In honor of my 30th birthday (Roman XXX, Binary 11110, Babylonian <<<, Hexadecimal 1E) I have made three lists of ten items.

List 1 – Ten things I have enjoyed since my first experience of them:

1. Drawing/Coloring (crayons, pencils, markers, chalk, etc.)
2. Cartoons
3. Fruit snacks
4. Legos
5. Computers/Electronics/Tinkering
6. Italian and Mexican food
7. Paintball
8. Romantic comedies
9. Music (performing and listening)
10. Nature

List 2 – Ten people (or groups) that have changed the way I think about life, the universe, and everything:

1. God/Bible
2. Cori Rose
3. My family
4. My friends
5. 4-year old Sunday school students
6. Teachers/Professors (Mr. Tuchscherer, Mr. Thomas, Mrs. Kendrick, Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Broyles, Mrs. Mallow, Mr. Lampman, Mrs. Faulkner, Ms. Simpson, Mr. Spurgeon, Mr. Nash, Mr. Mills, Mr. Dary, Professor Coakley, Professor Dibrell, Professor Lawton, Professor McAlexander, Professor Craig, Professor Tyran)
7. Co-Workers
8. Authors (Douglas Adams, A.W. Tozer, C.S. Lewis, Patrick M. Morley, J.P. Moreland, Robert K. Greenleaf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dave Ramsey, G.K. Chesterton, Lee Strobel, Jeremy Keith, Donald Norman, Doug Fields, Ravi Zacharias, Charles Spurgeon, editors and contributors to GQ magazine)
9. Celebrities
10. Middle and High school students

List 3 – Ten things I still have difficulty with after three decades of life:

1. Consistent prayer, quiet time, and Bible study
2. Drama
3. Flip turns
4. Cleaning (Laundry and dishes especially)
5. Personal finance
6. Organisation
7. Exercising consistently
8. Buying groceries/meal planning
9. Sleeping (or at least going to bed at a decent hour)
10. Finishing personal projects

A post over at Smashing Magazine has inspired me to set a unique resolution for the upcoming year: design something every day for a year. I am hoping that by setting aside some time to just be creative every day that I will also become more diligent at setting aside time for other daily or regular activities that I have also been putting off.

In order to help myself, I am compiling a list of potential inspiration words, phrases, or pictures that I can pull from when I do not have something immediately on my mind. Eventually, the list will be formatted into a tag cloud, and when clicked, the items therein will actually reduce in size the more they are used (so as to give repeats less likelihood).

In addition to graphic design, I am hoping to incorporate a variety of skills ranging from computer-related  (like 3-D models and photo manipulation) to non-computer skills like cooking and photography.

In order to be ‘accountable’ to the daily tasks I will use my website (http://lukedary.com) to do small write-ups about my output, and also post links to the site on my Twitter account under #daily365.

I’m excited to give my creativity a bit of a workout, so tune in on January 1st, 2010 for the first installment.

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I just get a kick out of International Talk Like A Pirate Day, so I have added the following script to the bottom of my website, which converts the text on each page into Pirate-speak.

<script src="http://l.yimg.com/d/lib/ydn/js/pirate1252961643.js"></script>

The ‘holiday’ starts tomorrow, but I will be leaving my site like this for the weekend. If nothing else, it makes my site a fun read.

Happy ITLAPD!

The last day of 2008 and my 29th birthday mark a unique, and special year. I have had some really good times, some really bad times, and a whole lot of times in between. Rather than reiterate events or circumstances I thought that this year I would fill up some space with things that I have learned this year either by way of experience, reading, or second-hand. There is something to be said for a concise list, and so I have restricted my reflections to the top 4 tidbits that I would hope to carry forward.

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Updates on my website have been few and far between lately, and from now on updates should be more frequent. Here is what I’ve just recently done to get reorganized:

• My domains have been consolidated to a single vendor
• My domain registration has all been brought under a single vendor
• My blog has been changed to Wordpress (http://www.wordpress.org)

My email address hasn’t changed, and there really should not be much change other than how I do things. The beauty of the changes is that I will have a single place to go update things and this should lead to more frequent updates.

Just thought people might like to know that things are looking up.