I am a huge fan of the Hitchiker Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, and was excited when I heard that Eoin Colfer would be continuing it. Colfer wrote the Artemis Fowl books which I really liked, so I thought he was a great pick to continue the series. I have the audiobook in my car and am excited to hear it.
Patrick Weintraub's Life List
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1. get my weight below 200 pounds
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2. get a tattoo for the first time
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3. become fluent in Spanish instead of the quasi-fluent Spanglish shit I can do now.
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4. learn to drive stickshift
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5. pay off my student loans
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6. buy a house
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7. watch every episode of Flying Circus
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8. read my stash of Wolverine comics
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9. Go to Mardi Gras
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10. visit all 50 states
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11. watch every Hitchcock movie
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12. Watch "The Wizard of Oz" at the same time as listening to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"
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13. go see the Laser Light Show at the Museum of Science
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14. Finish reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series
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15. attend a world series game
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16. visit the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum
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17. Lose 30 pounds
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18. fire a gun
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19. drink absinthe
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20. go on a cruise
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21. Visit Chicago
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22. watch season 1 of The Riches
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23. Figure out where I want to live
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24. leave North America
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25. Do research into starting my own private practice
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26. Get my wife's antique stained glass mirror repaired
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27. Lose 10% of my body weight
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28. Beat Lost Odyssey
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29. watch Stargate SG-1 season 2
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30. Pass Health Care Reform
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31. get out of debt
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32. Get a flu vaccination
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33. get a new pcp and keep an appointment
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34. 43Things Film Club
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35. Watch season 1 of Legend of the Seeker
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36. Complete my continuing education courses
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37. Renew my LMHC license
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38. visit every major league baseball park
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39. Give 10,000 cheers
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40. Get PKED connection back together one last time to celebrate the end of BSG
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41. Read And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer
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My wife and I lived with our friend Ed for 3 years before moving into our current apartment. Somewhere along the way our friend Dan started crashing, and never left. Combined we were the PKED (Pat, Katy, Ed and Dan) connection. We watched every episode of Battlestar Galactica as a group. It brought us together. Even if we were arguing or busy we always got together and watched BSG. Well, the movie that officially ends the series just came out last week so we are trying to get together for it one last time. Hopefully we can pull this off in the next week or two. Even if the show was a rollercoaster ride that reached higher heights than most series, and some awful lows, it made us closer as a group of friends, and my memories of it will always be tinged by that.
After the debacle of dietary disaster that was Halloween, I was very good yesterday. Lots of water, some exercise, and healthy options for food and dropped a quick 2 pounds. The hard part was sitting at a bar with my friends for football and downing waters. Really wanted a cheeseburger and a shot of whiskey.
