I'm doing 33 things
Decided to take a 2-day accellerated ASA keelboat course. Had a blast!
Alex Halavais's Life List
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1. become better at small-talk
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2. get in shape
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3. get out of debt
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4. Contact Juggle
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5. learn to weld
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6. learn to SCUBA dive
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7. Learn to fly
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8. visit Costa Rica
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9. learn to kitesurf
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10. take piano lessons again
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11. defeat gravity
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12. become a Fulbright scholar
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13. kaizen
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14. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
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15. Visit India
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16. Learn to fly a helicopter
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17. design my own clothes
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18. Design and build my own house
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19. learn to snowboard
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20. Write a science fiction or fantasy novel
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21. learn how to prepare 10 excellent meals
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22. design and build a car
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23. get rid of 2 things for every 1 new thing
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24. compete again in judo
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25. start a school
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26. patent something
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27. build a google-like company
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28. live for the moment most moments
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29. make some good friends
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30. be a cool dad
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31. Go Paperless
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32. see Tom Waits perform live
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33. become my own boss
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How I did it
It made me
Amazed and ecstatic. 
How I did it: Did some research online. Asked about rates of complications. Went to a doc with good equipment and a cogent follow-up process. Went in and did it.A bit rough for the first few days. But Amazing that I can see. Amazing.Wanted to do it since way back when RK was all that was available. So glad the tech & medicine caught up with me.Now 3 months out, and it's like I was born with 20/15. Read how I did it…
Recent entries
I wasn’t a big TV person, but my home-built PVR crashed just before the move, and I can no longer watch “regular” TV. It was a pain to build my own (on the cheap) but really well worth it.
OK, finally made the move. At this point, if I could break my lease without anyone breaking my legs, I think I could still say I lived in New York, if only for a while.
So far, so good. Though I totally get New Yorkers complaints (and there are many). It’s cool, but it’s also hard to forget that you could have a much nicer place for the same amount of money almost anywhere in the US. But I love being able to walk downstairs and be in the city (if a little too far uptown).
