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Life List

There seems to be no shortage of life lists on the Internet. Life lists are lists of events folks desire to have before leaving this life.

John Goddard is well-known for his list. In January 2008, Rob Reiner’s The Bucket List starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman opens. IMDB states:

Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.

Life lists are everywhere. I thought I would take a stab at creating one. I included few items that have already come to fruition, that definitely had been life dreams. I did not include becoming a fireman, baseball player, football player, and all the other childhood dreams I had.

I suspect this list will grow as I delve into this more. After the items already achieved, the list is in no particular order.

1. learn to juggle
2. marry a perfect woman
   
3. buy a house
4. have children
5. set the pins on the Foucault pendulum at the Franklin Institute
6. retire
7. hike the Appalachian Trail
8. learn to ballroom dance prior to Beetle’s wedding
9. be a grandfather
10. go for a hike in Montana
11. have my children thank me for what I taught them
12. take Gert on a proper vacation
13. complete a culinary program at the CIA
14. see a game at Wrigley Field
15. visit Cooperstown, namely, the Baseball Hall of Fame
16. “complete” the family’s genealogy
17. deliver an “important” speech well
18. make this risotto
19. see the Aurora Borealis
20. visit the Prime Meridian
21. complete an Outward Bound (or similar organization) course
22. to be asked permission to marry my daughter
23. have a massage
24. go in a dunk tank
25. tour the White House
26. have a surprise party thrown for me (silly, I know)
27. coach a baseball team
28. re-model our kitchen
29. take my son to his first baseball game. I missed that with my daughter.
30. build a greenhouse
31. see the US Open (tennis)
32. listen to the blues on Beale Street
33. make my mother proud of me
34. visit the first shutterspot
35. sail upon a paddle boat down the Mississippi River
36. play Hold ‘Em in a casino
37. attend my children’s first communion
38. make someone else’s dream come true; extra bonus if it is Gert’s
39. perform a magic show in public
40. tell Gert I love her at Longwood Gardens in the rose garden
41. score a no-hitter

So, what’s on your list?

Also blogged on this date . . .

• Indoctrination - 2009
• House Paintings - 2008
• McCain's Move - 2008
• Codey Still Committed to Moving the Presidential Primary - 2006
• Plagiarism - 2006
• More Legislative Corruption - 2006
• Courier Post Takes Bashaw to Task - 2005
• South Jersey Weirdness - 2005
• LIJ 2: The Fish Factory - 2005
• Weird U.S. - 2005
• A Fine Texas Tradition - 2005
• Find the key, take my 63 Corvair home. Really. - 2003

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