I'm doing 43 things
10-10-2009
1 hour ago
3 Rep Max (30) + 1R30 = 120
Be Bard's Life List
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1. make oliebollen & pepernoten this December
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2. build an outdoor fireplace
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3. get a dog
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4. grow my own vegetables
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5. get a degree
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6. have clear skin
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7. find a girlfriend
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8. train to need only 5 hours sleep per day
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9. go sailing
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10. record a speed cooking session on video
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11. Catch a salmon.
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12. find a media aggregator
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13. Learn to speed read
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14. type 100WPM
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15. ride a jetski
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16. do 1000 push-ups before 2010
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17. join a sports team
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18. learn spanish
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19. Go to a "classical" concert
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20. learn to dance
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21. learn to butcher
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22. do a 100 km trail run
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23. run the kepler in less than 7 hours
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24. Learn to play a musical instrument
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25. turn my lawn into native bush
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26. Get an aquarium
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27. preach the gospel
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28. go sea kayaking
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29. Swim 5000m
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30. scuba dive
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31. get married
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32. participate in a long distance horse race
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33. have kids
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34. be a foster parent
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35. go on a mission
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36. Find gold
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37. Get 100 hits a day on my site
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38. have a net worth of at least a million dollars
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39. have a wilderness retreat
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40. have grandkids
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41. write a book
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42. live prescription free until at least 80 years old
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43. live to be 100 years old
81 people
How I did it
It made me
even more confident 
How I did it: I got taken on a multi-day fishing trip with my part-time job. Which was cool since I'd been wanting to go out fishing for a while, but didn't know many people who went out fishing.We did it in style too, top of the North Island and I caught snapper and kahawai, which are great game fish.One of the guys caught a massive yellow tail kingfish which we put in a rockpool.When our guide threw some burly (fish bait) off the rocks I just couldn'… Read how I did it…
It made me 
How I did it: After having failed before for turning up with an empty tank, I was a bit better organised, though my friend had to wait outside while i was doing the test since I was using a flat deck ute with a ATV tied on the back. I just kept calm and the guy I had was pretty easy going. Just take on the things he tries to tell you rather than responding immediately with an excuse like "I don't normally drive like that!" Peace out. Read how I did it…
Recent entries
Not that bad
1 hour ago
I hadn’t really tried to rationalize the number of push ups I would be doing for the remainder of the year, but it turned out that one thousand is well within my limits.
Yesterday was my first day towards the one thousand and I did three sets of correct pushups, 30 repetitions being my max, so in short I did 3 Rep Max (30). And it got me thinking of doing 10000 instead! But after doing another set soon after, the next day I no longer felt I was going to be able to do that.. I’m hurting..
I do intend to average over a thousand pushups a week though, just to get this goal over and done with.
Untitled
2 weeks ago
In the Netherlands, old year’s eve is usually celebrated at home with friends. Board games are played, a comic show is watched and loads of oliebollen are consumed. (Free translation of oliebollen = oil balls; sounds good, don’t you think? They’re basically like deep fried donuts and taste darn good)!
Pepernoten are also used in the December festive season, but earlier in December, the 5th… St. Nicholas day…
These are basically marble sized cookies which are quite spicy.
I’ve made both recipes with varying success, I’ll post recipes in next entry in December. Gotta go to bed now, 4.5 hours sleep should do it…
