Exciting times ahead

I love waiting. Not all kinds of waiting, but waiting for fun things to happen. And 2007 brings plenty of these. Main reason for this is my new job, where I’ll be working only part-time, which gives (or, should give) me plenty of free time to do stuff that is really interesting. And not do it after 8 hours of exhausting working day but maybe one whole week.

Here’s a list of things that I will do, or want to do from beginning of 2007:

• Finish tube headphone amp I’m building right now and build a second one
• Start sleeping biphasically
• Do a trial period of 30 days with no-meat diet
• Finish my options simulator project
• Do one useful project in lisp to learn the language (or redo some older project(s)), maybe my wedding photography site and finish the lisp books I have acquired.
• Start training for next marathon (Tallinn or Stockholm?). This time seriously – 4-5 times a week, 60+ km per week
• Build a PIC (type of microcontroller) based nixie tube clock
• Build PIC based learning remote controller with timer functions (it could be programmed to ‘push’ Play on CD-player in the morning so I don’t have to wake up on disgusting beeping alarms)
• Finish investing course and start investing

I know this sounds like a lot of things to do, but when I get at least 4 extra ‘free’ hours in one day (only 50% of working load plus some extra from biphasic sleep) it means I have to use them well and not just sleep and play “Heroes of Might and Magic V” all the time, which would be very easy thing for me. The more free time I have, the more self-discipline I must have.