Hamish Rickerby in 2006

2006 was 85% worth living.

In 2005, Hamish Rickerby did 445 things, went 191 places, met 4 people, and consumed 2379 products.

Hamish Rickerby has written 1 year in review entry…

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

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. pimp out my phone — completed 5 days later
  2. listen to my ipod while shopping at the supermarket — completed 11 days later
  3. drink more water — completed about 1 month later
  4. see Sigur Ros live — completed 2 months later
  5. learn ruby on rails — completed 3 months later
  6. find out who's subscribing to me :)
  7. move to europe — completed 5 months later
  8. smile more
  9. strengthen, reestablish, and nurture my existing friendships
  10. Travel the world with my work
  11. get over her — completed about 1 year later
  12. Make new friends
  13. Pick a theme song for myself
  14. stop biting my nails
  15. watch all the movies on Jennas list
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. read "The 7 habits of highly effective people" — Worth doing!
  2. get my driver's license — Worth doing!
  3. finish my degree — Worth doing!
  4. peirce my nose — Worth doing!
  5. see the grand canyon — Worth doing!
  6. I want to go to australia — Worth doing!
  7. find a job — Worth doing!
  8. learn to ice skate — Worth doing!
  9. Try out 43 Things — Worth doing!
  10. get an apple powerbook — Worth doing!
  11. start using del.icio.us — Worth doing!
  12. get an ipod — Worth doing!
  13. buy a house before I turn 30 — Worth doing!
  14. watch Casablanca — Worth doing!
  15. creat a gmail account but I don't how to do this — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Los Angeles — visited 2 months later
  2. San Diego — visited 2 months later
  3. San Francisco — visited 2 months later
  4. London — visited 3 months later
  5. San Jose — visited 3 months later
  6. Las Vegas — visited 4 months later
  7. Lisboa — visited 7 months later
  8. Madrid — visited 8 months later
  9. Sweden — visited 8 months later
  10. Bali — visited 10 months later
  11. Newtown — visited about 1 year later
  12. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao — visited about 1 year later
  13. Sydney — visited about 1 year later
  14. Russia
  15. Berlin
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Vanuatu — Not worth visiting
  2. Brisbane — Worth visiting!
  3. Wuppertal — Worth visiting!
  4. Düsseldorf — Worth visiting!
  5. Köln — Worth visiting!
  6. Bilbao — Worth visiting!
  7. Cupertino — Worth visiting!
  8. Tijuana — Worth visiting!
  9. Surfers Paradise — Worth visiting!
  10. Mount Eden — Worth visiting!
  11. Christchurch — Worth visiting!
  12. Cardiff — Worth visiting!
  13. Honolulu — Worth visiting!
  14. Autobahn — Worth visiting!
  15. Te Papa — Not worth visiting
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Bic Runga
Listened to:
  1. Get Behind Me Satan — Worth consuming!
  2. The Magic Numbers — Worth consuming!
  3. The Magic Numbers — Worth consuming!
  4. The Magic Numbers — Worth consuming!
  5. The Magic Numbers — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Twin Peaks - The First Season (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Donnie Darko — Worth consuming!
  3. Twin Peaks - Pilot Episode [Import] — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. learn haskell
  2. visit every country in Europe
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. pimp out my phone — Worth doing!
  2. listen to my ipod while shopping at the supermarket — Worth doing!
  3. drink more water — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Hong Kong
  2. Singapore
  3. Seattle
  4. New Zealand — visited 9 months later
  5. Alaska
  6. New York City
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Palmerston North — Not worth visiting
  2. Feilding — Not worth visiting
  3. Franz Josef Glacier — Worth visiting!
  4. Dunedin — Worth visiting!
  5. Milford Sound — Worth visiting!
  6. Queenstown — Worth visiting!
  7. Rotorua — Worth visiting!
  8. Waitakere Ranges — Worth visiting!
  9. Hamilton — Not worth visiting
  10. Wellington — Worth visiting!
  11. Matterhorn — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. jenna1 — met about 1 month later
Read:
  1. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) — Worth consuming!
  2. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Demon Days — Not worth consuming
  2. LCD Soundsystem — Worth consuming!
  3. Dummy — Worth consuming!
  4. Kind of Blue — Worth consuming!
  5. Tidal — Not worth consuming
  6. Little Earthquakes — Worth consuming!
  7. Led Zeppelin II — Worth consuming!
  8. Led Zeppelin III — Not worth consuming
  9. Cosmic Thing — Not worth consuming
  10. The Immaculate Collection — Not worth consuming
  11. Jagged Little Pill — Worth consuming!
  12. The Bends — Worth consuming!
  13. I Should Coco — Worth consuming!
  14. The Beatles (The White Album) — Worth consuming!
  15. Abbey Road — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Fisher King — Worth consuming!
  2. Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection) — Worth consuming!
  4. Beetlejuice — Worth consuming!
  5. Pulp Fiction — Worth consuming!
  6. Hackers — Worth consuming!
  7. A Fish Called Wanda — Worth consuming!
  8. Mission - Impossible (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  9. Office Space (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Casablanca — Worth consuming!
  11. Titanic — Not worth consuming
  12. The Wizard of Oz — Worth consuming!
  13. The Matrix — Worth consuming!
  14. The Shawshank Redemption — Worth consuming!
  15. American Beauty — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Get to work on time every day for a week — completed 4 months later
  2. write in my moleskine
  3. become an SWT master
  4. learn to draw
  5. I want to leave a mix cd/tape on a bench
  6. clean up my hard drive — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. find new sunglasses — Worth doing!
  2. own every modest mouse album ever made — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Jena
  2. Melbourne
  3. Broome
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Auckland — Worth visiting!
  2. Germany — Worth visiting!
  3. Los Angeles — Worth visiting!
  4. San Diego — Worth visiting!
  5. San Francisco — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. jenna1
Read:
  1. Matilda — Worth consuming!
  2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  3. Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Trilogy (Paperback)) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Zooropa — Worth consuming!
  2. Automatic for the People — Worth consuming!
  3. Bookends — Worth consuming!
  4. Quiet Is the New Loud
  5. Rage Against the Machine — Worth consuming!
  6. Howl Howl Gaff Gaff — Worth consuming!
  7. American III: Solitary Man — Worth consuming!
  8. Bridge Over Troubled Water — Worth consuming!
  9. Rabbit Fur Coat — Worth consuming!
  10. The Concert in Central Park — Worth consuming!
  11. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme — Worth consuming!
  12. Sounds of Silence — Worth consuming!
  13. Wednesday Morning, 3 AM — Worth consuming!
  14. Up Rising — Worth consuming!
  15. Ballad of the Broken Seas — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Dinner Game — Worth consuming!
  2. The Dinner Game — Worth consuming!
  3. Blade - Trinity (New Line Platinum Series) — Not worth consuming
  4. Kung Fu Hustle (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Cooler — Worth consuming!
  6. Blade II (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  7. Blade (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Virgin Suicides — Worth consuming!
  9. V for Vendetta — Worth consuming!
  10. The Experiment — Worth consuming!
  11. Jumanji (Collector's Series) — Not worth consuming
  12. Battle Royale — Worth consuming!
  13. Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Fourth Season — Worth consuming!
  14. Drop Dead Fred — Worth consuming!
  15. Look Who's Talking, Too — Not worth consuming

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Fly First Class — completed 2 months later
  2. get rid of unnecessary possessions — completed 3 months later
  3. start a trust and sell my house to it
  4. Apply for a job in the UK — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get an international driver's license — Worth doing!
  2. see Sigur Ros live — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Newbury — visited 2 months later
  2. Oxford — visited 3 months later
  3. Reading — visited 3 months later
  4. Lake Taupo — visited 7 months later
  5. Doubtful Sound — visited 7 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Buckingham Palace — Worth visiting!
  2. Hyde Park — Worth visiting!
  3. The Tower Of London — Worth visiting!
  4. Bath — Worth visiting!
  5. Köln Cathedral Quarter — Worth visiting!
  6. Museo del Prado — Worth visiting!
  7. Plaza Mayor — Worth visiting!
  8. Four Seasons Resort at Jimbaran Bay — Worth visiting!
  9. Ubud — Worth visiting!
  10. Blue Mountains — Worth visiting!
  11. The Hunter Valley Wine Region — Worth visiting!
  12. Sydney Opera House — Worth visiting!
  13. Sydney Harbour — Worth visiting!
  14. Marlborough Wine Region — Worth visiting!
  15. Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Mike Child
Read:
  1. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything — Worth consuming!
  2. 100 Suns — Worth consuming!
  3. Full Moon — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Firecracker — Worth consuming!
  2. Urban Hymns — Worth consuming!
  3. Achtung Baby — Worth consuming!
  4. Ten — Worth consuming!
  5. (What's The Story) Morning Glory? — Worth consuming!
  6. Supernatural — Not worth consuming
  7. At Folsom Prison — Worth consuming!
  8. American Recordings
  9. Born in the U.S.A. — Worth consuming!
  10. Spirit — Worth consuming!
  11. Opiate — Worth consuming!
  12. Sublime — Worth consuming!
  13. Green — Worth consuming!
  14. Thriller — Worth consuming!
  15. American IV: The Man Comes Around — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Hero — Worth consuming!
  3. Good Bye, Lenin! — Worth consuming!
  4. Boogie Nights — Worth consuming!
  5. Wall Street — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. listen to all albums in "Rolling Stone Readers 100" 2002 list
  2. research/register my company name — completed 6 days later
  3. pack up all of my belongings and ship them to Christchurch — completed 26 days later
  4. become a Kakuro master
  5. juggle clubs — completed 6 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn ruby on rails — Worth doing!
  2. sing karaoke — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. find out who's subscribing to me :)
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Moskva
  2. Tate Modern — visited 9 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. San Jose — Worth visiting!
  2. Orange County — Worth visiting!
  3. Australia — Worth visiting!
  4. Mexico — Worth visiting!
  5. United States — Worth visiting!
  6. England — Worth visiting!
  7. Portugal — Worth visiting!
  8. Spain — Worth visiting!
  9. Wales — Worth visiting!
  10. Rakinos — Worth visiting!
  11. The Globe Cafe — Worth visiting!
  12. Honey Pot Cafe — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. annemareec
Read:
  1. Survivor: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Survivor — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. A Night at the Opera — Worth consuming!
  2. Sticky Fingers — Not worth consuming
  3. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness — Worth consuming!
  4. The Joshua Tree — Worth consuming!
  5. Grace — Not worth consuming
  6. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust — Worth consuming!
  7. London Calling — Worth consuming!
  8. Songs in the Key of Life — Not worth consuming
  9. Pet Sounds — Not worth consuming
  10. Is This It — Worth consuming!
  11. Original Pirate Material — Worth consuming!
  12. Hysteria — Worth consuming!
  13. Play — Worth consuming!
  14. Dark Side Of The Moon — Worth consuming!
  15. The Division Bell — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Psycho (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Twins — Worth consuming!
  3. Batman — Worth consuming!
  4. The Firm — Worth consuming!
  5. Coming to America — Worth consuming!
  6. Mr. Holland's Opus — Worth consuming!
  7. Heathers — Worth consuming!
  8. Dead Man Walking — Worth consuming!
  9. The Lion King (Disney Special Platinum Edition) — Not worth consuming
  10. Caddyshack — Worth consuming!
  11. The Crow (Miramax/Dimension Collector's Series) — Worth consuming!
  12. Adaptation (Superbit Collection) — Worth consuming!
  13. St. Elmo's Fire — Worth consuming!
  14. Ghost World — Worth consuming!
  15. Dick Tracy — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Sushi — Worth consuming!
  2. Bubble Tea — Worth consuming!
  3. Chocolate — Worth consuming!
  4. apple pie — Worth consuming!
  5. BBQ'd Salmon — Worth consuming!
  6. Kebab — Worth consuming!
  7. Cheesecake — Worth consuming!
  8. Paella — Worth consuming!
  9. Venison — Worth consuming!
  10. Pasta — Worth consuming!
  11. Steak — Worth consuming!
  12. Cornish Pasty — Worth consuming!
  13. Lobster — Worth consuming!
  14. Thai Cuisine — Worth consuming!
  15. Asian Cuisine — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. acumen
  2. auspicious
  3. chromosome
  4. circumnavigate
  5. enfranchise
  6. epiphany
  7. equinox
  8. euro
  9. evanescent
  10. facetious
  11. fiduciary
  12. gamete
  13. hegemony
  14. hemoglobin
  15. homogeneous

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. take crazy pictures with someone in a photobooth — completed 28 days later
  2. go to a belle & sebastian concert
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. research/register my company name — Worth doing!
  2. pack up all of my belongings and ship them to Christchurch — Worth doing!
  3. crash a car — Not worth doing
  4. witness a car crash — Not worth doing
  5. GET ROBBED — Not worth doing
  6. have a hangover — Worth doing!
  7. get my heart broken — Not worth doing
  8. Be hurt.
  9. be sad
  10. Be Depressed
  11. hurt my neck moshing
  12. Sit next to a baby on a plane
  13. be stuck in the middle seat on a plane
  14. get bitten by a dog
  15. have your feelings hurt
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Las Vegas — Worth visiting!
Listened to:
  1. Astral Weeks — Not worth consuming
  2. Celebrity Skin — Worth consuming!
  3. Korn — Worth consuming!
  4. Check Your Head — Worth consuming!
  5. The Downward Spiral — Worth consuming!
  6. Hard Normal Daddy — Worth consuming!
  7. Pre-Millennium Tension — Worth consuming!
  8. Modern Rock (FN292) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Spanish Prisoner
  2. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. I, Robot (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Meet The Fockers (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  5. Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai — Worth consuming!
  6. Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (Special Collector's Edition) — Not worth consuming
  7. Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Third Season — Worth consuming!
  8. Shaun of the Dead — Worth consuming!
  9. I Heart Huckabees — Worth consuming!
  10. Benny and Joon — Worth consuming!
  11. Pretty in Pink — Worth consuming!
  12. Zatoichi /Sonatine Double Bill — Worth consuming!
  13. Once Upon a Time in Mexico — Worth consuming!
  14. Dead Man — Worth consuming!
  15. Quiz Show — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. buy a mouse — completed about 1 month later
  2. Get My National Insurance Number — completed about 1 month later
  3. buy a new wrist watch — completed 7 months later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Buy an alarm clock — Worth doing!
  2. move to europe — Worth doing!
  3. fly business class — Worth doing!
  4. Fly First Class — Worth doing!
  5. take crazy pictures with someone in a photobooth — Worth doing!
  6. get rid of unnecessary possessions — Worth doing!
  7. Get to work on time every day for a week — Worth doing!
  8. See Smashing Pumpkins Live — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Venezia
  2. Red Square
  3. Blarney Castle
  4. Gordons — visited about 1 month later
  5. Royal Albert Hall
  6. London Heathrow Airport — visited 2 months later
  7. Paris — visited 3 months later
  8. Stonehenge
  9. Stockholm — visited 5 months later
  10. Windsor Castle — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Terminal 4
  2. Newbury — Worth visiting!
  3. Vodafone HQ — Worth visiting!
  4. Disneyland Park — Worth visiting!
  5. Hawai'i — Worth visiting!
  6. Chicago Rock Cafe — Not worth visiting
  7. Hogs Head — Worth visiting!
  8. Lock, Stock & Barrel — Worth visiting!
  9. Snooty Fox — Worth visiting!
  10. Oxford — Worth visiting!
  11. Regent's Park — Worth visiting!
  12. Oxford University — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency — Worth consuming!
  2. American Psycho — Worth consuming!
  3. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  4. Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application — Worth consuming!
  5. London Companion (Companion Series) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Master of Puppets — Not worth consuming
  2. Under the Table and Dreaming — Not worth consuming
  3. Forbidden Love — Worth consuming!
  4. Something About Airplanes — Worth consuming!
  5. 101 — Worth consuming!
  6. Plans — Worth consuming!
  7. Ambient 1: Music for Airports — Worth consuming!
  8. Bringing It All Back Home — Worth consuming!
  9. Electric Ladyland — Not worth consuming
  10. White Room / Justified & Ancient — Worth consuming!
  11. Stability — Worth consuming!
  12. Bringing It All Back Home — Worth consuming!
  13. Crooked Teeth — Worth consuming!
  14. Crooked Teeth — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Duck Soup — Worth consuming!
  2. Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition with Bonus Disc) — Worth consuming!
  3. Rabbit-Proof Fence
  4. Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  5. AVP - Alien Vs. Predator (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  6. 24 Hour Party People — Worth consuming!
  7. Alien (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. 21 Grams — Worth consuming!
  9. The Lord Of The Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Dogville — Worth consuming!
  11. Carnivale - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  12. Deliverance — Worth consuming!
  13. Superman - The Movie — Worth consuming!
  14. Chicken Run — Not worth consuming
  15. Moulin Rouge — Not worth consuming
Consumed:
  1. Carnivále — Worth consuming!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Go on a monopoly board pub crawl
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Have a coffee shop know my "usual" — Worth doing!
  2. Learn to juggle four balls — Worth doing!
  3. Learn to juggle with three balls — Worth doing!
  4. buy a mouse — Worth doing!
  5. Get My National Insurance Number — Worth doing!
  6. to go on a canal boat — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. München
  2. Cardigan
  3. Roma
  4. Absolut Icebar Stockholm — visited 23 days later
  5. Portela Airport — visited about 1 month later
  6. San Francisco International Airport — visited about 1 month later
  7. Airport Düsseldorf Niederrhein — visited about 1 month later
  8. Sondica Airport — visited about 1 month later
  9. Madrid Barajas International Airport — visited about 1 month later
  10. San Diego International Airport — visited about 1 month later
  11. Honolulu International Airport — visited about 1 month later
  12. Los Angeles International Airport — visited about 1 month later
  13. Changi Airport — visited about 1 month later
  14. Bauerfield Airport — visited about 1 month later
  15. Brisbane Airport — visited about 1 month later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Caversham — Worth visiting!
  2. Elephant and Castle — Worth visiting!
  3. Piccadilly Circus — Worth visiting!
  4. Little Venice — Worth visiting!
  5. City of Westminster — Worth visiting!
  6. Hackney — Not worth visiting
  7. Tower Bridge — Worth visiting!
  8. City of London — Worth visiting!
  9. London Underground — Worth visiting!
  10. Soho — Worth visiting!
  11. Oxford Street — Worth visiting!
  12. Alcatraz — Worth visiting!
  13. Golden Gate Bridge — Worth visiting!
  14. San Jose International Airport — Not worth visiting
  15. Fisherman's Wharf — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Not worth consuming
  2. Fast Food Nation — Worth consuming!
  3. Business @ the Speed of Thought : Using a Digital Nervous System
  4. How to Generate Great Ideas — Not worth consuming
Listened to:
  1. The Great Escape — Worth consuming!
  2. Blur — Worth consuming!
  3. The Velvet Underground & Nico — Worth consuming!
  4. Third Eye Blind
  5. Oh, Inverted World — Worth consuming!
  6. Doolittle — Worth consuming!
  7. The Cosmic Game — Worth consuming!
  8. Make Believe — Worth consuming!
  9. Blue Album — Worth consuming!
  10. Orbital 2 — Worth consuming!
  11. Orbital — Worth consuming!
  12. The Altogether — Worth consuming!
  13. Snivilisation — Worth consuming!
  14. Three — Worth consuming!
  15. In Blue
Watched:
  1. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Cable Guy — Not worth consuming
  3. The Fly /The Fly 2 — Worth consuming!
  4. Shakespeare in Love — Worth consuming!
  5. Magnolia (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  6. Bridget Jones's Diary — Worth consuming!
  7. Memento — Worth consuming!
  8. Star Wars - Episode III, Revenge of the Sith
  9. The Terminal (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Lost Highway [IMPORT] — Worth consuming!
  11. Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. DiG! — Worth consuming!
  13. House of Flying Daggers — Worth consuming!
  14. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection — Not worth consuming
  15. Four Rooms — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Heineken — Worth consuming!
  2. Stella Artois — Worth consuming!
  3. Amstel Light — Not worth consuming
  4. Guinness — Worth consuming!
  5. Corona Extra — Worth consuming!
  6. Beck's — Worth consuming!
  7. 1664 — Worth consuming!
  8. Asahi Super Dry — Worth consuming!
  9. old speckled hen — Worth consuming!
  10. Budweiser — Not worth consuming
  11. Carlsberg — Not worth consuming
  12. Foster's Lager — Not worth consuming
  13. Kirin Ichiban — Worth consuming!
  14. Kilkenny Draught Irish Cream Ale — Worth consuming!
  15. Boddingtons Pub Ale — Worth consuming!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Visit Gallipoli on Anzac Day
  2. buy my second house — completed 6 months later
  3. Go to Glastonbury
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Buy house — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Gallipoli
  2. Egypt
  3. Malta International Airport — visited 5 days later
  4. Malta — visited 25 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Lisboa — Worth visiting!
  2. Tongariro National Park — Worth visiting!
  3. Madrid — Not worth visiting
  4. Terminal 1 — Not worth visiting
  5. Terminal 3
  6. Stockholm Arlanda Airport — Worth visiting!
  7. Absolut Icebar Stockholm — Worth visiting!
  8. Vasamuseet
  9. Nationalmuseum
  10. Mörby Centrum — Worth visiting!
  11. Södermalm — Worth visiting!
  12. United Kingdom — Worth visiting!
  13. Sweden — Worth visiting!
  14. Port-Vila
  15. Otago — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Da Vinci Code — Worth consuming!
  2. First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy — Worth consuming!
  3. Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors
  4. Johnny The Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut — Worth consuming!
  5. The Da Vinci Code — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. International Superhits! — Worth consuming!
  2. We Are Not Alone
  3. Discovery — Worth consuming!
  4. Mutations
  5. 76:14 — Worth consuming!
  6. (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art of Noise! — Worth consuming!
  7. Son of Evil Reindeer — Worth consuming!
  8. Out of Nothing — Worth consuming!
  9. Y'all Get Scared Now, Ya Hear — Worth consuming!
  10. Y'all Get Scared Now, Ya Hear! — Worth consuming!
  11. This New Day — Worth consuming!
  12. Time Wrap 06 — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Chinatown — Worth consuming!
  2. Galaxy Quest — Not worth consuming
  3. The Legend of Drunken Master — Worth consuming!
  4. Natural Born Killers — Worth consuming!
  5. Dr. No (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Be Cool (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  7. Stagecoach — Worth consuming!
  8. A History of Violence — Worth consuming!
  9. Carrie (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  11. Airplane 2 - The Sequel — Not worth consuming
  12. The Gods Must Be Crazy — Worth consuming!
  13. Cape Fear (10th Anniversary Edition) — Not worth consuming
  14. Cape Fear — Not worth consuming
  15. Crash - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Not worth consuming

→ See more from September

October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Learn to play the cello
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn to longboard — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. become an SWT master
Added to 43 Places:
  1. San Francisco Bathhouse — visited 17 days later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Malta International Airport — Worth visiting!
  2. Portela Airport — Worth visiting!
  3. San Francisco International Airport — Worth visiting!
  4. Airport Düsseldorf Niederrhein — Worth visiting!
  5. Sondica Airport — Worth visiting!
  6. Madrid Barajas International Airport — Worth visiting!
  7. San Diego International Airport — Worth visiting!
  8. Honolulu International Airport — Worth visiting!
  9. Los Angeles International Airport — Not worth visiting
  10. London Heathrow Airport — Worth visiting!
  11. Changi Airport — Worth visiting!
  12. Bauerfield Airport — Not worth visiting
  13. Brisbane Airport — Not worth visiting
  14. Denpasar Airport — Not worth visiting
  15. Kingsford Smith International Airport — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. A Clockwork Orange — Worth consuming!
  2. Neuromancer — Worth consuming!
  3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass — Worth consuming!
  4. The Man in the High Castle — Worth consuming!
  5. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors — Worth consuming!
  6. The Day of the Triffids — Worth consuming!
  7. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) — Worth consuming!
  8. Ender's Game — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Strangeways, Here We Come — Not worth consuming
  2. The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered) — Worth consuming!
  3. Hunky Dory — Worth consuming!
  4. Crash — Not worth consuming
  5. White Ladder — Worth consuming!
  6. Forever Changes — Not worth consuming
  7. Singles — Worth consuming!
  8. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight — Worth consuming!
  9. Tracy Chapman — Worth consuming!
  10. Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits — Worth consuming!
  11. Louder Than Bombs — Worth consuming!
  12. Before These Crowded Streets — Not worth consuming
  13. Meat Is Murder — Worth consuming!
  14. The Smiths — Worth consuming!
  15. Hatful of Hollow — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail — Worth consuming!
  2. The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  3. Rushmore — Worth consuming!
  4. Rushmore - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  5. The Simpsons - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  6. Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Simpsons - The Complete Third Season — Worth consuming!
  8. Capturing the Friedmans — Worth consuming!
  9. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Simpsons - The Complete Fourth Season — Worth consuming!
  11. Before Sunset — Worth consuming!
  12. Apocalypse Now Redux — Worth consuming!
  13. The Office - The Complete Collection BBC Edition (First And Second Series Plus Special) — Worth consuming!
  14. Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. Apocalypse Now — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. tuna sandwich — Worth consuming!
  2. Pineapple — Worth consuming!
  3. Vodka — Worth consuming!
  4. Cherries — Worth consuming!
  5. dark chocolate — Worth consuming!
  6. Chocolate cake — Worth consuming!
  7. Fried Chicken — Worth consuming!
  8. Risotto — Worth consuming!
  9. oysters on the half shell — Not worth consuming
  10. Champagne — Worth consuming!
  11. Horse meat
  12. Grilled cheese sandwich — Worth consuming!
  13. Escargot — Worth consuming!
  14. Foie Gras — Worth consuming!
  15. Fruit Salad — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. iPod nano — Worth consuming!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Watch 1000 movies
  2. experience a white christmas
  3. stop binge drinking
  4. listen to 1000 albums — completed 5 months later
  5. Give 400 cheers.
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. fly a kite
  2. watch all the old superman movies
  3. learn html (at least how to use color codes)
  4. dance in public
  5. go clubbing
  6. write an essay about something you like
  7. arrive to your flight 15 minutes before it departs
  8. stay at a really REALLY nice hotel
  9. learn to swim
  10. call someone superman or batman
  11. learn how to sew
  12. Have a professional massage
  13. walk around a mall and smile the whole time
  14. when it rains, don't move away
  15. Build a snowman
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Camden — visited 10 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Bali — Worth visiting!
  2. San Francisco Bathhouse — Worth visiting!
  3. Lake Taupo — Worth visiting!
  4. Camden Town — Worth visiting!
  5. Camden Lock Market — Worth visiting!
  6. Doubtful Sound — Worth visiting!
  7. 3B's
  8. Budapest Ferihegy International Airport — Worth visiting!
  9. Hungary — Worth visiting!
  10. Budapest — Worth visiting!
  11. New Zealand — Worth visiting!
  12. Wanaka — Worth visiting!
  13. Bra Fence — Not worth visiting
  14. Castle Hill
  15. Heroes' Square — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. How to Win Friends & Influence People — Worth consuming!
  2. The Magician's Nephew (adult) (Narnia) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Narnia) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Horse and His Boy (adult) (Narnia) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Last Battle (adult) (Narnia) — Worth consuming!
  7. Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition — Worth consuming!
  8. Catch-22 — Worth consuming!
  9. The Economist — Worth consuming!
  10. The Silver Chair (adult) (Narnia) — Worth consuming!
  11. Prince Caspian (Narnia) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Central Reservation — Not worth consuming
  2. Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile — Not worth consuming
  3. Heroes to Zeros — Worth consuming!
  4. From a Basement on the Hill — Worth consuming!
  5. System of a Down — Not worth consuming
  6. Tubular Bells — Worth consuming!
  7. When It Falls — Not worth consuming
  8. New Forms — Worth consuming!
  9. Tiger Bay — Worth consuming!
  10. Uh Huh Her — Worth consuming!
  11. Rid of Me — Worth consuming!
  12. Make Yourself — Not worth consuming
  13. Tunnel of Love — Worth consuming!
  14. Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus — Worth consuming!
  15. Tails — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Talented Mr. Ripley — Worth consuming!
  2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Worth consuming!
  3. The Saint — Worth consuming!
  4. Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  5. Team America: World Police - Unrated (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Along Came Polly (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  7. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Rashomon - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  9. Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  10. The Quiet American — Not worth consuming
  11. The Witches of Eastwick — Worth consuming!
  12. The Abyss (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Planes, Trains and Automobiles — Not worth consuming
  14. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — Worth consuming!
  15. There's Something About Mary (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Newcastle Brown Ale — Worth consuming!
  2. Starbucks Coffee
  3. Mountain Dew — Worth consuming!
  4. Cheese — Worth consuming!
  5. Diet Coke — Worth consuming!
  6. Water — Worth consuming!
  7. Spaghetti Carbonara — Worth consuming!
  8. chocolate chip cookies — Worth consuming!
  9. scrambled eggs — Worth consuming!
  10. French Toast — Worth consuming!
  11. Coffee — Worth consuming!
  12. Coca-Cola Classic — Worth consuming!
  13. Red Bull — Worth consuming!
  14. authentic indian food — Worth consuming!
  15. Vanilla Milkshake — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Red Wine — Worth consuming!
  2. Margarita — Worth consuming!
  3. The Economist — Worth consuming!

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. juggle 3 clubs effortlessly
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. juggle clubs — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Great Expectations — visited about 1 month later
Read:
  1. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference — Not worth consuming
  2. Now, Discover Your Strengths — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Illadelph Halflife — Worth consuming!
  2. Blind Melon — Worth consuming!
  3. Things Fall Apart — Worth consuming!
  4. All Eyez on Me — Not worth consuming
  5. Audioslave — Not worth consuming
  6. Gold Medal — Worth consuming!
  7. The Massacre — Worth consuming!
  8. Stand Up — Not worth consuming
  9. De-Loused in the Comatorium — Not worth consuming
  10. The Tipping Point — Worth consuming!
  11. Human Clay
  12. Rooty — Worth consuming!
  13. The Sign — Not worth consuming
  14. Beautifulgarbage — Not worth consuming
  15. Weezer (Green Album) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  2. Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
  3. Daft Punk - Interstella 5555 — Worth consuming!
  4. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Unrated Extended Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Reservoir Dogs — Worth consuming!
  6. Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection — Not worth consuming
  7. Life of Brian — Not worth consuming
  8. Batman Forever — Worth consuming!
  9. Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Phone Booth — Not worth consuming
  11. Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Second Season — Worth consuming!
  12. Madagascar (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Kingpin — Worth consuming!
  14. Batman Returns (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  15. Happy Gilmore — Worth consuming!

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