Author Topic: What are your dreams? (Read 3461 times)

cosine · « **on:** July 27, 2006, 06:50:12 PM »

What are your dreams? How close do you think you are towards reaching them?

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.)

K Frame · « **Reply #1 on:** July 27, 2006, 07:53:35 PM »

Get through the next couple of years without mtnbkr's daughter either killing or seriously maiming me.

Preacherman · « **Reply #2 on:** July 27, 2006, 08:13:47 PM »

We share some dreams, Cosine. I also want to get my PPL (I'd actually love to get a helicopter PPL, but that's three times as expensive!), and I also want to pick up a ham radio license. In a previous life, I did military communications and electronic warfare, so I already have most of the theory, Morse, etc. down pat.

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! Cheesy

280plus · « **Reply #3 on:** July 28, 2006, 12:50:32 AM »

Preacher, I know where there's a cute little helicopter school with cute little mosquito looking helicopters right here in CT. Cheesy

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #4 on:** July 28, 2006, 03:52:34 AM »

Quit my job and work for my wife.
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.

uvakat · « **Reply #5 on:** July 28, 2006, 03:59:42 AM »

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

TarpleyG · « **Reply #6 on:** July 28, 2006, 04:19:03 AM »

-Buy a 50' sailing yacht and live part-time in the Caribbean...doing some charter work for extra money.

-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

Chris · « **Reply #7 on:** July 28, 2006, 04:50:30 AM »

I have always wanted to have a job which allowed me to make enough money that I didn't have to worry about buying something just because I want it, or do something just because I want to, or go somewhere just because I want to see it. Given my choice of professions (lawyer) I have put off the firm/private practice route because I also want to be a father to my sons, and not that man they see from time to time because he lives at the office. Thanks to a turn of furtune in february, when I was appointed a magistrate, I now see a possibility on the horizon, the posibility of being a full judge, with a six figure income and the ability to set my own schedule. We'll see...

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.

Iain · « **Reply #8 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.

Stand_watie · « **Reply #9 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.

uvakat · « **Reply #10 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.

I have also found that elderly women are great for advice along with being great judges of character... but as a quote from Stargate SG1 says "the young often do not do as they are told," when it comes to heeding their advice. I would not be in the situation I am in if I listened to an old family friend.

SpookyPistolero · « **Reply #11 on:** July 28, 2006, 07:16:41 AM »

Make it through pharmacy school unscathed, hopefully to work in clinical pharmacology. I'd love that.

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...

peteinct · « **Reply #12 on:** July 28, 2006, 08:17:14 AM »

My dreams To be a better person in body mind and character every day. To work at a job I like as long as I am able.

To become the person my dogs think I already am
pete

charby · « **Reply #13 on:** July 28, 2006, 08:23:17 AM »

Grow old with my wife.

Own an acreage someday and raise as much of my own food as possible.

Visit every continent including Antarctica.

Retire before 65.

Shalako · « **Reply #14 on:** July 28, 2006, 10:23:46 AM »

Have some kids and spend lots of time with them. Teach them to camp and fish and garden and raise their own dog.

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.

Twycross · « **Reply #15 on:** July 28, 2006, 01:04:19 PM »

Sort term (within the year)-

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.

RevDisk · « **Reply #16 on:** July 28, 2006, 01:19:34 PM »

My sole goal is to buy a decent stretch of land, and build a home.

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.

And shouldn't be "Working on road rage issues" be on the list too?

jefnvk · « **Reply #17 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.

brimic · « **Reply #18 on:** July 28, 2006, 04:30:06 PM »

My dreams usually consist of being chased by some sort of zombie/vampire while only being armed with either a dull knife or a gun with which all of the ammo is locked up someplace across town. Sad

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.)

cosine · « **Reply #19 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.

I am pretty happy with what I have, but without having some dreams I'm so easy going that I'd never get off my fat butt and work towards obtaining anything. Anyway, a plus side to being pretty easy going is that it only ticks me off in very rare circumstances when a dream does not come true.

Edit: Thanks for the link.

Guest · « **Reply #20 on:** July 28, 2006, 06:19:25 PM »

Not many dreams, but lots of plans.

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.

cosine · « **Reply #21 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.

Guest · « **Reply #22 on:** July 28, 2006, 06:28:43 PM »

http://ideas.43things.com/

Guest · « **Reply #23 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!

Stickjockey · « **Reply #24 on:** July 29, 2006, 05:03:46 AM »

Dreams, plans, and such:

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.

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