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What, is this a new post? What the fuck? Guess it is.

I guess I kind of extremely lag behind the general populace when it comes to mastering organization. There has been a breakthrough however. I have mastered the great and powerful art understood by toddlers everywhere: lists.

They help. A lot. My previous attempts to use them had a problem; I would either forget to put things on the list, or I'd forget to check the list. The difference this time relies on a simple little Firefox add-on called reminderfox, a calendar application that runs straight out of my browser. The application has support for user created lists: groceries, to-dos, anything like that. I created a to-do list, and soon everything I could think of soon found itself in a list. I don't even use the reminder portion of the add-on that much, but whenever it sends me an awesome little alert I am forced to remember to check my lists.

Right now I have 8 different lists on reminderfox: reminders, to-dos, groceries, music, linux prep, house upgrades, contacts, and free services to support. On my desktop is a list of passwords for different sites I used to put an end to my horrible password reuse habits, a list of stuff that I want but probably won't get, and a list of various life decisions I've made or am making. Sometimes the lists are practical, sometimes indulgent, and sometimes the only reason I can think of for them existing is to provide a map of who it is I am. I didn't think lists had such poetic potential, although that's silly because everything can be poetic or beautiful perceived from the right angle.

In homage to my new tool, one of my few weapons in this big bad world of confusion, I'm going to make a ten item or so list every day from now until I lose interest, and post them here every week or so. I'm not even going to try and make these lists very logical, it's hard to think of everything and I'd sort of prefer not to stress too much over something this random. Here's the first:

Things that make me happy:

1. Music
2. Learning things
3. Biking
4: Hanging out with friends
5: Technology
6: Making something worthwhile/ doing work I can readily see the results of.
7: Opening my mind to new ideas.
8: Daydreaming
9: Being busy with things I want to do
10: Being in love


And for no real reason: Song!