The List

This is Draft 3. 40 things to do before I am 40. The previous version can be seen in it's last state here:

http://richlbaker.blogspot.com/2012/02/5-year-anniversary.html

COMPLETED

1. Go to Edinburgh fringe festival
2. Donate to charity
3. Learn to Ski
4. Grow my hair
5. Learn to Write my Name in Japanese
6. Do some good
7.  Host my own website with a domain for more than a year
8.  Learn how many days are in each Month
9. Write a letter to the government
10. Bet £50 on black
11. Shoot a gun
12. Get a new nickname 
13. Give up smoking for ever (I'm sneaking this in & I dont care. It's my list)

TODO:

1. Run any Marathon
2. Drive coast to coast in America
3. Try to get a book published 
4. Brew my own beer
5. Be an extra in a movie
6. Read ten novels that have won the booker prize 
7. Go travelling = backpack for more than a month
8. Earn over £500 on ebay 
9. go on 10 bike rides that last for more than an hour, and take a picture
10. ride the transsiberian express
11. visit the great wall
12. visit the taj mahal
13. lift 80kg on a bar
14. learn Russian
15. save £10000
16. learn to play 10 songs on a guitar
17. Go to oktoberfest
18. Get married
19. Go to the top of the empire state building
20. Go scuba diving
21. Write and perform a song
22. Buy my whole family a meal
23. Travel to another country by bike
24. Befriend a complete stranger
25. Do a handstand push up
26. Go to a gym in a foreign country
27. Do a stand up set