182 Things in 1823 Days

Bucket list with a 5 year end date.


Every five years, I build a ‘To Do’ list, to end on my next birthday that ends with a 5. The list is aspirational, if I don’t get everything done then it may go to the next list. I have a few years left for this one.

1 Travel Yellowstone

2 Travel Washington DC

☑ 3 Travel Arctic Circle

• ☑ 4 Travel See Northern Lights

• ☑ 5 Travel Europe

6 Travel New Zealand

7 Activity Tour Pixar

8 Learn Stained Glass

9 Learn Drawing Class

10 Activity Cookbook

11 Activity Watch a Space Launch

12 Build Tony Stork Stuffed Stork doll with a goatee and an arc reactor

☑ 13 Travel Iceland

14 Activity Tell a story on stage

15 Travel Norway

☑ 16 Home Fix Dining Room Floor

☑ 17 Home Add A/C vent to upstairs office

☑ 18 Home Backyard Furniture

19 Build China Hutch

20 Build Sideboard

21 Build Mantle Art Piece Have this idea about combined wood and acrylic mountain range with variable lighting.

22 Activity Take Opal to more training

23 Build Build a Droid Not a standard R2D2, make it up on my own

24 Travel Antarctica

☑ 25 Travel See Iceberg

26 Build New workbench

27 Build Clamp Rack

28 Activity Photograph major meteor shower

29 Activity Enter a photo contest

30 Travel Easter Island

31 Build Bandsaw circle jig

32 Build Custom usb keyboard

33 Activity Try a new, very different look

34 Activity Teach Opal to catch

35 Learn Finale Software

36 Learn Blender Software

37 Activity Teach Opal to roll over

38 Travel Carlsbad caverns

39 Travel Arches National Park

40 Travel Antelope Canyon

41 Activity Find 10 hidden parks in  San Francisco

☑ 42 Build New table in office with storage

43 Learn Glass etching

44 Learn Milling class at Crucible

45 Learn Glass blowing

46 Build Vacuform machine

47 Activity One straight week of vegetarian

48 Learn A rare skill

49 Activity Teach a rare skill

☑ 50 Activity Join academy of science

51 Build Kinetic sculpture

52 Activity Escape room

52 Learn Making custom cushions

☑ 53 Home Murphy bed

53 Build Musical instrument

54 Build Wind chimes for hard of hearing. Wind chimes that respond to wind but with light instead of sound

55 Learn Pyrography

56 Activity Meet with my representative

57 Activity Meet with local politicians

58 Travel Visit a Presidential Library

59 Activity Develop alternate income stream

60 Home Refinish stairs

61 Home Basement cabinets

• ☑ 62 Learn Cabinet carcass building

☑ 63 Activity. Try brains (food)

64 Travel Angel Island

65 Activity Sell a photograph

66 Activity Whale watching again

☑ 67 Activity Helicopter Ride

68 Activity Cook a souffle

69 Activity Make cheese

70 Travel New York City

☑ 71 Build Slide out microwave cabinet

☑ 72 Home Side door cabinet

☑ 73 Travel Star Wars at Disney

74 Travel Alaska

75 Activity Make risotto

76 Activity Take Fia to the Zoo

77 Build Device that looks like 1940’s radio with modern features

78 Build Transparent video screen

79 Activity Make shop apron

80 Activity Make kitchen apron

81 Activity Make backpack

81 Travel Boston

82 Build Solar project

83 Travel Australia

84 Travel British museum 

85 Build Drillpress table

☑ 86 Travel Yosemite 

87 Activity Refurbish the old radio

☑ 88 Activity Bathroom cabinets

89 Activity Repaint basement bathroom

90 Learn Airbrush painting

91 Travel Japan

92 Activity Make Watch app

93 Activity Release Watch app

☑ 94 Activity Get non-contract job

95 Activity Trip with Mom

96 Activity Open Etsy store

97 Activity Projection mapping for halloween

98 Build Jewelry Box

99 Learn Flocking

100 Activity Create signature pie

101 Learn Frame and Panel doors

102 Activity Lunar eclipse photo

103 Learn Sewing skills

104 Build Branding iron

105 Build Moving lamp

106 Learn Suture

107 Learn Leather stitching

108 Learn Leather Braiding

109 Activity Projection mapping for Christmas

☑ 110 Activity Put together new office wardrobe

111 Travel Smithsonian

☑ 112 Travel Crater lake

113 Build Crucible furnace

114 Activity Academy of Science Nightlife

115 Home Paint living room

116 Home Fix the window frame upstairs

117 Home Replace windows

118 Learn Sign Language

☑ 119 Home Install solar lighting for house numbers

• ☑ 120 Home Redo front garden

121 Activity Herb garden

122 Activity Organize my paperwork

123 Learn Animation

124 Learn Corel Draw

125 Home Front yard camera

126 Learn Watercolors

127 Activity Cook with Fia

128 Activity Live edge turning

129 Activity Cosplay

130 Activity Volunteer

131 Build Murphy bed

☑ 132 Travel London

133 Build Puzzle box

134 Activity Ride in a sub

135 Learn Calligraphy

136 Home Repatch/paint bathroom walls

137 Activity Underwater photography

138 Activity Write iPhone app

139 Activity Submit iPhone app to app store

140 Learn Offset turning

141 Travel Portugal

142 Activity Write and submit an article for publishing

☑ 143 Activity Donate bikes

144 Learn A new language

145 Build Fire tornado

146 Travel Vermont

147 Travel Maine

☑ 148 Activity New Drivers license

149 Build Additional side tables for living room

150 Home Make basement room nice and usable again

151 Activity Mission burrito

152 Home Wall art project

153 Travel Finland

154 Travel Africa

155 Build Animated skeleton

156 Activity Pickled Salmon recipe

157 Activity Redecorate Bedroom

☑ 158 Activity Purchase Arbans for Trombone

159 Activity SNL Audience

160 Activity Teach a workshop

161 Activity Develop personal brand

162 Activity Meditate at least once per week

163 Activity Drive without audio input at least once per month (no radio/phone/podcasts)

☑ 164 Activity Get evaluated for ADHD

165 Activity Have at least six months of buffer

166 Activity Start my own business

167 Activity Throw a dinner party

☑ 168 Activity Photograph an active volcano (at least an ash cloud or lava)

169 Learn How to wrap a present nicely

170 Learn How to work on a pottery wheel

171 Learn A magic trick

172 Activity Luau

173 Learn Molecular gastronomy

174 Learn Take a cooking class

☑ 175 Activity Try Balut (attempt two here)

☑ 176 Activity Try chicken feet

☑ 177 Activity Haggis

178 Activity Invent something

☑ 179 Activity Give blood

180 Activity Ride in a self-driving car

181 Activity Random Road trip at least once per year

182 Activity Write a new list