Stuff I’ve accomplished:
Stuff I still want/need to do:
- Learn the saxophone (1969/70)
- Learn to march for marching band (1974)
- Learn to drive (1976)
- Kiss a girl for the first time (1976)
- Move far away from hometown (L.A. 1984)
- Do manual labor for a year in a warehouse
& drive a forklift (1979/80) - Work at a nursing home, understand elderly lifestyle (1978/79)
- Learn your first programming language (BASIC, age 15 – 1974)
- Go to college, study Architecture (1977-1978)
- Go to college, study Computer Science (1978-1983)
- Take a university photography class (1978-1982?)
- Go on an out-of-town photo class shoot in Toronto (1978)
- Learn your first software development platform
[A-Series/MCP] & Language [ALGOL/COBOL] (1980-1983) - Go Spelunking in Kentucky for 24 hours straight (1981-1983?)
- Vacation someplace exotic (Hawaii – 1981, 1983)
- See Bryce Canyon National Park (1984)
- Complete a college education
(University of Redlands, B.S. Information Systems – 1987) - Take a 4 seater airplane ride
& get so green in your face (1989/1990?) - Learn to downhill ski (1990)
- Ski in Colorado (Breckenridge – 1993-1998?)
- Go parasailing over the ocean (1998, 2007)
- Take an ocean cruise (Puerto Rico, Saint Thomas – 1998)
- Vacation in Europe (London, England – 1994)
- See the London Tower Bridge (1994)
- Buy a house on a lake
& enjoy lake living (1995-2000) - View the world from the tallest buildings
(CN Tower, Toronto – 1978,
John Hancock Building, Chicago – 2002/2006) - Buy a boat, boat on an almost daily basis,
& have some fun for once in your life (1996-2000) - Buy a jet ski, get over your fear of water
& go jet skiing (1996) - Get over fear of public speaking
& give a presentation in front of 20 people (1995)
& teach a class (10 people) (1996)
& give several more classes (1996-2009)
& join ToastMasters (2013) - Paint Bob Ross style painting (1996/1997)
- Take DNA test to confirm 17 year old daughter (2001)
- Buy a house with spouse (1995)
- Buy a house on my own (2001)
- Finish unfinished basement
& learn electrical, plumbing, framing skills (2002-2005) - Paint your first wall (2002)
- Build your first woodworking project (built-in bookcases, 2009)
- Get married (1995)
- Live with someone (1983, 1989, 2001/2008)
- Learn how to shingle a roof as a teenager (1972-1977?)
- Design and build (with help) a multi-layered deck (1996)
- Drive a car much faster than 100 mph (120 mph?)
(1986 Toyota Celica on I-210 in L.A. -1986,
2011 Ford Taurus CEL in Florida – 2011) - Help raise kids that aren’t yours (2001/2008)
- Build your first model railroad “scene” (2004)
- Start to build your first model railroad layout (2006)
- Build your first model Railroad Structure
(3 of them completed – 2010) - Take a Helicopter ride (2008-2011?)
- Learn a new software development platform (Remedy – 2004)
- Learn a new computer platform
[Sperry OS2200] and language [PLUS] (1988) - Take an airboat ride in Florida swampland
& look for alligators (2011) - See Grand Canyon (1987/1988)
- Go jet skiing on the ocean (Pacific – 1998, Cape Cod – 2008)
- Learn new programming language
[one that EVERYONE uses (JAVA – 2010)] - Vacation in the Caribbean (Cayman Islands – 2007)
- Take a bubbleshell machine under the sea
(Cayman Islands – 2007) - Work downtown Minneapolis (2010-2011)
- Watch the final space shuttle launch (Atlantis -2011)
- Take public transportation to work
(Light Rail and Bus – 2010-2011) - Work in Orlando (2011)
- Start Master’s Degree
[Graduate Program in Software at Saint Thomas (2012)] - Hold a baby for longer than 5 minutes
& fall in love with them
& take care of them, by yourself, over night (2012) - Become team lead of a software development team (2007)
- See Moscow
- See India
- See Vietnam
- See Auschwitz
- See Getty Museum
- See Henry Ford museum
- See Edsel Ford Estate
- See Northlandz Museum
- Ski again in Colorado
- See Saint Petersburg
- See Grand Canyon again
- See Twin Towers Memorial
- See Great Wall of China
- Take an Alaskan Cruise
- See Yellowstone National Park
- Go up the Saint Louis Arch
- See Chernobyl, if possible
- Finish second unfinished basement
- Finish first Model Railroad Layout
- Go skiing(one time only) in the Alps
- Start/finish another Bob Ross painting
- Start/finish a paint by numbers painting
- Buy another house with an unfinished basement
- Start/complete more Model Railroad Structures
- See Diego Rivera’s Frescos at Detroit institute of Art
- Start second woodworking project (Entertainment Center)
- Finish Graduate Program in Software Systems
at Saint Thomas (2015)