August 17, 2008 Archive Entries: The Tico Times, How I'm doing on my 101 in 1001 list...,

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How I'm doing on my 101 in 1001 list...

I'm about 17 days from needing to complete my 101 in 1001 list, I haven't been working on it much so it's time to revisit and cross a few things off. I've only completed 52 of my items. Looks like I'll complete about 6 more. As resolutions go I'm still above average as I'll have done more than 18 items a year :)

So I love my 101 list but some things just didn't get done. I thought I'd have done better. Things I could have done to ensure I accomplished more:

Don't pick bands to make an effort to go see if they might not actually tour.

Don't pick a location to travel to when your interests might change (instead say "visit a country overseas that you haven't been to before")

Don't pick something to go to (like SXSW or Burning Man) that doesn't ever fit the schedule of the job you have.

Some items should really be two or three items.

Don't have too many items dependent on other items.

Don't make them too much work and not fun (I think I created some to just fill the list)

Don't pick so many vacation items, you might want to go somewhere else (especially when you consider I've gone to Costa Rica 4 times in the same period).

Don't pick such complicated items (do ______ once a year) that should have been separate items

If I would avoided the above I probably could have easily accomplished anther 20. Some were just are impossible to do based on the items I picked.

A few items I've just recently finally crossed off (but I might have actually done them months ago)
Take Mom to England
Get something for my car to integrate my iPod better
Move somewhere else local?
Go one week without using any cash
Change all exterior bulbs in my car

I've got a few that I did make some progress in the right direction so I'll credit myself a few points. But I've got a bunch that didn't get touched.

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Posted by Gary on Sunday at 4:01 PM on August 17, 2008.
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The Tico Times

The Tico Times is the english weekly paper from Costa Rica. For the last eight months I've been subscribing to the paper edition of The Tico Times. I've mentioned my Tico Times delivery issues before, it usually takes a while to get to Michigan but it's much easier to read on paper than on the screen (they also offer a PDF subscription).

I've wanted to see what's going on in the country when I'm not visiting. I've been paying attention to opinion pages, letters to the editor, classifieds and more local ads. Of the five times I've been there it's all been in April or between the end of November and beginning of January (and really only covering half-a-dozen different weeks) so I've really only seen a portion of the year while there. So I've been paying more attention to the non-tourist type articles; when I'm there traveling I'm generally looking more for what's going on there at that time.