New Year's Bingo

[luzula]

It's posting day over here, obviously. : ) Anyway, some of my housemates are doing something called New Year's Bingo, where you make a bingo card with 25 things to do in the new year, and then cross things off during the year. It seemed a fun thing to do, so I'm going to try it! Here are mine:

- be on radio or TV [this is related my environmental work; I'm aiming to do a bit more media stuff]
- finish last year's dS big bang story
- make a new friend
- write a scientific article together with Senior Scientist Guy from my summer mountain work
- bike to work regularly
- work out/lift weights at least once a week
- be active in my local syndicalist union throughout the year
- harmonize ten new songs with my sister
- invite the Danish fen to Göteborg for a meet-up
- record four podcasts [again, for my environmental work]
- read 52 books
- sleep 20 nights outside/in a tent
- write a debate article [again, for my environmental work]
- go swimming in ten new lakes/places by the sea
- go to an activity/meeting at a political organization I've been planning to check out
- give away X amount of money to organizations/poor friends [er, sorry, I feel weird writing out the amount]
- spend a night up in a tree
- work in the mountains again
- do salary negotiations with my union [insert boring explanation about Swedish labor practices]
- record at least three hours of podfic
- try using a sextant to determine the latitude
- see ten new species of vascular plants in Sweden
- find a new home
- go hiking/be outdoors every week
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My aim is to not include things that I know for sure I'll be doing anyway, but to have things that will feel like a little bit of an achievement if I do them. And also to have fun things on there, too, not just serious stuff. You will notice that I have four slots left. Any ideas? : )

I'm tagging this "meme", since it's a RL meme, apparently, and it would be cool if it caught on here, too.

Comments

[isis]

I have used a sextant! It is not easy!

I like this idea. Maybe I'll write up a list myself. Making a new friend sounds like a good aim. I keep telling myself to do at least one day of local trailwork, but I've only done that once, some years ago. This year I should make it a goal.

[luzula]

I want to use a sextant partly because of reading Patrick O'Brian, but also because I've read a bit about the mathematics of navigation.

I should probably specify that I want to make a new local friend, to get more of a social circle where I live.

Actually, today I met the guy who's marking and taking care of the hiking trails where I live! Apparently he's doing it all on his own and on his own time. I told him I really appreciated his work, because I use those trails a lot.

[riverlight]

What a great list! I love it.

[luzula]

Hopefully I will get to cross things off! : ) I like the idea of it being a bingo, because if you just make one promise, then if you break that, you just shrug and give up. This way you can do some of the stuff and not others.

[seascribble]

All of this is so interesting!

[luzula]

Um, thanks? You should do it, too!

[china_shop]

Ooh, what an excellent meme! *ponders*

[luzula]

Dooo it. : )

[jesse_the_k]

Each item is impressive on its own; taken together it spells a highly s skilled, more social, even more competent Lux for 2015.

Have you read Dana Sobel's Latitude? It's a brief and thrilling explorations of accurate clocks made marine navigation reliable. With nifty class analysis and breakdowns on the advantages of wooden and metal gears.

[luzula]

Have you read Dana Sobel's Latitude?

I have not! It does sound like it would be up my alley.

[calvinahobbes]

If you invite us we shall come ;)

[luzula]

Yay! I put it on the list because I was meaning to do it last year, but then it just never happened. Maybe we should do it May or early June? I'll put up a post on dk_fen in a while...

[ride-4ever.livejournal.com]

Many awesome aspirations! I wish you well on all of them (and with a special hope that you and your sister will do another dS filk -- in all of fandom, your filk is my favorite).

[luzula]

Thank you! And thanks, I'm so glad you like the filks. If inspiration strikes, I'll write more...but it's been a while.