This is the 1 year anniversary of The Monthly Challenge and to celebrate, I will be reattempting the challenges from the last year:
- Rejuvinatin' June
- Art Guy July
- Alcoholic August
- Back to school September
- Rocktobersaurus
- Notebooking November
- Dress up December
- Classified as January
- Friendly February
- Monthly Challenge Makeover March
- Arcadalicious April
- Mandex May
I'll post details later since I'm writing this from my phone and I'll be gone for a week. But trust me, I'll be working on this.
Happy one year and one month anniversary!
Tue, 06/30/2009 - 22:26 | by JesseÜber Jüne is just about over, but how did I do?
Well, not great, but also not terrible. I started off with a bang, but then began to dwindle as the month went on.
Rejuvinatin' June
I did sign up and begin training for the Disneyland half marathon. However, I stopped training shortly after the third run. Nobody ever said anything about continuing the training!
Art Guy July (FAIL!)
I never ended up screenprinting anything. I do have materials though, and I actually bought some acetate today to make one-off stencils. So if anybody wants to cut up some terrible stencils and make some crappy screenprints sometime soon, just let me know!
Alcoholic August
Rob, Will and I had a few tastings (ie., got together on Sunday afternoons and got drunk) and also bought all of the ingredients to get started on a nice brown ale. However, we're still waiting for our burner to arrive so we can cook everything... As soon as that shows up, it's full steam ahead.
Back to school September
Check. Learned about brewing beer and a few new tips for bicycle maintenance
Rocktobersaurus (technically FAIL!)
LSDJ is still on backorder...
Notebooking November
Got a late start, but here are a few crappy doodles from this month:
So people know it's my notebook

Triangles and squares

Piano

Randomness
I'm not really sure what's going on here...although I have to admit that I do like the sleeping stick figure dude dreaming about the stick figure lady.

Musik? Music? Musick.

Robots!

Random Terribleness
Ummm...mouths/expressions andddd a terribly drawn gun?

Dress up December
Been there, done that.
Classified as January (FAIL!)
Nobody wanted to buy any of my crap! If you know somebody looking for a decent arcade cabinet (sorry, Arcadalicious April!) send them my way.
Friendly February
I was going strong with the talking to strangers. Unfortunately most of them were pretty normal people. I kind of dropped the ball on the hugging though - it was very sporadic...
Monthly Challenge Makeover March
I'm going to try to do some work on the site tonight, but it's nowhere near where it should be... After working on websites all day, the last thing I really want to do is work on more websites... On the positive side of things though, I did manage to set up an SVN instance for all of my sites and I finally have a semi-legit local development environment set up.
Arcadalicious April
Dominated it (kind of.)
Mandex May
Completed the AIDS LifeCycle - but still need the tattoo to prove it.
Über Jüne Status
Fri, 06/19/2009 - 08:48 | by JesseAbout two-thirds of the way through June and here's my status:
- Rejuvinatin' June - When I tried to sit down to stretch after my second run, I just fell flat on my butt. Cycling muscles are totally different from running muscles.
- Art Guy July - Haven't started
- Alcoholic August - We've done a "tasting" (got drunk) and are going to buy ingredients this weekend
- Back to school September - Still learning
- Rocktobersaurus - LSDJ on backorder - should arrive around the end of the month
- Notebooking November - Shit - I haven't done this...
- Dress up December - I've been wearing collared shirts all week - not one person has asked if I've had an interview! Weird...
- Classified as January - Also haven't started on this
- Friendly February - I've been talking to a lot of new but normal/un-blogworthy people (no offense.) The hugs haven't been at 100% though...
- Monthly Challenge Makeover March - Moved all of my sites into SVN. Haven't actually done any coding for this site though
- Arcadalicious April - Got the top ten high scores on Asteroids at barcade
- Mandex May - Completed the AIDS LifeCycle
Asteroids Dominated
Sun, 06/14/2009 - 20:09 | by JessePossibly the best $2.50 I've ever spent:

To be fair...only about three other people had played the game before me. But I still got all of the high scores!
Über Jüne Details
Sun, 06/07/2009 - 09:57 | by JesseSo here is a better description of what I will be doing this month:
- Rejuvinatin' June - Begin training for the Disneyland half marathon
- Art Guy July - Screenprint a few T-Shirts
- Alcoholic August - Start brewing beer
- Back to school September - Learn about: brewing beer, bicycle maintenance
- Rocktobersaurus - Record 1 song using LSDJ
- Notebooking November - Doodle in notebooks throughout the month
- Dress up December - Collared shirts at work for at least one full week
- Classified as January - Sell more stuff I don't need on craigslist...sorry guys, no more craigslist dates
- Friendly February - Talk to a new person each day and bring back the hugs
- Monthly Challenge Makeover March - Reorganize this site and make it easier to find new posts, groups, etc.
- Arcadalicious April - Get the top 5 high scores on a barcade arcade machine
- Mandex May - Complete the AIDS LifeCycle
I've already completed ALC 8, and have started learning about brewing beer (thanks to Stump) and bicycle maintenance. On the ALC ride, I also got to meet tons of awesome people, and there was definitely a lot of hugging going on. I will make sure to continue that trend for this month.
Those are the only updates I have so far since last week was spent eating, sleeping, and cycling... I'll be sure to upload pictures, stories, mp3s, etc. of all of the above challenges as the month goes on.
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