I'm doing 39 things
I can’t believe I finally finished the Bible. It took me 4.5 years of reading it on and off. What’s funny is that I found most of it to be tedious, dull, and remarkably unenlightening. However as a complete experience it was fantastic and definitely life changing. It really changed my faith, and I find myself referring to the Bible all the time in my everyday life.
sandblade's Life List
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1. go through my old files
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2. eat kobe beef
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3. get my motorcycle license
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4. lower my resting heart rate by 5 bpm
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5. organize my photos
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6. learn to do a handstand
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7. ride a metric century on a fixed gear
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8. Eat at Bookbinder's restaurant
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9. do a one-handed push-up
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10. get a patent
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11. see a sumo wrestling match
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12. march 4 miles in 1 hour with 70lbs
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13. Sit on a jury
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14. travel overnight on a sleeper train
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15. be in the audience of a TV show
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16. Drive the entire length of route 66
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17. run for public office
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18. Visit Falling Water.
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19. eat a real truffle
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20. Write a novel during Novel Writing Month
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21. go to Italy
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22. make a pizza
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23. get a Library of Congress ID card
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24. see the northern lights
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25. Build an Incredible Treehouse
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26. Go to the Canadian Rockies
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27. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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28. read 26 books this year
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29. eat a new food every week
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30. Do 10 pullups
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31. Take vitamins daily
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32. Ride a bike the length of the C&O Canal
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33. bicycle Skyline Drive
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34. Ride the Paris-Roubaix Cyclosportive
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35. Clean my attic
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36. Clean my basement
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37. learn to Hula Hoop
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38. learn to perform a Kip Up.
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39. learn how to ski
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How I did it
It made me
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How I did it: I started using an NIV study Bible. The footnotes were nice but the physical size of the Bible was huge. As a result I never carried it with me, and thus would never read it on a regular basis. I stopped reading it for 13 months all together when life got busy for me. I started reading it again when I got a Kindle. This was the best tool for me. I would emphatically recommend reading the Bible on a E-Reader of some sort. It was alwa… Read how I did it…
It made me
How I did it: I looked for an attorney that specializes in estates, wills, trusts, and elder law. The phonebook is still the best place to do this sort of thing. I was lucky that I got a really good recommendation as well. So ask your friends and family who they recommend. If you have a financial advisor, ask them. Since your financial life and will should be integrated. Read how I did it…
Recent entries
Got a Sage recurve takedown bow. It’s good enough for me, and it’s been frustrating but enjoyable to learn how to shoot. It’s cheap entertainment. My arrows, bow, and accessories came out to $250.
Corinthians I+II is a massive treatise on how the church and church members should behave. Basically it starts by saying we (Christians) have no right to judge people outside the church until we have our own house in order. Paul then proceeds to give a huge laundry list of do’s and don’ts. Some of it I find very good and some of it makes me cringe. The whole body is a temple concept comes from here. Also the big love chapter 1 Cor:13 which gets used at every wedding is here. Obama’s quote from his inauguration speech is in that chapter as well. Paul also goes on about how women should be submissive and not talk in church. 2 Cor:8 is interesting because it sort of advocates communism. Paul is pretty firm with his do’s and don’ts list but at the end of Corinthians he goes on to apologize about what a pain he can be, and he seems aware of his own bossiness and high horse. Reading these epistles are hard because we only have Paul’s half. I wonder what the letters and news he was getting from the churches was like to make him respond in this way.
