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Things to do before I die.
April 3, 1998
To the left and right are the original copies (back) (front) of my list as I wrote them on April 3, 1998.
1. Read
the Bible straight through (proof)
2. Go scuba diving at a sunken ship
3. Read complete works of JRR Tolkien (
List)4. Read twenty Shakespearean plays
5. Visit every country in the world
6. Spend a night in an igloo
7. Swim 12 laps in under 12 minutes
8. Swim
24 laps straight (
9. Bike
across Canada (proof)
10. Start a mission school in Africa
11. Ride the train around India
12. Motorbike around Australia
13. Climb Ayers Rock
14. Graduate
from college with a BA and BEd (
15. Get a Masters Degree
16. Publish an article in an academic journal
17. Learn to speak German
18. Finish learning French
19. Play all of Bach’s Lute suites on the guitar
20. Be able to play all the band instruments (especially the oboe, flute, bassoon and French Horn)
21. Run a marathon
22. Listen to all of Sibelius’s Symphonies live
23. Conduct an orchestra
24. Play in a Christian alternative band and tour
25. Record a CD at least 40 minutes long
26. Get married and have children
27. Get my carpenter’s license
28. Run for political office and win
29. Star in a film
30. Perform in a major play
31. Get my ARCT in guitar
32. Build a guitar from scratch
33. Canoe
down the whole Mackenzie river (proof)
34. Shear Sheep (proof)
35. Take cooking classes (proof)
36. Grow a tropical garden
37. Grow a Canada garden
38. Paint a picture of my wife
39. Paint a picture of each of my kids
40. Paint a picture of each of my immediate family members
41. Join Promise Keepers (
link)42. Live to see the year 2050
43. Produce, direct, write, or act in a film about the Acadian Deportation
44. Write my autobiography
45. Read the complete works of CS Lewis
46. Read the complete works of Roald Dahl (
List)47. Own and operate a cafe
48. Write 100 songs
49. Play trombone in an orchestra
50. Go
Skydiving (
51. Visit all 10 provinces (sleep at least five nights in each one)
52. Visit all fifty states (sleep at least two nights in each one)
53. Go on a cruise
54. Get
my life guarding certificate (
55. Learn to cut people’s hair
56. Learn to play the bass guitar
57. Lead 100 people to the Lord
58. Learn to play the Accordion
59. Publish a novel
60. Speak with three Prime Ministers of Canada
61. Learn
advanced calculus and analytic geometry (proof)
62. Write a computer program
63. Win
twenty-five FreeCell games in a row (proof)
64. Create
and upkeep a website (
65. Learn to make ice-cream
66. Write a book of poems
67. Make a beautiful vase on the throwing wheel
68. Plant 500 trees to make up for the ones I have used up
69. Win an Oscar for a documentary
70. Have a letter to the editor published in a city newspaper
71. To help Salomé make a cartoon film for the National Film Board of Canada
72. Play Hockey on a team
73. Build a house
74. Learn
to dive from a diving board (
75. Learn to do a cartwheel
76. Make a grandfather clock
77. Learn my times table up to 50 X 50
78. Invest in the Montreal Stock Market
79. Join
a peace organization (
80. Take photographs and have them included in a National Geographic issue (
link)81. Climb to the summit of mountains in twenty countries
82. Go fishing at night in New Brunswick
83. Go
sailing (
84. Go surfing
85. Go
snow Boarding (
86. Go ice fishing and catch a fish
87. Write the biography of someone I admire
88. Pray everyday of my life from now on (cross this one off when I die would you)
89. Go on world’s biggest roller coaster
90. See the Sistine Chapel
91. Go
skinny dipping with my wife (proof)
92. Grow
a beard for one year (
93. Shave
everyday for one year (proof)
94. Own goats and milk them for what they are worth
95. Sponsor a child for 10 years
96. Roll in the snow after sitting in the sauna
97. Arm wrestle with a WWF wrestler
98. Learn to read Arabic
99. Learn an African dialect
100. Ride a camel through the desert
101. Teach for at least 25 years
102.
Memorize a book of the Bible (proof)
103. Sing
an original song to my bride at my wedding (
104. Go to
an NFL, NHL, CFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, and
European Football game
105. Adopt a child
106. Work
at a polling station (proof)
107. Be a juror (I know its random)
108. Learn Spanish
109. Baptize
someone (proof)
110. Do my family tree back ten generations
111. Memorize the flags and capitals of all countries
112. Memorize the names of all of Canada’s Prime Ministers and all the US Presidents and leaders of France, Russia, Great Britain and China since 1900
113. Go hang gliding
114. Get
First Aid Certification (
115. Get class 4 driver’s license
116. Keep a daily journal for five years
117. Start up a guitar ensemble
118. Have CUC include all of its titles and letter heads in French also
119. Learn to do macramé and knit
120. Go windsurfing
121.
Compose a song for band (or arrange) (
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