List #782: Goals for 2013

 Goals for 2013

1. Eat better and more creatively
2. Workout better and more creatively
3.  Play music more often
4. Travel more
5. Another Thing
6. Be a better human being

List #780: Goals 2012 Report Card

Goals 2012 Report Card  (see this list)

1. Get back to being in good shape   (OKAY)

2. Read more books (and get caught up with WoT)  (READ MORE, DIDN'T GET CAUGHT UP)

3. Out of bed by 6:05 (EXCEEDED)

4. Bake Muffins  (NO)

5. Be better at my job (SOMEWHAT)

List #773: How to Build 100 EDH / Commander Decks

How to Build 100 EDH/Commander Decks*

1. Don't Be Hung Up on Perfection:   Not every deck is going to be an hyper-optimized pile of staples

2. Play "Bad" Cards:  your decks will get boring if every deck has the same staples.  Use this opportunity to try out "less good' cards

3. Proxy (fairly) --  Some cards that are good enough for a lot of decks are big $, and you might not have stacks of them.  To me, fairly means you can proxy something as long as you own at least one copy of it, but no more than 3 non-dual-land proxies per deck.

4. Restrictions = Creativity:  not every green deck need be "Ramp to Fatties". Giving yourself restrictions can lead to more ideas for decks...  Mono-blue beat-down,  creature-less green,  all one-drops, Samurai tribal, Ice Age Block Constructed etc.   

5. Sleeves are for Wimps:  or people with extra time and money to keep decks in the right sleeves.  I'd rather spend money on more cards, than on 10,000 sleeves, but your mileage may vary.

6. Play for Funsies:  see #1.  If you are tournament-hustler Spikey McSpikerson, you're probably only going to optimize one deck to KILL and win all of the prizes and money and glory.  Building in bulk, not all of your decks are going to be optimized to win, (or at least not win in the same old way).  Be happy to play for the game to pull off an awesome play, or be part of epic games, or just to sling cardboard with your friends.

7. Build for Art Sometimes:  an extension of #4.  Some of your decks might be exercises more than anything else. Try building a Rainbow Stairwell, or Tag-Team decks, or 'drafting' out of your deckless-cards (see #9), keeping a few "teaching" decks is a good idea too.

8. Have a Lot of Cards:  it helps if you've already got a ton of cards to build from. any card that isn't in a deck should make you want to put it into a deck or make a deck for it.

9. Play Favorites:  some decks are worth going back and tweaking with the newest cards, others can be built and finished. Keeping all of the decks up to date would be foolish, costly, and time-consuming. On the other hand, keeping a few favorite decks as fresh as possible, is also important.

10. Don't Go Bankrupt Trying to Do it All at Once:  My initial goal was just to have one of each possible combination (including no-color and 4-color). Once that happened I thought about going for two of each legal combination.  The idea of shooting for 100 didn't come up until about #65.

*As of this posting, I have about 80 complete, with 5 more in the works (and 5 more Guild Wars waiting for Gatecrash)

List #741:Things I'm Going to Finish in the First Quarter of the Year

List #741:Things I'm Going to Finish in the First Quarter of the Year (or be caught up with)

1. The Hunger Games Books

2. Achewood

3. Breaking Bad

4. Walking Dead

List #736: List #395 -- 2011 Goals -- reportcard

List #736: List #395 -- 2011 Goals -- reportcard

1. Be better at my job --- MOSTLY

2. Go on a date (hopefully more than one, but let's not get greedy)* --- HECK YES

3. Run 5k in under 26 minutes* -- NOPE 27:59 was the best

4. Get caught up on the "Wheel of Time" books* ---NOPE, 1.5 remaining

5. Finish a song* --- YESSS

6. Add Sauce-making to my kitchen repertoire -- ADDED A FEW, BUT NOT ENOUGH

7. Make a cheesecake* -- YES, HELPED WITH #2

8. Make my bedtime and wake-up time 15 minutes earlier* --- EARLIER BEDTIMES, NOT WAKEUP

9. Have better variety in workouts -- MOSTLY

10. Play more Games -- NOT ENOUGH

11. Be less negative -- MOSTLY

List #735: Goals for 2012

List #735: Goals for 2012

1. Get back to being in good shape

2. Read more books (and get caught up with WoT)

3. Out of bed by 6:05

4. Bake Muffins

5. Be better at my job

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 #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 #550: Yearly Goals (Mid Year Report)

List #550: Yearly Goals (Mid Year Report or

List #395: Goals for 2011 which are mostly measurable)

1. Be better at my job --- UNDECIDED (I didn't get worse)

2. Go on a date (hopefully more than one, but let's not get greedy) - EPIC WIN

3. Run 5k in under 26 minutes --- NOT YET (was coming off an illness so ran it in 32 min)

4. Get caught up on the "Wheel of Time" books-- PROGRESS (Finished the final Jordan one, own the Sanderson ones)

5. Finish a song -- WIN ( The Shadow Government)

6. Add Sauce-making to my kitchen repertoire -- NO (I have the book, but haven't tried it yet)

7. Make a cheesecake -- WIN (with raspberries and marshmallow and Nilla Wafer crust)

8. Make my bedtime and wake-up time 15 minutes earlier -- OCCAISIONALLY

9. Have better variety in workouts -- KIND OF ( I added more cardio, and sometimes VertiMax)

10. Play more Games -- YES

11. Be less negative -- BASICALLY YES

List #479: Things to Accomplish This Long Weekend

List #479: Things to Accomplish This Long Weekend

1. Hair Cut

2. Kitchen Floor Mopping

3. Bathroom Cleaning

4. Wash My Car

5. Practice Music for Reunion

6. Go Out on the Town

7. Play Outside

List #445: Spring Break Plans 2011

List #445: Spring Break Plans

0. first Survive Parent Conferences

1. Play outside with someone awesome

2. Read all of Calvin and Hobbes

3. Yardwork

4. see The Joy Formidable @the Black Cat

5. Sleep

6. Read more of "The Wise Man's Fear"

7. Get my electric guitar fixed

8. Play music with people

9. Some kind of Accomplishment

10. Run

11. Make a Pizza

12. Try a new thing

List #396: 2010 Goals revisited

List #396: 2010 Goals revisited and analyzed

List #336: New Year's Resolutions (in rough order of difficulty)

1. Relearn Trumpet and play music more often

--FAIL: December 2009 was the peak of my trumpet renaissance
2. Maintain a healthy diet and workout schedule

--Moderate WIN: workouts were very consistent, diet was okay
3. Create and sustain a worthy successor to "Nic's Year in Lists"

--Moderate FAIL: Nic-ipeda went well for about 3 months, but then dropped off
4. Do more Creative projects (including my big bookbinding plan)

--Moderate FAIL: I never made bound volumes of the original Year-in-Lists, and I didn't really do any major art projects, though I did come up with some cool new guitar riffs
5. Get out of the house (or even my room!) more

--Moderate WIN: I found more places to go play games and started doing that
6. Be more assertive, confident and proactive about my Romantic life (or, rather, ending my lack-thereof)

--Moderate FAIL: some attempts were made, but 0 dates occurred
7. Consider learning to drive in the City

--Moderate FAIL: I did drive into DC once all by myself, and once into Baltimore with a co-pilot, but that's nothing to really be amazed about

List #395: Goals for 2011

List #395: Goals for 2011 (*which are mostly measurable)

1. Be better at my job

2. Go on a date (hopefully more than one, but let's not get greedy)*

3. Run 5k in under 26 minutes*

4. Get caught up on the "Wheel of Time" books*

5. Finish a song*

6. Add Sauce-making to my kitchen repertoire

7. Make a cheesecake*

8. Make my bedtime and wake-up time 15 minutes earlier*

9. Have better variety in workouts

10. Play more Games

11. Be less negative

List #336: New Years Resolutions

List #336: New Year's Resolutions (in rough order of difficulty)

1. Relearn Trumpet and play music more often
2. Maintain a healthy diet and workout schedule
3. Create and sustain a worthy successor to "Nic's Year in Lists"
4. Do more Creative projects (including my big bookbinding plan)
5. Get out of the house (or even my room!) more
6. Be more assertive, confident and proactive about my Romantic life (or, rather, ending my lack-thereof)
7. Consider learning to drive in the City

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