I'm doing 37 things
Ok, this is the one...
15 months ago
I’ve found a photo of the exact car. One day, I’ll be making the owner an offer.
aeiou's Life List
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1. Become financially independant
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2. Marry the woman I love
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3. Write a poem a week during 2009 - Week 1
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4. Move to Chicago
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5. Get and stay fit and healthy
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6. Have a life I can live in more than one country
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7. Be successful with Network 21
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8. Live in a home I love
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9. Learn Japanese Rope Bondage
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10. Devote my life to culture
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11. Own a Clarice Cliff teaset
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12. Own a Bentley Continental Tourer Fastback
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13. Travel in space
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14. Buy new clothes
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15. Spend more time in the garden
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16. Travel business class
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17. Be a great husband
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18. Pay off my credit cards
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19. Start a research lab with my wife
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20. Have a home movie theatre
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21. Have a home gym
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22. Have a personal trainer
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23. Have a housekeeper
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24. Have a cook
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25. Buy a new camera
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26. Have a team of professional advisors
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27. Have two or three children
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28. Learn to ski
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29. Learn to dance
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30. See a glacier
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31. Ride an elephant
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32. Buy a Dyson vacuum cleaner
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33. Own a sculpture by Anish Kapoor
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34. Own all the books by Andy Goldsworthy
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35. Colonize Mars
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36. See a volcano
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37. Own a house that I've designed
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How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: I had a limit of five cubic metres and four suitcases, and everything I owned had to compress into that. Most of it was in storage, so on the hottest day of the Queensland summer, I threw most of it out of storage and into a skip.There wasn't time to sell any of it, and I wasn't willing to haggle my way through my possessions either. Some things went to friends and a new home.Some of it was very rough. I personally don't think that the… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
Way done!
15 months ago
I was hanging out to buy some brown suede brogues, English country doctor shoes, to go with my brown suit. I rather like playing up the stuff conservative image, except the older I get, the fewer people see the post-modern irony in that image. Doh!
Anyhoo, I ended up buying some very plain, very cheap, very comfortable, brown lace-up shoes. They looked horrible, as though they’d been painted. But they are a great shape and fit.
So I took them home, wore them as is for a day, sure, people pulled faces at them. But then, folks, the magic… I polished my brown shoes with black polish.
This immediately transformed them. It gives them a slightly antique look. Now I’m alternating layers of black and brown, giving it a few days between polishes to make sure the last layer is as solid as possible. They look great!
Not yet...
16 months ago
I’ve realised that I was wanting to have an investment property to create cash flow.
It’s the other way round, duh! ONCE I’ve got cashflow (see my entry about Network 21) THEN I can get into property.
