c’mon! this one’s kind of distinct, no? granted it’s repetitive… but i did try to strum a rhythm to it…. ok, i know. i suck. i think your best bet to guessing it may be in the beginning before i get too off beat. once i get into the middle, it starts to get more and more off beat.
So my 1001 Day Project ended. It ended about a month ago. I didn’t do a very good job…
I completed 30 of the tasks with a few of them in progress.
Completed:
9.27.08 – 19. Learn how to cook something fancy
11.24.07 – 76. Meet a celebrity
11.9.07 – 53. See a Broadway show
10.25.07 – 68. Put up tacky Christmas lights
9.3.07 – 43. Go fishing/crabbing
7.23.07 – 42. Go camping, campfire smores and all
7.4.07 – 47. Light fireworks
6.13.07 – 61. Buy a real CD album instead of downloading it
6.11.07 – 85. Eat only fish and vegetables for a week
5.5.07 – 55. Attend a concert
4.15.07 – 24. Learn how to really bowl (get a score above 130)
3.31.07 – 100. Spend a day at Gravelly Point watching airplanes take off from Reagan National
3.31.07 – 28. Swim at least three times a month
2.28.07 – 66. Buy a “slackerâ€-like Demotivators poster and hang it at work
2.25.07 – 48. Build a snowman 5′5″ or taller
1.12.07 – 57. Watch a scary movie
11.1.06 – 87. Become a “food snob†– try out new unique/non-chain restaurants
10.14.06 – 35. Visit a corn maze
9.12.06 – 98. Go see an eye doctor
8.17.06 – 83. Wine taste
7.27.06 – 65. Write letters petitioning Warner Brothers to release Animaniacs to DVD and if/when it does come out, buy it
7.26.06 – 62. Buy stock in some company
5.29.06 – 99. Spend a day at a park playing
5.10.06 – 96. Go see a doctor
3.31.06 – 2. Wake up before 8am every day for a week
2.24.06 – 69. Have the guts to a quit a job
2.10.06 – 1. Wake up early and see a sunrise
2.8.06 – 78. Stop drinking soda for a month
1.25.06 – 97. Go see a dentist
1.15.06 – 64. Subscribe to a magazine
1.11.06 – 82. Eat breakfast every morning for a week
In Progress:
7. Visit (not drive through) more than half of the states
11. Learn how to play recognizable songs on the guitar
63. Start a jar of coins and collect $100
88. Attend 10 weddings
90. Be a bridesmaid at a wedding (actually completed after the date)
Never Even Had a Chance:
4. Visit an European country
5. Visit a South American country
6. Visit an African country
15. Film my own “claymation” movie, a la Wallace and Gromit
37. Read The Lord of the Rings books
70. Find a job I enjoy. no, love
93. Go a day without saying/IMing “bah”
94. Go a day without saying/IMing “niiice”
95. Go a day without saying/IMing “dude”
i think i’m going to extend my 1001 day project til the end of 2008 to try to knock out some more. 2 more months! ok… my next post is going to be a name the tune! help me out on #11… guess!!
my coworker sent me this article:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/23/1746254
“Developers seeking job security in the years ahead could find an unlikely edge in Cobol. According to an InfoWorld report, demand for Cobol skills is surging, with salaries on the rise. More importantly, the short supply of offshore Cobol programmers and the fact that mainframes aren’t going away anytime soon are spurring longevity for big-iron skills, with many companies looking to hire in-house Cobol pros to bridge mainframe Cobol apps to the rest of the enterprise. The report provides further evidence that Cobol may indeed be primed for a comeback, with new kinds of Cobol integration jobs emerging to prove old-guard skills are critical to some of the hottest areas of software development today.”
dude! my time at CGI was not a complete waste! i wonder if the SilkTest job market is better or worse than the COBOL job market. maybe it’s time to switch back to the other useless skill i’ve acquired in my 4 years of working…
