I have a new focus for my dissertation and have, as my goal, completing it in the coming year – by December 2008!
Wesley Fryer's Life List
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1. Reform the public education system.
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2. Travel with my family
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3. own an airplane
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4. live in the mountains
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5. invent free energy
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6. Read the entire Bible
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7. become a professor
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8. Summit Mt. Rainier
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9. exercise regularly
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10. go into space
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11. build a treehouse in my backyard
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12. Learn to play the guitar
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13. Sing a solo at church
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14. drink more water
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15. live passionately
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16. exercise more
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17. take a walk everyday
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18. learn more about astronomy
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19. take my wife to Hot Springs, Arkansas
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20. convince my local school board to permit classroom blogging
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21. help more teachers use videoconferencing in their classrooms
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22. further develop my own ideas about school 2.0
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23. meet George Lucas
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24. learn to use Shake software to create a film with real looking light saber special effects
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25. go hunting with my son
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26. write a screenplay
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27. grow a garden
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28. Understand McLuhan
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29. own a hybrid car
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30. see the northern lights
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31. climb grand teton
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32. pay off my debt
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33. go hiking more
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34. dream more
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35. drive a sled-dog team
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36. write more poetry
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37. speak spanish fluently
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38. own a cabin in the woods
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39. sleep outside more often
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40. help shape US national education policy
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How I did it: I wrote my book using Apple Pages software, and published it as an enhanced eBook for iPad for sale on my own website via e-junkie.com's shopping cart services. I also published it on Amazon.com via the Kindle Direct Publishing website, and on Barnes and Noble's website via PubIt. I initially tried to publish on Apple's iBooks Store but ran into delays because of image resolution issues, I did not persist in their publishing process but m… Read how I did it…
It would be cool to have a boat perhaps, but this is not a high priority for me. It would more fit on a list of, “it would be cool if I had tons of money.”
I love wood fires. Moving to a new house in a colder state with a great fireplace has been key for helping me accomplish this goal!

