My List

I decided to make a list of things I would like to do or experience in my life. This list is mix of short-term goals, long-term goals, lofty aspirations, impossible ambitions, and some neat wishes. The order is irrelevant. Perhaps I will mark these if any of them get completed.

• Graduate law school (bottom of the class is sufficient as long as I get the diploma)
• Pass the bar
• Develop a video game (not talking anything awesome like Halo here nor something crappy like Lunar Landing -- something in between that is a complete game)
• Hold a political office (President would be nice)
• Play in a real poker tournament at a brick & mortar casino
• Travel far up north in the summer and watch the sun never set
• While up in that area, witness charged particles dance in Earth's magnetic field
• Be in a movie
• Buy a motorcycle
• Learn at least one form of martial arts
• Bowl a perfect game
• Sue someone and handle the case myself
• Read On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Darwin (yes, that's the full title)
• Read The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Darwin
• Contribute significantly to an established open source project
• Donate money to a respected charity or cause
• Build something functional out of wood
• See a Broadway show on Broadway
• Beat a modern video game with substance in one sitting
• Skydive
• Bet $1000 or more on one hand of black jack
• Ride in a helicopter
• Swim in all five Great Lakes
• Go to a championship game in four big professional sports (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL) -- To date I'm 25% done as I have been to a World Series game
• See all the planets of the Solar System with my telescope; I'm undecided at this moment whether I want to include Pluto as it is just a big rock
• Go into space
• Go to the moon
• Roll over a car while driving
• Ride in a submarine
• Kick a shark's ass (or other deadly wild animal)
• Get married
• Procreate
• Save someone's life
• Be on TV
• Beat Cookies and Cream
• Play Cookies and Cream without getting pissed off at my partner
• Attend a Raleigh Bloggers Meetup
• Cook a meal from scratch; this means that nothing can come from a can or jar including spices
• Make a bootable operating system for any hardware platform
• Get something published in print form
• Start a business
• Dress up when attending a Star Trek convention
• Visit China or Japan
• Learn to play an instrument reasonably well
• Figure out Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Learn LISP to the level of Josh
• Learn to read hieroglyphs and read something in Egypt
• Fly a plane
• Eat vegetarian for a month
• Grow a mustache or beard (little do you know how hard this one actually is)
• Thru-hike the Appalachian Trail

I'll add to this if I happen to think of something more. If there is something that I should add to my list, feel free to leave a comment and tell me about it.