The 100 List -
A number of folks I know made their “100 List”, better known as the “bucket list”. Better name, not as gloomy sounding. I made this list a while back, and trying to locate it a chroe. I made with MobileDiva, pretty sure its on Facebook somewhere..or maybe it was a list of blank things you may not know about me. Anyway here are my 100. I guess I should make a list of things I have done…but somehow that’s not fair. So I will try for a new 100..why not. And I’ll give a list of dones too..
1) Build more homes with Habitat for Humanity (built 3 already)
2) Bring in a truck load of food for a homeless shelter
3) Visit every state in the union (yes everyone has this on the list. I have like 20 to go or so I think)
4) Join an improv group
5) Run for office and win
6) Finish my Saguaro Photo Book
7) Buy enough cat/dog food for a pet shelter
Give a piano to a domestic violence place. (amazing what music can do)
9) Payoff all family debt
10) Fly my parents and family in CZ to Australia
11) Raft the Grand Canyon
12) Start a Foundation or two (this can be multiples, lots of things that need help)
13) Buy a meal every day from some point for someone who needs it.
15) Walk into a grocery store and pay for all the customers food anonymously
16) Visit the Statue of Liberty (I didn’t get to go when we immigrated here)
17) Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
18) Sing Karaoke (poor people in the audience)
19) Do a photo shoot with a Super Model (gotta have some fun)
20) Learn to Scuba Dive
21) Act in a play (did this in HS, had fun)
22) Make a movie
23) Create my TV series that’s been in my mind for a while
24) Go to a game in all baseball stadiums (sadly many great ones are gone now, weren’t five years ago)
25) Throw out a first pitch in a pro ballpark (maybe after I win that election)
26) Own a big tall building that can be used for many good things, not really business related
27) Help find a cure for a number of things that are afflicting several friends at the moment (autism, miningitis, neurofibroma)
28) Get the word out on my Grandfather and all that he did during the early days of Prague. War times and all.(I & II)
29) Get my dad the recognition he deserves (Google him Miroslav Valach)
30) Learn to ride a bike (not sure with my left ankle)
31) Start that video blog I been talking about for a while (several of these)
32) Play 18 at several courses (Pebble, Shinocock, others) not sure these should be individual. Ought to have its own list.
33) Be in a movie with some of my favorite stars.
34) Write a $10,000,000 check to a worthy cause
35) Create something new every week for a year
36) Learn about the taste of wine
37) Visit Rome
38) Visit the Pacific Rim
39) Swim with the dolphins
40) Go on a safari to Africa with top notch photo equipment
41) Go on speakers tour
42) Meet the President at a White House event
43) Go to a Stanley Cup Game (been to Game 7 World Series as well as other playoffs)
44) Go to Super Bowl
45) Go see and hear Jimmy Buffett (there are other, again a seperate list..and it has to be with someone)
46) Own a little Pub of sorts
47) Invent the “new thing”.
48) Ride a camel and horse
49) Learn to tie a bow tie (thank Tyler)
50) Find someone who understands why I want to do the 49 things above and the 50 things below
51) Speak at TED
52) Meet and do business with Donald Trump
53) Be invited to have lunch with Warren Buffet
54) Play golf with Phil Mickelson. (Not a ProAM)
55) Shoot a real bow and arrow
56) Play in a ProAm
57) Fly a plane or helicopter
56) Play at a Final Table WSOP (been playin a bit lately)
57) Hit a hole in one ( came with in 5 feet or so once)
58) Update my blog for one year on regular basis.( I figure that would then set the rest off)
59) See Washington DC, NYC and Boston in the Winter (all in the same area)
60) Visit the Five (arbitrary number) tallest building in the world
61) Visit the glass bottom floor building in Chicago(need to get the name)
62) Hire Tyler Hurst as my Press Secretary (gotta win that election)
63) Donate enough to house cool animals at the Phoenix Zoo
64) Serve meals over Thanksgiving and Xmas at a homeless shelter (no excuse I haven’t done this already)
65) Give a $100 tip for ordering a cup of coffee at a small diner
66) Go down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
67) Go back up from the bottom of the Grand Canyon
68) See Mount Rushmore (guess thats part of the 50 state thing)
69) Drive a NASCAR around the track
70) Drive an Indy Car at Indy (ok PIR will be ok too)
71) Go to all three big horse races same year (hope for that Triple)
72) Own a pro team ( already tried for the Padrees, USA Today wrote about it)
73) Say “No Thanks” to a multi million dollar deal
74) Hand 10 people $100,000 and tell them who ever generates the most in 30 days get $1,000,000.
75) Homes in several states across counrty (HI, WA, GA, MA)
76) Drive a stage coach
77) Drive a dog sled
78) Learn to ride a motorcycle (keep in mind I never learned to ride a bike)
79) Drive at above 100mph on a freeway for at least 25 miles (been close to a 100 but not the miles)
80) Host on a major TV program (did the cable thing already)
81) Interview all the living Presidents (never have interviewed a President, all the rest yes)
82) Drive a Ferrari, Porsche and Lamborghini
83) Visit every continent for a week
84) Ride in a hot air balloon
85) Go to the New Mexico Hot Air Balloon Show
86) Attend several “veggie” Festivals (been to Garlic Festicval in Gilroy)
87) Attend a Notre Dame Football gamein South Bend
88) Kiss the Blarney Stone
89) Visit the Pyramids (part of the content thing, or maybe the 9 Wonders of the World)
90) Write an iPhone App that people will like
91) Own a few more animals that nee a home
92) Run the table in 9 Ball, or straight pool
93) Get a Royal Flush in Poker (hopefully with a big pot)
94) Pick all the game in ONE week of an NFL season
95) Get hired by one of following (Disney, Apple, Pixar, NFL, MLB)
96) Find a few folks I haven’t seen in a while
97) Get back to a weight that fits my height. Lose 30+ pounds, keep it off
98) Have a jet at disposal to go where I need to or want to get
99) Gather enough sense that once the above 98 happen that I am still me, and it can all go away in a second. Not to flaunt it, but enjoy it and remember to do #2, #13 and #15 much more often.
100) Have enough resources to take my friends on a fantastic trip on any given weekend. All they need to do is show up and be ready to fly.
OK that’s the 100. Yes there are multiples in some of them. The list of dones will happen another time. Right now as I type its late and what I should of added to the list was the two courses or three that I am suppose to be working on. They are to be completed in a few weeks. OK comment away, alert to typos….and if there is any adventure that you want to go on..or can provide …let her rip!!