Post by: cosine on July 27, 2006, 06:50:12 PM
Mine:
Build an acoustic guitar - Hopefully I can start this within the next 4-5 years
Drive a Nascar stock car - Don't know of that would ever happen
Shoot scratch golf and win some tournaments - I'm just knocking on the door of breaking 100 right now, after just starting to play the game in May. Maybe by the time I'm in my mid 20's I'll have knocked my handicap that low.
Get a private pilot's license - Maybe I'll be able to do that in my late 20's or my 30's.
Become a ham radio operator - I plan on doing that sometime within the next year
Buy my first rifle and shotgun, to be quickly followed by an EBR (don't laugh, please. Even though I do hang around here and THR fairly often I'm still firearm-less.) - I definitely plan on doing by the end of the year, and plan on getting an EBR (or 2) within the next year. (You know, it annoys me to no end though that I'm not trusted enough to purchase a handgun. That will happen the day I turn 21, I assure you.)
Post by: K Frame on July 27, 2006, 07:53:35 PM
Post by: Preacherman on July 27, 2006, 08:13:47 PM
Mostly, I want to regain as much fitness as I can after my injury, lose the weight I've put on, and get my life back on an even keel. Once I've finished with the bureaucracy and gotten the fitness back, I'm planning on a fairly radical change. I want to move states, start a whole new career, etc. Since my injury has destroyed my old "career", no time like the present to make the change!
Post by: 280plus on July 28, 2006, 12:50:32 AM
Post by: Jamisjockey on July 28, 2006, 03:52:34 AM
Watch my kids grow healthy and be able to show them the world.
Become a Cat 3 or better cyclist.
Nice fishing boat for the Chesapeake and offshore fishing.
Post by: uvakat on July 28, 2006, 03:59:42 AM
Work with jet engines or UAVs --> maybe(?)
Work at NASA --> Guess I"m sorta doing this now
Get over my ex bf, find a nice guy this time
Get my private pilots license --> maybe in my late 20s after all the rest are completed
Get back in shape --> currently working on that now
Post by: TarpleyG on July 28, 2006, 04:19:03 AM
-Learn to fly and buy my own seaplane.
-Shoot a GE minigun or some other such cool instrument of destruction.
-Have kids and see them have kids. Need to get started on that I guess seeing as I'm almost 40.
These among other things.
Greg
Post by: Chris on July 28, 2006, 04:50:30 AM
I have always wanted to write a book, or a series of books, and hope to have it turned into a film or television show. Well, I've now outlined stories and basic plots for seven novels, and written the basic history of my main character.
I have always wanted to have a fun car to drive when the weather is good. Exactly what car depends on my mood. Porsche 944 Cabriolet. Jeep. Something that I can drive top down. See the first paragraph.
I have always wanted to see some of the major historical locations from WWII. Pearl Harbor. Normandy. Some of the Nazi concentration camps. Iwo Jima. We've got plans to go to Hawaii next year, and I have a wife who is almost as interested in WWII history as I am. (Her grandfather was a bomber pilot in WWII, was shot down over Europe, and was postumously decorated for riding the plane in to allow the crew to bail out.)
I want a good collection of firearms, and am interested in shooting C.A.S. and maybe IDPA. See the first paragraph regarding the money, though I have a good foundation of seven handguns, including my newly acquired Springfield 1911-A1.
Post by: Iain on July 28, 2006, 05:06:23 AM
Quote from: cosine
Mine:
Build an acoustic guitar - Hopefully I can start this within the next 4-5 years
I'd like to get around to doing that too. www.mimf.com will help.
Build an acoustic guitar - Hopefully I can start this within the next 4-5 years
Post by: Stand_watie on July 28, 2006, 05:33:20 AM
Quote from: uvakat
...Get over my ex bf, find a nice guy this time..
As a "nice guy" who has been through the "why do nice people always wind up with crumballs routine" several times I'll offer this advice - (IMHO) there are no guarantees, but elderly women who are repected by their family are the best judges of character that I have met. They frequently are also great company and full of worldly wisdom, so cultivating those relationships isn't necessarily a loss even if you don't meet a nice guy.
Post by: uvakat on July 28, 2006, 06:45:54 AM
Quote from: Stand_watie
Quote from: uvakat
...Get over my ex bf, find a nice guy this time..
As a "nice guy" who has been through the "why do nice people always wind up with crumballs routine" several times I'll offer this advice - (IMHO) there are no guarantees, but elderly women who are repected by their family are the best judges of character that I have met. They frequently are also great company and full of worldly wisdom, so cultivating those relationships isn't necessarily a loss even if you don't meet a nice guy.Post by: SpookyPistolero on July 28, 2006, 07:16:41 AM
Buy an actual home to call my own, something simple.
Buy an old CJ7 jeep, it's simple and it'll be mine.
Get a solid precision rifle and a good AK, start religiously attending 3-gun and precision rifle matches, and train as much as I can afford.
Get in shape again.
Get over ex-gf finally and meet someone I can feel good about again.
Backpack through at least a large chunk of the AT.
Adopt a big, happy English Mastiff. I love those dogs...
Post by: peteinct on July 28, 2006, 08:17:14 AM
To become the person my dogs think I already am
pete
Post by: charby on July 28, 2006, 08:23:17 AM
Own an acreage someday and raise as much of my own food as possible.
Visit every continent including Antarctica.
Retire before 65.
Post by: Shalako on July 28, 2006, 10:23:46 AM
Become a principle engineer at my department.
Restore a '68 Camaro Z-28.
Never slice or three-putt again as long as I live.
Get a reloading set-up and shoot competitively.
Take my wife to Europe many times to see Italy, Bavaria, France, Ireland, Chech Rep, and anything in between.
Lead a campfire talk in Yosemite.
Post by: Twycross on July 28, 2006, 01:04:19 PM
To build my first AR15
To kill an elk this season
To get over my highschool crush.
Long term-
To find out what I really want to do with the rest of my life.
To get a job which pays well enough to support a family, should I choose to start one.
To get in really good shape. I've never been out of shape, but I've never been very impressive either.
Post by: RevDisk on July 28, 2006, 01:19:34 PM
Everything else is secondary.
Quote from: uvakat
Go to grad school --> hopefully applying this fall
Work with jet engines or UAVs --> maybe(?)
Work at NASA --> Guess I"m sorta doing this now
Get over my ex bf, find a nice guy this time
Get my private pilots license --> maybe in my late 20s after all the rest are completed
Get back in shape --> currently working on that now
Yea, mild building a decent uav that doesn't crash every five minutes or run $5 mil a pop. As for your ex, I don't offer relationship advice for a good reason. It'd be like Stevie Wonder giving driving classes. Work with jet engines or UAVs --> maybe(?)
Work at NASA --> Guess I"m sorta doing this now
Get over my ex bf, find a nice guy this time
Get my private pilots license --> maybe in my late 20s after all the rest are completed
Get back in shape --> currently working on that now
And shouldn't be "Working on road rage issues" be on the list too?
Post by: jefnvk on July 28, 2006, 04:16:09 PM
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Drive a Nascar stock car - Don't know of that would ever happen
http://1800bepetty.com/I don't care much for dreams. If they don't come true, it just pisses me off. It is much easier to be happy with what I have.
Post by: brimic on July 28, 2006, 04:30:06 PM
A lot of my dreams have been fulfilled already:
I always wanted to be a scientist who works in a lab.. Done
I always wanted a 4x4 so I could do yogis on snowy days...Done
I always wanted 2 kids....Done
I always wanted to go fishing down in the Keys....Done, want to do it again.
Unfulfilled:
I've never taken a buck while bowhunting- I've missed a few, got the shakes real bad on a few others.
I want to become good enough at highpower shooting to be classified as Master.
I want to go on an elk hunting trip with my dad before he gets too old.
I want to learn to flyfish for trout/salmon. also try Tarpon someday. (I'm pretty deadly at catching bass and 'gills with a flyrod.)
Post by: cosine on July 28, 2006, 05:51:33 PM
Quote from: jefnvk
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Drive a Nascar stock car - Don't know of that would ever happen
http://1800bepetty.com/I don't care much for dreams. If they don't come true, it just pisses me off. It is much easier to be happy with what I have.
Edit: Thanks for the link.
Post by: Guest on July 28, 2006, 06:19:25 PM
Get a Pilots license (wow, theme here, huh?) Can't really do it till the last kid grows up, but I'm going to take my first lesson anyway, on my birthday. That will be very interesting since I have a plane phobia. I'm looking forward to it.
Other than that:
Go back to and finish grad school.
Make more quilts.
Participate in an archaelogical dig, preferably in the Middle East.
Visit Florence, Italy. And maybe Prague.
Build a house.
Learn to shoot better.
Get an engineering degree.
Learn to make soap from scratch.
Get a blackbelt in TKD.
Find a church I'd be comfortable in.
Post by: cosine on July 28, 2006, 06:21:49 PM
Quote from: Barbara
Not many dreams, but lots of plans.
Dreams, plans, I meant them both to be pretty much the same thing in this thread.
Post by: Guest on July 28, 2006, 06:28:43 PM
Post by: Guest on July 28, 2006, 06:31:20 PM
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Dreams, plans, I meant them both to be pretty much the same thing in this thread.
Good!
Post by: Stickjockey on July 29, 2006, 05:03:46 AM
First off, get meself a job that allows these things.
Then:
Have another kid.
Build the dreamhouse.
Get my Seaplane rating.
Build my own airplane.
Restore a WW2-vintage jeep.
Not necessarily in that order.
Post by: Monkeyleg on July 29, 2006, 01:19:59 PM
2. Transitioning myself from photography to internet work, and making enough money that I can:
3. Resume saving for retirement so that I can:
4. Work part-time when I'm in my 60's and:
5. Go shooting and riding more often.
I've been fortunate in that I've been able to fulfill many of the dreams I had when I was young.
Post by: jefnvk on July 29, 2006, 05:22:42 PM
1) Find a nice girl dumb enough to marry me (who wants a family)
2) Get a house in the country on a small trout stream (preferably in the UP or Northern Wisconsin/Minnesota)
3) Find a 40-hr/wk job that isn't stressful with a CS degree (HA!)
Preferably in that order
Post by: Guest on July 30, 2006, 03:05:45 PM
The very last words in a poorly translated Japanese motorcycle shop manual from the 60's- "now do it"
Post by: grislyatoms on July 30, 2006, 04:12:18 PM
Quote from: brimic
(I'm pretty deadly at catching bass and 'gills with a flyrod.)
Catching 'gills with a fly rod is such a thrill. I've gone home with a boatful while folks fishing other tackle struck out. Cast.Wait.Twitch. BALOOOSH!
Post by: Moondoggie on July 30, 2006, 04:24:28 PM
I had 3 major life goals:
1. Be a U. S. Marine...did that for 26 wonderful years and retired as an E9.
2. Be in a mutually satisfying, fulfilling relationship with a woman....been there for 27 yrs now.
3. Know God.....I'm completely satisfied with my spirituality.
I'm just fine financially, only work 3 days per week doing something I really enjoy (own/operate an 18 wheeler with my own S-type corp). I have plenty of time to pursue IPSC/reloading and have almost all the guns I want plus other toys, within reason.
When my 83 yr old MIL (She lives next door to us) passes on and we are free to relocate, we would like to build a house on an acerage out in the boonies.
Other than that, a trip to Europe would be nice. I'd like to get comode-huggin'-drunk at Oktoberfest just once.
Post by: Stand_watie on July 30, 2006, 05:27:08 PM
Quote from: Moondoggie
At 53 I've achieved most of the things I wanted to do.
I had 3 major life goals:
1. Be a U. S. Marine...did that for 26 wonderful years and retired as an E9...
I realize the Marines is large , and the chance is small, but I thought I'd just check and see if you'd known or met a former former boss, mentor, and friend of mine. He is also a Marine retiree (gunnery sergeant, I don't know whether that is e-7, e-8 or e-9). His name is and he's from west Texas by birth, but spent most of his l(Non Marine) life in the Bakersfield, California area. Ethnically speaking he's Mexican-American and Native-American. I don't remember too many of his duty stations, but I know he did two tours in Vietnam in the earlier part of the war, I think about 64-66, and he was stationed in Hawaii for some time. He's about 3 to 5 years older than you. His MOS (at least for the time he was in Vietnam, I don't recall if he stayed in that field) was EOD.
I had 3 major life goals:
1. Be a U. S. Marine...did that for 26 wonderful years and retired as an E9...
Post by: Moondoggie on July 30, 2006, 05:52:28 PM
Although we are a pretty small rod & gun club, and I DO know a lot of folks, You're Gunny Ramirez doesn't ring a bell.
EOD is a very small MOS, and one of the more cloistered in the Marine Corps. They really keep to themselves.
Sorry.
Post by: Mabs2 on July 30, 2006, 06:03:26 PM
Post by: Monkeyleg on July 31, 2006, 12:56:33 PM
But that was back when you needed to know how to play or how to sing. Now, with rap, I don't see any of those prerequisites.
Post by: Mabs2 on July 31, 2006, 03:43:12 PM
Post by: chaim on August 01, 2006, 02:04:09 PM
-Get my shall issue MD CCW (unlikely to ever happen I'm afraid)
-Get a motorcycle (if I don't marry the woman I'm currently seeing this will be a plan, if I do marry her it is a dream since she has told me "you buy a motorcycle I'm gone" but lately has shown some willingness to reconsider).
-Re-join the Reserves (unlikely, I'm 80LBS overweight, I'm currently 36, and at 19 my ankle was bad and got me discharged when I was in the best shape of my life)
Plans:
-Go to grad school in counseling and/or psychology and get my MA (after I get my teaching certification, which is a 2 year side track, my new job will actually pay so in 2 years I will be starting part-time)
-Go on for my Ph.D. or Psy.D. in psychology (probably about a 50/50 chance, I'm 36 so it is possible that even if I get in life circumstances may stop me, and if they don't I still need to get in)
-Move out of my parent's house again (with my new job I will be able to do so financially in a few weeks, but I'll probably stay another 6-12mo to do some financial catching up)
-Buy a house (if I marry the woman I'm currently dating, she actually would be able to buy immediately after she sells her current house, if we don't work out it will probably take 2-4 years)
-Go to Israel a few times (my first visit may be as soon as this winter, and if I don't make it then I'll definately go next summer)
-Get married (if things don't work with the woman I'm currently dating I am still young enough that I think I'll eventually meet the right woman)
-Have children (likely, but the older I get the older my likely future wife will be and it is possible that this may end up only occurring with a lot of "luck" (no such thing as luck) or by adoption)
-Spend a couple months studying in yeshiva (since I'll be teaching school for a few years I may be able to take a summer or two to learn Torah)
-Buy a fishing boat (likely)
-Buy a larger motor boat that can handle the Chesapeake Bay (somewhat likely, though I may simply rent them depending upon how often I think I'd actually manage to get out)
-Learn woodworking and build my own small wooden sailboat and rowboat (likely)
-Buy a camping trailer, at least a pop-up. I loved the pop-up my parents had when I was in high school. They can be a great way to travel when you don't want full scale roughing it camping. (likely, unless I buy a teardrop camper instead)
-Build my own teardrop camper (maybe a 50/50 chance, higher if I do learn woodworking better and build the boat first)
Post by: JonnyB on August 02, 2006, 10:03:15 AM
I'm pert'near 52 years old and (in no particular order)
I have a pilot's certificate (it's not a license) and seaplane rating
I built my own airplane (from a wreck) but no floats on it
I own my home (no mortgage, ~$300K)
Been married to the same (damn good) woman for 30+ years
Have two well-adjusted grown sons
Have two terrific daughters-in-law (from great families!)
Have three wonderful grandkids
Got a buncha firearms in the lock-box (well, I could use more)
I, my wife and our family are all very heathy
Hmmm... I have everything I could ask for, I guess.
OK, I'd like to be able to play the guitar better; I've been at it for only 8 months.
JB
Post by: S. Williamson on August 02, 2006, 11:31:08 AM
Get a job that pays an okay amount, enough for me to make rent, gas, groceries, bills, and have a little left over to enjoy.
Move out of Oklahoma, away from five years of disappointment and my parents. Finally.
Get another job that pays an okay amount, enough for me to make rent, gas, groceries, bills, and have a little left over to enjoy.
Within 1 year:
Reduce my smoking down to 2 cigarettes a day.
Lose 50 pounds.
Meet someone nice.
Within 5:
Get married, get a small house.
Quit smoking entirely.
Within 10:
Have kids, thus ending my life as I know it.
Beyond:
See my kids grow into decent people.
Move somewhere else.
Buy a small, flat-bottomed boat.
Find working stripper clips for a Mosin-Nagant, and do some hunting.
Finis:
Cremated, and have my ashes released from atop NewGrange (Ireland) on a windy day.
Find out what really happens after death.