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29 June 2007

2do or not 2do What's on your lifetime ToDo list? What are those things that you would do if only you had a the time?
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Me: learn to play Flamenco guitar, the German language, the Ruby language and 3D character animation.

post by: signal at: 11:38 | 21 comments

Learn to cook Chinese food that's at least as good as the worst Chinese restaurant in town. I'd save billions.

posted by ColdChef 29 June | 12:06

1. Skydive.
2. There is no #2.

posted by mike9322 29 June | 12:43

1. Skydive.
2. There is no #2.

But if #1 goes badly, I'll bet #2 will be involved.

posted by BoringPostcards 29 June | 12:48

Compile my family pictures / genealogy / fill in the gaps. I inherited all of it from both sides (because I'm interested in family history), but a good amount rests in an antique desk and some hardshell suitcases due to a lack of time. I get it out every so often.

Also, I'd love to help design and program a computer game.

Hmmm...travel around the world, and learn at least fifteen more languages at least at a conversational level.

posted by Sil 29 June | 12:50

Hee!

posted by mike9322 29 June | 12:58

hehehe, BP :)

posted by Sil 29 June | 13:04

I have the time, I just don't have the money. If money were no object I'd travel all the time. Meet as many people on this planet as I can.

posted by birdherder 29 June | 13:20

Yeah skydiving is on my list. I actually was going to do it for my 21st bday and was talked out of it, still kinda pissed off at myself for letting someone talk me out of it. Fuck you, so what if I go splat. It's my business. Oh well.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 29 June | 13:42

Most of what I want to do these days is less "if I had the time" and more "if I had the money" though. At least twenty countries I'd like to visit for one thing.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 29 June | 13:44

People who worry about getting hurt while skydiving really should think twice about getting in their cars everyday.

posted by mike9322 29 June | 13:47

Pay off my damn taxes.

posted by miss lynnster 29 June | 13:57

Create a sort of geneology movie - a film that tells all the stories I've heard about my family and my daughters fathers family. Mainly story-telling, but also some interviews with people who won't be with us yaknow, thirty years from now. So that my girl can watch it when she gets older and laugh at all the nutters that she stems from.

posted by dabitch 29 June | 13:59

Have kids. Mundane, I know, but when I grow up I want to be a mom.

posted by Specklet 29 June | 14:00

I crossed a big one off my list last year, when I went to Hawaii and saw lava flowing into the ocean. Next, I need to touch it.

I'm in the midst of fulfilling another, learning guitar. Last night, my wife described my in-bed playing as "magic," and mused about how good I'll be in 5 years.

I'm happy to say there aren't really any others, except, like, moving to Hawaii and getting better at guitar.

People who worry about getting hurt while skydiving really should think twice about getting in their cars everyday.

I do both.

posted by mrmoonpie 29 June | 14:13

do it, dabitch! I found out that I had a million questions for my grandmother - after she was gone. I'm now very curious about very many things in my family, and most of the people who could answer those questios aren't here.

Do it.

I kiss you.

posted by taz 29 June | 14:21

1. Spend three months traveling Europe, or six months for that matter.
2. Stay in one of those ritzy spas in Utah or Arizona that all of the celebrities go to.

Realistically, things I could do now, but I'm lazy:

1. Organize and make digital or real photo albums of the thousands of pics I have stored on the computer.
2. Make my backyard into an even more beautiful garden retreat.

posted by LoriFLA 29 June | 14:52

wrestling an alligator/bear/dinosaur while falling off a super high cliff into a raging river (butch sundance style).

that way, i'll overcome 3 of my fears all at once.

posted by stynxno 29 June | 15:23

-learn to weld.
-learn to swing dance.
-learn to do any kind of formal dance at all.
-hitchhike to alaska.
- learn to fly.
-move into a house that has a porch and a garden and have Australian shepherds or border collies or some mutt version of same.
-have goats.
-learn to wind surf.
-learn to surfboard (working on this currently)
- have a job that's flexible and helps people (working on this currently too)
- swim with the mantas a la girl of the sea of cortez (I read it when I was young and it made a deep impression)
- live in the middle of Mexico.
- visit all the South American countries.

ok.that's enough for now.

posted by small_ruminant 29 June | 16:39

- learn to read Japanese
- visit England and Ireland
- start taking trips (by myself) strictly to take photos
- make my own documentary

posted by BoringPostcards 29 June | 20:05

Learn gymnastics. Become a hip-hop dancer. Basically study all sorts of dance and movement until I was really really good.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 June | 00:41

... when I grow up I want to be a mom.
Having kids will cure you of that affliction.

posted by dg 01 July | 22:42

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