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A place to park and incubate goals and activities I ran out of room for on 43 Things.

find my secret talent

Attend First Thursday (monthly Portland, OR arts walk)

Keep a desire journal.

Go to the Greek Festival again.

Make a citizen's arrest on my lunch hour.

Cook every Sunday I'm home.

Go to a pinball arcade.

Indulge myself more.

Build a backyard teahouse.

10.

Rent DVDs of TV series I should have watched: Deadwood, Six Feet Under, 24, etc..

11.

Have a really cool junk drawer.

12.

Upgrade my lifestyle.

13.

Buy some fresh lychees again.

14.

Check out the new gelato places in town.

15.

Find the last happy hour in America with free snacks.

16.

Go to Reading Frenzy and buy some graphic novels.

17.

Force myself to dust and vacuum more often.

18.

Have zero deferred maintenance.

19.

Have a cabinet of curiosities.

20.

Hang out downtown more.

21.

Rent film noir DVDs.

22.

go to a hookah bar

23.

Watch the Zoobomb one of these Sunday nights.

24.

Learn more about the local geography, flora, and fauna.

25.

Take a glider ride at the Willamette Valley Soaring Club

26.

Ride my bike on the velodrome at Alpenrose Dairy.

27.

See the Shao-Lin monks perform acrobatics.

28.

try indoor skydiving at Skyventure in Florida

29.

seduce a woman in a foreign language

30.

eat at a five star restaraunt

31.

Learn to play the Dobro

32.

try new Dungeness crab recipes

33.

Work more on style.

34.

Play my guitar again, seriously.

35.

Eat serious sushi.

36.

Witness really severe weather as it occurs.

37.

Be able to discern the difference in stuff that costs twice as much, even if I don't intend to purchase it.

38.

Hide out for a week in a small town picked at random and act suspicious.

39.

Secretly become sensuously proficient at massage and surprise a woman who thinks I'm a dork.

40.

Do an assignment for someone taking a course I'd never enroll in and see what I get for a grade.

41.

Make my consumption require effort.

42.

learn Italian hand gestures

43.

See the top 20 movies on the year-end best-of lists at Metacritic.com

44.

build a primitive boat, such as a dugout canoe or a raft like the one in Kon-Tiki

45.

Play Cupid at least once, with great skill and lasting results.

46.

Persuade a Shriner to loan me his miniature car for the day.

47.

Devise a fucked-up coming-of-age ritual and have it adopted wholesale by some country I've never heard of.

48.

Camp out overnight in one of the eyes of the sculpted presidents on Mount Rushmore

49.

See a movie fictionalization of the late Charles Bukowski working as a bra-fitter.

50.

operate heavy machinery

51.

Pay for a lap dance with a complete set of state quarters.

52.

Play "Green Onions" on the organ of a famous cathedral.

53.

play cricket

54.

Go see Body Worlds

55.

Make the shy people talk.

56.

Get to know people well enough, soon enough, to take advantage of how their experiences could enrich mine.

57.

talk someone down who is attempting to kill me

58.

go to confession (as a non-Catholic, I'd have to bluff my way through. Rest assured, I didn't do any thing bad.)

59.

find a briefcase full of cash

60.

be handcuffed to a briefcase of important stuff

61.

study dragonflies

62.

restore a classic car

63.

Buy Latin jazz CDs by the artists featured in the film, Calle 54.

64.

Become more comfortable getting and giving praise.

65.

Follow local news more.

66.

Work on my power game.

67.

Network! Methodically.

68.

stop making typos

69.

Think 3 moves ahead.

70.

Not hate the workaday world so much.

71.

Acquire an arsenal of legal revenge tactics.

72.

Enlarge my safety net.

73.

Keep a decision log.

74.

Work around the corporate police state mentality.

75.

Commit to plans I make the night before.

76.

Never arrive in a new city at night.

77.

Explore local activity options after midnight.

78.

Someday confess all the shit I got away with when I was younger.

79.

Cook an elaborate Italian feast like the one in the movie "Big NIght".

80.

acquire telekinesis!!

81.

Acquire more practical skills.

82.

have a viral video on YouTube

83.

Keep up with car maintenance.

84.

Commit to (and prepare for) plans made at least a day ahead.

85.

Write neatly in my next Moleskine.

86.

Decide what I want to dabble in next.

87.

Don't let great friends become "old" friends

88.

Call ahead!

89.

stop ruminating

90.

Get up early with a manic start to the day and hope the momentum lasts past noon.

91.

cure my own bacon

92.

Pull a body out of the river with a grappling hook.

93.

Get rescued by helicopter.

94.

catch a home run ball

95.

pole vault

96.

Watch porn on an IMAX screen.

97.

take part in a volley of musket fire

98.

Read a book on wine. Go to a wine testing. Ask sophisticated questions of participants to expose their ignorance and posturing.

99.

Tell the plainish, but way cool and interesting librarian that she sometimes horns me out.

100.

Write a note to my younger self about something I know now that I didn't know then

101.

Write a note from my younger self about something I knew then but I don't know now

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Created by Balut on Jul 09, 2006.