Hopefully soon I’ll make a pilgrimage to Seattle to buy a rubber chicken at the Archie McPhee store. If I make it to 50 without having owned a rubber chicken, then I know my life has gone horribly wrong.
@FroodyFrog Thank you for the offer, but since a rubber chicken is symbolic of absurdity to me, I feel that this is a purchase to be made in person. When I think of everything in existence that I can comprehend, and contrast it to nothingness, my only conclusion is that the universe is absurd. I feel like a full blown pilgrimage is in order to honor the absurdity of existence.
@cercopithecoid If you are buying a rubber chicken, this is the place to do it. The store is amazing. You can wander around for hours. You wont believe all that they have.
@cercopithecoid if you do ever fulfill your quest, about a block west of the store, there’s a really good hole in the wall sushi place called Musashi’s. (it’s a cash only place)
Travel to points of interest in America (and maybe Canada) like Civil war battlefields and memorials, Revolutionary War sites, the many National Parks I haven;t seen yet, Carlsbad, Grand Canyon, Wheeler Peak, too many others to list, without a hard schedule, and with the ability to stop at intervening places that look interesting. All my travel now is hard scheduled, no time to do anything but what the trip is for, no stopping in between… and it sucks.
Ideally I’d like to make a few of the shorter trips in the fully restored and functional Challenger
@duodec I feel for you. Before I retired, I travelled a lot but seldom got a spare day on either end. Occasionally I could drive to/from a site, which is how I made a stop at Andersonville- and found my great-grandfather’s file.
@duodec You can’t imagine how much I appreciate my 30 days of vacation in Germany. And you know what? 1) Our bosses make sure we take them 2) 30 days are too short.
@Fischbroetchen Looking forward to when all my days are available; maybe in 5-7 years if things go well. In the meantime, its not really work at issue (though after 25 years I only have 20 days vacation); its life. Too many relatives in too many places, with health issues, aging, problems, etc. The days get used up visiting and visiting and visiting and going to hospitals and care facilities, and then getting “when can you come back, we really miss you, we’re lonely”, within a week of leaving, every few days until the next trip… there’s nothing left for actual vacations.
@mehbee I was visiting a friend who was doing Peace Corps work in Malawi, so the trip alternated between crazy high end tourism and hitchhiking between villages, eating flour mush on dirt floors. We went to S. Luangwa national park in Zambia, and stayed at a far north safari camp called Tafika, run by a husband and wife and employing local villagers. It was a pretty surreal mix of an outlandish primitive environment and pretty extreme luxury all at once. Nothing like I imagined, but every bit as incredible. I’ll be paying off that trip for a long time, but I wouldn’t trade the memories.
@gosuion When we did it, we did the tandem and we used a Groupon. I think if you get the pics and video don’t have a Groupon it’s around 400.00. Ours was like 269.00, 169.00 for the actual jump and then 100,00 for the photos/videos. Not too bad and it was one of the most incredible experiences I have ever had.
@TheCO2 Totally worth it!! You can do it! Let me know if you want some help getting pointed in the right direction!! Here’s a start: http://www.aopa.org/letsgoflying/
@canuk I’m curious, as someone who is fairly well interested in aviation, for anyone who isn’t independently wealthy enough to own their own plane and doesn’t aim to make a career of it, what makes it worth it? Not judging or anything, just curious for your views on the matter in detail.
@jbartus glad you asked!! Just as an aside, while it is a very expensive endeavor, there are ways to reduce the costs. For me it was being a part of a flying club that really helped. Also, it means that I can’t have some other hobbies but that’s ok. Aviation is a tremendous community, I’ve just met the most incredible people and they tend to be really generous and warm. There is also this incredible feeling when you fly solo for the first time, and suddenly realize that you have, by yourself, taken a machine into the air, and it is up to you to return it safely to the ground. If there is anything that better instills a sense of personal responsibility, I have yet to find it. I also really like the way it is something that fully engages my whole self. There is the analytical planning aspect of it, there is the spatially aware and operating in three dimensions aspect of it, then there is the intellectual and practical application of knowledge of aerodynamics and physics. Also, as a techie, it is a field with some really neat and fun technology. It has made me more disciplined, a better decision maker, and better at assessing and managing risk. Then there’s the fact that you get to go places, and have experiences that are very unique and see things that can only be seen from the air! I could go on…
@TheCO2 Ditto! I did ground school and passed the knowledge test; then I bought a house instead of using my savings for flying lessons. Probably the smarter move financially, but not one without some regrets…
@TheCO2 I don’t think it’s something I want to finance, and the local club I would learn at credits volunteer work for the club toward flying time. It’s largely been a question of time and money; when I’ve had the time, I haven’t had the money, and when I’ve had the money, I haven’t had the time.
@jbartus yeah, it wasn’t without sacrifice. Some things that helped me: taking ground school at the local community college when it was like $20/unit. Being close enough to one of the best clubs in the country with really reasonable rental rates (plusone.org), finding a good, but inexpensive flight instructor. I agree, if you’re not somewhere that has a club, or you can’t start one, it is a lot tougher. For example, there is a club at my current airport that has an old Cherokee and it’s $50/month dues and $65/hour (wet) to fly. I was able to get my license for a significantly amount less than what you see at a Part 135 school, where your initial single-engine certificate will cost you $7,500-$10,000. It’s not something that happens overnight to be sure, but I know plenty of people who tell me they don’t know how I can afford to fly and then they drive around in a car that has a $350-500/month payment and buy expensive lattes every day. Not judging or assuming you’re in that boat, but for me it was a matter of priorities and saving every penny I could. I drove a 1980 Toyota Corolla for a couple years that cost me $500. It was the best feeling, driving up to the airport in this rusty, loud beater of a car, parking next to a Porsche, but minutes later I was airborne and all that earth-bound stuff seemed less important…
I can understand where you’re coming from (I hope!), before I started it seemed just impossible, and it certainly didn’t come overnight. I’m certainly not independently wealthy, and at times, thought this would never happen. From the time of my very first lesson/“discovery flight” to the time I got my license was probably 5 years, and it was something I had been dreaming about for at least 15 years.
@TheCO2
That is our guess, since the most we can observe of the stars is thier color and gases. Even with the most pewerful telescopes, the closest stars appear as points of light.
I’m an awful nihilistic piece of crap so I was going to make up some smartass answer, but then I saw the one about visiting all the ballparks. The one thing I do like is baseball.
@FroodyFrog
I would have bought it if I had the money. But I don’t. Fortunately, that is just the Developer version and the Consumer version should be much cheaper ($500-$800 is my guess). It seems that they are making them by hand for now, but once production gets going, the price will drop and it will be released for consumers.
So, my dreams aren’t completely crushed. Honestly, I’m pretty excited about it.
@Al_Coholic Actually just kidding. I want to make it through my backlog of games on Steam, which, considering the rate of growth vs. games ever actually played, should only take a few infinity years.
In addition to learning to fly, I’d like to see the Northern and/or Southern Lights in person. And if space tourism becomes commercialized in my lifetime, I’d like to go into orbit. Suborbital flight into space would also be cool, but I’d really like the extended freefall of orbit.
@jqubed
Orbital space tourism is already a thing. Eight tourists payed $20 million to $45 million for a ten day flight. Suborbital has not happened yet, but ticket prices are predicted to be $200,000.
@DVDBZN Yeah, but that’s not such an organized thing, that’s just rich people calling up Russia and paying for a seat on the next flight that otherwise probably would’ve gone to, you know, an actual astronaut. I’m talking about some actual scheduled service that is primarily for tourism purposes, more like what Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic are working toward. I’m also still hoping that at some point we’ll develop suborbital spaceplanes as an alternative method of faster intercontinental travel. Maybe rapidly reusable boosters like the Falcon 9 first stage could make those more feasible and put Australia, like, an hour away from North America.
Be a contestant on the Price is Right, and at least make it to the spin the wheel portion. I don’t care about winning, but I’d be hella pissed if I never made it out of contestants’ row because some goober did that one-dollar-more BS.
One thing on my list is NEVER run a marathon. I run (among other things, in fact doing my 2nd sprint tri on June 5) and people when they hear that inevitably ask “have you/when will you do a marathon?” My response is never. Yes i could try, yes it is an awesome feat, yes people not as healthy as me have done it, yes…, but no. To date (47 yrs old) furthest i’ve run is just over 8 miles at a 10 min pace and i have 0 interest in even a half marathon because it just leads you down that slippery slope to a full marathon.
I also want to
-take an auto mechanic class
-go to Germany and/or that region for a couple weeks (tourist)
-go to the Price is Right (don’t even have to get picked)
I dream small, i know. I’d love to own a 67 Corvette, do lots of other travel, win on PIR, at least place in my age division in a Tri, and a few other things, but i don’t feel Bucket List level on them, I’ll have no regrets without these.
@lisaviolet I have to go in yearly to make sure my braind tumor is not growing at a crazy rate. Every MRI experience is different. Sometimes I fall asleep, while other times I totally freak out. I hate them.
@lisaviolet I’ve had quite a few at this point. I was perfectly fine with them until a couple years ago when I thought about a zombie attack as I went in. I could almost feel them biting my legs and, much worse, my skull. After that, I get panicked every time. Medicated for every one since.
@conandlibrarian I had one when my gallbladder went rogue. They wrapped me too tight and I couldn’t move, my head was at a weird angle and I couldn’t swallow. The tech was annoyed with me, but I was an MRI virgin.
@compunaut No margaritas. They just give you a little happy pill or two. It doesn’t completely knock you out, you need to be able to follow their instructions. Just means I care a little less about toe nibbles from the undead.
Mine are mostly vehicular…
Build a car with my own hands
Drive the perimeter of the lower 48
Route 66, Lincoln Highway, route 40( the original “national road” - I70 largely mirrors it)
Take a year to travel around Europe.
Drive the Dalton Highway (AK)
etc.
@compunaut being as im chronically single, hadn’t thought much of company… though for the dalton, it would have to be my brother and I.
Regionally, NW buckeyeland.
@compunaut only been to about a dozen major/minor league stadiums. Reading PA minor league stadium was our fav: leg room, good food, fun clean atmosphere, oh and winning team.
I need to milk a cow and yell “You 4 eye fuck” at Larry David.
Lucky for me Larry has a house where I vacation and since I am a tourist there, I can yell it out.
Natives need to be cool when they see someone.
I couldn’t do it if I see him in NYC.
@smilingjack They use to have a thing at the State Fair where you could milk a cow, but then there was a salmonella or e. coli outbreak one year so they stopped that.
@smilingjack Whyinhell do you want to milk a cow? The cow is ungrateful, and she will hit you with her tail. The tail is full of cowshit. If you get a cranky cow, she will try to kick you. Twelve hours later you do it again.
@OldCatLady I grew up 3 blocks from the last working farm in NYC. It was a dairy barn with hundreds of cows. They let kids wander around the barn. I watched them milk the cows hundreds of times, but even in the early 60’s they wouldn’t let a 7 year old kid milk one.
@smilingjack Until the early 60s my uncle had a family farm. The milk route ran past the drive. He had about 6 milk cows, some steers, chickens, garden patch, the whole bit. I used to spend part of each summer there, and they believed in child labor (they had 6 of their own). Did you know that cows’ backs are bony as hell, and when they buck you off you always land in a cow pie?
I have skydived 3 times. Once, static line in Belgium, And twice in Maine where I had to take a weekend course. People jumped out of the plane with you (not tandem), and let you go in the first 60 seconds to make sure you were ok. Once they waved you off you were on your own. Lines tangled up before deploying shoot - a little scary, but scary is why I do it - that and my fear of heights.
I attempted Bungee jumping once - but couldn’t go thru with it. Height is too real - skydiving height doesn’t seem real ( I know weird). It was also with a shady outfit that broke into a Vermont Park to provide the experience. This may have had something to do with it.
I am certified in Scuba Diving. Again, because I have a fear of being underwater. My last time was the aquarium in Disney in April where I was able to swim next to sharks, turtles, and rays. Damn turtle rammed me just as I was getting into the water.
My last thing I loved was a bought a Travelzoo coupon where I was able to fly a small pane over the Chesapeake and the Annapolis Naval Academy for an hour. So much fun - fly a plane if you can.
I need to try to find more things that bring me enjoyment and fear.
@mfladd very cool challenging yourself to face up to your fears! I’m not sure I could jump out of a plane, but I can definitely relate to the difference between plane altitudes and, say, bridge or cliff altitudes, things are so far away it’s almost like it’s not real. I can deal with planes just fine but even things like scissor lifts give me the willies.
I want to hike the Appalachian Trail with my family. I’d like to do it soon. I’d like to take everyone out of work & school for 6 months and get some of that real-world living done. It’ll never happen, but I’m sure we can hike lots of smaller sections in a reasonable compromise of dreams and reality.
Hopefully soon I’ll make a pilgrimage to Seattle to buy a rubber chicken at the Archie McPhee store. If I make it to 50 without having owned a rubber chicken, then I know my life has gone horribly wrong.
@cercopithecoid
Can’t you just get one online? I’d even be willing to sponsor part of it if needed.
@FroodyFrog Thank you for the offer, but since a rubber chicken is symbolic of absurdity to me, I feel that this is a purchase to be made in person. When I think of everything in existence that I can comprehend, and contrast it to nothingness, my only conclusion is that the universe is absurd. I feel like a full blown pilgrimage is in order to honor the absurdity of existence.
@cercopithecoid i found a tiny rubber chicken in my dryer not long ago. I assume it belongs to my 4 year old.
@cercopithecoid
You better get a whoopee cushion as well… I mean… Why not?
@wshunter05 why? pffffffttttt, oh ya that’s why.
@cercopithecoid If you are buying a rubber chicken, this is the place to do it. The store is amazing. You can wander around for hours. You wont believe all that they have.
@cercopithecoid You are correct- this must be done in person. Go for it! And post photos.
@olperfesser Are you talking about the Archie McPhee store the OP referenced or are you talking about @meh? Each is equally probable.
@cercopithecoid if you do ever fulfill your quest, about a block west of the store, there’s a really good hole in the wall sushi place called Musashi’s. (it’s a cash only place)
@elimanningface i don’t think it’s probably they were talking about me.
Travel to points of interest in America (and maybe Canada) like Civil war battlefields and memorials, Revolutionary War sites, the many National Parks I haven;t seen yet, Carlsbad, Grand Canyon, Wheeler Peak, too many others to list, without a hard schedule, and with the ability to stop at intervening places that look interesting. All my travel now is hard scheduled, no time to do anything but what the trip is for, no stopping in between… and it sucks.
Ideally I’d like to make a few of the shorter trips in the fully restored and functional Challenger
@duodec Stop by Richmond, VA- the War of Northern Aggression is still in full swing here.
@duodec I feel for you. Before I retired, I travelled a lot but seldom got a spare day on either end. Occasionally I could drive to/from a site, which is how I made a stop at Andersonville- and found my great-grandfather’s file.
@sammydog01 true
@duodec You can’t imagine how much I appreciate my 30 days of vacation in Germany. And you know what? 1) Our bosses make sure we take them
2) 30 days are too short.
@Fischbroetchen Looking forward to when all my days are available; maybe in 5-7 years if things go well. In the meantime, its not really work at issue (though after 25 years I only have 20 days vacation); its life. Too many relatives in too many places, with health issues, aging, problems, etc. The days get used up visiting and visiting and visiting and going to hospitals and care facilities, and then getting “when can you come back, we really miss you, we’re lonely”, within a week of leaving, every few days until the next trip… there’s nothing left for actual vacations.
Such is life. It beats the alternative.
I have always wanted to ride a bull.
@conandlibrarian mechanical or the real deal ?
@ceagee Real. I have done mechanical many times.
Discover immortality.
@nogoodwithnames “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
@nogoodwithnames
Bucket list item accomplished: visit the Arctic to photograph polar bears in the wild.
@annwat Oh that sounds amazing! I want to go on a photo safari in Africa.
@annwat Photos!!!
@mehbee I know that @meh got the opportunity to do just that! Maybe she’ll share some of the experience?
@Thumperchick Would love to hear about her experience.
@sammydog01 here’s some pics for you (prolly too many). keep in mind that i’m not very good at photography… https://goo.gl/photos/D2Vx1GETjvABg5Gx9
@annwat OMG BABY POLAR BEARS!!! Did use use a telephoto lens or was the mother close enough to eat you? Thanks for the photos.
@mehbee I was visiting a friend who was doing Peace Corps work in Malawi, so the trip alternated between crazy high end tourism and hitchhiking between villages, eating flour mush on dirt floors. We went to S. Luangwa national park in Zambia, and stayed at a far north safari camp called Tafika, run by a husband and wife and employing local villagers. It was a pretty surreal mix of an outlandish primitive environment and pretty extreme luxury all at once. Nothing like I imagined, but every bit as incredible. I’ll be paying off that trip for a long time, but I wouldn’t trade the memories.
@sammydog01 i used an olympus digital camera w/built in zoom. was probably about 30 to 40 feet away from the cubs but was not in harms way.
@meh You’re my new hero!! I’m so very jealous…
I’ve gone skydiving. Twice and that was definitely on my bucket list, with lots of other things.
@mehbee my bucket list is to sky dive but isnt it quite expensive?
@gosuion When we did it, we did the tandem and we used a Groupon. I think if you get the pics and video don’t have a Groupon it’s around 400.00. Ours was like 269.00, 169.00 for the actual jump and then 100,00 for the photos/videos. Not too bad and it was one of the most incredible experiences I have ever had.
Learn another language.
@gskellig
That’s something that doesn’t require travel or money. Get started right away, and you will be surprised how quickly you pick it up.
Cycle across the United States.
Get a pilots license.
@TheCO2 Totally worth it!! You can do it! Let me know if you want some help getting pointed in the right direction!! Here’s a start: http://www.aopa.org/letsgoflying/
@canuk Thanks!
@canuk I’m curious, as someone who is fairly well interested in aviation, for anyone who isn’t independently wealthy enough to own their own plane and doesn’t aim to make a career of it, what makes it worth it? Not judging or anything, just curious for your views on the matter in detail.
@jbartus glad you asked!! Just as an aside, while it is a very expensive endeavor, there are ways to reduce the costs. For me it was being a part of a flying club that really helped. Also, it means that I can’t have some other hobbies but that’s ok. Aviation is a tremendous community, I’ve just met the most incredible people and they tend to be really generous and warm. There is also this incredible feeling when you fly solo for the first time, and suddenly realize that you have, by yourself, taken a machine into the air, and it is up to you to return it safely to the ground. If there is anything that better instills a sense of personal responsibility, I have yet to find it. I also really like the way it is something that fully engages my whole self. There is the analytical planning aspect of it, there is the spatially aware and operating in three dimensions aspect of it, then there is the intellectual and practical application of knowledge of aerodynamics and physics. Also, as a techie, it is a field with some really neat and fun technology. It has made me more disciplined, a better decision maker, and better at assessing and managing risk. Then there’s the fact that you get to go places, and have experiences that are very unique and see things that can only be seen from the air! I could go on…
@canuk it’s just so expensive to even get your single engine, never mind trying to buy a plane or get licensed for anything fancier.
@TheCO2 Ditto! I did ground school and passed the knowledge test; then I bought a house instead of using my savings for flying lessons. Probably the smarter move financially, but not one without some regrets…
@jqubed @canuk @jbartus There is financial aid available; not sure what it takes to get the aid, though.
@TheCO2 I don’t think it’s something I want to finance, and the local club I would learn at credits volunteer work for the club toward flying time. It’s largely been a question of time and money; when I’ve had the time, I haven’t had the money, and when I’ve had the money, I haven’t had the time.
@jqubed the age old dilemma.
@jbartus yeah, it wasn’t without sacrifice. Some things that helped me: taking ground school at the local community college when it was like $20/unit. Being close enough to one of the best clubs in the country with really reasonable rental rates (plusone.org), finding a good, but inexpensive flight instructor. I agree, if you’re not somewhere that has a club, or you can’t start one, it is a lot tougher. For example, there is a club at my current airport that has an old Cherokee and it’s $50/month dues and $65/hour (wet) to fly. I was able to get my license for a significantly amount less than what you see at a Part 135 school, where your initial single-engine certificate will cost you $7,500-$10,000. It’s not something that happens overnight to be sure, but I know plenty of people who tell me they don’t know how I can afford to fly and then they drive around in a car that has a $350-500/month payment and buy expensive lattes every day. Not judging or assuming you’re in that boat, but for me it was a matter of priorities and saving every penny I could. I drove a 1980 Toyota Corolla for a couple years that cost me $500. It was the best feeling, driving up to the airport in this rusty, loud beater of a car, parking next to a Porsche, but minutes later I was airborne and all that earth-bound stuff seemed less important…
I can understand where you’re coming from (I hope!), before I started it seemed just impossible, and it certainly didn’t come overnight. I’m certainly not independently wealthy, and at times, thought this would never happen. From the time of my very first lesson/“discovery flight” to the time I got my license was probably 5 years, and it was something I had been dreaming about for at least 15 years.
If you want to see if there might be a flying club in your area, this is a pretty good tool: https://www.aopa.org/CAPComm/flyingclubs/flyingclubfinder/index.cfm
I want to go to the sun. I was always told to shoot for the stars and the sun is a star; right?
@TheCO2
That is our guess, since the most we can observe of the stars is thier color and gases. Even with the most pewerful telescopes, the closest stars appear as points of light.
I’m an awful nihilistic piece of crap so I was going to make up some smartass answer, but then I saw the one about visiting all the ballparks. The one thing I do like is baseball.
@cpierce It’s fun to go to parks and cheer for the opposing team.
@TheCO2 There is a solid chance they will give you free stuff too.
Even before the HoloLens was announced, I always wanted to become a developer for it. But, alas, the price is more than I can afford.
@DVDBZN
Just saw the price. Yikes.
@FroodyFrog It’s either the HoloLens or 700 months of VMP…
@FroodyFrog
I would have bought it if I had the money. But I don’t. Fortunately, that is just the Developer version and the Consumer version should be much cheaper ($500-$800 is my guess). It seems that they are making them by hand for now, but once production gets going, the price will drop and it will be released for consumers.
So, my dreams aren’t completely crushed. Honestly, I’m pretty excited about it.
@canuk
Tempting, I know. But I’ll take my chances.
It’s not so much writing the novel as getting the novel published – that is, get at least some validation that it’s something people want to read.
Drive a 1967 Shelby GT500 “Eleanor” for at least a day.
One other thing was to visit Cape Hatteras, but I am going to be doing that later this year.
This Autumn, I will go to southern Argentina, catch a boat, and go to Antarctica. That will mean I have visited all seven continents.
To die.
@Al_Coholic Actually just kidding. I want to make it through my backlog of games on Steam, which, considering the rate of growth vs. games ever actually played, should only take a few infinity years.
@Al_Coholic I know your pain.
576 games in my library. :|
@jbartus | Steam summer sales, whay must you do this to us?
@Al_Coholic I stick to RPGs; makes my backlog more manageable
@JoetatoChip and Humble Bundles and Winter Sales and Other Sales and… and… and…
@jbartus Holy shit. I think I only have about 300, according to the number Steam shows.
In addition to learning to fly, I’d like to see the Northern and/or Southern Lights in person. And if space tourism becomes commercialized in my lifetime, I’d like to go into orbit. Suborbital flight into space would also be cool, but I’d really like the extended freefall of orbit.
@jqubed
Orbital space tourism is already a thing. Eight tourists payed $20 million to $45 million for a ten day flight. Suborbital has not happened yet, but ticket prices are predicted to be $200,000.
@DVDBZN I suspect @jqubed meant space tourism that is affordable to the common citizen, not the rich and shameless.
@DVDBZN Yeah, but that’s not such an organized thing, that’s just rich people calling up Russia and paying for a seat on the next flight that otherwise probably would’ve gone to, you know, an actual astronaut. I’m talking about some actual scheduled service that is primarily for tourism purposes, more like what Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic are working toward. I’m also still hoping that at some point we’ll develop suborbital spaceplanes as an alternative method of faster intercontinental travel. Maybe rapidly reusable boosters like the Falcon 9 first stage could make those more feasible and put Australia, like, an hour away from North America.
Be a contestant on the Price is Right, and at least make it to the spin the wheel portion. I don’t care about winning, but I’d be hella pissed if I never made it out of contestants’ row because some goober did that one-dollar-more BS.
One thing on my list is NEVER run a marathon. I run (among other things, in fact doing my 2nd sprint tri on June 5) and people when they hear that inevitably ask “have you/when will you do a marathon?” My response is never. Yes i could try, yes it is an awesome feat, yes people not as healthy as me have done it, yes…, but no. To date (47 yrs old) furthest i’ve run is just over 8 miles at a 10 min pace and i have 0 interest in even a half marathon because it just leads you down that slippery slope to a full marathon.
I also want to
-take an auto mechanic class
-go to Germany and/or that region for a couple weeks (tourist)
-go to the Price is Right (don’t even have to get picked)
I dream small, i know. I’d love to own a 67 Corvette, do lots of other travel, win on PIR, at least place in my age division in a Tri, and a few other things, but i don’t feel Bucket List level on them, I’ll have no regrets without these.
I’d like to write a novel. I have a lot of interesting dreams.
To not be horrendously fat before I die. Also a trip to Ireland and England.
Dive on the Great Barrier Reef.
I’ve already been around the world.
Survived an MRI.
@lisaviolet I have to go in yearly to make sure my braind tumor is not growing at a crazy rate. Every MRI experience is different. Sometimes I fall asleep, while other times I totally freak out. I hate them.
@lisaviolet I’ve had quite a few at this point. I was perfectly fine with them until a couple years ago when I thought about a zombie attack as I went in. I could almost feel them biting my legs and, much worse, my skull. After that, I get panicked every time. Medicated for every one since.
@conandlibrarian I had one when my gallbladder went rogue. They wrapped me too tight and I couldn’t move, my head was at a weird angle and I couldn’t swallow. The tech was annoyed with me, but I was an MRI virgin.
Brain tumor? How long have you known about it?
@jaremelz Okay, that made me laugh. And it makes my ribs hurt.
@jaremelz Can’t you just have a couple margaritas (or something) to mellow out? Or does it have to be special ‘invisible-to-MRI’ medication?
@compunaut No margaritas. They just give you a little happy pill or two. It doesn’t completely knock you out, you need to be able to follow their instructions. Just means I care a little less about toe nibbles from the undead.
Mine are mostly vehicular…
Build a car with my own hands
Drive the perimeter of the lower 48
Route 66, Lincoln Highway, route 40( the original “national road” - I70 largely mirrors it)
Take a year to travel around Europe.
Drive the Dalton Highway (AK)
etc.
@earlyre I like your ideas. What kind of company are you going to take? In what region do you live?
@compunaut being as im chronically single, hadn’t thought much of company… though for the dalton, it would have to be my brother and I.
Regionally, NW buckeyeland.
@compunaut only been to about a dozen major/minor league stadiums. Reading PA minor league stadium was our fav: leg room, good food, fun clean atmosphere, oh and winning team.
@The_Baron Hasn’t everyone?
@The_Baron Well, uh, just forget I said anything…
I need to milk a cow and yell “You 4 eye fuck” at Larry David.
Lucky for me Larry has a house where I vacation and since I am a tourist there, I can yell it out.
Natives need to be cool when they see someone.
I couldn’t do it if I see him in NYC.
@smilingjack They use to have a thing at the State Fair where you could milk a cow, but then there was a salmonella or e. coli outbreak one year so they stopped that.
*used
@smilingjack Whyinhell do you want to milk a cow? The cow is ungrateful, and she will hit you with her tail. The tail is full of cowshit. If you get a cranky cow, she will try to kick you. Twelve hours later you do it again.
@OldCatLady I grew up 3 blocks from the last working farm in NYC. It was a dairy barn with hundreds of cows. They let kids wander around the barn. I watched them milk the cows hundreds of times, but even in the early 60’s they wouldn’t let a 7 year old kid milk one.
@smilingjack Until the early 60s my uncle had a family farm. The milk route ran past the drive. He had about 6 milk cows, some steers, chickens, garden patch, the whole bit. I used to spend part of each summer there, and they believed in child labor (they had 6 of their own). Did you know that cows’ backs are bony as hell, and when they buck you off you always land in a cow pie?
I have skydived 3 times. Once, static line in Belgium, And twice in Maine where I had to take a weekend course. People jumped out of the plane with you (not tandem), and let you go in the first 60 seconds to make sure you were ok. Once they waved you off you were on your own. Lines tangled up before deploying shoot - a little scary, but scary is why I do it - that and my fear of heights.
I attempted Bungee jumping once - but couldn’t go thru with it. Height is too real - skydiving height doesn’t seem real ( I know weird). It was also with a shady outfit that broke into a Vermont Park to provide the experience. This may have had something to do with it.
I am certified in Scuba Diving. Again, because I have a fear of being underwater. My last time was the aquarium in Disney in April where I was able to swim next to sharks, turtles, and rays. Damn turtle rammed me just as I was getting into the water.
My last thing I loved was a bought a Travelzoo coupon where I was able to fly a small pane over the Chesapeake and the Annapolis Naval Academy for an hour. So much fun - fly a plane if you can.
I need to try to find more things that bring me enjoyment and fear.
@mfladd very cool challenging yourself to face up to your fears! I’m not sure I could jump out of a plane, but I can definitely relate to the difference between plane altitudes and, say, bridge or cliff altitudes, things are so far away it’s almost like it’s not real. I can deal with planes just fine but even things like scissor lifts give me the willies.
I want to hike the Appalachian Trail with my family. I’d like to do it soon. I’d like to take everyone out of work & school for 6 months and get some of that real-world living done. It’ll never happen, but I’m sure we can hike lots of smaller sections in a reasonable compromise of dreams and reality.