Throwback Thursday: strange lists you keep #TBT

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It's Thursday!

I was about to write a #TBT about something else and then all of a sudden I remembered my "Flights that KGM has been on" list. (KGM is me). Little background on this. About 10 years ago, my wife and I were thumbing through a history of this 87 year old man. He had been retired for so long that he started writing his history. He and his wife had travelled quite a bit and lived in different countries so he had made a list of all the countries. That sparked an idea in my mind to write down all the airline trips I had taken and voila, here is part of it:

Icelandic is my native tongue so it´s in Icelandic. The first few trips were relatively easy but it got harder in the 90's and 00's. But with help of some friends and my mom, I think I was able to get 98% of them :) It´s over 70 trips!

Sooooo, what odd lists do you keep and maintain? Or what stuff to you keep track of? :)

Let’s make it a great Thursday!

KGM

[Stephen_Lugton]

Not necessarily a strange list, but I have records of every scuba dive I ever did.

But sometime I'm aiming on writing my personal history of places I've been, activities I've done etc to pass on to my daughter as I'm sure I'll never get round to telling her lots of things otherwise, for instance modes of transport I've used / been on (* for those I didn't actually personally drive/steer/etc.):

• Roller skates
• Ice Skates
• Skateboards
• Stilts
• Skis
• Bicycles
• Tricycles
• Rikshaw*
• Zorb
• Surfboards
• Canoes (open deck)
• Kayaks (closed deck)
• Pedalo
• Row boat
• Raft (built ourselves)
• RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat)
• Landing craft*
• Ferry*
• Aircraft carrier*
• Submarine*
• Seascooter
• Sailboat
• Moped
• Car
• Van
• Minibus
• 4 1/2 tonne truck
• Coach
• Cherry Picker
• Helicopter* (including Apache and Chinook)
• Commercial passenger airplane*
• Harrier jump jet*
• Cable Car*
• Aerial runway
• Train*
• Handcar
• Roller coaster*
• Tram*
• Bus*
• Horse* (some people would say that riding a horse counts as steering it, but the last horse I road was having none of that!)
• Sleigh*
• Sledge
• Cart*

I'm sure I've missed a few, but that's a start ...

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Zorbing (also known as globe-riding, sphereing, orbing) is the recreation or sport of rolling downhill inside an orb, typically made of transparent plastic.

Zorbing in Rotorua, New Zealand

[Barbara Szczesniak]

Well, besides my enemies list of course 😁, I keep a list of all the addresses where I've lived. With years spent contracting, you never know how far back someone will want to go for a background check.

[Laurie Sciutti]

haha @Barbara Szczesniak (enemies list).  I've kept a list of my salary for the past several decades ~ it's very interesting to look back and see how far I've come!

@Stephen_Lugton ~ admittedly, I had to look up "Zorb" and now I want that to be my preferred mode of transportation!  😆

A list of some other lists I keep (haha):

• I jot down gift list ideas throughout the year (makes Christmas and birthday shopping SO much easier)!
• the never-ending to-do list
• packing lists
• names of people I meet and am likely to run across again (I'm horrible with names and this list has bailed me out a few times!)
• states / countries visited (not necessarily in list format as I have maps of these)
• household projects and Atlassian certificate training progress (these two are in Trello)!

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen]

Sweet, @Stephen_Lugton 

Actually, @Barbara Szczesniak , that is a great idea! When I was applying for the green card, I had to list up all places I had lived for the last 10 (might have been 15) years!  So, it can be really good and handy to keep that kind of list. Plus, one day our kids or grandkids or some kids will want to know this kind of stuff :)

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

My lists are only mental, no physical ones to avoid leaving evidence. Except for the ones I put in Trello.

[Benjamin]

Can't say any of my list are interesting or out of the ordinary. More functional than anything. 

• Grocery and Expenses 

Speaking of travel. I don't have a list but I do enjoy looking through all my passports once in a while to see all the places I've been and the unique stamps of each country.

[Trudy Claspill]

Fun topic!

As a teenager I kept a three ring binder in which I logged every book I read for two years. I think I still have that binder somewhere.

Now I keep a list of all the projects and major purchases related to my house, because I can't simply remember what year we bought a new water heater.

Whenever I fly somewhere I have to make a packing list. Without it I would take at least twice as many clothes as I actually need, and would like forget something actually important, like my passport.

On a daily basis I have to make lists of things to do at work. I am always in the middle of one task when my multitasking brain thinks of some other task that I need to remember to do.

[Teodora V _Fun Inc_]

@Stephen_Lugton what an impressive list!

I don't think I have something as special as yours, but I have many food lists in different stages of tracking the food impact - elimination diets, tolerance, rating, etc. 

Since it's a long process full of possible errors, there should always be an "active tracking" list with the latest updates on the topic :)

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen]

Thanks for your fun comments!

[DiMaggio Tucci]

My grocery lists are unreadable. I put absolutely no care into how I put the information in. Did I get 2 of the letters correct in a word? I'll probably remember what I meant!

[Ram Kumar Aravindakshan _Adaptavist_]

Definitely need a list for groceries items to pack whenever I need to travel. Although I can write all this down on my phone, still prefer using paper.

[Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_]

I fit into the 'regular' category by only having groceries, packing, and travel lists. Although, if that's considered a list, I have a list of all of my receipts/transactions (in Jira of course 😅) dating from 2020; I think I've recently hit the 3.5k mark on those. 🧾

And if I ever make a list for New Zealand, I'm putting Zorbing at the top @Stephen_Lugton 😄

[Ram Kumar Aravindakshan _Adaptavist_]

Have to keep track of my daily medication -> use the reminder in my phone to remind me that's it time to take my medication and to double check if I've taken the meds incase I miss them.

[Vronik]

Hello @Kristján Geir Mathiesen 

You've made me think and at the beginning of reading you I said I don't keep a list, but thinking calmly I have a list of the places I've visited and that I would love to visit again

I also have another one of all the places I would like to visit before leaving this world

My greatest aspiration is to cross both off

Regards

[Barbara Szczesniak]

@Ram Kumar Aravindakshan _Adaptavist_ You reminded me that I also keep a list of my medications and medication allergies in my purse. Since I had room on the page, I also recently added a section on what times of day I take each one.

This comes in handy when I go to a new doctor or have new meds since my last visit. Hopefully, I'll never need it for medical treatment by emergency services when I'm unconscious, but I do hope they look through my purse and find it, especially as I'm allergic to a pretty common class of medications.

[vikram]

Hi @Kristján Geir Mathiesen 

A very big list when i travel from my country(India) to other countries.

But a very small list when I travel within country. 

Vikram P 

[Fazila Ashraf]

Not sure whether it counts as strange but sort of essential for me now.. 

I have an index list of my/spouse's/kids' official documents & copies 'locations' that we kept in our resident in Berlin, My parent's place and my in-laws place.. :D 

[Rishabh Jhawar]

While I don't have any lists to share—neither strange nor regular ones, as I don't keep such lists—reading comments now triggers my FOMO. Here are some ideas that I might consider copying: @Kristján Geir Mathiesen's flight list and @Stephen_Lugton 's mode of transport.