Pick my resolutions!

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I'm giving you a list of things I'd like to resolve to maintain in 2004, though I know I won't be successful at all of them. The top two or three you guys vote for me to do I will attempt the greatest effort and give progress reports.

Pick a few (five or six) that you like best.
Let the voting begin!

Explinations:
Stop drinking caffeine / carbonated drinks
I did this for 2002. In 2003 I resolved to drink caffeine everyday (:

Buy a webcam for my office
I've just been meaning to do this for about four years.

Stop cussing (cursing?)
It's a bad habbit and should stop.

Begin a regular workout schedule (upper and lower body) ...
I used to be stellar. Not so much anymore.

... win a local 5K foot race
And this is what I would do with all the hard work.

Redo my personal website
It's old and needs work. Also, I need a project.

Build something out of wood
Another project

Show up for work on time - 8:30 (currently between 9 and 10:30)
This is probably the only thing keeping me from a significant raise.

Finish my games (Hitman 2, Red Alert 2, Warcraft 3 ...)
Projects, projects, projects.

Keep a daily journal
I would be writing more often, either on the computer or on paper. Either is good for the soul, I believe.

Free myself of Microsoft, both home and work
I don't really hate Microsoft so much. I just want to be part of the cool group :rolleyes:

Stop popping / cracking my knuckles
Oh, they're bad already. I can only imagine how bad they'll be if I don't stop.

Actually purchase an S2000, not just talk about it
Driven two - neither home.

Make that long overdue visit to MAZKid
He's actually close by, relatively. And I need to make a trip to STL anyway.

Simplify my home computer situation
Holy macral it's piled knee deep.

Photography: Average a roll of B/W film a week ...
This is one of my favorite hobbies. I should do more of it.

... maintain a regular B/W developement schedule with a friend
He's a good friend, and he has his own darkroom. Why am I not taking advantage of this?

Don't break the speed limit (exception: S2000) (:
I'm bad, mmmkay? Needs to stop.

Sail (or sell) my own boat (hasn't seen water in 3 years)
Poor boat. Going to waste.

Become vegetarian
Just for ****s and giggles (oops! cussed again). Actually, both my sisters are vegetarians, so it wouldn't be difficult.

Dirty cloths will not be worn a second time!!
They aren't dirty really, so much as just not clean.

Write letters to friends in other states
Another good habbit to be in.

Resist farting / belching in public
Ha ha ha, like that'll happen.

Use only local merchants, exceptions being Best Buy and Kroger
I've wanted to do this for some time now, but since my parents' recent purchase of a retail store, I've wanted to go gung-ho on it. Cutting out chain resturants, gas stations, and general conglomo-corps.

Be more active with my immediate family
This appears to be happening on its own. I think it's a good thing as we are very close already.
 
Sell the boat and buy an S2000. If you don't, you'll regret it later. Drive your new pride and joy to see your family. Give them rides in it (break the speed limit) and they'll love you forever. Take B/W photos of the occasion and send them copies enclosed with a letter telling them how much fun you had. Turn up for work early, or stay late, and give your workmates rides in the Honda. Every night, write about how much fun you had. That way your killing many birds with a VTEC powered stone. :D
 
... *stair of a caught fish* ... I like the way you think.

One problem being that the boat isn't worth $1000, so it's not much of a start on that car (: However, it would help. I could also attempt to get money for some of these computers I have laying around, though it won't be much.
 
Originally posted by StevieMo
I went with the photography one.
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The poll is set up to allow you to choose more than one. But photography is cool - I really do need to make better use of my equipment.
 
sell the boat, buy an S2000, go in it to see mazkid, and take a bunch of photos. you are a very good photographer. then show them here so I can download them (:

Cano

do it
 
I chose the webcam, update the website(heck, I'm doing that too!), free yourself from MS, actually purchase the S2000, and simplify your home computer situation(I need to do this also, the room is a mess).

Nice thread and poll!
 
Visit the Maz! - Where has he been on GTP, does he hide away in his own exclusive area?

Oh the 5k foot race would be cool.
 
I chose 2 that could be very hard but in the end will give you great benefit. Stop cracking your knuckles! And show up at work on time. Extremely bad habits both of them. What if you have a disposition for arthritis? Your could have chronic pain in your hands by the age of 30/40. An showing up late is at least to me an offense if someone is excpecting you at a certain time, but if you got a work where the action isn't dependant on you being there at time then why bother?

I would have chosen the family one too but as you said it's sort of already on it's way.

Good Luck LoudM!
 
I've picked six for you:

Stop cussing (cursing?)
It's a bad habbit and should stop.
Correct. Furthermore, it's often needlessly provocative and offensive. You have good vocabulary (your spelling could use some work though! :p), so you should use that more, and if people can't understand the "big" words you use, stuff'em.

Redo my personal website
It's old and needs work. Also, I need a project.
Correct.
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Build something out of wood
Another project
This is a good one. Do stuff with your hands that isn't typing/mouse movement (or anything that we don't need to talk about in PG-13 world)

Show up for work on time - 8:30 (currently between 9 and 10:30)
This is probably the only thing keeping me from a significant raise.
And it's probably the easiest thing to fix. Just commence your routine an hour earlier. Make the effort! It gets noticed.

Sail (or sell) my own boat (hasn't seen water in 3 years)
Poor boat. Going to waste.
Anything unused is dead weight. Get rid. It doesn't matter if it's only a couple hundred bucks, it's still better in your pocket than festering in some yard/garage/mooring somewhere. Cut the crap from your life!

Write letters to friends in other states
Another good habbit to be in.
Or indeed other countries. Or anywhere! Don't let the here-and-now blind you to those loved ones who are far away.

Hope that helps, and a Happy New Year to you!
 
Originally posted by Cano
sell the boat, buy an S2000, go in it to see mazkid, and take a bunch of photos. you are a very good photographer. then show them here so I can download them (:

Cano

do it
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Correct. Thats what I was going to say!
 
Well, I kind of thought this would happen. I'm going to take half of the S2000 votes off because you guys are car crazy (:
 
Originally posted by Ghost C
I picked that, so I can sponsor you. In fact, I should sponsor your sisters, too.

Sponsor A Vegetarian
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Ever get the feeling that vegetarians consider themselves morally superior to you? Like they think that not eating meat makes them so special that their **** doesn't stink? As if when someone stops eating meat, they suddenly become holy and dignified and it excuses them for the years of inconvenience and frustration they inevitably inflict upon their friends, family and co-workers who just want to go to a restaurant and order a damn steak without constantly being reminded that they're going to hell for eating an animal that spends most of its life ****ting in a field. There are those of us who don't have a hyperactive sense of guilt and we don't give a **** about your mixed up self-righteous moral vegetarian agenda.

"I can't eat meat." The four worst words to hear when you're going to a restuarant with someone.
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Unfortunately he is sourounded by idiots. ALL the vegetarians I know are very cool people. And I can't eat meat has never been said to me. They say "I choose to not eat animals". They have never made an issue of it either. There are other diets which restrict dining options even more than vegetarianism. If you have an issue with it, perhaps someone should eat you.

And besides, I have nothing wrong with eating meat, nore do my sisters have a problem with other people eating meat. It's their choice and they don't force it on anyone.

What does it mean to sponsor a vegetarian? It means that you have to find someone in your life who's a really big pain in everyone's ass every time you want to go out to eat ...
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Sorry, none of my friends with special diets are ever a pain in our collective ass. If there is someone in your life being a pain in your ass, they're not a very good friend, or maybe you're not a very good friend.

My reason for changing something drastic like this is simply to see if I can. Who knows, what if Mad Cow strikes the world. You should be prepaired (:
 
Maddox was not joking. And it doesn't surprise me that LM is all uppity about it. Anyone who starts an entire thread so everyone can sit around and talk about him and his stupid resolutions is obviously the uppity type.

The thread should just be called Me, Me, and more about Me.
 
Originally posted by milefile
Maddox was not joking. And it doesn't surprise me that LM is all uppity about it. Anyone who starts an entire thread so everyone can sit around and talk about him and his stupid resolutions is obviously the uppity type.

The thread should just be called Me, Me, and more about Me.
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That's what more than half of this board does.


ME ME ME!!

And yes, it seems that Maddox was not joking.
 
Maddox says right in the FAQ part of his site that just about everything he says is directly for entertainment and to piss people off.

Sort of like half the stuff I do.
 
I voted for:
Stop drinking caffeine / carbonated drinks
Stop cussing (cursing?)
Photography: Average a roll of B/W film a week ...
Sail (or sell) my own boat (hasn't seen water in 3 years)


Good luck. 👍
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
This is a good one. Do stuff with your hands that isn't typing/mouse movement (or anything that we don't need to talk about in PG-13 world)
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Giles! Boys, *tsk*. :p

Anyway, my suggestions...

Stop drinking caffeine / carbonated drinks
I would say "stop drinking", but cut down. Have a soda maybe once a week or every other week... that way you get the occasional shot of sugar, carbonation, and caffeine in your system, but in very moderate amounts. 👍 And anyway, if you decide to pursue the 5K, you really don't want to be sucking in a whole bunch of carbonation, since that'll cause bone weakness, especially in your back (and having your lower back hurting during a race sucks).

Redo my personal website
Yes. And go all-out... make it validate under the W3C's XHTML 1.1 strict guidelines (I did it, you can do it too! Weee!)

Stop popping / cracking my knuckles
Good one. I used to be bad about that too, but I've stopped (still do it occasionally, but nowhere near as much as I used to). You'll notice within a week that your fingers will be much less puffier.

Actually purchase an S2000, not just talk about it
Do! Do! (I sound like a little baby). And buy a bright-colored one. :)

Sail (or sell) my own boat (hasn't seen water in 3 years)
Either's fine. Personally, I'd sell it, but that's just because I'm not a water person.

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. --A. Whitney Brown
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Originally posted by Sage
Giles! Boys, *tsk*. :p

Anyway, my suggestions...

Stop drinking caffeine / carbonated drinks
I would say "stop drinking", but cut down. Have a soda maybe once a week or every other week... that way you get the occasional shot of sugar, carbonation, and caffeine in your system, but in very moderate amounts. 👍 And anyway, if you decide to pursue the 5K, you really don't want to be sucking in a whole bunch of carbonation, since that'll cause bone weakness, especially in your back (and having your lower back hurting during a race sucks).
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A lot of my resolutions tend to work together (: It's been a while since I've adheared to a regular workout, and high school since I've competed.

Redo my personal website
Yes. And go all-out... make it validate under the W3C's XHTML 1.1 strict guidelines (I did it, you can do it too! Weee!)
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I just throw stuff together. I suppose I could use an actual editor that validates my code.

Stop popping / cracking my knuckles
Good one. I used to be bad about that too, but I've stopped (still do it occasionally, but nowhere near as much as I used to). You'll notice within a week that your fingers will be much less puffier.

Actually purchase an S2000, not just talk about it
Do! Do! (I sound like a little baby). And buy a bright-colored one. :)

Sail (or sell) my own boat (hasn't seen water in 3 years)
Either's fine. Personally, I'd sell it, but that's just because I'm not a water person.
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Ditch the boat, buy the car. Seems to be the trend.

I was expecting some of the funnier stuff to be higher in the list. Oh well, you guys are too serious. (:
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic
A lot of my resolutions tend to work together (:
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Yeah, I noticed. :)

I just throw stuff together. I suppose I could use an actual editor that validates my code.
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Eh... even though I use Dreamweaver, I do almost all of my coding by hand, then send it through the W3C's validator. Of course, I'm so stupidly set on adhering to their standards that I practically have every standard (and things that could cause a page to not validate) memorized. :dopey:

Ditch the boat, buy the car. Seems to be the trend.
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Gran Turismo Planet? Maybe... automotive enthusiasts...? :p
 
Stop drinking rubbish, do some exercise, sail your damn boat, shop local, and keep in touch with your family.

Everything else is just minutiae, and not worth worrying about.
 

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