And then there were 100.

Thing 53 is now officially complete. It's all written down on a piece of paper somewhere, in a special folder. But it's complete now.

Look at the complete list. Look at that red item in all its glory. Amazing. Scintillating. Incredible.

Now there's only Things 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,

21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,

41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,

61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,

81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100

and 101 to go.

Almost completed a task...

I've memorised the periodic table. The whole damn thing. Seems kind of pointless thinking about it, but oh well.

Still haven't completed the task yet though. I need to memorise about 10% of the symbols I have left to do, and also to get someone to test me. The moment of truth. The Big Day. Here it comes.

I have also decided that I really should learn a bit about the elements I am so adamantly shelving into my mind, so I found this gem of a site, as seen in the top right tab in the above screenshot:

http://www.periodicvideos.com/

Oh and I did get Excellence on the stats test. Bit of a relief really. So that's done now. Cool.

Days 29 - 35, the fifth week

About the same as last week in terms of accomplishments. Nothing new started, but progress is certainly occuring, and very nearly finished a couple of tasks:

- Thing 007: Continued the writing of my arrangement
- Thing 009: Continued development of study guide

- Thing 015: Read more of the book 'Atom', should be finished in a couple of days.
- Thing 017: Sat another NCEA assessment (titration for chemsitry), that went OK, might have pulled up a little short on the average titres, but we'll see. Haven't got results for stats test yet.
- Thing 018: More crossword puzzles (5/143)
- Thing 024: More dreams recorded (5/143)
- Thing 036: More rice donated, 5000 milestone (another 800 grains, 5,000/250,000)
- Thing 038: Continued practice of Rachmaninoff's 'Prelude'.
- Thing 043: More BOINC credits (another 100 or so, 18,170/100,000)
- Thing 053: Considerable progress on the periodic table, should be finished this task this week (87/118 in a row)
- Thing 070: A little more fiddling around with countries, also should be finished or very near completion within next week (more than half/193)
- Thing 075: Have gotten up before 7:00 am for 20 days in a row now. Obvious this will be finished in ten days. (20/30)

So I'm pretty happy that it looks like I'm going to get that morale boost soon. Woo.

The art of memorisation

I haven't started the 'use memory enhancing techniques' task yet, but I seem to be doing pretty well with memory, considering the amount of the periodic table (70/118) and the globe (over half) I can recall in such a short amount of time.

Who knows - when I start that task, maybe I'll turn into some crazy super memory monster or something?

Also:

Yay!!

The sixth sense - what an amazing piece of technology

I saw a most incredible technology demonstration at the TED website yesterday. Called the sixth sense, it integrates data with the physical world:




Really amazing.

Days 22 - 28, the fourth week

Well, last week was OK. I'm getting there.

- Thing 007: A started writing a song (funky breaks genre) and also an arrangement (possibly IDM)
- Thing 009: Continued development of study guide
- Thing 017: Sat my first NCEA assessment (statistics - curve fitting/modelling), although I'm not sure how that went.
- Thing 018: More crossword puzzles (4/143)
- Thing 024: More dreams recorded (4/143)
- Thing 036: More rice donated (another 1,200 grains, 4,200/250,000)
- Thing 038: Continued practice of Rachmaninoff's 'Prelude'.
- Thing 043: More BOINC credits (another 2,500 or so, 18,040/100,000)
- Thing 053: Started learning the periodic table (34/118 in a row)
- Thing 070: In addition to South America, I have now memorised Central America/part of the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia (and of course North America). This leaves the rest of the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Australasia/Oceania. (approx. half memorised, 100 - 115/193)
- Thing 075: Have gotten up before 7:00 am for half the month now. It's hard, but hopefully it will develop a habit of getting up a bit earlier than I used to. (15/30)

It's funny though, I've now started 17 and finished none. All of them are moving along nicely, but I think it might be a nice morale booster when I finish the first task.

Days 15 - 21, the third week

.

It was that bad.

It's moving along a bit more now however.

Minor modification to list - thing 076

A minor change has been made to make thing 076 tougher. After doing this for a few nights, I realised how simple it was not to eat after 10:00 pm, and that it was not going to break any habits of snacking after tea. So I have changed the time from after 10:00 pm to after tea in general - a much stricter time. I want this to help slow down my snacking after dinner, and so this minor change should help. Because I've already eaten after tea tonight, I will have to start this task again tomorrow.

(and I failed the non-clicking-joints task - 004 - today as well. Huh. OK, start again tomorrow...again...)

Getting set on getting up and cracking down on cracking joints

Today was a Sunday.

The first day of the month was a Sunday.

And I had to get up at 6:45 am to fulfill the first day of my getting up task.

It was awful. Really hard. Don't think I've done that for a while. I had to sit in bed for ten minutes with the light on full to adjust myself.

But at least I got it done. At least I started the month off well with that task.

Completely unlike the other month-long task I started this morning.

I can't believe how hard it was to stop myself from subconsciously cracking knuckles every hour or so. I just kept finding myself clicking my fingers or toes or something. Not very nice.

I'm going to have to start that task tomorrow, because it was a complete failure today.