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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