To Complete Before Death...
This is my (hopefully updated from time to time) list of stuff before I kick the bucket.
Skills
Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.
Learn how to dance
Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill (Bagpipes to Grade III)
CPR certification
First Aid certification
Sing a great song in front of an audience.
Learn how to cook one really fantastic meal
Busk somewhere
Travel/One-Shot things
Go on multi-day train ride
Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
Spend New Year's in an exotic location.
Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.
Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
See the northern lights
Work on an archaeological dig
Go to Carnival/Mardi Gras
Drive across America from coast to coast.
Shower in a waterfall
Experience weightlessness.
Make love on a train.
Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.
Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
Send a message in a bottle.
Plant a tree
Sit on a jury.
Have your portrait painted.
Go white water rafting
Paint the Big Apple red
Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.
Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.
Attend one really huge rock concert.
Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
Visit Japan
Visit Scotland (See the World’s ((Bagpiping thing)))
Visit Ireland
Visit Germany
Visit Italy
Visit Australia
Visit Amsterdam
Camp on the beach
Drink at a bar until it closes
Go Skiing/snow boarding
Spend week backpack camping
Financial
Write your will.
Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.
Retire with a $1,000,000
Pick two charities and donate yearly
Completely fund children’s education
Buy Gibson Bagpipes with stainless steel tuning slides
Buy reasonable vanity car
Buy boat
Create/Maintain emergency kit for home and cars
Health
Weight down to 175#s
Triathlon
Earn a black belt in some martial art
Job-Related
Earn a B.A.
Earn an A+ Cert
Earn a Network + Cert
Earn MCSA
Skills
Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.
Learn how to dance
Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill (Bagpipes to Grade III)
CPR certification
First Aid certification
Sing a great song in front of an audience.
Learn how to cook one really fantastic meal
Busk somewhere
Travel/One-Shot things
Go on multi-day train ride
Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
Spend New Year's in an exotic location.
Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.
Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
See the northern lights
Work on an archaeological dig
Go to Carnival/Mardi Gras
Drive across America from coast to coast.
Shower in a waterfall
Experience weightlessness.
Make love on a train.
Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.
Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
Send a message in a bottle.
Plant a tree
Sit on a jury.
Have your portrait painted.
Go white water rafting
Paint the Big Apple red
Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.
Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.
Attend one really huge rock concert.
Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
Visit Japan
Visit Scotland (See the World’s ((Bagpiping thing)))
Visit Ireland
Visit Germany
Visit Italy
Visit Australia
Visit Amsterdam
Camp on the beach
Drink at a bar until it closes
Go Skiing/snow boarding
Spend week backpack camping
Financial
Write your will.
Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.
Retire with a $1,000,000
Pick two charities and donate yearly
Completely fund children’s education
Buy Gibson Bagpipes with stainless steel tuning slides
Buy reasonable vanity car
Buy boat
Create/Maintain emergency kit for home and cars
Health
Weight down to 175#s
Triathlon
Earn a black belt in some martial art
Job-Related
Earn a B.A.
Earn an A+ Cert
Earn a Network + Cert
Earn MCSA