I'd like to lucid dream.
Right before I sat back down in front of my PC, I was thinking about how I keep meaning to write a review of Death Valley (1982)
First crossed my mind after the death of Wilford Brimley, & there's a couple of stupid peon deaths I've always wanted to make fun of.....
Have just one of my novels become a runaway financial success.
I'd also like to feel safe in life. I haven't felt that in a long time. To be unguarded, to not worry, to feel liberated by a lack of concerns, I'd love that.
Earn a living wage.
Visit Pumapunka.
Quote from: ER on July 24, 2022, 07:58:46 PM
I'd like to lucid dream.
As a young teenager I used to do that all the time, but I seemed to lose the ability around 16 or so. I miss it.
Quote from: Trevor on July 25, 2022, 02:23:29 AM
Give Mom a hug :bluesad:
You've never hugged your mom? That's dismal.
Hmm. Been trying to think of something. Generally speaking, most of the things I want to do, I've already done (although most of them I'd happily do again).
I guess I'll go with have a cruise down the Nile since I figure that is more likely to be able to happen than visit Russia (at the moment and for the past several years, Russian rules require you to say if you've served in your national military when you enter the country, which gets you marked down for special interest).
collect the monkey
Quote from: indianasmith on July 24, 2022, 09:27:59 PM
Have just one of my novels become a runaway financial success.
I want this for you too. Your books are certainly good enough to appeal to the wider public, and you've taken things as far as you can yourself, you just need better representation, like an agent to open bigger venues through larger publishers. The fact you've sold as many books as you have and have as many published titles as you do would work in your favor. When my father began his second career he worked with artists' reps, and the difference in the success rate of artists with agents versus those without was striking.
I've been trying to land a trick called a varial heelflip for like 4 years. its not my usual kind of skating but I'm obsessed with it
looks simple but...
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/2YbYNtbB5alLUAYsnx/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47pwwwnv8vt1paxzm5djgadb5f7rlqvctprr3mo0c0&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
Quote from: lester1/2jr on July 25, 2022, 02:56:11 PM
I've been trying to land a trick called a varial heelflip for like 4 years. its not my usual kind of skating but I'm obsessed with it
looks simple but...
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/2YbYNtbB5alLUAYsnx/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47pwwwnv8vt1paxzm5djgadb5f7rlqvctprr3mo0c0&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
That doesn't look easy at all. It looks like something your life insurance agent wouldn't want you to do.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 24, 2022, 11:46:19 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 24, 2022, 09:36:35 PM
Earn a living wage.
Never?
Nope.
Bugs the hell outa me when people making two or three times what I'm making are described as poor...
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 25, 2022, 03:15:56 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 24, 2022, 11:46:19 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 24, 2022, 09:36:35 PM
Earn a living wage.
Never?
Nope.
Bugs the hell outa me when people making two or three times what I'm making are described as poor...
It was a big shock when Kristi told me that waitresses etc in the US were working solely for tips. Companies over here at the moment are being forced to increase wages as people just aren't accepting low paying jobs.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 25, 2022, 03:34:57 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 25, 2022, 03:15:56 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 24, 2022, 11:46:19 PM
Quote from: LilCerberus on July 24, 2022, 09:36:35 PM
Earn a living wage.
Never?
Nope.
Bugs the hell outa me when people making two or three times what I'm making are described as poor...
Why not?
Because I've never had an employer who thought I was worth more than half.
Could never figure out why.
^Ok.
By the by- half of what?
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 25, 2022, 04:02:12 PM
^Ok.
By the by- half of what?
Half of what he's worth, of course...
Quote from: ER on July 25, 2022, 02:40:15 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on July 24, 2022, 09:27:59 PM
Have just one of my novels become a runaway financial success.
I want this for you too. Your books are certainly good enough to appeal to the wider public, and you've taken things as far as you can yourself, you just need better representation, like an agent to open bigger venues through larger publishers. The fact you've sold as many books as you have and have as many published titles as you do would work in your favor. When my father began his second career he worked with artists' reps, and the difference in the success rate of artists with agents versus those without was striking.
It isn't easy to get an agent unless you already have a giant audience. I looked into getting an agent and found they were only interested in people with 10,000 social media followers minimum, double the number I have.
Go through one month without insomnia.
See the man in the moon.
Have a day in which I have no thoughts about the concept of death.
Beat my father at chess.
Enjoy eating like most people do.
Stop thinking so hard about how something can exist and yet have no mass.
Walk the Hadrian's Wall Trail.
Finish the river rock henge I'm building with my son.
See a wild bobcat.
Find appreciation in the now.
Get to know my lost brothers in an afterlife.
Forget things I want to forget.
Genuinely laugh at a knock-knock joke.
Quote from: lester1/2jr on July 25, 2022, 02:56:11 PM
I've been trying to land a trick called a varial heelflip for like 4 years. its not my usual kind of skating but I'm obsessed with it
looks simple but...
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/2YbYNtbB5alLUAYsnx/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47pwwwnv8vt1paxzm5djgadb5f7rlqvctprr3mo0c0&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
Takes some practice. It looks relatively simple but you gotta get the right bit of height in the jump and land the flips accordingly.
Skydiving.
Take a random weekend trip. Although, that's impossible unless I do it on my 'weekend' being off Tuesdays/Wednesdays. Like just randomly go to Boston or Chicago for a ball game and come back home.
Quote from: HappyGilmore on July 26, 2022, 08:19:48 AM
Skydiving.
Take a random weekend trip. Although, that's impossible unless I do it on my 'weekend' being off Tuesdays/Wednesdays. Like just randomly go to Boston or Chicago for a ball game and come back home.
There was a local movie called Die Eensame Vlug [The Lonely Flight] which put me off skydiving for life :buggedout: :buggedout:
Quote from: Trevor on July 26, 2022, 08:36:13 AM
Quote from: HappyGilmore on July 26, 2022, 08:19:48 AM
Skydiving.
Take a random weekend trip. Although, that's impossible unless I do it on my 'weekend' being off Tuesdays/Wednesdays. Like just randomly go to Boston or Chicago for a ball game and come back home.
There was a local movie called Die Eensame Vlug [The Lonely Flight] which put me off skydiving for life :buggedout: :buggedout:
I believe it. Still wanna go ahead with it.
I'd like to take in a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley or a Sox game at Fenway.
Quote from: HappyGilmore on July 26, 2022, 08:42:19 AM
Quote from: Trevor on July 26, 2022, 08:36:13 AM
Quote from: HappyGilmore on July 26, 2022, 08:19:48 AM
Skydiving.
Take a random weekend trip. Although, that's impossible unless I do it on my 'weekend' being off Tuesdays/Wednesdays. Like just randomly go to Boston or Chicago for a ball game and come back home.
There was a local movie called Die Eensame Vlug [The Lonely Flight] which put me off skydiving for life :buggedout: :buggedout:
I believe it. Still wanna go ahead with it.
From 1:26:14 onwards...... :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ79GRTCJBg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ79GRTCJBg)
" I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do,
So I leave it up to you..."
http://youtu.be/CTUsFm0BAu8 (http://youtu.be/CTUsFm0BAu8)
Rebuild a motorcycle.
Quote from: bob on July 25, 2022, 09:45:23 AM
collect the monkey
Could you be less woke??? The man had a "typing disability"!!!! :teddyr:
Quote from: HappyGilmore on July 26, 2022, 08:43:01 AM
I'd like to take in a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley or a Sox game at Fenway.
Don't they have games on Tuesday or Wednesday?
Live to be 61.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 01, 2022, 07:05:34 AM
Live to be 61.
Then eat sparingly, get plenty of exercise, and don't marry Amber Heard.
My biggest one I won't list in a public forum.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 01, 2022, 02:52:21 PM
My biggest one I won't list in a public forum.
You want to win with Anne Hathaway on Dancing with the Stars.
Go through one month without insomnia.
See the man in the moon.
Have a day in which I have no thoughts about the concept of death.
Beat my father at chess.
Enjoy eating like most people do.
Stop thinking so hard about how something can exist and yet have no mass.
Walk the Hadrian's Wall Trail.
Finish the river rock henge I'm building with my son.
See a wild bobcat.
Find appreciation in the now.
Get to know my lost brothers in an afterlife.
Forget things I want to forget.
Genuinely laugh at a knock-knock joke.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 31, 2022, 09:50:00 PM
Quote from: HappyGilmore on July 26, 2022, 08:43:01 AM
I'd like to take in a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley or a Sox game at Fenway.
Don't they have games on Tuesday or Wednesday?
Yep. Maybe next summer at this point. Alreadyg have a vacation coming in September so I couldn't do a short trip now, financially.
Might go early next season.
Watch our rubbish cricket team actually win the Cricket World Cup instead of choking as they always seem to do.
Go into space and never come back.