I'm doing 28 things
“This time, like all times, is a very good one…if we but know what to do with it.”
- Ralph Waldo Emersonscooterbird's Life List
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1. 43 weird facts about myself
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2. Make Tangerine_Now a safety net full of love and hugs
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3. finish my baseball mogul season
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4. be a tourist in my own town
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5. be the lead singer in a band
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6. write a play
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7. write more smut
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8. Finalize my will.
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9. walk a labyrinth
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10. score 180 at darts
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11. lower my blood pressure
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12. host a trivia contest
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13. buy a new vacuum cleaner
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14. Learn to pick locks
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15. create a language
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16. update my web page
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17. write a book
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18. improve my French
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19. finish writing my role-playing system
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20. Design my Tarot Deck
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21. have my own action figure
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22. Get my name on Imdb.com
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23. run for public office
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24. See a Grey Cup game
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25. start a triskelion league
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26. find out who really killed Kennedy
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27. have the beef chow mein at Lee Ho Fook's in Soho
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28. drink a pina colada at Trader Vic's
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How I did it
It made me
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How I did it: Mostly it was a case of getting off my ruddy duff and Just Doing It. Having a new microphone - and some updated software - helped, however.And no, you stupid Robots, I can't "write a bit more about how I did this". Now fix this stupid "How I Did It" nonsense. Read how I did it…
It made me
decide that was it 
How I did it: Nothing really to say about it. Certainly it's a fine thing to have some good quotes around, but I'd hope that after a while I'd make some of my own. Read how I did it…
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How I did it: Well, it wasn't exactly me who did it. efbq took care of it today with a donation towards an agricultural co-op in Peru. Felt good to pay it forward just a bit, now that we're just about out of the hole we got into while I was out of work. Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
The new episode is up...
2 days ago
Episode 25 is now “in the can” and on the Intarwebs. I babble about the Green Party’s victories in all the tiny li’l local races out there, and other political stuff. And there’s even a song! Go to http://www.secret-frequency.com
No control
1 week ago
34. I am an engineer, and enjoy all manner of electronic devices, except that I detest remote controls, particularly for the TV. I live in fear of the day that mankind will remain permanently on the couch because they can’t get up and change the damn channel themselves. Mostly, I prefer turning the thing off.
I also dislike power windows in cars. I’ll crank the window myself. I’ve thrown fits in car showrooms because they kept trying to install power windows in my car. My car currently has them, but that’s because we bought it used. They come standard on just about everything now, and that’s just silly. I’ve gone nuts in the dark trying to figure out which button goes to which window, and watched them roll right past where I want them due to some “helpful” feature that causes them to open all the way down if I look at them funny.
And if I buy a computer, the first thing I do is throw out all those “helpful” little offers. “If you act now, we’ll connect you to the Internet through…!” NO. Screw you and get off my computer. Nowadays, it takes me something like two hours to assassinate all the damn little doohickeys that they contaminate my computer with. Pfeh.
