2.0... ok, so that's never been done before

Ok, so the 2.0 moniker is pretty lame, but I feel like I'm at a place where I'm ready to evaluate the ways I have reinvented myself, as well as examing the rest of the things in my life that I'm ready to apply additional scrutiny to.

The thing that has gotten my attention is the 100 Thing Challenge that popped up fortuitously(?) on Digg the other day. The thing is, it wasn't like that was the thing that changed how I am feeling about myself. I was just feeling the exact same thing the week before.

I realize I'm sort of jumping in in the middle. I read the book Everything That's Bad is Good for You, and I hear that jumping into the middle of the story is how all of the good stories go these days. Like Lost. Starts with a plane crash, and they spend 3 seasons feeling in all of the background.

So here is my plane crash. I'm really unhappy with a lot of things, and I'm ready to change them. I've changed a lot of things already. Some of it has been pretty hard. I think at least one of them was a major contributer to my divorce. So it hasn't been a complete success, but I guess I'm trying to do the To Thine Own Self Be True thing.

Inventory
So I'm ready to do something like the 100 Thing Challenge. Well, it is going to be different. The other Dave lives with his family, and he's not counting the things that he shares with his family. So he's only counting his stuff. I don't live with anyone. So I could look at all of the things that he's not including, like cooking stuff, and furniture, and not examine it at all, but that defeats the point for me. Buying new coffee makers is just as bad as buying new cell phones. It's all stuff that has to be managed. It's all stuff that ties me down. I don't really have any place I need to go, but why not make it so that if I want to go, I can?

So I'm not aiming for 100. I'm not going to set a number yet. I don't have enough rules set up. But I do like progress. So if I'm going to make progress, I need to figure out where I'm starting. So the first step is to figure out what I have. My plan is to categorize it in detail. Maybe too much, but I want to really know what I have. So I'm going to count the books. I'm going to count the DVD's, Video Games, Candles, Everything.

I'm going to keep it all in a spreadsheet. I'm going to record the thing, how often I use it, and when I get rid of it, I'll keep track of that too. Oh, did I mention I'm a computer guy? Yes. Did I mention I'm a little anal about tracking things? yeah, that too. So it will be exruciating details. I'm actually thinking about storing it on Google Docs, so that I can post a link to it. Let everyone follow along. Although I'd like to do some pivot tables too, and I'm not sure if Google Docs does that.