What things did you want to do that you will probably never do?

[shiznitz]

In the spirit of the "things I love" thread, list things you always wanted to do but that somehow just slipped away with time. This is not a thread for bathing in regret, but to cause some reflection that might actually get you off your ass to do it.

1) learn to fly a helicopter
2) become a licensed skydiver
3) light and throw a real stick of dynamite
4) screw an asian chick

[HaemishM]

1) Focus more (which would be any) on sports in high school. I really miss the competition of physical sports now.

That's about it. I'm pretty happy wth my life and the people in it. That doesn't mean I don't want more, but most of that I'm trying to get set up to do now.

[Paelos]

1) Drive a big rig
2) Save a life
3) Shoot under par in golf
4) Make a hole in one
5) Follow a hockey team for an entire season
6) Take a ride in a submarine
7) Get into a battle of wits involving wine and iocaine powder
8) Own a helper monkey

[Mortriden]

1) Drive a big rig

If you ever make it out here to Oregon, Eugene area, look me up.  My Uncle owns a fleet of these (including a drag racer).

[Nebu]

Have one more child. 

I think I've done everything else I've wanted to.  This one is more or less out of my control... well, without some serious ethical issues. 

[Murgos]

Get a Doctorate (probably not going to happen unless I win the lotto)
Learn to play piano at a high level (just fart around now, can read the music just not comfortable with it)
Shoot under-par for an entire round in golf (stuck in the 80's)
Pilots license is, I think, do able just have to find time for it.
Been to five continents two to go (SA and Antartica).
I've swum in most of the major oceans and seas, always looking for more though.

[Paelos]

1) Drive a big rig

If you ever make it out here to Oregon, Eugene area, look me up.  My Uncle owns a fleet of these (including a drag racer).

MMM, sweet thanks! Although Oregon's not on my travel list for a while  

[Signe]

I'll probably never dirve around Brand's Hatch Circuit at 200 miles per hour.

Again.    :-D

[NowhereMan]

Learn to play a musical instrument. That's about the only thing I would really like to do that I never have, plenty of time left though I suppose...

[Llava]

1) Be three feet tall

I'll never get to do that again 

[Yegolev]

1.  Be a paleontologist, or other elite scientist.  Yeah, I'm a dork.
2.  Get a bachelor's degree.
3.  Be a race car driver, preferably F1.
4.  Visit the moon.  Mars, too, while I'm at it.
5.  Play all of the games I want.
6.  Design and build my own aircraft.

[Sky]

1. Fly a science mission for NASA
2. Stay in school for studio engineering (my only regret in life, in fact, was dropping out of music school..my band broke up a year later...)
3. Take up acting while I was in LA. Not like Sam Jackson stuff, more like Victor Wong or Al Leong...a guy everyone knows by face, but not by name. Making a living being a bit actor kinda thing.
4. Stuntman. I think that or comedian were my real callings.

Let's not start a list of things we accomplished (that most people fantasize about), though. I think there are still a few statutes of limitations that haven't run out on me yet :P

[Viin]

1) Fly combat aircraft/helicopters for the military
2) Design, build, and sell my own game
3) Play an instrument really well (can play some guitar and tinker on piano, but thats it)
4) Get a Masters in History and/or Literature
5) Teach one of the above

For those of you listing pilot's license (fixed wing or helicopter) all I can say is: DO IT. It's _totally_ worth it and doesn't cost *that* much. Also, look into the new Sport Pilot's license (fixed wing only, I think) - it's cheaper to learn and fly if you just want to do it for fun.

Yegolev: If you lived in Colorado, I might be interested in a partner to help me build an airplane (kit though, not designed from scratch).   

[stray]

1) Should have learned to sing at much earlier age. I've never been much into singing except in the past 5 years. My songwriting would have been a lot more realized if that wasn't the case. Plus, I wouldn't have to depend on a stinkin' band every time I wanted to play out.

2) Seconded on the sports in school thing. Specifically basketball. I would have at the very least had a few scholarships if I had not been such a jackass in highschool (jackass is hardly the word). It's tragic, really. From ages 12-17 I fucked up on a GRAND scale. My life is pretty much full of regrets.

[Furiously]

I want to travel someplace where they have never seen a white person.

[NowhereMan]

Head down to Vietnam and visit anywhere outside of a major tourist spot. It's not quite all it's cracked up to be though, fucking kids like to try and pluck your arm hair to see if it's real.

[Merusk]

1) Get out of the country for one vacation - Difficult with kids and a wife who thinks money grows on trees.
2) Drop the 35 pounds I need to hit a reasonable 200.
3) Send the wife to college
4) Go back in time and take the ex up on that 'omg I'll set-up a 3-some if you don't leave me' deal.  THEN leave her.
5) Perhaps get a masters in some IT/ Computer Science since the damn profession appeals to me more than my current one.

[Paelos]

2) Drop the 35 pounds I need to hit a reasonable 200. 

I wish you the best on this one, for your health. I too have been on a diet of late, and I can say I'm having favorable results with South Beach. It sucks for about two weeks HARD, but then you add things back and you're fine. I've also got a trainer to help with exercise, and that's very motivational. This last month I've dropped from 201 to 192 pounds. I'm aiming for exactly your goal of 35 pounds.

So, in short, good luck. It's not impossible :)

[Fargull]

I would like to backpack across Ireland with a guitar.  I guess I would have to learn how to play it at one point.

[Merusk]

2) Drop the 35 pounds I need to hit a reasonable 200. 

I wish you the best on this one, for your health. I too have been on a diet of late, and I can say I'm having favorable results with South Beach. It sucks for about two weeks HARD, but then you add things back and you're fine. I've also got a trainer to help with exercise, and that's very motivational. This last month I've dropped from 201 to 192 pounds. I'm aiming for exactly your goal of 35 pounds.

So, in short, good luck. It's not impossible :)

... Jesus.. either you want to be rail thin or you're a short mo fo.  166#?  I haven't weighed that since I was a freshman in HS and hadden't gotten the puberty 'omg muscles' spurt.

[schild]

Get with Catholic Schoolgirls.



















































Legally.

Edit: I misunderstood the topic. Thought it was "Things you've done that you can never do again."

[Daydreamer]

1) Be a cool but weird teacher - the rare sort that kids want to listen to
2) Write an unconventional but popular sci-fi novel
3) Find a girl that loves video games

[Paelos]

2) Drop the 35 pounds I need to hit a reasonable 200. 

I wish you the best on this one, for your health. I too have been on a diet of late, and I can say I'm having favorable results with South Beach. It sucks for about two weeks HARD, but then you add things back and you're fine. I've also got a trainer to help with exercise, and that's very motivational. This last month I've dropped from 201 to 192 pounds. I'm aiming for exactly your goal of 35 pounds.

So, in short, good luck. It's not impossible :)

... Jesus.. either you want to be rail thin or you're a short mo fo.  166#?  I haven't weighed that since I was a freshman in HS and hadden't gotten the puberty 'omg muscles' spurt.

EDIT: I put it in the wrong place

Heh, I'm 5'9" and a fireplug. And you're right, I'm really gunning for 170, but it sounded better if we matched up exactly. That puts me in the right BMI.

[Margalis]

165-170 isn't that skinny. I'm 5' 10" 1/2 (yes and 1/2 DAMN IT!), pretty muscular, and I weigh 165 or so. Part of that is that whenever I'm depressed, tired, run down or stressed I basically stop eating. (When I was a grad student I had to poke a new hole in my belt) I can wear all the same clothes I did in high school. One thing I don't do is eat a lot of sugar.

As far as things I want to do, I've always wanted to be in a band (and was very very briefly) but have never really had the time, plus I tend to have a shizoid personality. (Doesn't like to do things with other people)

[stray]

I'm 6'4" 185. That's more like normal, rather than skinny.

Anyways, it seems like everyone wants to be in a band or learn an instrument:

My advice --- Do it. It's a lot more simple than it may seem at first. You can count on that. Just spend a few hundred on gear, and learn a few chords. You'll be able to play a song (without making people puke) within a year (If it's drums, I won't bullshit you. That takes much more practice).

[Stephen Zepp]

1) Drive a big rig

If you ever make it out here to Oregon, Eugene area, look me up.  My Uncle owns a fleet of these (including a drag racer).

You're from Eugene? I'm 3 days into a 4 day drive for my permanent relocation to Eugene ;)

[schild]

I was wondering why you hadn't been online to chat.

/sadf

[schild]

2) Drop the 35 pounds I need to hit a reasonable 200.

I'd like to drop 50 to get to a reasonable 200. Sigh. I'll probably do it. Eventually. Damnit.

[Stephen Zepp]

I was wondering why you hadn't been online to chat.

/sadf

Yah, it's been a crazy ass month and a half, lol. Will be getting back online next wek, once I find a place to live.

[Margalis]

Are drums hard if you have rythm? I can sing pretty well and at various points in my life played trumpet, tuba and bass guitar, I have a pretty good sense of rythm and melody overall. I also like noisy music so drums seem ideal.

I was in a band briefly in college but it really sucked because nobody wanted to practice and always came up with lame excuses like "I have prelims to study for." (Cough cough) Now I don't know anybody who would be interested so if I wanted to be in a band I would have to hook up with some random people which seems weird.

[Ironwood]

2) Save a life

Go give Blood, you pussy.

[schild]

2) Save a life

Go give Blood, you pussy.

I think he meant pull a girl out of a mack trucks way. And then mack her.

[Ironwood]

Well, at least that's honorable.

But I say this to everyone who dreams of saving a life on a ledge dangling by a thread when the police and news watch on :  Go give blood as you're saving a life just as heroically.  Sure, no-one really knows you helped, but if that's why you want to do it, well, Hell, I don't even want to know you.

[stray]

Are drums hard if you have rythm? I can sing pretty well and at various points in my life played trumpet, tuba and bass guitar, I have a pretty good sense of rythm and melody overall. I also like noisy music so drums seem ideal.

I was in a band briefly in college but it really sucked because nobody wanted to practice and always came up with lame excuses like "I have prelims to study for." (Cough cough) Now I don't know anybody who would be interested so if I wanted to be in a band I would have to hook up with some random people which seems weird.

I have a good sense of rhythm too, but I wouldn't necessarily say that's the main task with drums (funny as that sounds). There's a rhythm and beat in all music, but it's percieved in a different way with non-percussive instruments.

Anyways, I've played the guitar and bass for something like 15 years now, keyboard/piano for a little less, and various other things....But drums are a bitch. It's a "pat your head, rub your stomach" kind of thing. I can program synths and drum machines, so it's not my lack of rhythm. It's the multitasking that's a barrier for me.

With a guitar, for example, you might be plucking the strings with one hand, and fretting the notes with another, but it's all more organic and feels like one task. Both actions are working towards the same note. With drums, the high hat is at a different speed than the snare or bass drum (and vice versa), and all of the little effects like toms and chimes are doing their own thing as well. Some people are just good at that kind of stuff though, and pick it up fast. I just know that I'm not one of them.

[NowhereMan]

Heh, I've got a friend who's really good at the drums. Funny thing is, he's also dyspraxic. It doesn't seem to stop him being able to multi-task and paly well but it does mean that he just lets go of his sticks every 15 minutes or so.