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[GarandMarine]

List some of your general goals for life, bucket list stuff, where you want to be in five years, etc

1. In no particular time line, I'd like to own a couple mares, preferably mustangs adopted from the BLM.
2. On that same "whenever I can make it happen" I'd like a home with enough space and land to graze said horses
3. On a "Bucket List" time frame I'd like to run the Iditarod Sled Dog Race at least once
4. Visit at least one nation on every continent. (Counting say McMurdo in the American Zone in Antarctica for continent seven)
5. Achieve LEO
6. Successfully hunt a Mountain Lion/Puma.

[Loki]

1. Live happily
2. Die happily
3. See Venice before it drowns
4. Learn how to drive a car (this one may never come true)

[lepetitfromage]

1. Teach kids art
2. Have a kidlet of my own
3. Own a car and drive it without having a panic attack
4. Own a (fun) house. (Not a funhouse....a fun house.)
5. Go back to Lollapalooza at least once
6. Make some moolah selling my creations
7. Leave the country at least once (should be happening some time this summer!!)
8. Go to and make art at Burning Man
9. Try out for Jeopardy
10. Learn to operate a tattoo machine
11. Pay off my student loans


Ok, I promise to try not to make any more edits.

[Jace]

Win two crown tournements.
Become a baron.
Become a knight.

[Carl-E]

I want to travel.  With the exception of trips into Canada, I've never left the US. 

Europe, Asia, Africa, South America - I don't care. 

I know some Russian - that would be interesting. 

[LTK]

I want to buy a parrot and teach it enough words so that I can converse with it on a basic level.

I also want to learn how to hypnotise people and myself.

Short-term goals, but those will do for now. ^_^

[Redball]

Remarry another huckleberry friend.
Travel to easy places (not India), meeting Questionables where possible and convenient: Scandinavia, the UK (Barmymoo as the driver?), Ireland, France/Germany/Italy, Japan, and finally, Australia, maybe Colombia and Ecuador, where I have friends and acquaintances. (BTW: Akima, would you have coffee with a Questionable?) I have a lot of AA frequent flyer miles to use up while I still can.
Learn, at last, how to duplicate a childhood Chinese restaurant's combination of shrimp and plum sauce.
Return to woodworking. I have tools unused for 4 years.
Pass calculus. I'll skip the BA in physics I was aiming at when I flunked in 1956.

I may amend this.

 

[Masterpiece]

1. Stay Alive.

[Loki]

I know some Russian - that would be interesting.

Just be sure to not travel to just St.Petersburg/Moscow. Go see some countryside.

1. Stay Alive.

Hey, you are doing better on your first goal than I am on mine 

[GarandMarine]

I know some Russian - that would be interesting.

Just be sure to not travel to just St.Petersburg/Moscow. Go see some countryside.

That's true for going ANY WHERE. I mean going to big cities in any given nation, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, (not New York City, it's dildos and you'll be eaten by rats the size of standard poodles) is something you should totally do too, but getting out into the ACTUAL country is vital to getting more of a feel to any given nation then just what's in the tourist brochures.

[Pilchard123]

NYC is dildos? What?

[lepetitfromage]

Return to woodworking. I have tools unused for 4 years.

What kind of woodworking did you do? If you do start this back up again, I'd love to see photos of some of your work! Makin' stuff is awesome 

NYC is dildos? What?

Lol, this confused me as well. But...I'm also a die hard New Yorker. I want to live in other parts of the country but I'd be sad if NYC was more than 2 hours away from me. So, if by "dildo" GM meant "something that provides never-ending amount of pleasure" then yes, I agree.

[Valdís]

1) Transition, obviously.
2) Stay alive.
3) Be less self-destructive.
4) Go to University.
5) Be employable.
6) Make kissytimes with Garand and Ceras.

NYC is dildos? What?

[Pilchard123]

Thinking about it, he possibly meant there are too many high-rise buildings.

EDIT: Alternatively, "NYC is artificial, obscene, and *****d". For once YT comments are amusing.

[LeeC]

move to SoCal (preferable near the beach) and take up surfing

[Boiled Dove]

I need to get to Hawaii so I can mark off all 50 states.

Long term - position myself to buy a building in Old San Juan and move to Puerto Rico (learning Spanish is also a part of this)

[Carl-E]

Pass calculus. I'll skip the BA in physics I was aiming at when I flunked in 1956.

Let me know when you give this a try - I do online tutoring.   

[Radical AC]

I just got my first real person job in insurance and I am moving to Arizona in the next two weeks.  They do tuition reimbursement so I want to get into ASUs MBA program and learn Chinese.

*Get my JD/MA by the time I am 35
*Get a job with the FSO as a diplomat
*Put out an album
*Get my amateur extra ham radio license
*Get a fancy apartment in a high rise

[Welu]

• Holiday (or temporarily live) in New Zealand.
• Write a well-recieved novel.
• Become an editor and/or cinematographer.

That is the bare-bones list.

[Masterpiece]

• Fly to LA or SF
• Buy a shoddy old Chevy or Mustang
• Drive from SF to NY by car
• Feel alive

[Redball]

*Get my amateur extra ham radio license
*Get a fancy apartment in a high rise

Extra class license compatibility with the high-rise fancy apartment: Where's the antenna? I'm N8HAA here, but I haven't set up the station in the 15 years I've been retired.
And congratulations on the job!

[Lines]

Visit lots of other countries, but mainly Germany, Japan, and New Zealand.
Build a hobbit house in New Zealand and live there happily forever.
Get a house with some land so I can have an alpaca, an angora rabbit or two, some pygmy goats, maybe a sheep, so I can basically have my own fiber farm. (Preferably this would take place in New Zealand with my hobbit house.)
Have some childrens, turn them into nerds, and dress them in cosplay. Because cosplay kids are CUTE.
Live a long and wonderful life.

[LTK]

*Get my amateur extra ham radio license

Isn't 'amateur' redundant?

[Redball]

I would have thought that too, but the class is called "amateur extra class," so adding "ham" isn't entirely redundant. The word "amateur" doesn't seem to be in the name of the other categories.

[Welu]

I forgot my main goal!

Own ALL the dogs.

[bainidhe_dub]

Oh my gosh I did a run this morning and there were adoptable dogs there including this sweet tiny pit bull.

I suppose my goals are:
-turn my job into a career
-have a happy healthy family
-someday live in a tiny house
-write something and get it published

[Papersatan]

Graduate from my master's program

Buy a brand new, never been owned by another person car

Learn to play piano

Get my pilot's licence

Have a C-suite position at a company I care about

[Radical AC]

My dad got his pilots license and said it was the biggest waste of money he ever made.
His brother is a commercial airline pilot for easyJet in England.
YMMV

*Get my amateur extra ham radio license
*Get a fancy apartment in a high rise

Extra class license compatibility with the high-rise fancy apartment: Where's the antenna? I'm N8HAA here, but I haven't set up the station in the 15 years I've been retired.
And congratulations on the job!

Thanks!  I am not quite sure where this job fits in with life goals, but I will do my best to make it work.  Antenna goes on balcony.

[Papersatan]

I took flying lessons when I was young, like 12, and I loved it.  I loooove flying; I think I have blabbered about it here before. My career goals at the time included being a pilot.  My flying instructor was a lovely woman, but my ground school instructor was a tool.  One day while looking for a map he thought she had misplaced he said "If God had meant for women to fly, the sky would be pink."  I was the only female in the class (as well as the only person under 25) and the other men all looked at me nervously and the instructor muttered an apology.  But I was embarrassed and hurt.  6 months later my flight instructor moved and I was scheduled to continue my lessons with that man.   I quit instead.  I never told my parents why, but I was not comfortable taking lessons from him. 

Quitting is one of the few regrets I have, and so going back and doing it would be more symbolic than anything else.  It is a long term goal though, because who can afford flying lessons :/. 

[Lupercal]

• Holiday (or temporarily live) in New Zealand.
• Write a well-recieved novel.
• Become an editor and/or cinematographer.

That is the bare-bones list.

We apparently share the same life goals! Living the UK means that a temporary pilgrimage to NZ is easier than any other country except Australia.
I'm very close to being an editor - I work in the Production department of an academic publishing house - but need to make a career change IN 2013 at some point, probably.
What art-lover doesn't want to write a novel? 

• Get better at guitar, play with other people again
• Move out of my goddam parent's house before I'm in my mid 20s
• Make a sensible career change that pays more than the minimum amount for a recent graduate and actually has a clear career path
• Most importantly, move in with my girlfriend so that we can actually have a relationship!

I will probably come up with some mad ones sooner or later.

[Patrick]

• Fly to LA or SF

Come hang out with me, I'm not far from SF. P.S. Los Angeles is a sprawling, polluted mess. Much as I'd love to explore more, I'm never going to until they solve the pollution problems. I spent one weekend there last month and had to have an emergency breathing treatment done. I hadn't had an asthma attack in 15 years.

[Patrick]

oh yeah, the point of the thread. right. let's see...

1. go on tour
2. make more Troubador records
3. actually write a few songs of my own that are worth putting on said records
4. learn more instruments
5. get famous
6. travel everywhere ever

[Masterpiece]

• Fly to LA or SF

Come hang out with me, I'm not far from SF. P.S. Los Angeles is a sprawling, polluted mess. Much as I'd love to explore more, I'm never going to until they solve the pollution problems. I spent one weekend there last month and had to have an emergency breathing treatment done. I hadn't had an asthma attack in 15 years.

The goal is to drive from the furthest point west to the furthest point east. I don't want to visit specific places, I don't want to plan out my trip. I want the road to be my destination, lead it to where it wants to lead me. I want to make THE road trip.

[Patrick]

yes well when you eventually get tired of being stuck in L.A. traffic give me a call and I'll start you off with a buncha options.

[Welu]

We apparently share the same life goals! Living the UK means that a temporary pilgrimage to NZ is easier than any other country except Australia.
I'm very close to being an editor - I work in the Production department of an academic publishing house - but need to make a career change IN 2013 at some point, probably.
What art-lover doesn't want to write a novel? 

I officially declare us BFFs!

Also even though I have dual citizenship, I have an Irish passport. I'd need to get a British passport to have the easy way in to NZ. I should get a British one just to have one really.

[Zingoleb]

• become a god
• create a few universes while i'm at it
• get a good night's sleep

as you can tell, exactly none of my goals are within my reach

[Zingoleb]

also i don't have goals per se i just have certain paths i am attempting to follow

largely, as of now, paths of creativity and, more importantly, of mindfulness. i don't know what the end goal is to either of these, nor do i think there is one - i'm merely defining the path i'm taking.

but in terms of trying to work on those, my life goals at present are:

• learn drums (creative)
• learn piano (creative)
• get better posture (mindfulness)
• stop chewing fingernails (mindfulness)

[RoisinO]

Have another baby
Train as a midwife
Travel to the US and Canada
Be immortalised in cartoon form

All achievable I hope...

[Boiled Dove]

• Fly to LA or SF

Come hang out with me, I'm not far from SF. P.S. Los Angeles is a sprawling, polluted mess. Much as I'd love to explore more, I'm never going to until they solve the pollution problems. I spent one weekend there last month and had to have an emergency breathing treatment done. I hadn't had an asthma attack in 15 years.

The goal is to drive from the furthest point west to the furthest point east. I don't want to visit specific places, I don't want to plan out my trip. I want the road to be my destination, lead it to where it wants to lead me. I want to make THE road trip.

As someone who has done that (well, ocean to ocean anyway) I will tell you it will be a great trip. Heading north out of Vancouver and driving the AL-CAN all the way to Anchorage  is a great one as well.

[Asterus]

1. Do something with my hobbies? (Maybe?)
2. Come up with real goals. I've been content with taking things as they coming along, but it does make questions like this (Which are sometimes disturbingly ubiquitous) kinda awkward.

[Thrillho]

Record a full band demo at some point that I can then use to justify gigging more often.

[Papersatan]

Graduate from my master's program

Buy a brand new, never been owned by another person car

Learn to play piano

Get my pilot's licence

Have a C-suite position at a company I care about

Updated to include, as a top priority:

Never have to ask for help paying rent again.

[Emoroffle]

1: Learn five more languages. I have specific ones in mind but don't care to list them.
2: Get funding for my fusion research project.
3: Buy and customize a 2002 RX-7 Spirit-R. I want between 600 and 650Hp from it.
4: Have my own home.
5: Create my own advanced weapons research facility.
6: Finish the mathematical proof for my hypothesis on why time travel paradoxes can't exist.
7: Find the one, or several. I'm open to either idea.

[jwhouk]

1. Pay off Credit Card debt.
2. Retire.
3. Move the heck out of Wisconsin to someplace where it's not 10 below every #$#@!$!@% night.

[GarandMarine]

7: Find the one, or several. I'm open to either idea.

Emo is now the female Morpheus!

[kelpy]

5: Create my own advanced weapons research facility.

emo, you are scary, also please don't aim at Australia, or if you do, go for the east, we can live without them.

I used to have a big list of these sorts of things. Now... not so much.
1.Work up the courage to go to a festival or other mass gathering.
2.Learn ALL the languages. well maybe not all, but all the pretty ones.
3.Learn to communicate effectively
4. Learn ALL the instruments, except percussion, I am terrible at percussion.
5. Read lots of smart people books.

[Masterpiece]

"Only the pretty ones?" Wow.

[SageJiraiya]

GERMAN'S OUT.

[Thrillho]

Oh Jesus Christ, please let that post be an unfortunate coincidence rather than hugely crass.

[Masterpiece]

Prettiness is subject to the eye of the observer. Or ear, in this case.