I'm doing 33 things
...because I think men have more to gain from being single—despite what “Sex and the City” may have you to believe. This is the era of the bachelor. Save your money. Do what you want. Be who you want to be.
Be a single guy. It is FUCKING AWESOME.
paperchase's Life List
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1. read every book I own
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2. write in my journal every day
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3. Blog every day
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4. read entire bible
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5. write letters every week
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6. listen to all Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums
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7. Buy and learn how to use a soldering iron
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8. master chess
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9. Learn Spanish
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10. write a novel
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11. learn Mandarin
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12. manage a band
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13. Play guitar in a band
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14. Learn to sing and play 20 Buddy Holly songs
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15. learn protools
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16. play trombone in a band
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17. Learn to play the piano
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18. play drums
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19. tour with a band
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20. learn to play poker
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21. have a garden
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22. get out of debt
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23. Start my own business
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24. own a house
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25. visit all the 50 states of the United States
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26. host an open mic
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27. Save 1 million dollars
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28. go back to Scotland
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29. get a real best friend
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30. go to space
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31. Make a movie
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32. learn to run 60 minutes every day and do so for a year
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33. learn to use Logic Pro
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How I did it
It made me
feel like rocking. 
How I did it: I drove to Austin and took my receiver to Mr. Wizard's in Austin. There was about a month long wait and it ended up costing me about $100 to fix, but it was worth every penny. Read how I did it…
It made me
Whatever 
How I did it: I wrote songs and recorded them in my apartment using a Korg D1200 recording workstation. I got pretty good sounds as well from a crappy casio keyboard picked up off Craigslist for $20. Read how I did it…
Recent entries
The Credit card will be the first to go. It has the highest interest rate at an astounding 29.99% (I know…don’t remind me. I missed a payment and I’ve been screwed ever since).
I’m trying to think of a good reward for myself much like I came up with for the “read all my books” goal (a Kindle…they’ve already come out with a new one. Who knows what generation of Kindle they will be on by the time I actually read all of my books).
So, fellow, 43Thingers? Any ideas? Preferably tangible. It needs to be somewhat significant, but not huge. I’ll do a huge reward after I get rid of all my student loans. I’m thinking somewhere in the $50 to $100 range.
As a symbolic amount, I’m thinking about getting something worth $82. That’s the approximate amount of interest I’ve been paying each month due to this particular piece of debt. We shall see.
Folks (and by folks, I mean 30-year old guys who have the same taste as I do) what would you get with $82?
