1. Organize photos. No progress.


  2. Record singing - Recorded a a couple.


  3. Road trip to Philly - Thinking about around 4 days taking place sometime in the range of July 24 - August 10 (Note to [livejournal.com profile] ayashi/[livejournal.com profile] kelsin: When's your wedding, again? Thanks!)


  4. Visit the crater photography exhibit - FAIL, it closed June 6, not July 6


  5. Learn programming - in progress, working on "The C Programming Language"


  6. Inbox 0 - doing pretty well with the work inbox.


  7. New: Creative writing - found some old pieces that I'm transcribing, and wrote a fanfic.


This summer's projects you may recall included making music. Well, I've started! Today I worked for a while on a song that I just could *not* get right, so I quit and instead started working on "Brown Eyed Girl" (Van Morrison) and it came out quite well.

My criticisms - cut-tagged so you can read AFTER you listen )

Maybe for my next song I'll work on vocals only - there's some rounds I can do a capella that I think could sound really nice.
My current list of Summer Projects. Enumerated for convenience, not priority.

  1. Organize photos. My high school photography instructor told me the secret to good photography is to take many photos and only show the best ones. With the advent of digital photography I have perfected the former, but need to work on the latter. My goal is to take the best photos from my anonymyzed Flickr account and upload them into my personally identifiable account (for those of you who know my real name, that Flickr username is first initial last name, no spaces or punctuation).

  2. Record singing - I have enjoyed singing since at least 5th grade, which makes it 20 years now. My singing voice is somewhat soft, but I have good relative pitch. I also play guitar though a bit crappily. My goal here is to record guitar and vocals for a few covers (Indigo Girls, Dar Williams, possibly Sarah McLachlan) and one or two of my own, using Garage Band. I will need to get something to plug in my guitar (it's got a jack) to a USB port ([livejournal.com profile] kelsin, got anything like this I could borrow, or that you could recommend I buy?). I am not adverse to collaborations.

  3. Road trip to Philly - one of the two surviving Galileo telescopes is out of Italy for the first time ever and is on exhibit through Sept 7 at the Franklin Institute. Along with this I may visit nerdcamp.

  4. Visit the crater photography exhibit at CLAMPART in NYC; open through July 6.

  5. Learn programming

  6. Inbox 0 - a lifestyle change in which I treat my email Inbox as a To-Do list, and remove everything I've completed, so that my Inbox stays perpetually close to 0 items.



More items may be added in the future, but generally 3-5 items is a good goal and I achieve 2-3 of them.

Edit: Added programming, I knew I was missing something.

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