Dave

is finally coming up for air again!!



I'm doing 41 things
 

Dave's Life List

  1. 1. live my one wild and precious life
    37 entries . 36 cheers
    5 people
  2. 2. change the world, twenty minutes at a time
    17 entries . 9 cheers
    18 people
  3. 3. write one page every week
    3 team members . 16 entries . 5 cheers
    3 people
  4. 4. give back more than I take;in my work, my family, my community, and in the community of humankind
    2 entries . 8 cheers
    2 people
  5. 5. reflect on things for which I'm grateful
    47 entries . 12 cheers
    8 people
  6. 6. post random thoughts from my journal
    19 entries . 8 cheers
    1 person
  7. 7. Sit by the side of the road, drinking white wine and eating local cheese, in a bistro in Saumur, France
    4 entries . 9 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. start a blog
    4 entries . 8 cheers
    708 people
  9. 9. write
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    1,145 people
  10. 10. write a poem in afrikaans
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    2 people
  11. 11. Write a novel
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    8,037 people
  12. 12. write some short fiction
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    2 people
  13. 13. Write like Amy Hempel
    3 entries
    1 person
  14. 14. write a story in journal form, and post it here
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1 person
  15. 15. read all the volumes of my journal from beginning to end
    11 entries . 7 cheers
    1 person
  16. 16. study archaeology
    4 entries . 11 cheers
    22 people
  17. 17. contribute to the field of Oceanography
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    1 person
  18. 18. create a board game
    2 entries . 13 cheers
    193 people
  19. 19. see my kids graduate college
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    7 people
  20. 20. Travel in space
    4 entries . 5 cheers
    491 people
  21. 21. Pay it Forward
    2 entries . 11 cheers
    534 people
  22. 22. have grandchildren
    5 cheers
    55 people
  23. 23. live in a foreign country
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    2,219 people
  24. 24. help my kids get what they want out of life
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    2 people
  25. 25. Work on my Secret Goal
    8 entries . 8 cheers
    63 people
  26. 26. read and discuss cutting-edge fiction with other 43T'ers
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    1 person
  27. 27. use 43T more like a blog-site and less like a chat-room
    2 entries . 4 cheers
    1 person
  28. 28. 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 . 10 cheers
    1 person
  29. 29. live in a way that honors Paul Forman
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    1 person
  30. 30. Fund micro-loans through Kiva.org
    10 cheers
    5 people
  31. 31. upload all my music to my iPod
    3 entries . 4 cheers
    9 people
  32. 32. make level 60 in World of Warcraft
    4 entries . 2 cheers
    3 people
  33. 33. become a wine connoisseur
    5 entries . 2 cheers
    186 people
  34. 34. drink responsibly
    4 entries . 1 cheer
    5 people
  35. 35. read 25 books in 2008
    21 entries . 4 cheers
    64 people
  36. 36. hit my revenue target for FY2009, long before the end of FY2009
    3 entries
    1 person
  37. 37. Spend less than I make
    2 entries . 11 cheers
    2 people
  38. 38. make a smaller ecological footprint
    51 team members . 6 entries . 9 cheers
    1,007 people
  39. 39. live small
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    2 people
  40. 40. publish my first piece of short fiction
    2 entries . 2 cheers
    1 person
  41. 41. Do something useful with my facebook account
    1 entry
    1 person
Recent entries
change the world, twenty minutes at a time (read all 17 entries…)
Vote with dollars 1 day ago

I’ve concluded that we vote with our money in the modern political system. Sad, but true.

So I donated $100. to Barack Obama’s campaign. I cannot remember supporting the platform of a political candidate more. Obama is our best chance at restoring democracy in America.


read 25 books in 2008 (read all 21 entries…)
Book 20. A long way from Chicago, by Richard Peck. 1 day ago

This is a young-adult book in the same family as “A year down yonder”, which was actually the second in the series. I enjoyed that one so much that I decided to read this one.

It is written as a series of linked short stories about the two weeks each summer a boy and his sister stay at their grandmother’s, throughout the 30’s. The theme is one of independence and doing the right thing, regardless of what others think of you, and the character of Grandma is so delightful that I don’t hesitate to recommend these two books.


Do something useful with my facebook account
Faces and things 3 days ago

I just don’t get it.

It seems to me that Facebook is a complete waste of time, but perhaps I’m just not trying hard enough. Sure, it’s fun at first to connect with all the people I haven’t seen in 20 years, but let’s face it, the reason I haven’t kept in touch with most of them is that I have nothing in common with them. Other than an occasional chuckle from a photo of an overweight, stressed out 40-something whom I haven’t seen since they were an anorexic, uptight 20-something, there isn’t much value there to extract, at least for me.

Contrast that with 43T. Here, I have a dozen or two people I correspond with because of common interests or attitudes about life. Sure, they’re total strangers, but I feel more in common with, say, someone curious about political systems and structures than someone who happened to graduate from the same high school as me.

Anyway, I’ll give it another couple of weeks, but I’m starting to see Facebook as a lost cause for me, and nothing but an endless time sink with very little return.


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