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[inahandbasket]

It's my birthday! I'm 30! holy crap!

I just got word that a major project is now behind schedule and won't hit it's install date by enough of a margin that my built-in estimate padding is useless as well, and I'll have to inform senior management that we're changing the install date.

But hey, it's my birthday!
And it's a gorgeous day with the temperature in the 80's! That counts for something... right?

Trying not to let work ruin my good mood.

I want to compile a list of things to accomplish in this decade, anyone have suggestions for me?
What should I do before the tens digit rolls over again?
Serious, silly, all will be accepted and considered.

Lovin' life. :-)

Comments

[muffyjo]

Making that kind of list requires a confession of the things you've already accomplished! (so we can find new ideas, you see!)

Oh, and Happy Birthday!

[inahandbasket]

accomplished?
Things... stuff...
You know, things! and stuff!

(Aka.: This question deliberately left vague, make of it what you will.)

[muffyjo]

Cop out! ;)

But in a different way of thinking about it, I think that anything you do, should be things you'd be proud or amused to tell the stories of when sitting on the porch of the nursing home in your old age. You know, things like:

Make sure to travel,

to see a third world country,

to travel by train,

to visit a different climate

visit some of the world's major art museums

go to a concert in another country for one of your favorite bands

take a class in something not even vaguely related to your job

Read a story to a child, complete with different voices and funny arm movements.

push your comfort zones (safely)

Be someone's consequential stranger

[dot_fennel]

Happy birthday!

[greyhoundliz.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday. Swim the Hellespont, maybe?

[inahandbasket]

hah. ^_^

[oceanic.livejournal.com]

Woo milestone birthdays! Happiness!

I think you should take an enormous and overly ambitious woodworking project and actually see it through to completion. Bonus points if it's something you'll use in the house (like a bed or table) and can pass on down generations.

I will go hide from the slappy hands of the prosicated now, for encouraging you to take on more woodworking stuff than you already have. ;D But the key idea was to actually finish the whole production, so you can have a craft object to be proud of. That'd be great to point to at the end of the decade. "I made that!"

[inahandbasket]

Heck, that's on my list for THIS year. ;-)

[oceanic.livejournal.com]

Pssht. Promises! I'm still waiting for my magnetic bubinga knife holder, if you're that far ahead... ;)

[inahandbasket]

/me has suddenly found a very interesting spot on the carpet

[oceanic.livejournal.com]

tee hee.
I will commence with the poking now. All complaints can be sent to the Department of PSHAW, Floor Whatever, Room Sweet Revenge.

[countlibras.livejournal.com]

congrats!

I actually liked being 30. (31 was no fun, but I have high hopes for 32)

[countlibras.livejournal.com]

and I know! You should make me a cello! ;)

[inahandbasket]

Wow, that would be awesome.
That's a good goal though, thanks for the idea! I'd love to make a viol family instrument or two...

[countlibras.livejournal.com]

I would try my hand at it except 1) I lack tools and 2) I lack woodworking knowledge. lol!

Um, make me a cello and I'll try to make you a suit in exchange? :D

[eclectician.livejournal.com]

You mean like the electric bass body I saw last time I was in your basement? =)

[inahandbasket]

Oh I've done electrics, those are easy. I'm talking acoustic...

[eclectician.livejournal.com]

I was referring to state of doneness, not difficulty.

[inahandbasket]

Ah yes, that.
The particular bass body in question has a lot of history behind it, ask me about it some time. ;-)

[cutieperson]

happy birthday!!

i second the woodworking project finishing idea :)

[inahandbasket]

arr. It's on my more immediate plan, doing a lot of woodworking in general is on my 10 year. I'd like to have some things I made still be around when i'm gone some day.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

OMG! You're so *OLD*!!!! ;-) ;-)


here's your suggestion for your next decade:

At least once a year for the next ten years pick something you want, that you have no idea whether you can have or not, whether you can accomplish or not, or even whether you're really sure it's the best of possible things you could pick, and proclaim unequivocally "I want this!" and go after it.

:)

Happy Birthday! Make a wish. :)

[veek.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'll just latch on to this one, and second it with enthusiasm.

[inahandbasket]

Indeed, seems like a good way to live.

[inahandbasket]

eye no rite? ^_^

Thanks, that's really a good idea. Sadly I'm plagued by indecision, but I'm going to do my best to overcome that limitation.

[sun-set-bravely.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!!!

[bluewillowtree.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

I remember you talking about making a bass a few years ago. Did you ever do that? If so, congrats, and I'm sorry for missing it! But if not, that seems like a good project...

[inahandbasket]

Never posted the results, which are currently living with someone else.
I'd like to do a full bass from scratch, but that's well down in the woodworking queue.

[chillguru.livejournal.com]

happy birthday!

couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Happy birthday! (I am so terrible at birthdays, so i am grateful for people who remind me of them in a very public and obvious way.)

Edit your previous to-do-before-you-die list. Give yourself permission to give up on the things you no longer actually want, but but have been meaning to do for so long that you're totally in a rut about 'em. Then do it -- give up, make apologies, give shit away, do whatever you need to do to let go of that angst. If there are obvious omissions - things you'd like to do, but think you can't because there are so many other things to do first, now's the time to add them.

Make a pact with yourself to kiss your wife and tell her you love her (and really mean it) every single day for the next ten years.

[jimmi-obadger.livejournal.com]

that was me.

[inahandbasket]

If I had a list I'd edit it.
Still working on making one. ;-)

[jimmi-obadger.livejournal.com]

I don't believe you. What about your woodworking list? Your home repair projects? Your job goals? Other hobbies (brewing, photography, music)? Are any aspects of these not serving you as well as they could be? Or have they in some way become more important than you are currently admitting to yourself?

[rainbow-spork.livejournal.com]

I have no useful suggestions, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Happy happy happy! And fun fun, with the voip. :/

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[jasra]

Happy birthday!

[cinnabarine.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! :)

[squirrella.livejournal.com]

happy day-later birthday.

bicycle from where you live to your folks place?

[inahandbasket]

That's... frightening but brilliant. Thanks!

[squirrella.livejournal.com]

our neighbor just attempted a PHL to Clarks Summit ride over two days and a good friend of ours did a ride from VT to Philadelphia over a week or so last year. i think you possess a spirit similar to theirs and think that would be a good 40x40 challenge.

Happy birthday

[drwex]

and many joyous returns of the day.

I'm not at all fond of the "Do X by Y" type projects. Mostly it feels like you're doing a lot of right things - make a loving family, create the home you want to live in, keep your work interesting and have an idea of how to move it forward, do things that help you define who you are.

If you can keep doing those five things over this next decade I can't see how you'd go wrong.