What Is On Your Bucket List?

[Spot's Meow]

I haven't though much about a list with specifics, so this isn't comprehensive by any means but there are a handful of things I've thought about wanting to do sometime in my life:

1. Serve on a jury (I've been called for jury duty four times now but each time I am dismissed right away as they have called too many people - wish I could trade places with someone who is hoping to be dismissed but isn't!).
2. Travel to Australia & New Zealand.
3. Visit an Olympic games to see gymnastics in person, or at least go to see the gymnastics Olympic trials in San Jose if another Olympics is not held in the U.S. for a while.
4. Have at least a couple of years of my life without any dental work on the horizon. I have never in my life had a dental appointment where I was cavity free. I would love to have a visit where they say "everything looks good, nothing to be done!"
5. Get a job in my chosen field.

• Hawaii
• London
• Rome/The Vatican
• Alaskan or Mexican Cruise

Great list. As for the cruise, I have done both and I highly recommend the Alaska cruise, even though it is much more expensive. It was completely worth it, one of the best experiences of my life! The Mexican cruises were okay but not as memorable to me.

 

[Gryffindorian]

I haven't though much about a list with specifics, so this isn't comprehensive by any means but there are a handful of things I've thought about wanting to do sometime in my life:

1. Serve on a jury (I've been called for jury duty four times now but each time I am dismissed right away as they have called too many people - wish I could trade places with someone who is hoping to be dismissed but isn't!).
2. Travel to Australia & New Zealand.
3. Visit an Olympic games to see gymnastics in person, or at least go to see the gymnastics Olympic trials in San Jose if another Olympics is not held in the U.S. for a while.
4. Have at least a couple of years of my life without any dental work on the horizon. I have never in my life had a dental appointment where I was cavity free. I would love to have a visit where they say "everything looks good, nothing to be done!"
5. Get a job in my chosen field.




Great list. As for the cruise, I have done both and I highly recommend the Alaska cruise, even though it is much more expensive. It was completely worth it, one of the best experiences of my life! The Mexican cruises were okay but not as memorable to me.

Thank you. I'll keep that in mind. Princess and Celebrity now have cruises departing from San Francisco, so I can just drive over there.

By the way, I hear there's going to be a U.S. gymnastics team event at the SAP Center in San Jose.

http://www.sapcenter.com/events/detail/kelloggs-tour-of-gymnastics-champions-2016

 

[think]

Bucket

You know?
Buying a bucket to put my bucket lists in...

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Buying a bucket may just be asking for trouble.

Like knocking on wood that isn't wood but veneer. They got my step-dad that way.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Lately I'm finding that I have nothing on my bucket list, and with Empty Nest Syndrome crashing on me HARD, it's hard to see what I'm living for. My wife says she wants to go see Europe (the continent, not the band) someday, so I'm trying to care about that - but mostly failing.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

^it sounds like you REALLY need to see Europe then.

 

[Amaris]

1. Move out of my parents house.
2. Go to college
3. Begin a fulfilling career
4. Fall in love
5. Get married
6. Have children
7. Watch them grow and live lives of their own
8. Grow old with the person I love
9. See my grandchildren
10. Pass away peacefully at a ripe old, old age.

Preferably in that order.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

4. Take in an NBA basketball game in Boston. Visit the original Garden

That would seem to require time travel, as the Garden was demolished in '98.

 

[USS Triumphant]

^it sounds like you REALLY need to see Europe then.

Honestly, *I'd* rather see Europe the band - or some of the other performers that do those 80s festivals in England. T'Pau, Rick Astley, the Bangles, etc. Two things about that, though:

1. By the time we've saved and have the time to go, they'll be dead/retired.
2. I can watch those festivals on TV - almost certainly with a better view and without some half-drunk idiots screaming or talking and annoying me during the performance, and without rain or humidity.

I've sort of always wanted to see Abu Simbel in Egypt. But similar matters to #2 apply there: desert heat, bad political climate, and while it would be really neat to walk through there, once again, you can probably actually get a better look at the carvings and such on the 'net - especially the ones that are on the walls above a person's height.

And I guess really, I'm just not that bothered about not doing either.

The two things that I think I might really WANT to do both seem out of reach and really impractical for someone with 30 years invested in professional experience in IT (I'm 41, but my first paid job in IT was converting an optometrist's office to using computer records and appointments when I was 11, and I kept on from there). I'd like to either work for SpaceX or NASA, or, I'd like to be a radio DJ (I've been told by people in that field that I have "a radio voice" - which comes in handy for when I need to record messages for the phone systems I support - and I have a deep love of music archival). But my wife and I can't afford to lose my income for me to go back to school, and I doubt they'd take me as is. I'm very well-trained and credentialed in completely the wrong direction.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

You need to go to concerts in Europe.

Look shit up. Do it. It will blow your mind.

 

[USS Triumphant]

You need to go to concerts in Europe.

Look shit up. Do it. It will blow your mind.

If you're making minimalist responses to get me to think my way through what I'd really like to do and out of my depression while composing responses, then thank you - I think it somewhat worked the first time.

But whether you are or not, I have to say, "whut?" to *this* post of yours. I look things up all the time. Google is like 70% of the job in IT.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

So, Glastonbury next summer, when are they releasing who's coming?

 

[USS Triumphant]

So, Glastonbury next summer, when are they releasing who's coming?

I'd be more up for the Rewind Festival. By the time I'd get saved up and get time to get over there, though, it'd be "rewind to the 2000's" rather than the 80's, though, I suspect.

 

[sbk1234]

1. retire
2. lots and LOTS of travel
3. life of leisure
4. get chummy with Steve Carell

 

[HaventGotALife]

That would seem to require time travel, as the Garden was demolished in '98.

Really? I need a TIME MACHINE! It's going on the list!!! LOL

Seriously, I didn't know. I thought it was still standing. Oh, well.

 

[Gryffindorian]

1. Move out of my parents house.
2. Go to college
3. Begin a fulfilling career
4. Fall in love
5. Get married
6. Have children
7. Watch them grow and live lives of their own
8. Grow old with the person I love
9. See my grandchildren
10. Pass away peacefully at a ripe old, old age.

Preferably in that order.

There are many items on your list that I suppose I could relate to, but they don't strike me as something I would like to achieve by a certain age. For example, maybe I'll get married someday or maybe I won't. It makes little difference to me. I would regret not having done the things I wanted to do, not the things I should have done. But everyone is different in that regard.

 

[Amaris]

There are many items on your list that I suppose I could relate to, but they don't strike me as something I would like to achieve by a certain age. For example, maybe I'll get married someday or maybe I won't. It makes little difference to me. I would regret not having done the things I wanted to do, not the things I should have done. But everyone is different in that regard.

Well, I'm 36, and these were goals I wanted to start achieving many years ago. Not that life works on a timetable, of course, but not even achieving the very first step by this point in my life just blows my mind.

I have always been an overachiever. Of course, I'm also human, so between my mind, and my body, I get torn in every direction.

 

[Spot's Meow]

Well, I'm 36, and these were goals I wanted to start achieving many years ago. Not that life works on a timetable, of course, but not even achieving the very first step by this point in my life just blows my mind.

What do you feel has held you back from achieving your first goal the most?

 

[Amaris]

What do you feel has held you back from achieving your first goal the most?

It's a long, long story, but family.

 

[Leviathan]

bacon. scotch. boobs.