I'm doing 39 things
It’s been written here before, but I can’t find it: does anyone know how to archive the material I’ve written to this site?
scooterbird's Life List
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1. provide occasional updates to my 43 Things friends
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2. create a 43 Things Users' Group
4 entries . 1 cheer5 people -
3. Pledge NOT to like, tweet or share anyone on 43T!
5 entries . 4 cheers0 people -
4. lower my blood pressure
15 entries . 25 cheers137 people -
5. Complete the All New 30 Day Song Challenge
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6. start a Gnostic meetup or Bible study
2 entries . 2 cheers1 person -
7. write a play
3 entries . 19 cheers663 people -
8. write more smut
9 entries . 25 cheers2 people -
9. reinvent my business
4 entries . 3 cheers3 people -
10. visit more local Civil War sites
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11. be a tourist in my own town
6 entries . 48 cheers89 people -
12. be the lead singer in a band
8 entries . 19 cheers63 people -
13. Support wikileaks
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14. spend a night at the Hotel Obladi
1 entry . 1 cheer1 person -
15. Learn to pick locks
1 entry . 18 cheers1,514 people -
16. Finalize my will.
2 entries . 6 cheers3 people -
17. walk a labyrinth
5 entries . 45 cheers77 people -
18. create a language
6 entries . 12 cheers138 people -
19. host a b-movie night
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20. score 180 at darts
5 entries . 9 cheers6 people -
21. host a trivia contest
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22. update my web page
3 entries . 5 cheers3 people -
23. improve my French
5 entries . 18 cheers1,467 people -
24. learn conversational spanish
1 entry . 6 cheers97 people -
25. have my own action figure
2 entries . 17 cheers7 people -
26. write a book
5 entries . 22 cheers30,183 people -
27. get a contract for my company
4 entries . 2 cheers1 person -
28. finish writing my role-playing system
2 entries . 12 cheers1 person -
29. Design my Tarot Deck
2 entries . 29 cheers17 people -
30. Get my name on Imdb.com
2 entries . 13 cheers43 people -
31. recreate the Cannonball Run
2 entries . 4 cheers1 person -
32. run for public office
7 entries . 7 cheers226 people -
33. See a Grey Cup game
1 entry . 7 cheers1 person -
34. watch the Orioles win the World Series
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35. visit the Red Lion in Avebury with my wife
1 entry . 1 cheer1 person -
36. start a triskelion league
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37. find out who really killed Kennedy
5 entries . 14 cheers3 people -
38. have the beef chow mein at Lee Ho Fook's in Soho
2 entries . 11 cheers3 people -
39. drink a pina colada at Trader Vic's
2 entries . 17 cheers1 person
How I did it
It made me
happy 
How I did it: One of the sayings in my church is, "Never put a period where God put a comma," so in a real sense, this is not something that can be "done". She'll still have those thoughts and prayers, and I - and we - will continue to be there. Granted, it's all from half a world away, but that's not really a boundary for these kinds of things. Read how I did it…
It made me
observant
How I did it: There were only about two or three times I really craved a soda during Lent, but I'll admit that it did serve its purpose: I was acutely aware of the change in my behavior and why I was doing it. Read how I did it…
It made me
weird, baby
How I did it: It actually took a lot longer than I thought to bring these things up; a lot of people online would say that I wasn't being weird at all. I suppose it's just the entire package put together... Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
It was a wonderful one. I slept in, had my adoptive daughter visit (not really a daughter, but she’s considered me “Dad” ever since we took her in from off the street for a number of months…and she really didn’t have a relationship with her birth father, so she chose me, and I’m happy to have her as my daughter), we went and got ice cream, and then had a nice Italian dinner with my mother and wife and daughters.
I’m really the only “Dad” in the family – my birth father and a couple of fathers/step-fathers are out of the picture – so it was all about me today.
And that’s fine with me, btw. I occasionally wish to have a dad that was more in the picture, but only occasionally. And today wasn’t one of those days.
I seem to be explaining a lot about the sport of baseball of late. Just spent the first half-hour here at work explaining it to a Nigerian co-worker, and in the past week, I found the one American who seems to know nothing about it. She’s on my trivia team and is pretty much entirely ignorant about sports…to the point that she apparently had never heard the phrase “Three strikes and you’re out”. I would have thought that that’s even leaked into the consciousness of people who didn’t follow the sport at all!
