Not Dead Yet

Second blog of the day. Must be slow at work or something. It's soooo nice outside.

Anyway, I was mucking about on Facebook trying to kill time and I added an application called "Before I Die." It's a little checklist you can put together of things you want to do/see/accomplish before you croak. It's nothing exciting really but, uh, slow day at work.

I don't have much I need to get done before I die. I've done a lot so far. I've lived and travelled in Europe and Asia. I've caught a homerun at a baseball game. I've written a book. I've caught a Callahan. I've painted a self portrait. I've climbed a mountain. All good stuff I think.

So not having too many ideas for what I need to do, I clicked on a "suggest stuff" type link. I thought it'd give me a list of ideas or something, but I guess it just automatically sent an email to a couple dozen of my Facebook friends just asking them to post suggestions. I hate that! I think it's fun if people willingly want to participate in the little checklist discussion, but I'm not a fan of the auto-send. Plus, Facebook just randomly picks these people from my large Friend list. It goes to people who I might be close friends with, people I'm just kinda aquaintences with, and even relatives who I might see pretty much just around holidays. They don't hear from Ben since Christmas and then out of the blue get an email from him saying, "Hey, just curious, what should I get done before I die?" Wow, thanks Ben, that's random!

I think I might use the application to list super mundane everyday things. Like, "Before I die, I want to sharpen this pencil." Then I'd go sharpen it, and go back and check it off my list and feel like I've accomplished something pretty significant with my day.


If you have any suggestions, be it really good stuff to do before I die, or mundane things too, please comment here or on Facebook.