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

About the List

I now have a new list, and I will post it here momentarily. I have also decided to back it up elsewhere a bunch of times and make a hard copy and... carve it onto my leg I guess. That way I will have no excuse but to keep trying to complete the tasks.

This list is not the same as the June 06 list for two main reasons. The first is that I have forgotten a few entries. The other is that awesome as that list was, a few of the tasks were... not... shit but... well... slightly rubbishy. So I have endeavoured to upgrade the brilliance of the tasks. i am sure you'll agree the tasks are now brilliant.

Don't agree? ***k you then.

I ought to point out that a couple of them have been done already. That is because I have the still have the cool images from before, Just like the my-name-is-rick telly (above).

So without further ado....

It arose from the dusty, forgotten murk of history - Take 3

I shall explain the premise of this blog for those of you who may have never read this before, or... read it before and had a lobotomy in the meantime. In which case sorry about that... umm... E-mail me and I'll give you mention or something.

Here's the deal:

Once upon a time I was watching a certain comedy series starring Jason Lee and thought to myself, now there's an idea, I thought, a list of things in life which need making right.

In the case of his character it was because he had been a git in the past but it got me thinking. Most people will have something that they want to change that they have done in the past. (except smug people, who I would like to think are secretly dead inside for assuming that they have lived life perfectly. Or say ourageously logical things like 'Mistakes make you who you are'. Dead inside) Similarly most people at some point or another are said to go through this 'mid life crisis' where you panic because there is so much stuff you wanted to do in life but never got done, and you realise that youth has slipped past you and so you divorce your husband/wife and buy a mazda.

Or is that only guys?

Nevertheless I decided to nip this in the bud - and list 30 things to do before I am 30.

This is what I will do. Over the next few days I endeavour to remember as many items on my list as I can - post them here and restart my challenge to complete the list before I am 30.

My Name Is Rick

It arose from the dusty, forgotten murk of history - Take 2

Back in 2005 sometime, (about June....

Wait I've already said this...

This post is cancelled too.

It arose from the dusty, forgotten murk of history

Back in 2005 sometime, (about June I believe) There was a different blog where this one sat.

There was a disasterous drunken incident however - and the first post was deleted. As a result the entire thing was deleted amidst much shedding of tears and smashing of monitors. For you see: The first post was the post. Without it the blog was like... reading the bible without knowing who god was.

Except not that because now I feel like I have blasphemed and will go to hell...

Except not that because I don't believe in Hell exactly, with the flames and the pitchforks and whetever...

Hey! Who do you think you are noseying in to my most personal and definitely-would-not-post-them-on-the-internet-whilst-digressing-about-something-elsely held beliefs! Where was I?

I need to start over.

This post is cancelled.