31 tasks

List Goes Live: An Update

Right then.  Until now I’ve been playing.  Tinkering.  Rotating.  Think of it as the pre-season. 

From here on in the real work starts and, accordingly, here is a bumper crop of updates.  The List is the first port of call for the final challenges that lay ahead before the already ‘not-as-distant-as-I-would-like’ 14th of November.  The second port of call is The Graph with the all-new ‘days per task’ counter.  It’s not looking too optimistic with 26 days per task comparing unfavourably with a target of 12 days, BUT (and that’s a big but) the time spent organising in the last couple of months will be repaid in the actual doing of the tasks further down the line.

Stats: Open to interpretation. And don't they just know it.

Finally, the earlier posts have been updated with the addition of a few pictorial elements which will be used more thoroughly from now on, so why not take a quick spin round before reading on…

Ready?  Now a summary:  the completed tasks are:  Clubbing, Blog and Abstain.

Previous mentions which are now penned in are: Date, Golf, Duck, Run, Sing, Charity, Climb, Cycle, Ski, Work, Read, Cake, Fish, Contact, Cook, Dine, Relax, Hike, Strum, Flex and Blood.

After giving it some thought, I’ve decided to clarify a few of these.

Work now includes the potential for presenting at a conference.  It adds to my professional motivation, whilst, to an extent, putting the successful completion of the task back in my own hands.

Hike: do you have any idea how long the South West coast path really is?  Blimey, it’s huge.  630 miles from Dorset to North Devon is a distance open only to those who count their working days in the same way that the rest of us count annual leave.  So my revised aim is a solid 10 days of traversing the coast of Cornwall.

And Strum.  It stays in, despite many compelling reasons against it, but I’ve decided to focus on one song, yet to be determined, and learn it on the guitar.  Maybe it will be the beginning of so much more, but in the context of the 31 tasks I hope it will be realistic.