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100 things to do before I die.

It’s not very original, but at some point I felt I needed some reachable goals in my life. And none of these are that far off, if you ask me. Listed in no particular order. But still a numbered list.

  1. Visit Hong Kong.
  2. Get something published in a magazine.
  3. Drive across America from coast to coast.
  4. Say “I love you”. DONE.
  5. Learn to play the piano.
  6. Take a photograph I can proudly hang on the wall. And hang it.
  7. Be best man at someone’s wedding. DONE.
  8. Renovate an apartment or a house.
  9. Fix a car. DONE
  10. Surprise everyone. DONE.
  11. Try my luck at the stock market. DONE.
  12. Organize a big event.
  13. Be on TV. DONE.
  14. Visit all 50 states.
  15. Participate in a demonstration.
  16. Make someone cry of happiness. DONE.
  17. Brew my own beer.
  18. Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
  19. Send a message in a bottle.
  20. Plant a tree. DONE.
  21. Sit on a jury.
  22. Stay out all night partying and go to work the next day without having gone home. DONE.
  23. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
  24. Ask for a raise. DONE.
  25. Write my will. DONE.
  26. Ride on the Orient Express.
  27. Read the Kama Sutra and put a bit of theory into practice.
  28. Go up in a hot-air balloon. DONE.
  29. Invite someone on a $500 dinner.
  30. Make some contribution to an open source software project.
  31. Visit all seven continents. Two left.
  32. Ride a horse. DONE.
  33. Take a year off.
  34. Visit an active volcano. DONE.
  35. Go to Mardi Gras.
  36. Attend a major film festival.
  37. Drive a Humvee.
  38. Make a road movie.
  39. Save a life.
  40. See a tornado.
  41. Get a reasonable BMI.
  42. See tigers in the wild.
  43. See a movie at a drive-in. DONE.
  44. Make a complete and utter fool of myself. DONE.
  45. Come up with a good one-liner. DONE.
  46. Visit Tokyo.
  47. Be debt free.
  48. Get a professional massage. DONE.
  49. Fall in love. DONE.
  50. Fly a kite. DONE.
  51. Go whale watching.
  52. Pay someone to build me a house.
  53. Fly first class. DONE.
  54. Do something that makes someone say, “You know, I really admire what you did!”
  55. Win an award.
  56. Draw on a wall.
  57. Set off a fire extinguisher.
  58. Volunteer for a good cause. DONE.
  59. See a full solar eclipse.
  60. Wait in line for something for at least 24 hours.
  61. Get Married DONE.
  62. Have kids.
  63. Spoil my grandchildren.
  64. Read the entire bible (NIV)
  65. Drive a lamborghini
  66. Dress up and go to the opera.
  67. Set aside a whole day to gorge on everything you love that is bad for you, and don’t feel at all guilty.
  68. Make love on the kitchen (or dining room?) table. DONE.
  69. Make love in a bed of flowers. (No, not the flowers printed on the quilt cover!!)
  70. Walk the Great Wall of China.
  71. Experience weightlessness.
  72. Have something named after you - a rose, a park bench, a dog, a star?
  73. Fast for three days and give the money saved to a third world charity.
  74. Learn to recognize the constellations.
  75. Plan your funeral.
  76. Put a mirror on your bedroom ceiling.
  77. Drive a tractor. DONE.
  78. Learn self-defence.
  79. Break a record and get into the Guinness Book of Records.
  80. Watch an animal be born.
  81. Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.
  82. Swim with a dolphin. DONE.
  83. Learn sign language
  84. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month.
  85. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.
  86. Visit the Holy Land. DONE.
  87. Create your own website. DONE.
  88. Learn to fly an airplane.
  89. Never grow up.
  90. Try various specialty world cuisines.
  91. Watch the sunset with my wife in hawaii. DONE.
  92. Enter a pie-eating contest…
  93. See the Northern Lights.
  94. See the hollywood sign
  95. Take an overnight scenic train trip
  96. Drive an 18 wheeler
  97. Drink german beer in Germany
  98. Bury a timecapsule, and dig it up 20 years later.
  99. Spend New Year’s in an exotic location.
  100. Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.
  101. Drive the Great Ocean Road in southern Australia. Or the Pacific Coast Highway.
  102. Scuba Dive
  103. Learn to play the piano
  104. Peg the spedometer in a car
  105. Sleep outside for a week, someplace I can see the stars really good.
  106. Give a homeless person all the money in my wallet. Without knowing how much is in there before hand.
All right, so I ended up ripping some of these off of other similar lists, but they all seemed liked sane things to do. Probably duplicates, but I at least have a list. Do you? I’ll work on revising it as I find time.      
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