99 things I'd like to accomplish

This is a work in progress, and the various things are in a fairly random order. Some of the things represent hobbies, others are dreams however realistic or unrealistic; some things I'm not sure I even want to do. Some things aren't so much things you accomplish as they are things you are blessed with if it is God's will. And of course, life is full of choices and trade offs: Often you can't do it all!

Most of the things I've written down are objective, because it feels good to be able to put a check mark beside things and chart your progress. But the more important things in life are often subjective. They are the things you do a little bit every day, consciously or unconsciously, that make you who you are. Love, faith, joy, etc.

So this list is what it is, a bunch of adventurous, dreamy, even silly things to hope and aim for. Things that speak to my personality and to who God made me.

What I'm currently working on

None.

Recently completed

57.Watch a shuttle launch [journal]
November 16, 2009 (Atlantis, STS-129) 
2.Read the Bible in a year [journal]
Started: June 2, 2008
Finished: June 1, 2009 
69.Start and end my day with prayer each day for a year [journal]
Started: June 2, 2008
Finished: June 2, 2009 
74.Go on a date with Meredith each week for a year [journal]
Started: June 2, 2008
Finished: June 2, 2009 
92.100 mile diet for 100 days [journal]
Started: February 19, 2009
Finished: May 29, 2009 
7.Have a child [journal]
By the grace of God: April 8, 2009 
70.No pop for a year [journal]
Started: June 1, 2007
Accomplished: June 1, 2008 
3.Run a marathon
Started: January 2007
Accomplished: May 25, 2008 [journal
67.Floss each day for a year
Accomplished: April 20, 2008 [journal
68.3 minute showers for a year
Accomplished: April 20, 2008 [journal
66.Don't eat at McDonald's for a year
Accomplished: January 1, 2008 [journal
71.Make homemade raspberry jam
Accomplished: July 21, 2007 [journal
28.Read 20 books in a year [journal]
Started: April 13, 2006
Accomplished: April 12, 2007 
6.Hold my breath for 3:00 [journal]
Accomplished: March 10, 2007

Goals that are on the back-burner

1.Bike across Canada
29.Learn to snowboard
Started: February 2008 
48.Learn French
Started: January 2008 
49.Learn Spanish
Started: January 2008 
21.Do 100 pushups
37.Learn the birthday and anniversary dates of my family
44.Learn to fly a plane
50.Learn one new programming language a year
2006: PHP
2007: Ruby
2008: Ruby on rails
2009: Mathematica 
59.Invent a programming language and write a compiler for it

The list

1.Bike across Canada
2.Read the Bible in a year
Started: June 2, 2008
Completed: June 1, 2009 
3.Run a marathon
Started: January 2007
Accomplished: May 25, 2008 [journal
4.24 hours with nothing but water
5.Jump into water from 50 feet
6.Hold my breath for 3:00 [journal]
Accomplished: March 10, 2007 
7.Have a child
By the grace of God: April 8, 2009 
8.Bench press my own weight
9.Get a masters degree
10.Get a PhD
11.Live to be 100
12.Hit a hole in one (>= 130 yards from the tee)
Last update: June 29, 2006 
13.Par the Turkey Point golf course
14.Visit 43 countries
Currently: Canada, United States, Cuba, England, Scotland, France, Holland, Greece, Turkey, Mexico (10) 
15.80,000 feet
16.Orbit the earth
17.Go to the moon (good luck on that one!)
18.Graduate from university
Accomplished: June, 2003 
19.Get married
October 15, 2005 (I'm not going to be a monk!) 
20.Write a ray tracer
2002 
21.Do 100 pushups (in under 2 minutes and without stopping)
22.Run 400 meters in 1 minute
23.Achieve a weight of 200 lbs. with less than 10% body fat
24.Create a webpage that receives 1,000,000 hits
25.Hit a golf ball over 300 yards
26.Write a song
2003 
27.Learn to play 10 instruments
Currently: Piano, Flute, Trumpet, Recorder (4) 
28.Read 20 books in a year [journal]
Started: April 13, 2006
Accomplished: April 12, 2007 
29.Learn to snowboard
Started: February 2008 
30.Memorize pi to 100 digits
31.Donate blood 200 times
Started: 2006 
32.Perform a back handspring
33.Do the splits
34.Juggle 3 items
35.Do a set of 30 chinups
36.Throw a baseball 75 mph
37.Learn the birthday and anniversary dates of my family
38.
39.Know the names and city of residence of 250 people at church
40.Play at least 10 games of golf each year with my dad
41.Go skydiving
42.Go bungee jumping (Playing catchup with my little sister on this one)
43.Learn to ride a motorcycle (I wouldn't want to drive one on a regular basis, but I think that learning to ride one would be fun)
44.Learn to fly a plane
45.Learn to windsurf
46.Learn to surf
47.Learn to scuba dive
48.Learn French
Started: January 2008 (Well, grade 3 I guess) 
49.Learn Spanish
Started: January 2008 
50.Learn one new programming language a year
51.Do a kip-up
52.Stand up from a sitting position on the ground with the use of one leg
53.Learn to knit
54.Visit every province and territory of Canada
Currently: Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, PEI, Nova Scotia (5) 
55.Visit every state in the US
Currently: New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, North Carolina, Nevada, California, Arizona, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington (12) 
56.Hold a handstand for 60 seconds
57.Watch a shuttle launch
November 16, 2009 (Atlantis, STS-129) 
58.Create a computer game
59.Invent a programming language and write a compiler for it
60.Dunk a basketball
61.Compete in a triathalon
62.Compete in an Ironman Triatalon
63.Have a resting heart rate of 40 bpm
64.Freedive to 100 feet
65.Learn some sign language
66.Don't eat at McDonald's for a year
Started: January 2007
Finished: January 2008 
67.Floss each day for a year
Started: April 20, 2007
Finished: April 20, 2008 
68.3 minute showers for a year
Started: April 20, 2007
Finished: April 20, 2008 
69.Start and end my day with prayer each day for a year
Started: June 2, 2008
Finished: June 2, 2009 
70.[No pop for a year]
Started: June 1, 2007
Accomplished: June 1, 2008 
71.Make homemade raspberry jam
Accomplished: July 21, 2007 [journal
72.Sail across lake Erie in a catameran
73.Watch Tiger Woods hit a golf ball from 20 feet away
Accomplished: 2001 
74.Go on a date with Meredith each week for a year
Started: June 2, 2008
Finished: June 2, 2009 
75.Visit my sponsor child
76.Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
77.Bike from Waterloo to Ottawa in 24 hours
Is it possible? Check this out 
78.Swim from Turkey Point to Pottahawk (7.5km)
79.Swim across Lake Erie
80.Buy a house
August 2006 
81.Make a CD
82.Grow a beard (while biking across Canada)
83.Do my chiro exercises each day for a year
84.Learn to kite board
85.Build a canoe
86.Learn to roll a kayak
87.Do a muscle up on gymnastic rings
88.Contribute a feature to an open source software project
89.Work from the beach for a day
90.Try a new recipe each week for a year
91.Make wild blueberry jam in Killarney Provincial Park
92.100 mile diet for 100 days
Started: February 19, 2009
Finished: May 29, 2009 
93.Attend CES

... to be continued ...