My Mighty Life List 2010

Here are 100+ things I want to do:

• take a book through the whole writing & editing process • Go on a date with Joe at the Moss Room • Have evaluated every single one of my belongings sometime within the last year & only kept what brings some kind of value to me • have dim sum with 3 friends • walk the city of San Francisco, every street, every block • visit Amsterdam • take Joe to Bobby From Boston for suit shopping • have a street food safari • stay at the Hotel Le Bristol in Paris & swim in the pool • be a published author • present at SXSW Interactive about making room in your life for awesomeness • visit Oslo again • have 6 months of expenses in a savings account • sample all the locally made chocolates in San Francisco • visit my aunt in Alaska • stay at Glenapp Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland & take a bath in a clawfoot tub & enjoy a full English breakfast • explore secret parks & open spaces in SF • go to Bergenfest in Norway some spring • attend Chamber Music Day • take a tour of the Atlantic Ave Tunnel in NYC • visit Greece with Joe & swim in the Mediterranean • write a science blog • finish sampling the last of the 100 cocktails in the Museum of the American Cocktail recipe book • take a boat up the Sognefjord & visit Balestrand again • try 100 250 cheeses: 1. Mild Cheddar 2. Monterey Jack 3. Swiss 4. Gjetost 5. Montgomery's Cheddar 6. Double Gloucester 7. Lancashire 8. Lincolnshire Poacher 9. Red Leicester 10. Spenwood  11. Wensleydale 12. White Stilton 13. Abbaye de Belloc 14. Comté 15. Mimolette 16. Asiago 17. Parmigiano Reggiano 18. Pecorino Romano 19. Idiazabal 20. Manchego 21. Emmental 22. Gruyere 23. Gouda 24. Leyden 25. Jarlsberg 26. Grevéost 27. Tillamook Cheddar 28. Dry Jack 29. Sally Jackson 30. Morbier 31. Istara Ossau-Iraty 32. Provolone 33. Edam 34. Havarti 35. Sonoma Jack 36. Teleme 37. Brillat-Savarin 38. Camembert 39. Explorateur 40. Stilton 41. Roquefort 42. Saint-Agur 43. Black River Gorgonzola 44. Cambazola 45. Maytag Blue 46. Boursin 47. Mascarpone (technically not a cheese) 48. Mozzarella 49. Smoked Mozzarella 50. Ricotta 51. Feta 52. Halloumi 53. Cottage Cheese 54. Cream Cheese 55. Queso Fresco 56. Queso Blanco 57. Bravo Farms Sage Cheddar 58. Bravo Farms Chipotle Cheddar 59. Irish Cahill Porter 60. Brie 61. Welsh Red Dragon 62. Vento d'Estate 63. Beecher's Flagship Cheddar 64. Delice de Bourgogne 65. Quatro Stagioni 66. Sweet Grass Dairy Raw Thomasville Tomme 67. Mt. Tam 68. Testun al Barolo 69. Raschera 70. Vacherin du Jura 71. Fourme d'Ambert 72. Pleasant Ridge Reserve 73. Midnight Moon 74. Rogue River Blue 75. Pt. Reyes Blue 76. Capri Wasabi Goat Cheese 77. Tome du Haut Languedoc 78. Brescianella Acquavite 79. Etude 80. Winnimere 81. Blu Vlchiusella 82.Caña de Oreja 83. Hidden Springs Driftless 84. Surchoix Grand Cru 85. Irish Gem 86. Crozier Blue 87. St. Tola 88. Fromage d'Affinois 89. La Tur 90. Laura Chenel Goat Cheese 91. Westcombe Red 92. SF Drake 93. Big Woods Blue 94. Bellwether Farms Pepato 95. Saenkanter (Gouda?) 96. Cotija 97. Valtelina Casera 98. Taleggio 99. Humboldt Fog 100. Grafton cheddar (4 and 2 year) 101. Italian Pecorino Pepato 102. Ardrahan 103. Keen's Cheddar 104. Childwickbury 105 Ticklemore 106. Daylesford 107. Berkswell 108. Innes Bosworth Ash 109. Sleightlet 110. Welsh Harlech 111. Le Chevrot 112. Australian Marinated Feta 113. Zingerman's Bridgewater Round Triple Cream with Peppercorns 114. Great Hill Blue 115. French Fromager Des Clarines 116. Hope Farm Tomme de Brebis 117. Parmesan 118 Creme Fraiche 119. Italian Pio Vecchio 120. Montasio 121. Piave Mezzano 122. Fenacho 123. Epoisses 124. Italian Caciotta del Lazio 125. Italian Cacio de Roma 126. Pepper Jack 127. Harley Farms Five Peppercorn Goat 128. Sofia 129. Swiss Forsterkase 130. Garroxta 131. Vermont Ayr 132. Serra da Estrela • attend the Manhattan Cocktail Classic • live in a top floor apartment again • stay in 25 Landmark Trust buildings 1. The Pineapple 2. Egyptian House 3. Peake's House • visit the Vlaho Bukovac gallery in Cavtat again • go on 25 London Walks walks 1. Old Mayfair 2. Darkest Victorian London 3. Jack the Ripper Tour 4. Old Hampstead Village 5. The Blitz 6. Subterranean London 7. (Some Da Vinci Code walk) 8. (One of the pub walks, Soho? or were those two different ones) [I think I've actually done 11 of these; need to check old travel journals] • go to Hawaii with Joe • visit the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium • hear the music in Bamako, Mali • take Joe suit-shopping at Duchess in Portland • write my book about the web • stay at The Queens Arms, Corton Denham, Somerset • go on an SF City Guides tour • travel to Zanzibar & visit (or at least fly over) Pemba Island north of the Zanzibar archipelago • stay at Olema cottages in Northern California • see Lavay Smith & Her Red-Hot Skillet Lickers • get rid of 1000 things (850) • visit the Long Now Museum • integrate my personal online creating so it flows automatically into a single lifestream in my blog • see my book on display in a bookstore • stretch enough to touch my toes • travel to every state in the U.S. • drink coffee on the top floor of the Seattle library • have a drink from Murray Stenson, one of the best bartenders in the world • visit every continent (still need South America, Australia, Antarctica) • get a TypePad tuneup for my sites • get fabulous headshots by Robin Anderson • get great video samples of my presenting skillz up on my website • get proficient at making video blog posts • learn Disaster Operations & Incident Command fundamentals • help improve emergency response procedures for my neighborhood & beyond • do a Dorkbot presentation on NERTing • have a big Discardian meetup • do a Discardian/awesomeness project with Maggie Mason • master editing fundamentals & the Word skillz to create beautiful documents easily • learn more about my late uncle Greg & his accessibility work • get my Dad's Y chromosome data in 23andMe • work at a treadmill desk • get all my old Flickr & Twitter content into MetaGrrrl.com • digitize all my paper memorabilia • revive Strafe's Guide to Streetspeak • drink cocktails on Steve & Heather's front porch in North Carolina • eat a meal cooked by Pableaux Johnson • create a will & revocable living trust with an incapacity clause, two durable powers of attorney (for healthcare and finances) & an advance directive that spells out my medical wishes if I become to ill to speak for myself (*yawn*) • find that barely remembered picture book about "alligator pears" (avocados) • go on a shopping adventure to SF Antique & Design Mall in Bayshore • attend an Art Deco Society event • conduct The Manhattan Project with Joe & our friend Mark to decide our favorite version of that great cocktail • eat Hawaiian food at Sundance Kitchen & see a movie [closed before I got to do that] • attend the Lamplighters' Gala with Joe • host a "fallout shelters" movie night • write a novel • eat at all the places on 7×7’s Big Eats Top 100 • have a power-out disaster drill at home • live in New York City • live in London • drink/dine at all the places on our worldwide list • stay at a really fabulous lodge in Yosemite in winter • travel for 80 days with Joe & as little luggage as possible • have a drink at Marlena's on a show night & applaud the beautiful drag queens • stay in a villa in Italy with a bunch of our friends, eating and napping decadently • walk the Cinque Terre • walk from inn to inn along the canals somewhere in Britain • rent a holiday barge • ride a boat in the canals of Amsterdam • buy my 10th pair of cowboy boots (4) • visit the Edo-Tokyo Museum with Joe • have a picnic in a grand cemetery or two with Joe (Paris's Pere Lachaise and London's Highgate are top of the list) • visit some catacombs • see the Egyptian pyramids • ride an insanely grand train, oh say, the Orient Express or something like that • help Habitat For Humanity build a house • dip fresh bread in olive oil in the orchard where the olives grew • be ready for a big earthquake • ride a camel • make microloans to people in 50 countries • visit the Catacombs Museum in Paris • visit Château de Guédelon in France

 

 

 

Things that would have been on this list if I'd written it earlier:

• live in the top room in a big old house • run around outside in the California hills a lot • have dogs • have pet rats • grow up in Northern California in the 1970s • see Star Wars many times on its first theatrical release • dance outside at midnight in fishnet stockings and a top hat • take a six mile walk that leads me past John Muir's house • visit Edinburgh • visit Inverness (Scotland) • visit the Scottish isles • ride a boat across the North Sea to Norway • visit Oslo & see the Vigeland sculpture park • take a boat up the Sognefjord & visit Balestrand • eat a big Scandinavian buffet • play on an old diesel train engine • play on an old junked fire engine • win a medal in the International Bocce finals (cadet division) • attend a cool hippie school • attend a public school • soak in a hot tub • go camping • work at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire • visit Kauai • visit a nude beach • visit London • take a rambling drive through Devon and Cornwall, staying in bed & breakfasts • spend hours in the Victoria & Albert museum • get comfortable navigating the London Underground & buses • read voraciously • learn to play happily by myself • nap under trees • climb trees • catch a lizard • eat fruit off trees • be friends with my parents • have more than the usual number of grandparents • have part-time siblings • play D&D • be a nerd • gamemaster • play Call of Cthulhu & get happily spooked during games • experience earthquakes • ride a sailboat • take BART under the bay • graduate high school • visit another country for my 18th birthday with just a friend and my cool aunt, no parents • live in Santa Cruz • leave Santa Cruz • get an undergraduate degree • live outside the United States • share a place with my sweetie • have my own place • work in a bookstore • open my own bookstore • run a one-woman business • get out of debt • get a master's degree • live on an island • vote • have the president I voted for actually win • get comfortable with public speaking • get public recognition for my writing • help build something good that lots & lots of people use • live in San Francisco • write a book • blog for a decade • visit Paris • visit Copenhagen • eat lunch in a Chinese restaurant in the middle of a German city • eat & drink in a proper British pub • visit Yugoslavia • walk over the original Stari Most (old bridge) in Mostar • see the Tower of London • take the Jack the Ripper walk guided by Donald Rumbelow • drink cocktails at some of the best bars in the world • attend Tales of the Cocktail • go on safari in Africa • visit an informal settlement in Soweto • smell the roses in Nelson Mandela's old front garden • ride in a hot air balloon • dance with the Maasai • go to SXSW • make silkscreens • use a mimeograph machine • give a presentation to hundreds of people • try the best delis in NYC & pick a favorite matzoh ball soup • drive a duck tour boat (for 10 minutes) • visit Tokyo & wear something bold on Takeshita-dōri • see the largest wooden structure in the world • see the largest tree in the world • visit the Eiffel Tower • see the Mona Lisa • be in a school play • win a school election • sit drinking soda in a cafe in a town in Kenya • visit a grocery store in Nairobi • visit Disneyland & eat at the Blue Bayou restaurant listening to the faint cries of people going down the first drop into Pirates of the Caribbean • host fabulous cocktail parties • sew something • grow something • go to a secret illegal absinthe party before re-legalization • build something made of wood • ride a horse • fly in a small plane • make good stock • ensure that parenthood remains a distant option, not an alarming surprise • live in sin • marry • divorce & rebuild the friendship • live in a cottage • manage an apartment building • have cats & kittens • live on the edge of town • live on a busy street • work in a nightclub

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My Mighty Life List

Here are 100+ things I want to do:

• take a book through the whole writing & editing process • Go on a date with Joe at the Moss Room • Have evaluated every single one of my belongings sometime within the last year & only kept what brings some kind of value to me • have dim sum with 3 friends • walk the city of San Francisco, every street, every block • visit Amsterdam • take Joe to Bobby From Boston for suit shopping • have a street food safari • stay at the Hotel Le Bristol in Paris & swim in the pool • be a published author • present at SXSW Interactive about making room in your life for awesomeness • visit Oslo again • have 6 months of expenses in a savings account • sample all the locally made chocolates in San Francisco • visit my aunt in Alaska • stay at Glenapp Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland & take a bath in a clawfoot tub & enjoy a full English breakfast • explore secret parks & open spaces in SF • go to Bergenfest in Norway some spring • attend Chamber Music Day • take a tour of the Atlantic Ave Tunnel in NYC • visit Greece with Joe & swim in the Mediterranean • write a science blog • finish sampling the last of the 100 cocktails in the Museum of the American Cocktail recipe book • take a boat up the Sognefjord & visit Balestrand again • try 100 250 cheeses: 1. Mild Cheddar 2. Monterey Jack 3. Swiss 4. Gjetost 5. Montgomery's Cheddar 6. Double Gloucester 7. Lancashire 8. Lincolnshire Poacher 9. Red Leicester 10. Spenwood  11. Wensleydale 12. White Stilton 13. Abbaye de Belloc 14. Comté 15. Mimolette 16. Asiago 17. Parmigiano Reggiano 18. Pecorino Romano 19. Idiazabal 20. Manchego 21. Emmental 22. Gruyere 23. Gouda 24. Leyden 25. Jarlsberg 26. Grevéost 27. Tillamook Cheddar 28. Dry Jack 29. Sally Jackson 30. Morbier 31. Istara Ossau-Iraty 32. Provolone 33. Edam 34. Havarti 35. Sonoma Jack 36. Teleme 37. Brillat-Savarin 38. Camembert 39. Explorateur 40. Stilton 41. Roquefort 42. Saint-Agur 43. Black River Gorgonzola 44. Cambazola 45. Maytag Blue 46. Boursin 47. Mascarpone (technically not a cheese) 48. Mozzarella 49. Smoked Mozzarella 50. Ricotta 51. Feta 52. Halloumi 53. Cottage Cheese 54. Cream Cheese 55. Queso Fresco 56. Queso Blanco 57. Bravo Farms Sage Cheddar 58. Bravo Farms Chipotle Cheddar 59. Irish Cahill Porter 60. Brie 61. Welsh Red Dragon 62. Vento d'Estate 63. Beecher's Flagship Cheddar 64. Delice de Bourgogne 65. Quatro Stagioni 66. Sweet Grass Dairy Raw Thomasville Tomme 67. Mt. Tam 68. Testun al Barolo 69. Raschera 70. Vacherin du Jura 71. Fourme d'Ambert 72. Pleasant Ridge Reserve 73. Midnight Moon 74. Rogue River Blue 75. Pt. Reyes Blue 76. Capri Wasabi Goat Cheese 77. Tome du Haut Languedoc 78. Brescianella Acquavite 79. Etude 80. Winnimere 81. Blu Vlchiusella 82.Caña de Oreja 83. Hidden Springs Driftless 84. Surchoix Grand Cru 85. Irish Gem 86. Crozier Blue 87. St. Tola 88. Fromage d'Affinois 89. La Tur 90. Laura Chenel Goat Cheese 91. Westcombe Red 92. SF Drake 93. Big Woods Blue 94. Bellwether Farms Pepato 95. Saenkanter (Gouda?) 96. Cotija 97. Valtelina Casera 98. Taleggio 99. Humboldt Fog 100. Grafton cheddar (4 and 2 year) 101. Italian Pecorino Pepato 102. Ardrahan 103. Keen's Cheddar 104. Childwickbury 105 Ticklemore 106. Daylesford 107. Berkswell 108. Innes Bosworth Ash 109. Sleightlet 110. Welsh Harlech 111. Le Chevrot 112. Australian Marinated Feta 113. Zingerman's Bridgewater Round Triple Cream with Peppercorns 114. Great Hill Blue 115. French Fromager Des Clarines 116. Hope Farm Tomme de Brebis 117. Parmesan 118 Creme Fraiche 119. Italian Pio Vecchio 120. Montasio 121. Piave Mezzano 122. Fenacho 123. Epoisses 124. Italian Caciotta del Lazio 125. Italian Cacio de Roma 126. Pepper Jack 127. Harley Farms Five Peppercorn Goat 128. Sofia 129. Swiss Forsterkase 130. Garroxta 131. Vermont Ayr 132. Serra da Estrela • attend the Manhattan Cocktail Classic • live in a top floor apartment again • stay in 25 Landmark Trust buildings 1. The Pineapple 2. Egyptian House 3. Peake's House • visit the Vlaho Bukovac gallery in Cavtat again • go on 25 London Walks walks 1. Old Mayfair 2. Darkest Victorian London 3. Jack the Ripper Tour 4. Old Hampstead Village 5. The Blitz 6. Subterranean London 7. (Some Da Vinci Code walk) 8. (One of the pub walks, Soho? or were those two different ones) [I think I've actually done 11 of these; need to check old travel journals] • go to Hawaii with Joe • visit the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium • hear the music in Bamako, Mali • take Joe suit-shopping at Duchess in Portland • write my book about the web • stay at The Queens Arms, Corton Denham, Somerset • go on an SF City Guides tour • travel to Zanzibar & visit (or at least fly over) Pemba Island north of the Zanzibar archipelago • stay at Olema cottages in Northern California • see Lavay Smith & Her Red-Hot Skillet Lickers • get rid of 1000 things (850) • visit the Long Now Museum • integrate my personal online creating so it flows automatically into a single lifestream in my blog • see my book on display in a bookstore • stretch enough to touch my toes • travel to every state in the U.S. • drink coffee on the top floor of the Seattle library • have a drink from Murray Stenson, one of the best bartenders in the world • visit every continent (still need South America, Australia, Antarctica) • get a TypePad tuneup for my sites • get fabulous headshots by Robin Anderson • get great video samples of my presenting skillz up on my website • get proficient at making video blog posts • learn Disaster Operations & Incident Command fundamentals • help improve emergency response procedures for my neighborhood & beyond • do a Dorkbot presentation on NERTing • have a big Discardian meetup • do a Discardian/awesomeness project with Maggie Mason • master editing fundamentals & the Word skillz to create beautiful documents easily • learn more about my late uncle Greg & his accessibility work • get my Dad's Y chromosome data in 23andMe • work at a treadmill desk • get all my old Flickr & Twitter content into MetaGrrrl.com • digitize all my paper memorabilia • revive Strafe's Guide to Streetspeak • drink cocktails on Steve & Heather's front porch in North Carolina • eat a meal cooked by Pableaux Johnson • create a will & revocable living trust with an incapacity clause, two durable powers of attorney (for healthcare and finances) & an advance directive that spells out my medical wishes if I become to ill to speak for myself (*yawn*) • find that barely remembered picture book about "alligator pears" (avocados) • go on a shopping adventure to SF Antique & Design Mall in Bayshore • attend an Art Deco Society event • conduct The Manhattan Project with Joe & our friend Mark to decide our favorite version of that great cocktail • eat Hawaiian food at Sundance Kitchen & see a movie [closed before I got to do that] • attend the Lamplighters' Gala with Joe • host a "fallout shelters" movie night • write a novel • eat at all the places on 7×7’s Big Eats Top 100 • have a power-out disaster drill at home • live in New York City • live in London • drink/dine at all the places on our worldwide list • stay at a really fabulous lodge in Yosemite in winter • travel for 80 days with Joe & as little luggage as possible • have a drink at Marlena's on a show night & applaud the beautiful drag queens • stay in a villa in Italy with a bunch of our friends, eating and napping decadently • walk the Cinque Terre • walk from inn to inn along the canals somewhere in Britain • rent a holiday barge • ride a boat in the canals of Amsterdam • buy my 10th pair of cowboy boots (4) • visit the Edo-Tokyo Museum with Joe • have a picnic in a grand cemetery or two with Joe (Paris's Pere Lachaise and London's Highgate are top of the list) • visit some catacombs • see the Egyptian pyramids • ride an insanely grand train, oh say, the Orient Express or something like that • help Habitat For Humanity build a house • dip fresh bread in olive oil in the orchard where the olives grew • be ready for a big earthquake • ride a camel • make microloans to people in 50 countries • visit the Catacombs Museum in Paris • visit Château de Guédelon in France

 

 

 

Things that would have been on this list if I'd written it earlier:

• live in the top room in a big old house • run around outside in the California hills a lot • have dogs • have pet rats • grow up in Northern California in the 1970s • see Star Wars many times on its first theatrical release • dance outside at midnight in fishnet stockings and a top hat • take a six mile walk that leads me past John Muir's house • visit Edinburgh • visit Inverness (Scotland) • visit the Scottish isles • ride a boat across the North Sea to Norway • visit Oslo & see the Vigeland sculpture park • take a boat up the Sognefjord & visit Balestrand • eat a big Scandinavian buffet • play on an old diesel train engine • play on an old junked fire engine • win a medal in the International Bocce finals (cadet division) • attend a cool hippie school • attend a public school • soak in a hot tub • go camping • work at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire • visit Kauai • visit a nude beach • visit London • take a rambling drive through Devon and Cornwall, staying in bed & breakfasts • spend hours in the Victoria & Albert museum • get comfortable navigating the London Underground & buses • read voraciously • learn to play happily by myself • nap under trees • climb trees • catch a lizard • eat fruit off trees • be friends with my parents • have more than the usual number of grandparents • have part-time siblings • play D&D • be a nerd • gamemaster • play Call of Cthulhu & get happily spooked during games • experience earthquakes • ride a sailboat • take BART under the bay • graduate high school • visit another country for my 18th birthday with just a friend and my cool aunt, no parents • live in Santa Cruz • leave Santa Cruz • get an undergraduate degree • live outside the United States • share a place with my sweetie • have my own place • work in a bookstore • open my own bookstore • run a one-woman business • get out of debt • get a master's degree • live on an island • vote • have the president I voted for actually win • get comfortable with public speaking • get public recognition for my writing • help build something good that lots & lots of people use • live in San Francisco • write a book • blog for a decade • visit Paris • visit Copenhagen • eat lunch in a Chinese restaurant in the middle of a German city • eat & drink in a proper British pub • visit Yugoslavia • walk over the original Stari Most (old bridge) in Mostar • see the Tower of London • take the Jack the Ripper walk guided by Donald Rumbelow • drink cocktails at some of the best bars in the world • attend Tales of the Cocktail • go on safari in Africa • visit an informal settlement in Soweto • smell the roses in Nelson Mandela's old front garden • ride in a hot air balloon • dance with the Maasai • go to SXSW • make silkscreens • use a mimeograph machine • give a presentation to hundreds of people • try the best delis in NYC & pick a favorite matzoh ball soup • drive a duck tour boat (for 10 minutes) • visit Tokyo & wear something bold on Takeshita-dōri • see the largest wooden structure in the world • see the largest tree in the world • visit the Eiffel Tower • see the Mona Lisa • be in a school play • win a school election • sit drinking soda in a cafe in a town in Kenya • visit a grocery store in Nairobi • visit Disneyland & eat at the Blue Bayou restaurant listening to the faint cries of people going down the first drop into Pirates of the Caribbean • host fabulous cocktail parties • sew something • grow something • go to a secret illegal absinthe party before re-legalization • build something made of wood • ride a horse • fly in a small plane • make good stock • ensure that parenthood remains a distant option, not an alarming surprise • live in sin • marry • divorce & rebuild the friendship • live in a cottage • manage an apartment building • have cats & kittens • live on the edge of town • live on a busy street • work in a nightclub

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