Personal Tests

I just had an "Oh duh!" moment. I was going to create a web page for this, then I remembered that I have a blog. I must be tired.

I recently ran into an interesting idea. It is called Personal unit tests. Follow the link for more info. I'm not sure why, but I loved the idea, and decided to shamelessly copy it for my own ends. I was keeping a daily todo list, but never provided the feedback about how I was really doing over a length of time. Following this I can make a spreadsheet and track how I'm doing over a length of time. Plus with the todo list I would be tempted to fudge things so that they would match what I wanted, rather than what I truly did; with this it is either pass-fail, yes-no. And this seems that much more geeky ^_^.
I decide that I would attempt to post the results of this daily to my Jaiku account (it's just easier). Yesterday I did a measly 39%.

Here are the tests:

01 Brush Teeth (Health)
If I brushed my teeth twice yesterday
02 Deodorant (Health)
If I put on deodorant yesterday
03 Lies (Mind)
If I told five or fewer lies yesterday
04 Meditate (Mind)
If I meditated twice during the day
05 Shower (Health)
If I showered in the morning
06 Sleep (Health)
If I got a full eight hours of sleep the night before
07 Stretch (Health)
If I stretched twice the day before
08 Check Feeds (Computer)
If I checked my feeds the day before
09 Check all notes (Other)
If I checked all my notes the day before
10 Check eMail (Computer)
If I checked my eMail the day before
11 Clean (Home)
If I worked on cleaning the house the day before
12 Journal (Mind)
If I wrote on my journal the day before
13 Budget (Home)
If we stayed on budget the month before
14 Family (Family)
If *I* contacted family members anytime the previous week
15 Trash (Home)
If I took out trash on Monday
16 Blog (Mind)
If I posted to my blog in the last seven days
17 Track weight (Health)
If I tracked my weight on Monday
18 Replace razor (Health)
If I replaced replaced my razor head on Thursday

DAMN

DAMN is the only word that describes how I'm feeling right now. J and I just got back from a Hy-Vee where we used a Coin Star machine to cash in some extra change that we have lying around. I did not realize that we had so much damn change. Before taking it to Hy-Vee, I decided to weight it here at home - it came it at 40lbs (~18kg), try carrying that in your pocket. The Coin Star machine keeps count of how many coins you put in, broken down by type. Here is how it broke down for us.

3942 pennies - $39.42
778 nickels - $38.90
1389 dimes - $138.90

For a total of $197.89 (Coin Star charges a 8.9 cents fee per dollar). It took about 15 minutes to get all done.

You should have seen the look on the cashiers face when I went to get the cash.

How ironic

Today I was cleaning out the folders from my Yahoo Mail, I removed about 0.5 gigs of emails - I'm on a cleaning streak lately. Once I get done, I happen to see a cute little animation that shows I now have unlimited storage. I thought it was rather ironic.