Bucket List

Yi: Run into a university classroom while in session (preferably philosophy)... and yell,"Lies, its all lies!" and then run out.

Er: Stop smo... Holy Crap, it almost killed me as I was writing it... I laid a cigarette on a lighter because I didn't have an ashtray. So while I was about to type 'stop smoking' the lighter fucking blew up!
Uhmmm, yeah, so #Soong: Stop smoking... or at least switch to matches.
*Almost accomplished, I haven't smoked in a long time, but they say you never really quit.
*Damn it, started again.
*Ok, its all good now, been quite awhile now... about 5 years.

*Two packs during the middle of Covid.

San: Pilot my own aircraft (Hot air balloons and hang-gliders count). On a side note, skydiving and bungie jumping should be in here too.

Si: Learn a foreign language (pig-latin and sign language don't count).
*Started Japanese. Nope. Ie.
*Started Chinese. Nope.
*Started Thai... Maybe...

Wu: Learn a martial art.
*Sorta know Tai Chi
*never practiced enough... next...?

Liu: Learn a musical instrument... as I am a realist about my musical ability, I must allow the xylophone and cowbell to count
*I have begun self-taught guitar lessons
*didn't make it... next musical instrument...?

Why do I want to learn all this stuff before I die? Playing the xylophone (or guitar) isn't necessary to my survival, and when I die, everything I learned will die with me... Uh-oh, is this a prelude to a desire for children? Oh-crap... How old am I? But even if I have children and teach them what I know, then they will soon die, and even if they teach their children, then they will die and so on and so on... but maybe its not the knowledge, maybe its the Experiences...
Is the universe infinite? and is knowledge infinite? and is experience infinite? Is there a collective consciousness? Is knowledge gained and experience felt? The difference being that of prose to poetry - or the logical to the imaginative... Death is the ultimate motivator isn't it? All these rhetorical questions and nobody here to answer them... hmmm... Is Life infinite? It is a big assumption but I don't know how it couldn't be. If energy can be neither created nor destroyed, and since Life is only an arrangement of energy created of chaos...

Ha, I should run into a philosophy classroom and spout off this junk. There is just too much infinity to ever get a definite answer. If I had my way there would be much less infinity in the world. And I guess that is exactly what Death does; creates finity in infinity. Say that 5 times fast.

Qi: Stop thinking so much (A couple of magic mushrooms would give me all the answers; too bad they make people go skitzo).

Ba: Visit every country in the world at least once. Some deserve a revisit. I hope I live long enough. Specific areas/places on this list (that I haven't done yet) would have to include Machu Picchu, the Pyramids, Potala Palace, Papahānaumokuākea (Hawaii), Victoria & Iguazu Falls, Galapagos Islands, Angkor Wat, Panama Canal, Ngorongoro & Serengeti, ... I will think of more I'm sure.

Jyu: Climb some mountains. To do: Andes, and the Alps... might as well add Kiliminjaro to the list so that I cover all the contenients. New Zealand too. And Ayers rock.
*Rockies, Cascades, McKinnley, Tai Shan & Huang Shan, and one in the Himalayas. A couple in the Himalayas.

Sieb-Ed: This isn't as dramatic as climbing the Alps, but its been bugging me. I want to NOT tip a barber. Sounds simple enough but for the whole 10-15 minutes I sit in that chair with the snipping and buzzing all I am thinking about is "will I like the haircut?"... Personally I can't decide if it was a good haircut for at least an hour or two. The dilemma is that I don't want to decide it was a good haircut and not have tipped and then want to go back next time. On the other hand, I hate tipping and then deciding it was terrible and I am never going back anyway... hmmm; I guess I could go to a place I know gives bad cuts and then not tip, but I would still have to pay. That isn't the best idea I've ever had.
*Done, wasn't that hard really, even went back a couple times... and tipped.

Sieb-Soong: Invent something useful and actually build it; i need to work on the 'doing' side of things. *electric vehicle applications seem to be promising. Yup. Done.

Sieb-Saam: Witness the Aurora Borealis and complete solar eclipse
*Alaska here I come, but I might not get there before Aug 21 2017...
*Damn it, missed the eclipse.
*April 8th, 2024... Mazatlan...

Sib-See: I'd also like to go sport fishing. Or big game hunting. I think I'd rather go fishing.
*Nope. naaa-ope. I should have chosen big game hunting... but my fishing experience taught me that I don't want to go with a group, I want a challenge, danger, me vs. nature, not the crass joy of just killing easily... I want to feel the respect and honor I would give to a defeated opponent whom at least had a chance of winning, of killing me. All I caught were a few rock fish that took all of one hand to reel in... I had pictured swordfish, barracuda, or at least a yellowtail that would give me a fight. Also, I should have chosen big game because it would be extremely difficult to get sea-sick hunting elk or bear... and when i do go, it will be with a bow.

Sib-Ha: BurningMan
*Yeas!

Sieb-Hok: Learn an Irish Drinking Song

Sieb-Jet: Learn to Play Go

I am 46 years old now. Looking back at some of these, they were just silly. And worthy. It is 2026 now, I started smoking, not much but enough to immediately get bronchitis. I am quiting again, but really this time since I would also like to avoid cancer, although with the amount of toxins in everything on Earth in this great time of the Anthropocene, the microplastics in semen, the glysophate salad dressings and teflon omelettes, the canola oil fried donuts, I don't think any of us will avoid it. Fuck it. And Fingercrox. I never learned how to Play Go. I understood the rules, but was never at a level of any competition to anyone. Never learned an Irish Drinking Song. Don't really care about either of those things. Went skydiving, once, AFF course first jump so had the opportunity to jump none of that tandem weak sauce. Don't feel the urge to go big game hunting, but I am glad I went sport fishing with my pops. It was for fathers day, bought a groupon, he was seasick the entire time, poor bastard. Would still like to see the Aurora Borealis and see a complete solar eclipse. The philosophy stuff is sorted. Haircuts are still an issue. Instrument is a nope, Thai language is a struggle. I guess it's time to remake the list. ha, I remember how old this list is, that cigarette blowing up a lighter was a real event, haha, what was that, how many years ago was that... I can't hardly place it in time. Anyway;

Bucket List. Thai Language. Aurora Borealis. Totality Solar Eclipse. More Mountains: Ojos del Salado.  and the Alps still. and I would like to go back to Nepal. More Travel. Africa. South America. Saipan. Eastern Europe. Russia. Retire in Thailand? Retire somewhere. Have a Home. That's about it. Have a home, have good friends, a beautiful lover, and the time and money to experience new things enough to appreciate old things. Maybe I will need to compromise. That's my new bucket list. Although, I don't really like the etymology of the phrase, so, let's just call it a to-do list.

A done-did list is a biography.