davewasthere in 2006

2006 was 97% worth living.

In 2005, davewasthere did 66 things, went 68 places, met 5 people, and consumed 311 products.

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Skydive

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June

Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. George Wendt
  2. Tana Umaga

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July

Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn Java
  2. be a Linux-guru
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Australia — Worth visiting!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. be happy being single — completed 28 days later
  2. declutter my house — completed about 1 month later
  3. get over my ex — completed 9 months later
  4. Date a geek
  5. grow a herb garden
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. do at least 10 keepy-upys — Worth doing!
  2. Learn How to Cook Filipino Food — Worth doing!
  3. Ride a Camel — Worth doing!
  4. Thank my favorite high school teacher — Worth doing!
  5. see manchester united play at old trafford — Worth doing!
  6. learn darkroom photography — Worth doing!
  7. not let a timepiece run my time — Worth doing!
  8. Spend a night in jail — Worth doing!
  9. go skinny dipping — Worth doing!
  10. Kiss in the rain — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. learn Tagalog
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Portugal
  2. Austria
  3. Sri Lanka
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. thatgirlsab
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Anne McCaffrey
Read:
  1. Night Watch
  2. A Suitable Boy : Novel, A
  3. Brave New World
  4. Guards! Guards!
  5. Mort
  6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition)
  7. Bridget Jones's Diary
  8. The BFG
  9. The Catcher in the Rye
  10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  11. Watership Down
  12. Lord of the Flies
  13. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)
  14. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
  15. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
Listened to:
  1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
  2. Achtung Baby
  3. Zooropa
  4. The Joshua Tree
  5. Ten
  6. Kind of Blue
  7. Astral Weeks
  8. The Immaculate Collection
  9. Automatic for the People
  10. The Beatles (The White Album)
  11. Abbey Road
  12. OK Computer
  13. Nevermind
  14. August and Everything After
  15. Play
Watched:
  1. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
  2. Raging Bull
  3. Raising Arizona
  4. Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition with Bonus Disc) — Worth consuming!
  5. Gladiator (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
  6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  7. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  8. Snatch (Special Edition)
  9. Shrek (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  10. The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)
  11. Toy Story
  12. Monsters, Inc. (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
  13. Star Wars - Episode III, Revenge of the Sith
  14. Finding Nemo (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
  15. Kill Bill, Volume 1

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. watch more robot chicken — completed 6 days later
  2. Be more organised — completed 9 days later
  3. Grow my hair out
  4. Buy a motorbike — completed 4 months later
  5. say 'hi' to at least one stranger each day — completed 4 months later
  6. do 40 Keepie-uppies — completed 4 months later
  7. keep a dream journal
  8. "Clean sweep" my life to 100% — completed 11 months later
  9. redecorate my apartment
  10. see Regina Spektor in concert
  11. travel to every continent
  12. live in New York City for one year
  13. Unleash my suppressed creativity
  14. Learn Spanish
  15. Write a will
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. See Greenday in concert — Worth doing!
  2. be happy being single — Worth doing!
  3. learn how to prepare 10 excellent meals — Worth doing!
  4. go bungee-jumping — Worth doing!
  5. learn to make sushi — Worth doing!
  6. carpe diem — Worth doing!
  7. Visit 25 different countries — Worth doing!
  8. see Bic Runga live — Worth doing!
  9. Climb Scafell Pike — Worth doing!
  10. Buy my first home — Worth doing!
  11. Enjoy the Storm... — Worth doing!
  12. declutter my house — Worth doing!
  13. Learn how to effectively invest money — Worth doing!
  14. buy a saab — Worth doing!
  15. own a Porsche Boxster — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Stop The Oil Peak
  2. Speak French fluently
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Windsor Castle
  2. Kensington Gardens
  3. Buckingham Palace
  4. London
  5. The Cotswolds
  6. British Museum
  7. Hampton Court Palace
  8. Hyde Park
  9. The National Gallery
  10. St. Paul's Cathedral
  11. Tate Modern
  12. Tate Britain
  13. Westminster Abbey
  14. Kew Gardens
  15. Regent's Park
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Todd Gehman
  2. IamElectroGirl
  3. Dervla Murphy — met 28 days later
Read:
  1. The Silmarillion
  2. Ringworld
  3. Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern Trilogy (Paperback))
  4. J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)
  5. Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book 1)
  6. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld Saga, Book 1)
  7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
  8. Interview with the Vampire: Anniversary edition (The vampire chronicles)
  9. Foundation Trilogy
  10. Ender's Game (Ender Quartet)
  11. Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
Watched:
  1. Ghost in the Shell
  2. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition)
  3. The Fly /The Fly 2
  4. The Little Mermaid (Limited Issue)
  5. The Lion King (Disney Special Platinum Edition)
  6. Galaxy Quest
  7. Amores Perros
  8. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Vista Series)
  9. Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  10. Sideways (Widescreen Edition)
  11. Apocalypse Now Redux
  12. Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (Special Edition)
  13. Ran (Masterworks Edition)
  14. Ice Age (2-Disc Special Edition)
  15. Trainspotting - Director's Cut (Collector's Edition)
Consumed:
  1. Japanese Cuisine
  2. Thai Cuisine
  3. Asian Cuisine
  4. Turkish Cuisine
  5. Mexican Cuisine
  6. American diner breakfast
  7. Rabbit
  8. Indian Cuisine
  9. Filipino Food
  10. Italian Cuisine
  11. Tibetan Food
  12. Peaches & Nectarines
  13. Vietnamese Cuisine
  14. Spanish Cuisine
  15. Russian Cuisine

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. give 500 cheers — completed 8 days later
  2. not give up on 43things because of the seemingly constant application errors I encounter that won't let me easily use my cheers, which are subsequently lost when I return. — completed 9 days later
  3. Figure out why my Flickr photos don't show up on 43T
  4. MEET THE WOMBLES — completed 4 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. watch more robot chicken — Worth doing!
  2. encourage everyone to post a picture of him/herself as a kid, to remind us of all the places we've been and all the places we've yet to be — Worth doing!
  3. Be more organised — Worth doing!
  4. learn arabic — Worth doing!
  5. Have my wisdom teeth taken out — Not worth doing
  6. own a t-shirt with a bandname on it — Worth doing!
  7. Have two alcohol free nights a week — Worth doing!
  8. Release my first Bookcrossing book — Worth doing!
  9. steal a street sign — Not worth doing
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Grow my hair out
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Dervla Murphy

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. cheerbomb Faith (illuminescence) because it's fun to see a beautiful woman get bombed on something other than Cosmopolitans! — completed 2 days later
  2. Challenge all 43ers to light a candle to help STOP child pornography at www.lightamillioncandles.com — completed 3 months later
  3. go to bed by midnight — completed 9 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. give 500 cheers — Worth doing!
  2. not give up on 43things because of the seemingly constant application errors I encounter that won't let me easily use my cheers, which are subsequently lost when I return. — Worth doing!
  3. buy every single Calvin and Hobbes book out there — Worth doing!
  4. Declare 11/25 to 12/1 favourite 80's film Avatar Week — Worth doing!
  5. Rip my entire CD collection — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Figure out why my Flickr photos don't show up on 43T
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. LL — met 10 months later
  2. Faith
  3. pixeleyes — met 14 days later
Read:
  1. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  2. Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)
  3. Ender's Game — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  3. Goodfellas — Worth consuming!
  4. L.A. Confidential — Worth consuming!
  5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Worth consuming!
  6. Casablanca — Worth consuming!
  7. James and the Giant Peach (Special Edition)
  8. The Wizard of Oz — Worth consuming!
  9. The Matrix — Worth consuming!
  10. The Shawshank Redemption — Worth consuming!
  11. American Beauty — Worth consuming!
  12. The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. Memento — Worth consuming!
  15. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition) — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Creole Cuisine
  2. Kiwi Food
  3. Texan Food

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. wish IamElectrogirl a very Happy Birthday on December 12th by throwing a Virtual Birthday Party — completed about 1 month later
  2. wish mancmitch a HAPPY BDAY on december 12th — completed about 1 month later
  3. Make an oreo-cookie milkshake — completed 2 months later
  4. write haiku — completed 2 months later
  5. Declare 12/12 - 12/19 videogame avatar week — completed 7 months later
  6. sit somewhere with a great view, a great friend, and a damn decent bottle of wine. — completed about 1 year later
  7. Do Kim and Jason's Cure Adultitis 40-day challenge Plan
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. cheerbomb Faith (illuminescence) because it's fun to see a beautiful woman get bombed on something other than Cosmopolitans! — Worth doing!
  2. cheerbomb that music fiend IAmElectroGirl because she's so cool she makes Jazz look like yodelling — Worth doing!
  3. cheerbomb John Lee because the guy IS a knight in shining armour. And when he has his brown hood up, he looks like a jedi master. — Worth doing!
  4. cheerbomb "haikus are easy" ( TheGreenLime ) because she inspires more people than she probably even knows
  5. cheerbomb Jiana because some of us guys would love to be a victim of this woman of mass destruction ! — Worth doing!
  6. Meet up with friends after several years
  7. Weep at the cinema
  8. Go to the circus
  9. Shower with your eyes closed
  10. Contemplate a dead bird
  11. Follow the movement of ants
  12. Imagine your imminent death
  13. Browse at the bookseller's
  14. Pull out a hair
  15. Turn off the sound on the TV
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Oman — Worth visiting!
  2. Whistler-Blackcomb Ski Resort
  3. Lower Manhattan
  4. Staten Island Ferry
  5. New York Stock Exchange
  6. St. Paul's Chapel
  7. World Financial Center Plaza
  8. Museum Mile
  9. Bellagio Hotel and Casino
  10. Big Sky
  11. Las Vegas Strip
  12. Hollywood
  13. Bay Of Islands
  14. Lake Taupo
  15. Rotorua
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. ~ John Lee ~
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. pixeleyes

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