List #608: Books Read This Summer

List #608: Books Read This Summer

1. Born to Run

2. A Dance With Dragons

3. Embassytown

4. Power of Play

5. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (on Audiobook)

List #597: Things that make the trip back to MD okay

List #597: Things that make the trip back to MD okay

1. A good co-pilot

2. Field Hockey is the first thing

3. I missed my big computer

4. Grocery Shopping gets to happen soon

5. I have more friends in MD than MN right now

6. West Virginia is pretty to drive through

7. The weather is good

List #596 Goals for the Summer Revisited

List #596 Goals for the Summer Revisited (see earlier List)

1. Be Barefoot or Five-Fingers-ed as much as possible (YES!)

2. Run more often (NO)

3. Read 8 Books (more like 5)

4. At Least 3 Trips to Vermillion (NO)

5. At least 3 times seeing the Trio at Blackwater (Yes)

6. Eat smarter (Sometimes)

7. Go to the Twin Cities (NO)

8. Go up the Shore at least once (YES)

9. Disc Golf (3 Times)

10. Make a video with my brother (NO)

11.Suggestions? ('Go to Pike Lake a lot and hang out with My Grandpa.... YES)

List #587: Stuff to do in the last week of vacation

List #587: Stuff to do in the last week of vacation

1. Get a wild rice burger at the brewhouse

2. Watch the triathalon

3. Get the oil changed in the car

4. Ride my bicycle

5. Swim in the lake more

6. More pontoon rides

7. Go to the Farmer's Market

8. Play EDH group game

9. Look through 2 more bins

10. Get stuff ready to pack in the car

List #582: Stuff I Did Today

List #582: Stuff I Did Today

1. Slept in

2. Had an early dinner at Lake Avenue Cafe with family and Grandpa

3. Ate a Jerk Falafel Burger, Chorizo-stuffed Dates, Polenta, Iced Tea

4. Drove the pontoon so family could fish

5. Got rained on

6. Ate Blueberry Pie

7. Played Magic

8. Played Banjo

9. Saw sister, back of my head, and mom's credit card on the 10pm News

10. Came home to find pulled pork shoulder and polenta courtesy of booker!

List #570: Things I haven't done enough of this summer so far

List #570: Things I haven't done enough of this summer so far

1. Sailed

2. Gone Downtown

3. Cleaned up stuff or gone through boxes of my old stuff at my mom's house

4. Played Music

5. Made it up to the lake before 3 in the afternoon.

6. Taken Pictures

List #569: Movies I Have Not Seen This Summer

List #569: Movies I Have Not Seen This Summer that you'd think I would have, but am, suprisingly, not all that worried that I haven't

1. Green Lantern

2. Harry Potter 7.2

3. Any Movies at all, actually

List #568: 10 Favorite Lake Activities

List #568: 10 Favorite Lake Activities (Pike Lake edition)

1. Pontoon Riding

2. Pontoon Driving

3. Sailing

4. Floating on Foam Noodles

5. Jumping off the Paddleboat

6. Watching the Twins game

7. Reading a book on the brown couch/in the shade/on the pontoon

8. Watching Birds (Hummingbirds, Loon, Osprey, Eagle)

9. Paddling

10. Eating Cookies

List #553: Types of Boats Achieved in the last 10 Days

List #553: Types of Boats Achieved in the last 10 Days

1. Pontoon Boat (2)

2. Paddle Boat

3. Sunfish

4. Kayak

5. Rowboat

6. Jetski

List #551: Goals for the Summer

List #551: Goals for the Summer

1. Be Barefoot or Five-Fingers-ed as much as possible

2. Run more often

3. Read 8 Books

4. At Least 3 Trips to Vermillion

5. At least 3 times seeing the Trio at Blackwater

6. Eat smarter

7. Go to the Twin Cities

8. Go up the Shore at least once

9. Disc Golf

10. Make a video with my brother

11.Suggestions?

List #548: Good Duluth Things Done So Far During a Friendly Visit

List #548: Good Duluth Things Done So Far During a Friendly Visit

1. Trip to Lake Vermilion (okay, not Duluth)

2. Mini-tour of Hawks Ridge, Park Point, Canal Park

3. Awesome Wedding

4. Brunch at Porters

5. Dinner at Lake Avenue Cafe

6. Walk through Hartley

7. Floated, Paddleboated, Jetski-ed, Pontooned

8. Music in the Park At Chester Park (or Chester Creek Concerts, or whatever)

List #543:Good Things that Will Happen today

List #543:Good Things that Will Happen today

1. Visitor From Afar!

2. Maybe Feel Better

3. See Grandpa

4. Visit Lake Vermillion

5. See Cousin

List #534: First 5 Things I Want to Do When I Get Back to Duluth

List #534: First 5 Things I Want to Do When I Get Back to Duluth

1. Figure out where I'm allowed to sleep

2. Go Visit my Grandpa

3. Play some EDH

4. Eat at the Hacienda del Sol

5. Be on a Boat

List #527: Things I Need And Or Get To Do This Week

List #527: Things I Need And Or Get To Do This Week

1. Get a lot of stuff organized to head back to MN

2. Alumni Field Hockey Game

3. Proctor an exam

4. Finish the last three grades I need to do

5. Senior Raft Trip

6. Lots of meetings

7. Commencement

8. 2 Grad Parties

9. Alumni/Faculty party

10. Pack the car

11. Get my brother from the airport

12. Show him around Baltimore

13. Practice for Reunion Show

14. A lot of other things that just aren't going to get done.

15. Get some lists in the Bank just in case I don't have time while travelling next week

List #462: 11 Things I'm Looking Forward to This Spring/ & Summer

List #462: 11 Things I'm Looking Forward to This Spring/ & Summer

1. Carleton Reunion 2011

2. Seeing some Twins games (at Camden and Target Field)

3. Game of Thrones TV show

4. "A Dance with Dragons" finally being published

5. Hannah / Daniel J. wedding

6. Disc Golf at LSC with Biscuit

7. 4th of July Pontoon Parade

8. Hanging out at Grandpa's

9. Having a visitor to MN

10. M:tG "Commander" decks

11. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Album and concert

List #205: Best things I learned this summer

List #205: Best things I learned this summer

1. Disc Golf
2. the correct response to "Everybody Stand Up"... (I love to stand up, it's my favorite thing to do)
3. Grizzly Bear, Frankmusik, MGMT
4. Smoothies
5. The Fitness Center
6. Podcasts + driving
7. Cruise control
8. Where I want to be in three years
9. Omaha
10. My sister's dog is okay sometimes
11. The Blackwater
12. Order of the Stick

List #178: List 74 Revisited

List #178: List 74 ("Things I can do with my Summer") Revisited

1. Work at Camp Alexander with Travis for a week or two: DONE!
2. Hang out with my awesome grandpa: DONE!
3. Learn useful real-life skills from my uncle: no
4. Finally visit Jonathan Miller in the cities again: no
5. Road trip to Montana(?): no
6. Enjoy Duluth unrushed: Enjoy, YES; Unrushed: NO
7. Be at all of Preseason and go to Virginia Beach: N/A
8. figure out how to stay in shape and not eat crap (that's a big loss): Not so well
9. Miss the daycampers: Yes but also NO (see #1)
10.Try to keep my family alive: mostly

List #177: Stuff I still want to do this summer

List #177: Stuff I still want to do this summer, but am really running out of time! in no particular order

1. Go to Sven and Ole's Pizza
2. Go to Park Point
3. Disc Golf more/ across the lake
4. Go to the Zoo
5. Start reading _any_ of the required reading for work
6. See a Twins game at the Metrodome one last time
7. Bike in Hartley
8. Go to the Library
9. Play Settlers of Catan
10. Hear my Dad's band play again
11. Go up to Lake Vermillion again
12. See my Harris Cousins (again)
13. Record some music with my brother
14. Organize/downsize a bit of stuff from my mom's house
15. Eat Walleye

List #166 Things I've really enjoyed so far this week at Camp Alexander

List #166: Things I really enjoyed this week at Camp Alexander

1. Being a Camp Counselor for the 15th consecutive summer
2. Working with super great bosses
3. Meeting cool new camp staff and realizing the universality of counselor coolness
4. Playing with new daycampers and realizing the universality of daycamper coolness
5. follwoing 3&4: realizing that it's now only the physical grounds of Camp Miller that I'm really still missing this summer.
6. learning that the correct response to "everybody stand up" is "I love to stand up, it's my favorite thing to do."
7. Singing all my camp songs and teaching all my camp games to kids to whom they were new, original and exciting
8. Shooting an arrow from a bow
9. My daycamp group (the Agents of Orange) and their rhyming names
10. Losing to Gumball in ping-pong
11. Another cool co-counselor (it's like I'm a magnet for them)
12. Remembering that, yes, in fact, despite what the Duluth Y people thought, I am actually pretty dadgum good at what I do.
13. Dinner with the Fountaines and talking to Summer and Gavin about books.
14. Doing the Bee Skit
15. Running around and Yelling and Singing things with reckless abandon
16. Getting a size Medium Staff Shirt
17. Initiatives
18. Learning some new songs (I hope I remember them)
19. living in a ridiculously posh cabin

and most importantly

20. Getting to be freaking MUFFIN (or Mr. Muffin, which "Say Goodnight" Gracie called me (though I missed little Alex a bit when she did)) again!

List #160: Projects my Grandpa has had me do so far this summer

List #160: Projects my Grandpa has had me do, or help him do, so far this summer

1. Drive the Pontoon boat
2. Test the Pontoon Anchor
3. Check the sensor for the depth finder
4. Level out the patio stairs
5. Scrape and paint the garage trim, windows and planter boxes
6. Plant grass seed
7. Help my uncle make pea soup
8. Discover tears in the pontoon cover
9. Attach a new clamp to the pontoon rope
10. Pick up sticks in the yard
11. Cut a pineapple
12. Figure out why the remote control stopped working