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Dave's Life List

  1. 1. live my one wild and precious life
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    5 people
  2. 2. change the world, twenty minutes at a time
    20 entries . 17 cheers
    15 people
  3. 3. give back more than I take;in my work, my family, my community, and in the community of humankind
    2 entries . 16 cheers
    3 people
  4. 4. reflect on things for which I'm grateful
    51 entries . 12 cheers
    14 people
  5. 5. post random thoughts from my journal
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    1 person
  6. 6. Sit by the side of the road, drinking white wine and eating local cheese, in a bistro in Saumur, France
    4 entries . 12 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. start a blog
    4 entries . 11 cheers
    969 people
  8. 8. write some short fiction
    4 entries . 9 cheers
    2 people
  9. 9. write a story in journal form, and post it here
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    2 people
  10. 10. read all the volumes of my journal from beginning to end
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    1 person
  11. 11. study archaeology
    5 entries . 21 cheers
    23 people
  12. 12. contribute to the field of Oceanography
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    1 person
  13. 13. create a board game
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    207 people
  14. 14. see my kids graduate college
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    12 people
  15. 15. Travel in space
    4 entries . 5 cheers
    496 people
  16. 16. Pay it Forward
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    647 people
  17. 17. have grandchildren
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    70 people
  18. 18. live in a foreign country
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    2,456 people
  19. 19. help my kids get what they want out of life
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    3 people
  20. 20. Work on my Secret Goal
    8 entries . 10 cheers
    62 people
  21. 21. read and discuss cutting-edge fiction with other 43T'ers
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    1 person
  22. 22. use 43T more like a blog-site and less like a chat-room
    2 entries . 5 cheers
    1 person
  23. 23. Drench myself in words unspoken, Live my life with arms wide open, Today is where my book begins, the rest is still unwritten
    2 entries . 15 cheers
    1 person
  24. 24. Fund micro-loans through Kiva.org
    1 entry . 12 cheers
    4 people
  25. 25. upload all my music to my iPod
    3 entries . 5 cheers
    12 people
  26. 26. become a wine connoisseur
    5 entries . 3 cheers
    199 people
  27. 27. drink responsibly
    5 entries . 1 cheer
    6 people
  28. 28. Spend less than I make
    2 entries . 12 cheers
    4 people
  29. 29. make a smaller ecological footprint
    46 team members . 6 entries . 9 cheers
    1,042 people
  30. 30. live small
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    3 people
  31. 31. publish my first piece of short fiction
    6 entries . 4 cheers
    1 person
  32. 32. have a waist to height ratio of 0.5
    5 entries
    1 person
  33. 33. read 25 books in 2009
    13 entries . 2 cheers
    45 people
  34. 34. Find my 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon
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    9 people
  35. 35. Don't go broke in 2009
    2 entries
    1 person
  36. 36. list 43 things I love about the Constitution of the United States
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    4 people
  37. 37. write daily
    3 team members . 26 entries . 1 cheer
    235 people
Recent entries
read 25 books in 2009 (read all 13 entries…)
Book 12: The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell 2 months ago

Romance novels for men.

Sure.

But hey, they’re still fun to read.

This one deviated a bit from the formula, with a more despicable main character and slightly more developed historical characters, but it’s still the usual slash and hack fun of an “historical novel” set in 878 England. Since Alfred the Great is one of my heroes, it was both fun and a little bit painful to read this tale of his time fighting to keep the West Saxons of Wessex free from Danish rule.



write daily (read all 26 entries…)
Checking in 3 months ago

This week, 5 of 7. Nothing remarkably creative in about 7 pages of work.



publish my first piece of short fiction (read all 6 entries…)
one more edit? 3 months ago

Ok, so feedback on the piece was not glowing. In fact, most people thought I needed to seriously re-write the opening section, about 1/5 of the total piece.

Ok, here we go again…



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