Day Zero Progress

As noted in the blog, this whole blog was started as a result of the Day Zero Project (dayzeroproject.com).  My list includes, among other things, "Complete a 365 day photo challenge", hence this blog and my posting pictures and little details about my life every day.  Another item on my list is "Take a photo of each task completed".  This section intends to keep track of my progress with the pictures I take for each event...some will be duplicates since my daily posting will also be the record of my completion, although I fully intend for some to be new as well.

You can keep track of my Day Zero list progress, including things that I am in-progress on (and not just completed) at my Day Zero List.  You should go on over and check out my list, as well as joining up for the site.  I think it is a great way to help motivate yourself to do things you might not do, and to feel good when you finish items.

Below, I have the items, as well as a brief explanation beside...please note that the "task number" I put with each photograph is not the task number in the actual list.  This is for simplicities sake, since I send completed tasks to the bottom of the list so they are the last thing I see when I go through the list.

Task 3  

  





I went to a class in Denver to take a First Aid, CPR, and AED class.  I learned all about how to recognize common medical emergencies, and how to help people make injuries better and deal with environmental problems (like heat exhaustion, animal bites/stings, and extreme cold).  I feel much better knowing these things now (especially since Katie and I want kids someday in the not too distant future), I just hope I never need to use any of them.  Particularly if I could avoid having to use the CPR/AED knowledge I would be pretty content.

Task 2 

 

 








We drove down to my parents to stay the night before going to the First Aid/CPR course.  We had a good time hanging out with them.  We had to wake up fairly early in the morning (like 6 in the morning) to get to the class, and I realized just before we were about to leave that the sun was going to rise soon.  So I waited patiently for the sun to start rising, and this is a picture through my parents deck door at the sun as it just started to peak through the trees.  It was a nice change from normal where the sun starts to rise while I am trapped in the concrete walls of work.  
Then, on the way home, the sun was setting, so Katie captured this amazing picture for me along I-80 as the sun was just finishing going down over the mountains.  This is the first day in a long time where I got to see the sun both rise and fall in the same day.


Task 1

Because I knew that unless I gave myself some kind of incentive, I would have a devil of a time actually sitting down to do the full Day Zero list.  So on of my tasks was to actually create a list of 101 things to do.  I was pretty happy to have finished this within the first day.  It is a little difficult to tell from the picture, but this is my Day Zero list showing that I have 1000 days left, with 1% of my tasks completed, and 101 total tasks!