Bill Turner in 2006

2006 was 97% worth living.

In 2005, Bill Turner did 184 things, went 144 places, met 18 people, and consumed 821 products.

Years: 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. sell our house — completed 5 months later
  2. be organized
  3. clean my house — completed about 1 year later
  4. Document our house in photos — completed about 1 year later
  5. complete 10 things from my list in 2006
  6. Be more open and sharing with my wife, family, and friends — completed over 2 years later
  7. Read the Bible
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Go to Mardi Gras — Worth doing!
  2. get a moleskine — Worth doing!
  3. Write a will — Worth doing!
  4. Quit my job — Worth doing!
  5. Get a new job — Worth doing!
  6. sell my car — Worth doing!
  7. patent an invention — Worth doing!
  8. bowl a 200 game — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. learn clever magic tricks
Read:
  1. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Worth consuming!
  2. Software — Worth consuming!
  3. The Iliad — Worth consuming!
  4. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography — Worth consuming!
  5. The Phantom Tollbooth — Worth consuming!
  6. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh/WTP — Worth consuming!
  8. How to Win Friends & Influence People — Worth consuming!
  9. The Odyssey (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay : A Novel — Worth consuming!
  11. Lolita — Worth consuming!
  12. Snow Crash. — Worth consuming!
  13. What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question — Not worth consuming
  14. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. The Bends — Worth consuming!
  2. Bleach — Worth consuming!
  3. Bitches Brew — Worth consuming!
  4. Songs in the Key of Life — Worth consuming!
  5. Come Away with Me — Worth consuming!
  6. Paranoid — Worth consuming!
  7. Are You Experienced — Worth consuming!
  8. Diary — Worth consuming!
  9. Spiderland — Worth consuming!
  10. Licensed to Ill — Worth consuming!
  11. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
  12. Maggot Brain — Worth consuming!
  13. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back — Worth consuming!
  14. Doolittle — Worth consuming!
  15. Tago Mago — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Wizard of Oz — Worth consuming!
  3. Some Like It Hot (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
  5. Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Super Size Me — Worth consuming!
  7. The Aviator (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Do The Right Thing - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  9. The Conversation — Worth consuming!
  10. Dead Man — Worth consuming!
  11. Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  12. A Christmas Story (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Gummo — Not worth consuming
  14. Wings of Desire — Worth consuming!
  15. Capote — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Coke Zero — Worth consuming!
  2. San Pellegrino Mineral Water — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Complete the "Personal MBA"
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to the opera — Worth doing!
  2. develop a useful and popular web application — Worth doing!
  3. See a shooting star — Worth doing!
  4. work for myself — Worth doing!
  5. get life insurance — Worth doing!
  6. get health insurance — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Alabama — Worth visiting!
  2. Arkansas — Worth visiting!
  3. California — Worth visiting!
  4. Colorado — Worth visiting!
  5. Florida — Worth visiting!
  6. Illinois — Worth visiting!
  7. Indiana — Worth visiting!
  8. Kansas — Worth visiting!
  9. Kentucky — Worth visiting!
  10. Mississippi — Worth visiting!
  11. Missouri — Worth visiting!
  12. New Mexico — Worth visiting!
  13. New York State — Worth visiting!
  14. North Carolina — Worth visiting!
  15. Oklahoma — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Eric Hodel — met 18 days later
Read:
  1. Where the Wild Things Are — Worth consuming!
  2. A Light in the Attic — Worth consuming!
  3. The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
  4. Native Son — Worth consuming!
  5. Brave New World — Worth consuming!
  6. The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream — Worth consuming!
  7. Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. On the Road — Worth consuming!
  10. Money — Worth consuming!
  11. Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics) — Worth consuming!
  12. Borges: Collected Fictions — Worth consuming!
  13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  14. Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  15. Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics) — Not worth consuming
Listened to:
  1. Dummy — Worth consuming!
  2. The Joshua Tree — Worth consuming!
  3. Ten — Worth consuming!
  4. Kind of Blue — Worth consuming!
  5. Jagged Little Pill — Not worth consuming
  6. OK Computer — Worth consuming!
  7. Nevermind — Worth consuming!
  8. Weezer (Blue Album) — Worth consuming!
  9. Picaresque — Worth consuming!
  10. Hysteria — Worth consuming!
  11. Play — Not worth consuming
  12. Appetite for Destruction — Worth consuming!
  13. Master of Puppets — Worth consuming!
  14. We're Only in It for the Money — Worth consuming!
  15. Kid A — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  2. The Piano — Worth consuming!
  3. Goodfellas — Worth consuming!
  4. Midnight Cowboy — Worth consuming!
  5. Sense and Sensibility — Worth consuming!
  6. The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  7. Harold and Maude — Worth consuming!
  8. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  10. Titanic — Not worth consuming
  11. The Little Mermaid (Limited Issue) — Worth consuming!
  12. Run Lola Run — Worth consuming!
  13. The Shawshank Redemption — Worth consuming!
  14. American Beauty — Worth consuming!
  15. Chasing Amy - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Get everyone to try out the new Lists of Bests! — completed 28 days later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Buy original art — Worth doing!
  2. Get drunk overseas — Worth doing!
  3. learn to blow a chewing gum bubble — Worth doing!
  4. kiss at midnight on new year's eve — Worth doing!
  5. get high — Worth doing!
  6. pay off my credit card — Worth doing!
  7. Go on a road trip — Worth doing!
  8. get my drivers licence — Worth doing!
  9. start a family — Worth doing!
  10. Make a cool real life friend via the internet — Worth doing!
  11. make music — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Abruzzo — Worth visiting!
  2. Lazio — Worth visiting!
  3. Veneto — Worth visiting!
  4. Toscana — Worth visiting!
  5. Arlington — Worth visiting!
  6. Corpus Christi — Worth visiting!
  7. Garland — Not worth visiting
  8. El Paso — Worth visiting!
  9. Metropolitan Museum Of Art — Worth visiting!
  10. Campo Santa Margherita — Worth visiting!
  11. French Quarter — Worth visiting!
  12. Spanish Steps — Worth visiting!
  13. Taos Pueblo — Worth visiting!
  14. Abilene — Worth visiting!
  15. Addison — Not worth visiting
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Eric Hodel
  2. kellan
  3. Andy Baio
  4. Leonard Lin
  5. Aubrey Sabala
  6. Kathryn Yu
  7. David Jacobs
  8. Alaina Browne
  9. leia
  10. george
  11. Chris Griego
  12. mikemonteiro
  13. Michael Buffington
  14. helenjane
Read:
  1. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business — Worth consuming!
  2. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories — Worth consuming!
  3. Orlando: A Biography — Worth consuming!
  4. The Hobbit — Worth consuming!
  5. Time Out of Joint (Vintage) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan — Worth consuming!
  7. It (Signet Books) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh — Worth consuming!
  9. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer — Worth consuming!
  10. The Divine Invasion — Worth consuming!
  11. Valis — Worth consuming!
  12. Confessions of a Crap Artist — Worth consuming!
  13. The Talented Mr. Ripley — Worth consuming!
  14. Martian Time-Slip — Worth consuming!
  15. Radio Free Albemuth — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Bone Machine — Worth consuming!
  2. I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One — Worth consuming!
  3. Keep It Like a Secret — Worth consuming!
  4. When The Pawn... — Worth consuming!
  5. Chutes Too Narrow — Worth consuming!
  6. The Cosmic Game — Worth consuming!
  7. Some Cities — Worth consuming!
  8. The Great Destroyer — Worth consuming!
  9. In Case We Die — Worth consuming!
  10. The Sunlandic Twins — Worth consuming!
  11. Gimme Fiction — Worth consuming!
  12. Let It Die — Worth consuming!
  13. How It Feels to Be Something On — Worth consuming!
  14. TNT — Worth consuming!
  15. Trompe le Monde — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
  2. Raging Bull — Worth consuming!
  3. A Fish Called Wanda — Worth consuming!
  4. Bullets Over Broadway — Worth consuming!
  5. Rushmore — Worth consuming!
  6. Like Water for Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  7. Casablanca — Worth consuming!
  8. Grease (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Say Anything — Worth consuming!
  10. High Fidelity — Worth consuming!
  11. Zoolander (Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Worth consuming!
  13. Memento — Worth consuming!
  14. Eat Drink Man Woman — Worth consuming!
  15. The Thin Man (Snap case) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Sushi — Worth consuming!
  2. Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  3. BBQ'd Salmon — Worth consuming!
  4. Kebab — Worth consuming!
  5. Cheesecake — Worth consuming!
  6. Paella — Worth consuming!
  7. Venison — Worth consuming!
  8. Pasta — Worth consuming!
  9. Steak — Worth consuming!
  10. Grilled cheese sandwich — Worth consuming!
  11. Cornish Pasty — Worth consuming!
  12. Foie Gras — Worth consuming!
  13. Fresh fish — Worth consuming!
  14. Lobster — Worth consuming!
  15. Thai Cuisine — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Lists of Bests — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. do something cool with the 43things API
  2. Take vitamins daily — completed 11 months later
  3. Be a published poet — completed 11 months later
  4. write down as many of my earliest memories from childhood as I can remember
  5. try yoga
  6. get the word "like" (like, where it isn't necessary) out of my speech habits! — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn Ruby — Worth doing!
  2. Get everyone to try out the new Lists of Bests! — Worth doing!
  3. Learn to tie a necktie — Worth doing!
  4. get a gmail invite — Worth doing!
  5. write an application on Rails — Worth doing!
  6. learn PHP — Worth doing!
  7. bowl 100 — Worth doing!
  8. write a ruby on rails application — Worth doing!
  9. read strunk's elements of style — Worth doing!
  10. watch less tv — Worth doing!
  11. give 500 cheers — Worth doing!
  12. change jobs — Worth doing!
  13. invest in the stockmarket — Worth doing!
  14. write haiku — Worth doing!
  15. fly a kite — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Stemmons Place — Not worth visiting
  2. San Diego — Worth visiting!
  3. Salt Lake City — Worth visiting!
  4. England — Worth visiting!
  5. Walt Disney World — Worth visiting!
  6. Downtown Disney — Worth visiting!
  7. The Grassy Knoll — Worth visiting!
  8. Central Market — Worth visiting!
  9. West Village — Worth visiting!
  10. Idle Rich Pub — Worth visiting!
  11. St. Pete's Dancing Marlin — Worth visiting!
  12. Squirrel Hill — Worth visiting!
  13. The Beehive — Worth visiting!
  14. Primanti Brothers Restaurant & Bar — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Anil Dash
Read:
  1. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity — Worth consuming!
  2. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Little Prince — Worth consuming!
  4. White Teeth: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  5. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Illustrated Junior Library) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Return of the King (The Lord of The Rings, Part 3) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Lord of the Rings — Worth consuming!
  9. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1) — Worth consuming!
  10. Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way — Worth consuming!
  11. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Everyman's Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Picture of Dorian Gray — Worth consuming!
  13. Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions) — Worth consuming!
  14. George Orwell's 1984 (Monarch Notes) — Worth consuming!
  15. Aiding and Abetting: A Novel — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Double Nickels on the Dime — Worth consuming!
  2. Rabbit Fur Coat — Worth consuming!
  3. Le Fil — Worth consuming!
  4. Details — Worth consuming!
  5. Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. L.A. Confidential — Worth consuming!
  3. Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Killer — Worth consuming!
  5. Eight Men Out — Worth consuming!
  6. La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Adaptation (Superbit Collection) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Evil Dead — Worth consuming!
  9. Ocean's Eleven (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. True Romance - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. When Harry Met Sally... — Worth consuming!
  13. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Broadcast News — Worth consuming!
  15. William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!

→ See more from April

May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. learn to type without looking at my hands — completed about 11 hours later
  2. buy moleskine — completed 10 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Get rid of old clothes — Worth doing!
  2. clean out my car — Worth doing!
  3. Get a new Computer — Worth doing!
  4. have a kid — Worth doing!
  5. watch simpsons episodes — Worth doing!
  6. Own a car — Worth doing!
  7. update my website — Worth doing!
  8. learn xhtml — Worth doing!
  9. take my kids to Disneyworld — Worth doing!
  10. get a passport — Worth doing!
  11. sing in public — Worth doing!
  12. throw things away — Worth doing!
  13. Get a Mac — Worth doing!
  14. learn html — Worth doing!
  15. USE my passport — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Mai's Vietnamese Restaurant — Worth visiting!
  2. Daniele Osteria — Worth visiting!
  3. The Angry Dog — Worth visiting!
  4. Infomart — Worth visiting!
  5. Cigarz Pizza — Worth visiting!
  6. Bangkok Inn — Worth visiting!
  7. Bangkok City — Worth visiting!
  8. La Calle Doce — Worth visiting!
  9. Garden Cafe — Worth visiting!
  10. Gold Rush Cafe — Worth visiting!
  11. The Green Room — Worth visiting!
  12. Jeroboam — Worth visiting!
  13. Pietro's Italian Restaurant — Not worth visiting
  14. Tipperary Inn — Worth visiting!
  15. The Wine Therapist — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. seizethedave — met about 1 month later
Read:
  1. Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Cosmicomics — Worth consuming!
  3. The Catcher in the Rye — Worth consuming!
  4. The Talisman — Worth consuming!
  5. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  6. Mansfield Park (Modern Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
  7. The High King (Prydain Chronicles) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes — Worth consuming!
  9. On the Beach — Worth consuming!
  10. From Hell - New Cover Edition — Worth consuming!
  11. Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman, Vol. 1) — Worth consuming!
  12. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns — Worth consuming!
  13. The Very Hungry Caterpillar — Worth consuming!
  14. Nineteen Eighty-four — Worth consuming!
  15. Animal Man (Animal Man, Book 1) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Around the Fur — Worth consuming!
  2. Oh, Inverted World — Worth consuming!
  3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot — Worth consuming!
  4. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out — Worth consuming!
  5. Rubber Factory — Worth consuming!
  6. To The 5 Boroughs — Worth consuming!
  7. Take London — Worth consuming!
  8. Hello Nasty — Worth consuming!
  9. White Pony — Worth consuming!
  10. Rounds — Worth consuming!
  11. Rei Momo — Worth consuming!
  12. Bring It Back — Worth consuming!
  13. This Year's Model (With Bonus Disc) — Worth consuming!
  14. You in Reverse — Worth consuming!
  15. Return To Cookie Mountain — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Bowling for Columbine — Worth consuming!
  2. Spellbound — Worth consuming!
  3. The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara — Worth consuming!
  4. Mad Hot Ballroom — Worth consuming!
  5. Day for Night — Worth consuming!
  6. Roger & Me — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. stop eating fast food and junk food — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn to type without looking at my hands — Worth doing!
  2. Drink eight glasses of water each day — Worth doing!
  3. graduate college — Worth doing!
  4. eat beignets in New Orleans — Worth doing!
  5. own my car — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Cedar Point — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. seizethedave
Read:
  1. On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (On Writing Well) — Worth consuming!
  2. Fahrenheit 451 — Worth consuming!
  3. Fast Food Nation — Worth consuming!
  4. Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers — Worth consuming!
  5. Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Literary Touchstone — Worth consuming!
  7. On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (On Writing Well) — Worth consuming!
  8. Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  10. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Complete Text With Introduction, Historical Contexts, Critical Essays (New Riverside Editions) — Worth consuming!
  11. Animal Farm: Centennial Edition — Worth consuming!
  12. The Prince — Worth consuming!
  13. A Farewell to Arms — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Careless Love — Worth consuming!
  2. Sung Tongs — Worth consuming!
  3. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (The Historic 1955 Debut Recording) — Worth consuming!
  4. Bach: The Cello Suites Inspired By Bach, From The Six-Part Film Series / Yo-Yo Ma — Worth consuming!
  5. Hunky Dory — Worth consuming!
  6. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood — Worth consuming!
  7. Suzuki — Worth consuming!
  8. Mark's Keyboard Repair — Worth consuming!
  9. The Eraser — Worth consuming!
  10. Scale — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Go — Worth consuming!
  2. Forbidden Zone — Worth consuming!
  3. Secrets and Lies — Worth consuming!
  4. American Pie - Unrated (Widescreen Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off — Worth consuming!
  6. Natural Born Killers — Not worth consuming
  7. Clueless — Worth consuming!
  8. Pink Flamingos — Worth consuming!
  9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  10. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn — Worth consuming!
  11. Cry Baby (Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  12. Risky Business — Worth consuming!
  13. Serial Mom — Worth consuming!
  14. Dazed & Confused (Widescreen Flashback Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. After Hours — Worth consuming!

→ See more from June

July

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to a showing of rocky horror picture show — Worth doing!
  2. Publish a poem — Worth doing!
  3. sell our house — Worth doing!
  4. find an apartment in Pittsburgh — Worth doing!
  5. Move to Pittsburgh — Worth doing!
  6. live in Pittsburgh — Worth doing!
  7. give 900 cheers — Worth doing!
  8. give 800 cheers! — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Pittsburgh International Airport — Worth visiting!
  2. Station Square — Not worth visiting
  3. Heinz Loft Apartments — Worth visiting!
  4. Mount Washington — Worth visiting!
  5. Strip District — Worth visiting!
  6. North Shore — Worth visiting!
  7. Point State Park — Worth visiting!
  8. Downtown — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. The Complete Recordings — Worth consuming!
  2. Simple Things — Worth consuming!
  3. Return to Cookie Mountain — Worth consuming!

→ See more from July

August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. ride my bike at least two times a week — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Meet a real person from 43things/43people/43places.com — Worth doing!
  2. Give 1000 cheers — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Penn Brewery
  2. Lava Lounge
  3. Children's Museum Of Pittsburgh
  4. The Mattress Factory Museum
  5. Andy Warhol Museum — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Tiki Lounge — Worth visiting!
  2. Paparazzi Restaurant — Worth visiting!
  3. Sushi Kim — Worth visiting!
  4. Chinatown Inn — Worth visiting!
  5. Canton — Worth visiting!
  6. Eide's Entertainment — Worth visiting!
  7. IKEA — Worth visiting!
  8. South Side — Worth visiting!
  9. Lidia's Pittsburgh — Worth visiting!
  10. PNC Park — Worth visiting!
  11. Whole Foods Market — Worth visiting!
  12. Mexican War Streets — Worth visiting!
  13. PPG Place — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. Outer Space
  2. Springfield
  3. Funkytown
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. kerouaciness
Read:
  1. Motherless Brooklyn — Worth consuming!
  2. Gilead: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  3. The Areas of My Expertise — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Widescreen Edition)
  2. Who Killed the Electric Car? — Worth consuming!

→ See more from August

September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. shoot a photo essay on small-scale winemaking — completed 8 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. go to a Nickel Creek concert — Worth doing!
  2. see Nickel Creek — Worth doing!
  3. see Nickel Creek in concert — Worth doing!
  4. make wine — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Troy Hill — Worth visiting!
  2. Mount Lebanon — Worth visiting!
  3. Mojoe Coffee House — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Franny and Zooey — Worth consuming!
  2. The Thin Man — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Since I Left You — Worth consuming!
  2. Birdy Nam Nam — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Shaft — Worth consuming!
  2. Car Wash — Worth consuming!
  3. Dolemite — Worth consuming!
  4. Superfly — Worth consuming!
  5. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka — Worth consuming!

→ See more from September

October

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. try a segway — Worth doing!
  2. Ride a segway — Worth doing!
  3. go to a football match — Worth doing!
  4. ride a roller coaster — Worth doing!
  5. own a t-shirt with a bandname on it — Worth doing!
  6. Have my first kiss — Worth doing!
  7. get a massage — Worth doing!
  8. eat sushi — Worth doing!
  9. graduate from school — Worth doing!
  10. go camping — Worth doing!
  11. hold a snake — Worth doing!
  12. play a round of golf — Worth doing!
  13. Do ten full push-ups — Worth doing!
  14. Read a classic — Worth doing!
  15. buy a useless electrical appliance — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Kwik-E-Mart — visited about 1 month later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. India Garden — Worth visiting!
  2. Oakland — Worth visiting!
  3. Bangkok Balcony — Worth visiting!
  4. The Benedum Center For The Performing Arts — Worth visiting!
  5. Aldo Coffee — Worth visiting!
  6. Carnegie Museum Of Natural History — Worth visiting!
  7. Carnegie Science Center — Worth visiting!
  8. F. Tambellini Ristorante — Not worth visiting
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. lia bulaong
Read:
  1. Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories (Vintage International) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Seven Swans — Worth consuming!
  2. Geogaddi — Worth consuming!
  3. In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country — Worth consuming!
  4. Sea Change — Worth consuming!
  5. Sound-Dust — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Blood Simple (Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Corporation
  3. You Can Count on Me — Worth consuming!
  4. Poison — Worth consuming!
  5. The Corporation — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Spamalot — Worth consuming!
  2. Il Pagliacci — Worth consuming!

→ See more from October

November

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Actually meet face-to-face with someone from 43 Things — Worth doing!
  2. ice skate — Worth doing!
  3. go ice skating — Worth doing!
  4. learn to ice skate — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Kwik-E-Mart — Worth visiting!
  2. Bravo Franco Ristorante — Worth visiting!
  3. Mandarin Gourmet — Worth visiting!
  4. Sesame Inn — Worth visiting!
  5. Legends of the North Shore — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Art of the Novel (Perennial Classics) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to be the Artist You Truly Are — Worth consuming!
  4. True Loves, Vol. 1 — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Highway 61 Revisited — Worth consuming!
  2. Blood on the Tracks — Worth consuming!
  3. Son — Worth consuming!
  4. Cansei de Ser Sexy — Worth consuming!
  5. Lady and Bird — Worth consuming!
  6. Body Riddle — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price — Worth consuming!
  2. The Son's Room — Worth consuming!
  3. Marie Antoinette — Not worth consuming
  4. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Romeo and Juliet (Opera) — Worth consuming!

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December

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working — Worth doing!
  2. publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art Generally, and on Appreciation (Icon Editions) — Worth consuming!
  2. Beautiful Evidence — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Ramen Noodles — Not worth consuming
  2. Raspberries — Worth consuming!
  3. Tofu — Worth consuming!
  4. Sweet Tea — Not worth consuming
  5. veggie burger — Worth consuming!
  6. Baklava — Worth consuming!
  7. hummus — Worth consuming!
  8. Kiwi — Worth consuming!
  9. pomegranate — Worth consuming!
  10. Papaya — Worth consuming!
  11. brown rice — Worth consuming!
  12. pure maple syrup — Worth consuming!
  13. Banana Nut Bread — Worth consuming!
  14. Grits — Worth consuming!
  15. hushpuppies — Worth consuming!

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