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so I'm turning 40 this Summer.  Advice.  Ideas plz.  I'm taking at least a week off.

hookers and blow and killing pandas no


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No hookers and blow? Enjoy the hill. It's gonna be boring the whole way down. :oh_i_see:

hopefully I won't remember. 

C'mon.  Imagination-land.

I also am turning 40 in a little under 3 weeks time.

I plan to get drunk and stoned and eats lots of nice seafood with my family. But I'm always open to more exciting ideas  :grin:

40 is the new 20.

So.. umm... Get out the old beer bong or something. Smoke a joint. This time with your kids.

Draft a will.

Whisky.  I like Rye, personally.

How much are you looking to spend and are you in a committed relationship? Have to answer those two before I can give a suggestion.

For a moment I thought you were asking for  a life plan from now on. For that, I had ideas.

I think it's time to find a nice isolated iceberg to float away on.

I turn 40 next year. BFD. Another year, probably be better than every one before it, as usual.


Young was fun but I'll take wisdom any day. Then again, I did young right.

Start taking naps.  All of you.

Don't believe Sky.  He's like 60.  I have proof.

(http://static.open.salon.com/files/a_billy1239503352.jpg)

Looks good though, no?

I only wish I was that dude. Coolest man on the planet, Texas heartbreaker and homewrecker.

Naps rule. I shall print out and laminate the awesome pictures nap pic forthwith  :grin:

I'm honestly really not bothered about 40 anyway, I don't get people who get stressed about it, it's just a number.

I just turned 36, and I'm not too happy about it, I'll admit.  Maybe it's because I don't take naps.  They always have the opposite effect for me...they rarely refresh me and always leave me more tired than I was in the first place.

I'm 37 and I run on lack of sleep Cyrrex. Naps are for when yer dead or just can't resist it. Like when you are reading.

I'm in Sky's camp though, I enjoyed being young, but not as much as I enjoy being now.

My plan was to gather as many of my friends as possible in Vegas for my 40th (Feb, 2010). Then I knocked my wife up and knocked that plan into a cocked hat. We may still try to talk her parents into coming along and babysitting while we paint the town, but I may need to go on a tear @ the poker tables to afford it.

So the advice so far is:

1. get drunk and stoned and eats lots of nice seafood with family (apocrypha)
2. Smoke a joint. This time with your kids (don't have any children, that I know of, yaddayaddaetc.) (stray)
3. Draft a will.(dusematic)
4. Whisky or Rye (Sheepherder)
5. find a nice isolated iceberg to float away on (Bzalthek)
6. Start taking naps. (Signe)


Feedback:  Married, no kids, steady job, all family on East Coast of CDN, where we have actual to goodness icebergs (even in some parts of the Summer).

1. yeah, but wife hates everything from the Ocean.  I know.  Disappointing.
2. no kids, but still a good idea. 
3. actually this is a very good idea.  Not fun but yadda.
4. sure
5. have to move back home. 
6. yeah, but not really something I can really look back on. Not quite sky-diving or what-not.

Quit your job in a fit of mid-life crisis and become a secret agent.

Have wife dress as Barbara Feldon.

Alas, you've just missed the annual Gloucestershire cheese rolling competition for 2009 - might I suggest entering for 2010?

http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/2009_YouTube_video.htm

Quit your job, get a job at a fast food restaurant.

Buy a Pontiac Firebird.

Take up a healthy pot smoking regime.

Start lifting weights in your garage.

Fantasize about teenage cheerleaders and rose petals.

Go back to your home town and see your guitar hero play in his twilight years with a band you really don't like in a crappy venue a couple of days before the big date?

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9012214.html (http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9012214.html) :)

 

 

I don't know.  I look back on my naps fondly.  Anyway, you probably should have started having reverse birthdays years ago like me.  Or random ones.  I might do 22 this year again.  All my other 22nd birthdays have been awesome.  For real.

If it helps any I turn 35 in a couple of days.

OH GOD.  WE ARE ALL SO FUCKING OOLLLLD.
 :ye_gods:

Take a trip.  Go someplace you always dreamed of going as a kid, no matter how dumb it seems.  Eat a quality meal.  Something that demonstrates you've learned about the difference between quantity and quality.

Go to Montreal and enjoy the local talent for only ~220 an hour.

Travel back home with a smile.

End.

Completed.

Get a tattoo.

Take a far-east safari tour. Hookers and blow and killing pandas.

Buy that new walker you've been eyeing lately!

Seriously,
This.

Also, go do something that you don't normally have time for/allow yourself to do/always wanted to do.

And kill a panda.

How about a bike tour?

I'm planning to take a solo ride from Virginia to Montana.  Visit ghost towns, some western battlegrounds and monuments.

The new issue of National Geographic Adventurer magazine this month has an article on all the amazing travel deals available right now due to the slump in the economy and the travel business.

Here are a few suggestions....

A) Spend 9 days hiking the 93 miles of the Wonderland Trail that completely circumnavigates Mount Rainier in Washington State. Then spend two days summiting the mountain with Rainier Mountain Guides. (maybe 2 grand? last time I looked?)

B) Do a 14 day combined Kilimanjaro summit with crater overland safari. Kilimanjaro wont have anymore ice on the top with in the next 5 years IIRC so see it now before its gone. (approx. $4-4500 per person including air)

C) Spend 2 weeks rafting the Grand Canyon. No, not with those gay outboard powered boats but a regular rowed raft. OARS and a couple of other outfitters will do 2 week long complete raft trips through the canyon with time for side hikes up the smaller branch canyons.

D) Hike the Annapurna circuit in Nepal. (Plan it yourself for around $3000 grand or so including airfare)

Each one of these are life list quality trips you will remember for the rest of your life (or at least until senility hits at 41), and are all in geographically different places. Pick your poison.

If you have specific questions let me know. I do this shit for a living now.

Wowsers.  Righ would probably love to do any of those.  Me - I'd cheer him on from the hotel spa!  Have you or are you planning to do any of those kinds of adventures, Broughden? 

I used to guide people through survival trips in Canada.  Something like that could be fun and a way to help you appreciate what you have through suffering!

I did the Wonderland Trail and summited Rainier twice when I was living in Washington state back in the early 90's.
My wife and I are doing Kilimanjaro next spring. This year we are already to booked up with other trips.

Ok the story continues.  Our rolling advice leads are as follows.  I will consolidate the list eventually.  Watch as I eventually pick someting grand.

last advice:
1. get drunk and stoned and eats lots of nice seafood with family (apocrypha)
2. Smoke a joint. This time with your kids (don't have any children, that I know of, yaddayaddaetc.) (stray)
3. Draft a will.(dusematic)
4. Whisky or Rye (Sheepherder)
5. find a nice isolated iceberg to float away on (Bzalthek)
6. Start taking naps. (Signe)


New advice and Feedback inline >>


7. Quit your job in a fit of mid-life crisis and become a secret agent. (Lantyssa)
>>Funny story.  Got an email from my Dad today that these two spiez  (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/world/19spies.html?emc=eta1)shopped at my Mom's place a few times in the Summer.  We've had a lot of connections with spies oddly enough.

8. Compete in Gloucestershire cheese rolling competition for 2010. (Jherad)
>>Never been to that part of the country.  Nice idea. Good excuse to renew my EU passport.

9. Quit your job, get a job at a fast food restaurant. (Bandit)
>>Worked in bars for too long. Sick of people.

10. Buy a Pontiac Firebird.  (Bandit)
>>Was thinking of a '67-'72 Dodge Charger oddly enough.

11. Take up a healthy pot smoking regime.  (Bandit)
>>Would like to.  No access.

12. Start lifting weights in your garage. (Bandit)
>>No room.  Instead, will use the treadmill that's there.

13. Fantasize about teenage cheerleaders and rose petals. (Bandit)
>>Maybe.  Not promising.

14. Go home yaddayadda (Lianka)
>>Kek. I know you.  Cost etc.

15. Go someplace you always dreamed of going as a kid...  Eat a quality meal.  [Do] something that demonstrates you've learned about the difference between quantity and quality. (Nebu)
>>I like that advice.  It's a good working principle.  Unfortunately I feel the terrible need to save cash$ for various reasons.  But still, point taken.  Will remember.

16. Go to Montreal and enjoy the local talent... (Oban)
>>A little far, but again, point taken :)

17. Get a tattoo. (Hawkbit)
>>Maybe, I'm a bit saggy these days.  Unless I get whipped across the country while being starved, I don't think that things will radically change.  I'll ask Schild for his diet.

18. Take a far-east safari tour. Hookers and blow and killing pandas. (Rattran)
>>Too expensive prolly.

19. Go do something that you don't normally have time for/allow yourself to do/always wanted to do. (FatuousTwat)
>>Yeah, this probably should be the working principle for this project.

20. bike tour? (craan)
>>Not into bikes.  I can't convince myself spend >$1000 on a commuting cycle.  But still the cross country camping trip is a good idea.  I haven't camped enough this year.

21. Spend 9 days hiking the 93 miles of the Wonderland Trail that completely circumnavigates Mount Rainier in Washington State. Then spend two days summiting the mountain with Rainier Mountain Guides. (Broughden)
>>That's cool.  We live in Seattle (well, Kirkland).  Dunno if I could hack that much, but I will remember this. Thanks.

22. Do a 14 day combined Kilimanjaro summit with crater overland safari. Kilimanjaro wont have anymore ice on the top with in the next 5 years IIRC so see it now before its gone. (Broughden)
>>Sadly, not realistic.  

23. Spend 2 weeks rafting the Grand Canyon. (Broughden)
>>Actually, I do intend some day to save the scratch to run the 10day to 2 week Nahanni River expedition again in the Northwest Territories, CDN.  Right now, not possbile.

24. Hike the Annapurna circuit in Nepal. (Broughden)
>>Again, sadly not realistic.

Hmm..

I turn 40 in just under to weeks.  Go go summer of 69!

Tomorrow in the wee hours of the morning, my wife and I are loading our three kids up and driving just a little under 1200 miles to Disney World and spending a week there.

Last year, I spent just under two weeks witih my wife traveling around Spain before she finished up her masters at the university in Salamanca.  The highlight of that trip was Avila, the city was beautiful, the food great, and the wine better.  I recommend Spain!

Fargull

Canada rocks.

If you like sports, maybe do a trip/tour/following of for a week. Or, a lot of parks have something special about them, some special place to watch. Around here we have "party decks" in a lot of stadiums, or there are the rooftop seats for Cub's games that are just a good time and not something most people make a habit of enjoying.

I guess you didn't see what he did there?

I am also 39 and I do this a lot (cycling across states/nations with a tent). I apparently look about 30, which may be a side effect. When I was 16 they said I looked 25.

Then I get fat and start needing another epic bicycle journey to burn it off. I appear to be trapped in a vicious cycle of adventure.

Drive around the country with me.  But you have to learn how to play poker.  And then we can hustle people like in Rounders.

the American Beauty thing?  Yeah I caught it.  Everyone did.

we can discuss philosophy profs we h8 teh most.  Be safe out there.  It's tempting.

Soln,

It sounds like the travel/adventure option intrigues you but money may be tight right now? Can I ask a personal question? Do you have some type of budget for this adventure? If so how much? And is this a solo thing (me off finding myself and reconnecting) or you and your significant other together?

Reason I ask is if money is really tight there are thousands of volunteer work based vacations where you spend very little money, get to travel to an exotic location, do some work that makes you feel good (example- work with biologist counting sea turtle nests), and get an awesome low cost exotic vacation out of it as well (work and slack time works out to about 50/50 for many trips).

Might be just what you are looking for.

Let me know.

For example ten days in Hawaii working on trails and snorkeling with humpback whales. $1875 http://www.sierraclub.org/outings/national/brochure/10400A.asp

Or Earthwatch has a ten 10 day trip helping locals in Puerto Rico sustainably maintain rainforests and provide local income while protecting biodiversity. $1750. http://www.earthwatch.org/exped/nelson.html

Or $2450 to help real archaeologists excavate a Roman fort in England for 14 days.

Go on a road trip and visit everyone from f13 that you don't hate. It would be grand!

Also quick!

I actually don't h8 anyone on f13.  I don't think I've ever had an all out nerd war with anyone.  One of the reasons I still hang out here.  That and teh flavor.

@Broughen, thank you for all the feedback but basically I can't drop anything close to that amount.  I'm putting me wife through university and saving for a future outside of work.  Nuff said.  Thnks tho.


I'll noodle something in the next while and maybe report back.

I'm going to shoot whoever uses that @ sign next.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=16093.msg664751#msg664751

@Trippy:  Understood!

Banned for being a smartass :oh_i_see:

Better than being a dumbass!

Trippy doesn't get pissed off often but when he does, he's awesome.  Very sexay display of power.  Also, having never done any twitterings, it's alerted me to the fact that I should keep it that way. 

Since Teleku took one for the team by being "the next", is it safe to use again? ;D

Judging by the separate post he made on the subject, I'm guessing not.

I'm not sure it's a twitter thing, though.  I've always assumed people did it simply to avoid making their posts look too SirBruce-like. 

You assumed wrong. Of course it's a twitter thing.

I'm just being a smarter smart-ass.  I prefer to quote so people know wtf I'm typing about without having to scroll up twenty posts.

Now that I know it's a twitter thing, I could only bring myself to use it in mockery of the twits.

For me, the funny thing about getting old(er) is that I can finally afford the drug habits that I've outgrown.  :uhrr:

You could drive down to Renton and WayAbvPar and I could kick you in the nuts 40 times.

Can I join the club?  I turned 40 in January.  I am officially half dead.  Enjoy your day.   :ye_gods:

Man, I turned 25 last year and thought I'd hit the half dead point, and was all depressed.  You people are WAY to positive.   :awesome_for_real:

Maybe we all just feel much healthier than you do?  :why_so_serious:

Oh good.  I have a replacement for Michael Jackson in my Dead Pool!

Heading off for my 40th birthday celebrations now, week in Brighton \o/  Slightly anxious about the long drive and my back, but large quantities of painkillers and regular stops should do the trick  :awesome_for_real:

See ya'll in a week!

Should of gone to Amsterdam.

Turned 38 a month ago. The only drawback was my first beach volleyball tournament this past weekend. I actually have to fucking stretch now or I'll be sore for a couple of days after. That blows.

As for doing something for 40? A lot of people have mentioned a lot of things, some feasible, some not so much. I'd totally recommend doing what I when I retired (the first time) but yeah, probably not too easily done in a week, so, I say this, try hiking Half Dome in Yosemite. It's hot as shit right now, but should cool down just in time for your week off.

Amsterdam is only awesome the first time you go, after that it's really nothing special.

Amsterdam is pretty awesome every time you go.  I could spend a week full time just at the Van Gogh museumUnless, of course, you're just a sad boring old git who hates any combination of art, sex, beer and pot.

You can get all of those in Brighton too without any problem, also Brighton has a beach.

I don't hate Amsterdam, I just don't buy into the notion that it is on some higher plane of awesome compared to other destinations. It does have a very nice zoo I have to say.

:oh_i_see:

Brighton is okay but it's no where near as fun and interesting as Amsterdam and about a bajillion other European cities.  Brighton is a nice family holiday place but that's about it.  It has a nice art museum and gallery and a fun toy museum.  Do you really think they compare to the Van Gogh or Stedelijk?  Have you ever been to them?

And, yes, I know Sky.  I actually had "shoulda" there first.  In any case, I know my English isn't the best but, after all these years you guys have known me, I still don't really care.  I bet I won't care six more years from now, either, although I appreciate the attempted edumacation.

Hey, I know Sky, too!  :awesome_for_real:

1) check your junkmail inbox, order one of those Viagra prescriptions, and go at it like bunny rabbits all weekend with your wife  :drill:

2) That or take a weekend trip with your wife to a B&B and enjoy each others company.... I believe that is filed under "romantic getaway"

just hit 37 a couple of weeks ago myself... which kinda sucked cause I was in a random hotel for work.

Is he a duck?  What is the difference between a duck?

Don't forget to cover.

Well I grew up in Brighton and I've spent several months in Amsterdam which probably kills the novelty. Amsterdam's a fine place, but it's really no more special than Brighton or many other cities; they all have their merits, but I guess whatever you prefer comes down to personal tastes. For me Art museums are all well and good, but are really no substitute to a beach for lazy summer afternoons and post-pub bonfires in the early morning; but that's just my preference.

Yes, that's probably the difference.  I've been to an awful lot of beaches and, to be honest, Brighton isn't close to the nicest but it's home for you.  I love living by the water, but otherwise, I'm not a particularly beachy person.  They're everywhere.  Incredible pieces of fine art, however, aren't.  And the only time I do pubs is when we're traveling and stop for lunch.  (although I used to love stopping by the Intrepid Fox after seeing a show in London just for a freak watch) Not a pub person, either.  Italian beaches are gorgeous but I don't like walking in sand and looking at speedos trying to restrain 350 lbs of rich dumbass.

Don't you judge me!

Rich dumbasses can hire personal trainers. It's the middle class dumbasses that sport the speedos when they weigh 300 pounds.

I don't understand beaches. Hot and grainy, I don't want to get sweaty and sandy. Give me a nice mountain stream any day, especially if you can jump off cliffs into it!

No bears on the beach, normally.

My wife makes fun of me, because she thinks I hate sand.  She's right.  The only good thing about the beach is if it's one of the white sand beaches with the green water, and there are hot chicks strewn about the area.

I don't go to the other sort of beaches unless I have to because of friends who are near some crap-beach, like anything on the Atlantic.

While in Disneyworld a few months ago, we decided to waste a day to go see the beach.  In a fit of stupidity, I said "hey, let's go to Daytona" because I'd heard about it on TV so much.  It was even sorta spring break.  That place fucking sucked.  Thirty degrees colder than inland, no people.  You could drive on the beach, but that was just retarded.  Waste of a perfectly good day.

There was a cold snap a few months ago.  It was 50F in Fort Walton Beach, which sucked.  Anyway, next time go west instead of east.

Yeah, well, I had even been to some of the beaches on the west side many years in the past, so I must have been thinking that they would be equally awesome on the Atlantic side.  Uh, no.  I need to stop listening to my dumb brain.

The Oregon coast is scenic and gorgeous but usually a little chilly. We use this to our advantage on oppressively hot days in Portland - just drive for an hour and a half to gray, misty weather and have a bowl of clam chowder. Even if it's nice at the beach it's rarely much above 75 and is always windy.

I did a GIS for Oregon beaches and they appear unpleasant.

I went on a nice trip in the Canadian Rockies with some of my family at 40. It turned into more of a family thing than I wanted, though, and got kind of difficult near the end. So there's something to be said for going off by yourself and howling at the moon, too. But pick a place you've always wanted to see, that strikes me as a good 40-thing to do.

Traveling alone with a cell/sat-phone, credit card, passport, a michelin/lonely-planet guide, a carry-on full of clothes and no set itinerary is one of the most liberating things to do in the modern world.

Go with your instincts.  The are only awesome in the "my, ain't nature wondrous" way...huge, vast expanse of sand, the sound of smallish waves crashing, that sort of thing.  It's just as nice in a picture as it is in person, but you'd save yourself from being really cold.  Except the sand dunes.  Oregon's sand dunes are pretty cool, especially when you're a kid.

No bar et me yet.

I like the Oregon coast. Its probably one of the most beautiful coasts I've seen, beaten only by Greece. That said, ya, its not for swimming. Ultra cold and very boring waves. If you like horse back riding, kite flying, walks and other non-watery stuff, the Oregon coast is excellent.

Fixed that for you. Best pizza I have ever eaten, right in Cannon Beach!

Food really is superb in Cannon Beach, Manzanita and environs. Best crabcakes I've ever had were from right here (http://www.newmansat988.com/)

There is a built in function of beaches that can help you with those problems, you know.

Sandblasting?  Wouldn't that hurt?

someone able to recommend a good (quiet, remote) 1) beach cottage on the Oregon coast, and/or 2) a mountain cottage in OR or WA?   Looking for options.

That's what I keep doing every 12 months (save for the clothes), and I couldn't live without at this point.

You need an expensive automotive-type hobby. I started a monster truck when I turned 30.  :grin:

Pick up the right kind of truck for $1500 and just start throwing money at it. You're wife will be amazed about how cheap the truck is, and then even more amazed when the tires alone cost more than her whole vehicle. By then it will be too late for her to say no. It's great. Ok, maybe not... but look at it this way, if you get yourself far enough in debt she wont be able to afford to move out.

Yes!  Monster trucks will make you happy.  They are like motorised clown shoes!

That's it, I'm driving over your car.