As a follower of men (and/or women)1, I have decided to put together a list of things I want to do at some point in my life, in a similar vein to The Judge and The Tett. So without further ado, and in no particular order:
1. Step foot on all seven continents.
2. Go back to Greece, specifically being able to visit some of the Greek Isles.
3. Go back to Rome and get to attend an audience with the Pope, preferably with my “Gramma”.
4. Attend a Ranger game in Fenway Park with the aforementioned “Gramma”.
5. Go to Winstar with my Grandfather to lose some money playing poker2.
6. Go to Las Vegas and leave with $10K more than I came with2.
7. Rewatch the Sopranos from beginning to end.
8. Orbit the Earth, not as an astronaut, per say, but more vacation-style.
9. Visit the Moon.
10. Walk the Great Wall of China, or at least a significant portion of it3,4.
11. Walk from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, similar to Forrest Gump without all the running 4.
12. Own a home.
13. Have read all the books that I own 5.
14. Have watched all the DVDs that I own 5.
15. In one calender year, attend a Rangers game, Mavs game, Stars game, and Cowboys game.
16. Travel with the crew to England to attend an Arsenal game 6.
17. After getting the house, work out and make my bed in the morning before work for at least one month.
18. Permanently misplace 20 pounds off of my corpulent frame.
19. Kiss the Blarney Stone.
20. Own a sailboat.
21. Circumnavigate the globe, either in #20 or on a cruise line.
22. Own season tickets for the Cowboys, Mavs, Stars, and Rangers, all in the same calendar year7.
23. Float the river 8.
24. Solve the mathematical problem around sports betting, or at least confirm in my mind that it can’t be done 9.
25. Get married.
I decided that 25 is a good stopper for this go around on The List, however, I will continue to add to it as needed. Similar to T-E-double T-L…, I’ll use some sort of typographical tool to show which items on the list have been completed, either strikethrough , which will capture the date time that such item was struck through, or the squareroot slash checkmark form, √.
Per the suggestion of Turk for Tett, I’ll copy that idea as well and make the list a page on my blog. I also assume that I’ll mention, at least in passing, in my blog when The List has been updated. Hope you all enjoy, and will join in on the public goals list idea. But do it on wordpress, where the cool kids are currently at, and not at 43 things.
Catch you on the flipside 10.
1 Most people brag about being a leader of men. Also, my follower status is confirmed with the multiple footnotes in this post, because all the cool kids use footnotes.
2 There’s some degree of randomness associated with the ability to achieve this, but only some.
3 I’d like to walk it all, but that would take a long ass time.
4 Really I’d be hiking, but walking sounds less arduous.
5I buy shit that I don’t necessary want to enjoy immediately. I then forget that I purchased said object and it languishes on a shelf with the neverending hope that I will rediscover it to my delight and enjoyment.
6Unless we decide to support a different Premer League team.
7 Not to attend every game, but to have the ability to attend every game. Naturally, this would entail 4-8 tickets for each, because I don’t think attending all these sporting events by myself would be much fun.
8 Yeah, I’ve never done that.
9 This is totally subjective, in terms of failure.
10A round number of footnotes is preferred, and because I’m unsure that I will continue to use footnotes, I thought I’d use this forum to explain the sign off. I originally got the phrase from Boondock Saints, when Rocko hangs up the phone and signs off with it. However, it took on a little bigger meaning when the Gma passed and we all gave her cards, during which my sign off to her was to catch her on the flipside, in the obvious meaning that I’ll see her later down the turnpike of existence. So I get to remember my grandmother, at least to some degree, every time I post, which I appreciate.
