List #371: First Names of my Ancestors

List #371: First Names of my Ancestors (roughly in reverse chronological order, except for the last 7)

1. Wanda
2. Steven
3. Warren
4. Bonnie
5. Walter
6. Dorothy
7. Joseph
8. Pearl
9. William Sheldon (Doc)
10. Wanda
11. Anton
12. Helen
13. Clyde
14. Mary
15. Anders
16. Anna
17. Emil
18. Annie
19. Joseph Sheldon
20. Virginia
21. Joseph
22. Frances
23. John
24. Anna
25. Frederick
26. Annie
27. Howell
28. Cora
29. John
30. Mary
31. Nicholas
32. Louisa
33. William Sheldon
34. Elizabeth
35. Robert
36. Amanda
37. Joseph Howell
38. Elizabeth
39. Dennis
40. Mary
41. William Hugh
42. Mary Ann
43. Abraham
44. Malvina/Malcina
45. William
46. Rachel
47. Robert
48. Sarah
49. John
50. Charity
51. Mercer
52. Margaret
53. John
54. Susannah
55. James
56. Anna
57. Samuel
58. Lydia
59. William
60. Nancy
61. Samuel
62. Simeon
63. Mary
64. Caleb
65. Sarah
66. Samuel
67. Alexander
68. Elizabeth
69. Ezekiel
70. Bathiah
71. Samuel
72. John
73. Magdalene
74. Daniel
75. Hannah
76. Alexander
77. Jannetje
78. Thomas
79. Margaret
80. Christopher
81. Peter
82. Margariet (Greitje)
83. Steven
84. Willempie
85. Francis
86. Elizabeth
87. Ola
88. Kerstin
89. Anna Fredrika
90. Daniel
91. Caroline
92. Trond Ole
93. Randina

List #370: Favorite Characters from selected TV shows I've liked

List #370: Favorite Characters from selected TV shows I've liked

1. The Office -- Toby Flenderson
2. How I Met Your Mother -- Marshall Erikson
3. Gossip Girl -- Rufus Humphrey
4. The Sopranos -- Paulie Walnuts
5. Battlestar Galactica -- William Adama
6. 30 Rock -- Tracy Jordan
7. Smallville -- Chloe Sullivan
8. The Wire -- Omar, Lester Freamon (tie)
9. Veronica Mars -- Veronica Mars
10. Boston Legal -- Alan Shore
11. Weeds -- Shane Botwin (when he was young)
12. Buffy -- Xander
13. Angel -- Fred
14. Firefly -- Kaylee
15. Sports Night -- Dan Rydell
16. The West Wing -- Donna Moss
17. Sesame Street -- Grover
18. Entourage -- Johnny Drama
19. Fraggle Rock -- Red
20. Arrested Development -- Michael Bluth
21. Seinfeld -- The Judge that puts them all in Jail in the finale
22. X-files -- Scully
23. Dexter -- Dexter Morgan
24. Big Bang Theory -- Penny
25. Modern Family -- Alex Dunphy
26. True Blood -- Jason Stackhouse
27. Dawson's Creek -- Dawson
28. Pushing Daisies -- Charlotte "Chuck" Charles
29. Bones -- Seely Booth
30. Friends -- Chandler Bing

List #369: Zoos I've been to.

List #369: Zoos I've been to.

1. Duluth (Lake Superior Zoo)
2. Apple Valley (Minnesota Zoo)
3. St. Paul (Como Zoo)
4. Des Moines
5. Kansas City
6. Seattle (Woodland Park zoo)
7. Washington D.C. (National Zoo)
8. Phoenix

List #368: Favorite Winter Olympic Sports

List #368: Favorite Winter Olympic Sports

1. Ice Hockey (men and women)
2. Speed Skating (long track)
3. Biathalon
4. Alpine Skiing (Downhill/Slalom)
5. Curling
6. Cross Country Skiing
7. Ski-Jump
8. Bobsled
9. Short-Track Speed Skating

Bonus List: least favorite Winter Olympic Sports
1. Anything with subjective scoring
2. Anything that ought to be an X-game.

List #367: Stuff one should do during a blizzard

List #367: Stuff one should do during a blizzard (and corresponding snow-day)

1.Don't Panic
2. Make sure to play outside
3. When shoveling, it is wise to occasionally dig-out the tops of the piles where you've been throwing snow (to make room for more snow)
4. Don't ever buy one of those "ergonomic/back-friendly" shovels: they only way they are good for your back is that they're so ineffectual that it's not worth shoveling with them so you go back inside).
5. Be smart and have Amazon deliver a bunch of books the day before it hits.
6. Build a Fort
7. Watch some quality TV
8. DO NOT do any job related work. Snow days are god/gaia/higher-power's (or a natural scientific occurance's) way of telling you to relax your mind (and work your body shovelling).
9. Drink hot cocoa, or warm chai tea.
10. While you are shoveling, take time to appreciate the smell, and sound, feeling (and taste if you live somewhere clean) of the snow. Today's snow felt silky on the first wade-through.

List #366: 12 Important Pieces of Information for Likers and Lovers of Lists

List #366: 12 Important Pieces of Information for Likers and Lovers of Lists

1. "My Year in Lists" was always intended to be a list per day for 1 year.
2. I have another daily writing project that is going to be my main focus for this year
3. It is called the "Nic-ipedia" and you can find it here http://nic-ipedia.blogspot.com/
4. I still have lists that I want to write
5. I will continue to write lists as I find time, but I'm not going to do a list-a-day this year
6. I can only have one blog automatically upload as Facebook Notes, as of today, that will be my new blog-project
7. I will try to remember to post links to my lists when I update the blog, but
8. If you really like the lists, you should keep checking http://nicsyearinlists.blogspot.com (maybe even add the RSSfeed to your reader, etc) to see them, and
9. You can and should still suggest list ideas.
10. I will continue with the consecutive numbering of the lists (as you can tell by this one)
11. Thanks for reading :)
12. San Dimas High School football Rules!!!!!!