I'm doing 41 things
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3 years ago
I’ve done this… with YOU as a matter of fact!
g's Life List
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1. Get my law degree
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2. Drink more water
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3. Helicopter drop snowboarding
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4. Run the Great Wall Marathon
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5. Surf El Salvador
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6. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
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7. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
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8. Work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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9. Become a bastion of good credit
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10. Get a Six Pack
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11. Visit South America
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12. See Angkor Wat
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13. Conquer a glacier
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14. See an active volcano
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15. Live in a foreign country
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16. Take that romantic helicopter date I planned out a few years ago
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17. Start riding a motorcycle again
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18. Do more creative writing
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19. Invest
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20. Camp in all of America's National Parks
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21. Radically change my perspective at least once more
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22. Watch the sunset in the Grand Canyon
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23. Eat sushi in Japan
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24. Run an Ironman
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25. Tarnish the image of Santa Claus
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26. Master UNIX even more
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27. Tour French Vineyards
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28. Race a Superbike
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29. Die happy
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30. Donate more time to charity
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31. Destroy social conservatism
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32. Design my first tattoo
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33. Pierce something else
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34. Spend more time with my family
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35. Build shelters in an impoverished country
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36. Go on a Safari
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37. Gamble lots of money in Monte Carlo
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38. Find the ultimate (non-drug induced) adrenaline rush
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39. Work for myself
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40. Touch the lives of my friends
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41. I wanna rock! ROCK!
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Recent entries
Worth every bit of effort!!!
4 years ago
Last year a good friend talked me into collaborating on an art car. I had some reservations about blowing that much money on something so fleeting. But we went with it. The idea started in January. In March, we harvested the bamboo necessary to build our art piece. On June 3rd, construction started.
We spent every single weekend from then until Aug 20th working on it. Consequently, I took a summer off from my job. I spent my time surfing and working on the car. About three times a week on my own. Once we got into crunch time (August) I spent EVERY SINGLE DAY piecing things together for two weeks. Once I was burned out, my partner in crime took over. Ultimately, we spent a few thousand dollars putting it together. Transporting it set us back another two. We put in hundreds of man hours for a vehicle that, in my opinion, wasn’t all that big.
I’d be lying if I said it was easy. But once we took our creation out to Burning Man, it was clear that it was worth every single bit of time, money, and effort we put into it. We were filmed and interviewed for a network TV spot. Every single day we were innundated with compliments and praise. We even took a bride, who I’d never met until 30 minutes before, and her entire party out to her wedding at the Temple. But most importantly, we had a ton of fun, met some really great people, and I really felt like I had done something to improve the community.
The capper was seeing our work appear in the Burning Man Gallery. We managed to fit 18 people on to that thing (the second level was a passenger carrier and beverage bar). With some vision and a whole lot of determination, we transformed a totalled Saturn Wagon into a surreal bamboo lionfish.
I had a blast doing it. I highly recommend the experience! I want to do another. In fact, my partner in crime and I are planning even bigger and better things. Deciding to make an art car was one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long time.
Surf Bum for a summer
4 years ago
I’m HORRIBLE at taking time off. It used to drive me nuts not to have a job. But a friend gently nudged me into trying to spend some time just feeding my soul for a while. So I bought a surf board and spent the summer learning how to surf… as well as knocking some goals off of my 43 things list (like travelling across the East Coast and building an art car!).
It was one of the best summers of my adult life.
