[Push] Final Hurdles {3 of 4, 4 of 4}

[jhaelan]

Seventeen more completed and progress on three others; leaving sixty-four incomplete tasks in total which is broadly only slightly better than last year

1. Attain promotion to Associate Director*
   Progressing (95%)
   Submitted, fingers crossed. All the right noise being made and everything I could line up in place; management management, it's the only game to play
   
   
2. Attend 3 Exhibitions*
   Completed
   Rounded off earlier escapades with a trip to the Singapore Art Fair and a number of commercial galleries; predominant focus here is Mao-influenced Chinese art, though there is a strong body of surrealist Indonesian and impressionistic(?) Vietnamese work
   
   
3. Attend 3 Gigs*
   Completed
   Almost a surfeit of gigs with Amy Winehouse, then The Cure, Megadeth and Black Sabbath in sunny Singapore
   
   
4. Build Wiki Farm, at work*
   Handed Over
   Being taken on by the people who should be running with it; my work here is done
   
   
5. Complete Library Thing*
   Completed
   Available at LibraryThing sans technical books
   
   
6. Decommission $Project, at work*
   Progressing (33%)
   Completed migration on one business line to the new platform, with the lion's share of functionality for a second and the two remaining business extremely aware of the need to move. Discussing moving three new business lines into the new platform, which would be a big win
   
   
7. Drink 6 glasses of water each day*
   Completed
   Sufficiently in the habit to count. Reinforced the lesson that I simply don't drink plain water
   
   
8. Drop to 12 stone*
   Progressing (50%)
   Belly reduction ongoing, though I've not weighed myself in some months
   
   
9. Explore 9 new artists*
   Completed
   Rounded off with The Bordeoms and Juno Reactor, both of who I found so-so; excellent bonus band in the form of She Wants Revenge!
   
   
10. Explore Jython*
    Completed
    Series of interesting experiments and meanderings; hoping to use it on some minor projects
    
    
11. Explore REST*
    Completed
    Research completed and working it in to some refactoring of the web application I'm responsible for at work
    
    
12. Garage Clearance*
    Completed
    Everything remaining is what I want to keep and in proper storage
    
    
13. Give Something Away And Declutter Your Life*
    Completed
    Freecycling stuff I brought over to Singapore and Garage Clearance
    
    
14. Learn Mandarin*
    Completed
    Already rusty from lack of practise but looking to remedy that in the New Year with my local friends
    
    
15. Make A Positive Lifestyle Change And Tell Us About It*
    Completed
    Although not as much as I wanted to
    
    
16. Make A Will*
    Completed
    Am leaving it all to the geckos!
    
    
17. Offset Your Airmiles*
    Completed
    Continuing to keep track of my home consumption (still much lower than average); work flights are automatically offset and offsetting via tree planting myself
    
    
18. Visit Bintan, Indonesia*
    Completed
    Gill, Daryl and I. Jet skis, beaches, sun. Rar!
    
    
19. Watch American Beauty*
    Completed
    Dark surburban goodness
    
    
20. Watch Withnail And I*
    Completed
    Fabulous; sits with Blackadder and Dead Poet's Society in defining a generation ;)
    
    

For 2008 I'm sticking with the same list for the most part; is there anything I should add or anything I should remove?