Intro: Who am I?

Before getting to the "Whoness" of me, let me begin with the "Whatness." I'd like to share with you "what" I want in life. Have you seen the movie "The Bucket List"? This was my inspiration for developing this list. As you will note, some items are complete, but I have a long ways to go.
(The list is in no particular order.)
 









100 things to do before I leave this life:

1. Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.
2. Throw a huge party and invite every one of my friends.
3. Swim with a dolphin. (Done)
4. Skydive.
5. Have my portrait painted.
6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure I use it.
7. Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.
8. Watch in person the launch of the space shuttle.
9. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.
10. Be an extra in a film.
11. Tell someone the story of my life, sparing no details.
12. Make love on a forest floor.
13. Make love on a train.
14. Learn to rollerblade.
15. Own a room with a view. (Done)
16. Brew my own beer.
17. Learn how to take a compliment.
18. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
19. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month.
20. Give my mother a dozen red roses and tell her I love her. (Done)
21. Be a member of the audience in a TV show. (Done)
22. Put my name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.
23. Send a message in a bottle. (Done)
24. Ride a camel into the desert. (Done)
25. Get to know my neighbors. (Done)
26. Plant a tree. (Done)
27. Learn not to say yes when I really mean no. (Done)
28. Write a fan letter to my all-time favorite hero or heroine.
29. Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works. (Done)
30. Learn to ballroom dance properly.
31. Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
32. Be the boss. (Done)
33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally. (Done)
34. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
35. Sit on a jury.
36. Write the novel I know I have inside of me.
37. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
38. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once). (Done)
39. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
40. Be someone's mentor. (Done)
41. Shower in a waterfall. (Done)
42. Ask for a raise. (Done)
43. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.
44. Teach someone illiterate to read.
45. Take a flight on the new Airbus A380.

46. Spend a night in a haunted house -- by myself.
47. Write down my personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time. (Done)
48. See a lunar eclipse. (Done)
49. Spend New Year's in an exotic location. (Done)
50. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
51. Experience weightlessness.
52. Sing a great song in front of an audience.
53. Ask someone I've only just met to go on a date. (Done)
54. Drive across America from coast to coast.
55. Make a complete and utter fool of myself. (Done)
56. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.
57. Write my will. (Done)
58. Sleep under the stars. (Done)
59. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.
60. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it! (Done)
61. Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel. (Done)
63. Forgive my parents. (Done)
64. Learn to juggle with three balls.
65. Drive the Autobahn.
66. Find a job I love. (Done)
67. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.
68. Overcome my fear of failure.
69. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
70. Donate money and put my name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
71. Buy my own house and then spend time making it into exactly what I want.
72. Grow a garden.
73. Spend three months getting my body into optimum shape.
74. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring. (Done)
75. Accept myself for who I am. (Done)
76. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public. (Done)
77. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
78. Go up in a hot-air balloon.
79. Have the honor of yelling out “THANK YOU!” into the microphone at a really huge rock concert.
80. Kiss someone I've just met on a blind date. (Done)
81. Be able to handle: my tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, my banker, telephone solicitors. (Done)
82. Give unselfessly to a charity -- anonymously. (Done)
83. Lose more money than I can afford at roulette in Vegas.
84. Let someone feed me peeled, seedless grapes.
85. Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab. (Half-way there)
86. Fart in a crowded space. (Done) (Done) (Done) (Excuse me.)
87. Make love on the kitchen floor.
88. Go deep sea fishing and eat my catch. (Done)
89. Create my own web site.
90. Visit the Holy Land.
91. Visit all 50 States in America.
92. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
93. Create my Family Tree.
94. Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium. (Done)
95. Make a hole-in-one.
96. Ski a double-black diamond run.
97. Learn to bartend.
98. Run a marathon. (Almost.)
99. Look into my child's eyes, see myself, and smile. (Done) Love you Logan.
100. Reflect on my greatest weakness, and realize how it is my greatest strength. (Done everyday)
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