, though never immortalized in list-form, I tend to have assorted vagaries and wispy notions floating around in my head that represent the list. I don’t know if you folks have ever tried to accomplish a vagary before, but I’ll tell you, it’s still pretty damn vague when you’re done. And you’re left with a confused feeling whenever you look back on the summer, wondering if you actually accomplished any of your lofty (if poorly defined) goals.
Well, no more! Behold! Concrete evidence of my goals this summer! Take that, Weskimo’s directionally-challenged mind! Eat progress this summer!
- write a “Games in Review” article once a month
- write a Movie review once a month
- be a guest on the podcast once a month
- be a guest on “The Dungeon”
- be a guest reviewer in an SDGR video
- write a “Dungeons and Dragons Recap” article after playing in Newbs’s campaign
- do a Rock Band Stage Kit video after I get it working
- avoid seeing the shirtless photoshoot of Newbs and DMUSER
- officially create my Zombie Action Plan, and write an article about it
- have more articles than sulci
- get more hate comments
- complete a monthly update of this list
Movies, TV, Books:
- give Lost a chance
- hate Lost properly, with knowledge of exact levels of suck
- have a movie night for Computer Science 101 (Hackers, Wargames and Antitrust)
- have a movie night for the Ninja Turtles movies (yeah, I have them on DVD, what?)
- participate in an all-day Star Wars marathon
- rewatch The Dark Knight and try to understand why people claimed it was the best movie ever
- see Master and Commander
- see Iron Man 2
- see the Aliens movies, possibly in a marathon setting
- see the Rambo movies, possibly in a marathon setting
- see Kick-Ass
- read The Silmarillion
- read Watchmen
- reread American Psycho
- watch all of The Big Bang Theory
- watch all of Venture Brothers
Traditional Games:
- make a huge Magic: the Gathering order
- play in an MtG draft
- build a working artifact deck
- finalize decks with card protectors
- buy a magic box
- finish the RISK game
- play Twilight Imperium
- play Dominion
- play Puerto Rico
- have an honest to god Geek Night
Video Games:
- buy and beat Army of Two: 40th Day
- beat Final Fantasy XIII
- beat Final Fantasy XII
- beat Mirror’s Edge
- beat Overlord
- beat Overlord II
- beat Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
- replay the Suikoden 1,2, and 5
- routinely outplay Brentor in Call of Duty:MW2
- play Starcraft 2
- swear it off after Brentor feeds me his hatred in it
Fitness and Self Improvement:
- defeat Newbs every week in Shufflingdead basketball
- buy a bike
- get Newbs to come to Calgary to go zip-lining
- run with my dog every morning before work
- try to get Newbs to run with me in the morning
- daily sit-ups
- daily free-weight sets
- participate in the Sonic 1K and Beer Gardens event
- regular horseback riding
- play squash every weekend
Personal/Other:
- barbeque once a week
- have a bonfire at my dad’s house
- have a party at my house
- force Newbs to create Geek Night 4.0
- attend Motion Notion
- attend Boonstock
- attend Sonic Boom
- attend DMUSER’s Birthday
- make DMUSER’s Birthday exceed previous levels of awesome
- force myself to enjoy karaoke
- use the word voracious in casual conversation
- pacify the lady friend with a camping trip
- pacify the lady friend by “baking her a fucking cake”
- day hike with my dog
- get an additional fence put in
- commit mass herbicide, murdering grass and weed alike, in an effort to clear my lawn of hostiles
- replace dead shrubs in front yard
- get a new cell phone
- change my cell phone plan to not suck for my new job
- learn more about wine so that I don’t suck at my new job
- clean out university email account
- load iTunes and my iPod/music collection onto my laptop
- organize music collection
- remove all NWA, Spinal Tap, Colin James, Simcoe Street Mob, and Red Hot Chilipeppers tracks
- get over my crush on Michelle Branch
- buy new music
- paint my bathroom
- buy decorations of some kind for my house
- replace and raise my basketball hoop
- buy blinds to further my designs of a Nerd Den in my basement
- get second stripper poster to balance the energy of the room (maybe a redhead)
- buy a proper TV stand for the Nerd Den
- buy real stereo and speakers for the Nerd Den
- jerk off in the Nerd Den
- fornicate in the Nerd Den
- play a drinking game to while watching the Transformers Season 1
- make my nemesis at McDonalds suffer
- expand my sexual repetoire
- 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:
0/100 goals accomplished.
Strikethrough indicates goals I have accomplished.
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