- Achievements

  • bike 100 miles in a day
  • achieve level 80 in World of Warcraft
  • earn a college degree, graduate with honors
  • become a credentialed Actuary
  • get a black belt in Taekwondo
  • fix my car
  • fix my bike
  • throw up from drinking too much
  • tag a railroad bridge (I was real young then… feel a little bad about it now)
  • sell some of my photos for commercial purposes
  • snowboard, downhill ski, xc ski, snowshoe, ice skate
  • mountain bike, rollerblade
  • canoe, kayak, fish (freshwater, fly, ice, ocean)
  • learn to scuba dive, go white-water rafting, water-ski
  • go bowling, play pool, ping-pong, volleyball, tennis, raquetball
  • play bridge, poker, use a Ouija board
  • be a trail maintenance crew leader
  • build something out of wood
  • design and make my own clothes; attend school for fashion design
  • be voted "most likely to be an artist" in high school graduation poll
  • get quoted in a popular magazine, appear in a photo on a front page of a section of a newspaper
  • buy a house… twice
  • do roofing, plumbing, electricity, flooring, painting, repair drywall, landscaping
  • have a cat (or 3 or 4 or 5)
  • have a dog
  • ride a horse
  • ride on a motorcycle, ride an ATV
  • see a mountain lion… bear… alligator… whale in the wild
  • experience a ghostly / otherworldly phenomenon
  • experience an earthquake
  • move to a new city miles away where I don’t know anyone… twice
  • lose 20 pounds, keep it off, and be confident of keeping it off
  • go off-roading
  • get something published on Urban Dictionary
  • attend a football game (Packers vs Jaguars)
  • attend a meeting at Cambridge University (UK)
  • go backstage at a concert
  • ride a tandem bicycle
  • make money from web design / development
  • attend a regional Burn (Colorado’s Apogaea)
  • pole dance
  • unfriend and be unfriended on Facebook
  • be tear gassed
  • lose 26 pounds, intentionally
  • do something immoral. do something illegal.
  • design/develop websites
  • attend Burning Man
  • make money as a fashion designer
  • go to a strip club
  • ride Boulder’s Banjo Billy Bus
  • make ‘word of the day’ on Urban Dictionary – with Party Pressure

- Quests

  • ride in a hot air balloon
  • ride in a sail plane
  • ride in a helicopter
  • ride a dirt bike
  • spend quality time in all 50 states
  • visit all continents
  • find true loves
  • find my calling(s) (professionally)
  • write a book
  • climb a 14er
  • do a long distance thru-hike or backpack
  • do a long distance bike ride
  • go rock climbing
  • go on a cruise
  • go to the opera
  • see a tornado
  • experience a hurricane
  • make an academic contribution to physics, math or philosophy
  • finally learn how to use my Nikon D40 SLR properly
  • visit: Oregon coast, Yosemite, New Orleans, upstate New York, Maine, Hawaii, Alaska, Vancouver, Isle of Skye, more of Scotland, Wales, more of Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Norway, New Zealand, Germany, South America
  • be fluent in Spanish
  • stay up on waterskis for e.g. more than a minute
  • kayak with all my cousins ;)
  • snowboard or ski at all Colorado resorts (10/25 so far)
  • ride a unicycle
  • snow-bike
  • hike the Santa Monica Mountains’ Backbone Trek
  • get a tattoo
  • have make-up sex

- Every Day, do most of these:

  • laugh, make someone laugh
  • smile, make someone smile
  • explore somewhere new
  • learn something new
  • meet someone new
  • make (or re-make) something
  • clean, fix or improve something
  • write something
  • do something that scares me
  • make a mistake
  • break a rule
  • take a risk
  • start something
  • finish something
  • motivate or be motivated; inspire or be inspired; respect and be true
  • “Let your geek shine.” – SparkFun Electronics
  • “Experience life. See what’s around the next corner, taste something new every week, and never settle.” – Steve Oberholtzer