Very Simply 30 things to do before I hit thirty. The deadline is 00.00.00 28/05/2012. This gives me just under 2 years to accomplish these. Some will be hard. Some will be easier. All will require me to do something. Let’s be a bit more specific on the time availiable. Here’s some number crunching.
1.96 Years
23.04 Months
101.74 Weeks
712 Days
17,088 hours
1,025,280 Minutes
61,516,800 Seconds.
Anything less than weeks I’m choosing to see as over pressurising. So let’s keep our figures based around the week mark. So we have 30 tasks, to be mentioned hence, and 101.74 weeks therefore
Current Target: 1 Item every 3.39 weeks
I have no idea how long .39 of a week is so looks like we’re going to go to days
Current Target: 1 Item every 24 days
So as I’m sure you’re aware that’s almost a month so that pretty convenient. We’ll check back in 24 days time (10th July) and re-do the stats.
Now the moment we’ve all been waiting for the list.
30 Before 30
1) Have watched all of the IMDB Top 250 Films
Current score 116/250. I’m tracking this on http://250.s-anand.net/user/srhowell56@googlemail.com . You can follow me there too.
2) Break into the Top 2000 readers on Living Social
This is a site which I’m using to keep track of what I’ve read and what I’m reading. I’m still working on a way to link to it. Anyway current status is 2775.
3) Finish writing The Blacksmith and The Dressmaker
Finish means to have a completed story of at least 100,000. This is a story which I have recently begun and I’m notorious, in my own mind anyway, for not finishing stories. This should hopefully change that.
4) Regularly maintain a blog
This one is going to be fulfilled by this blog. By maintain I mean to update it at least 102 times. This is slightly more than once a week. For an update to count it must contain more than 500 words.
5) Complete Nanowrimo 2010 and Nanowrimo 2011
This is a great website www.nanowrimo.org which is all about getting rid of your inner editor. Give it a try.
6) Get a Job in Publishing
7) Work in America
8) Buy a House
9) Draft a Graphic Novel-At least 100 pages
10) Draw a Comic Book
Black and White or Colour. It doesn’t matter. At least 32 A4 size pages
11) Complete an Olympic Distance Triathlon
I’m currently training for a sprint distance triathlon and well if you’re going to do something you may as well go the distance.
12) Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
13) Get Waist Size back to 32 Inches
14) Get BMI into the “Normal” Zone and stay there
Only just slightly out now but it’d be nice. By normal mean between 20-25. Honestly we’ll be looking at the top end here
15) Improve my French
This has two criteria either of which counts as completion. Either be able to read the whole book “Les Femmes Preferent Les Monstres” or be able to converse properly for 30 minutes with my mate Mel in French without us having to go into English. Feel the book may be easier.
16) See the Northern Lights
17) Learn an Instrument
I’m thinking Ukulele at the moment but the mood may change. Better decide soon. Criteria is 10 songs
18) Get something published
19) Understand and Appreciate Poetry
How to measure this? I’ll know if I know. You’ll have to trust me on this one. Going to start by reading through Stephen Fry’s book “The Ode less Travelled”
20) Run a 5k in A Costume
I’m thinking the Bookstart bear costume
21) Put on A Puppet Show
22) Eat a Snake
23) Take my Niece to the Zoo.
I was just going by myself but it seems a better excuse to go with her.
24) See Shakespeare at The Globe
25) Make some Short Films
Put them on You tube. At least ten minutes worth of stuff.
26) Get a Cat
27) Get a ticket for the Olympics 2012
It’ll be to soon to actually to have gone by the deadline but should be able to get a ticket.
28) Brew Own Beer
29) Make A Sculpture
30) Fire A Gun
Yeah that’s right. Fire a gun.
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