The List as of January 2009

Things I Want to Do Before I Die (in no particular order)

1. Try every type of alcohol…in the same night
2. Run a marathon
3. Meet a midget…and bring home to play with
4. Train in martial arts…in the Far East
5. Learn wine tasting…in France
6. Do something truly altruistic…and tell no one
7. Get my 15 minutes of fame
8. Discover a species
9. Handle wild animals like Steve Irwin for a day
10. Make a video for friends and family to play at my funeral
11. Be debt-free…for 3 days only
12. Learn how to sail
13. Pet a wild penguin
14. Take my birthday off every year
15. Go to Carnival in Brazil…and ride in one of the floats
16. Make over $100k a year…and live like I make $50k
17. Go to a masquerade party
18. Try absinthe
19. Live on a boat
20. Travel faster than sound
21. Go to a Superbowl
22. Take Wife some place where she dresses in a formal gown
23. Make a hole-in-one
24. Be the first bad impression of an American for someone
25. Learn Chinese
26. Get banned for life from someplace
27. Rob a bank
28. Make over $150k a year…and live like I make $75k
29. Write a will
30. Run a 5K…under 22 minutes
31. Save over $1mill for retirement
32. Visit 40 different countries…and dance in every one
33. Taste an endangered species
34. Reenact a battle as a Roman
35. Give away $1million to charity
36. Host a 200+ person party…with people of different races
37. Build a tree house
38. Sue someone or a company
39. Deep-sea fish
40. Run for office…and don't even try to get elected
41. SCUBA dive
42. Retire at 50
43. Set a world record
44. Invent something
45. Bench 225
46. Have a great dane
47. Learn Spanish
48. Ride in a military jet
49. Be a fireman
50. Parachute…in a wing suit
51. Break 10 laws in one day…None Moving Violations
52. Never weigh over 195lbs
53. Win over $10k in a poker tournament
54. Visit every continent
55. Do something so sweet Wife cries every year
56. "Convert" a Christian
57. Beat up someone…who deserves it
58. Own a motorcycle
59. Own a painting from an 18th or 19th century master
60. Learn the sword…and collect antique ones
61. Make a bet in Vegas for way more than I can afford
62. Volunteer with Hospice
63. Ride a camel in a desert
64. Jump from a cliff
65. Bury a treasure and make a map
66. Write 10 love notes a year to Wife
67. Be on fire
68. Buy a $5,000 suit
69. Disprove a myth
70. Steal candy from a baby
71. Get a tattoo
72. Go to jail…for a stupid reason
73. Streak…with 300+ people to witness
74. Golf under 80
75. Get into orbit
76. Leave myself a letter to read in 20 years
77. Climb an active volcano
78. Hustle someone at pool
79. Luge - Street or Ice
80. Play with a tiger
81. Crash a wedding
82. Crash a funeral…drunk
83. Write a book
84. Cow tip
85. Name a street
86. Pay for someone to go to college
87. See a World Cup Final
88. Try most illegal drugs…once each
89. Go to jail…for a good reason
90. Save over $2mill for retirement…and live off the interest
91. Skinny dip…in all 7 seas of the world
92. Learn to cook well
93. Swim in the ocean…with no land in sight at night
94. Make over $75k a year…and live like I make $50k
95. Start my own company
96. Meet a King
97. Do something truly evil…and tell no one
98. Get a pilot license
99. Give a beggar or panhandler all the money in my pocket
100. Use super glue in a vicious way
101. Learn cricket
102. Have lunch/dinner with 50 old friends…with whom I've never had lunch
103. Teach a college class
104. Drive 200mph
105. Drive 160mph
106. Start a cult
107. Meet an elected President/Chancellor/etc…
108. Bungee Jump…in the dark
109. Publish something
110. Ski the Alps
111. Eat a penguin
112. Learn French
113. Get a picture of me as a cowboy, fireman, policeman, astronaut, and praetorian
114. Put random relatives in my will
115. Celebrate 50 years of marriage
116. Live like a vagrant
117. Take Mom, Mark, Cheryl, and Wife on a cruise…to the Bermuda triangle
118. Learn guitar…and play for a crowd
119. Join the Mile-High Club
     
120. Do 100 push-ups
121. Make a lifelong enemy
122. Visit all 7 wonders of the world
123. Dance with a tribe
124. Write a song
125. End a fashion craze…like those stupid huge sunglasses
126. Weigh 185lbs
127. Attend an inaugural ball in DC…that the Pres shows up for