diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 3ec4e3d160..3dcc88ad5b 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 - make it easy to run playbooks against cloud instances w/o modifying 
   inventory or changing host entries in playbooks
-- make it clear how to run as root from  lockbox
-- make path dests work correctly globally
 
 - define standards for:
   - playbook naming
@@ -13,10 +11,8 @@
      - initonly
 
 - figure out how and where we are going to run these from cron
-- common ssh key for all systems to be hit from
 
 - merge in tasks/playbooks/inventory/etc from:
   - euca cloud
   - builders
 
-- make a place to put scripts used in this whole process