the list, in no particular order:

  • ⃞   Do everything on this list.
  • ⃞   Skydive.
  • ⃞   Learn to write with my left hand.
  • ⃞   Write or draw a book.
  • ⃞   Participate in a brewery venture.
  • ⃞   Learn how to swim.
  •  ✓  Spend time in rebel-held territory.
  • ⃞   Consume only phở and Asian fruit juices for a 24 hour period.
  • ⃞   Fly in a 10 ≥ seat plane.
  • ⃞   Fly a plane or glider.
  • ⃞   Fly in a helicopter.
  •  ✓  Spend an entire year tracking every movement with a wrist GPS and       publish the process online.
  • ⃞   Become conversational in spoken:
  •      ⃞   Swedish
  •      ⃞   Spanish
  •      ⃞   Arabic
  •      ⃞   Swahili
  •      ⃞   Farsi / Dari
  • ⃞   Visit every continent in the world:
  •       ✓  North America
  •      ⃞   South America
  •       ✓  Europe
  •       ✓  Asia
  •       ✓  Africa
  •       ✓  Oceania / Pacific Islands
  •      ⃞   Antarctica
  • ⃞   Visit every country in:
  •      ⃞   North America
  •      ⃞   South America
  •      ⃞   Europe
  •      ⃞   Asia
  •      ⃞   Africa
  •      ⃞   Oceania / Pacific Islands
  • ⃞   Visit every province and territory in Canada:
  •       ✓  British Columbia
  •      ⃞   Alberta
  •      ⃞   Saskatchewan
  •      ⃞   Manitoba
  •       ✓  Ontario
  •       ✓  Québec
  •       ✓  New Brunswick
  •      ⃞   Prince Edward Island
  •       ✓  Nova Scotia
  •      ⃞   Newfoundland and Labrador
  •      ⃞   Yukon
  •      ⃞   Northwest Territories
  •      ⃞   Nunavut
  • ⃞   Write a simple song that doesn't suck.
  • ⃞   Add sufficient muscles to my bone structure.
  • ⃞   Grow a proper 5 o'clock shadow.
  • ⃞   Observe Ramadan in a secular manner (fasting, good deeds, etc.).
  • ⃞   Play a game of roller hockey again.
  • ⃞   Cycle across Canada, preferably with my two brothers.
  •  ✓  Work for MSF in the field.
  • ⃞   Become an emergency response logistician.
  • ⃞   Learn how to at least tolerate eating fish.
  • ⃞   Live to the age of:
  •       ✓  25
  •      ⃞   30
  •      ⃞   40
  •      ⃞   50
  •      ⃞   60
  •      ⃞   70
  •      ⃞   80
  •      ⃞   90
  •      ⃞   100
  • ⃞   Row my own child(ren) around Deep Bay, Bowen Island.
  •  ✓  Really, truly get over her.
  • ⃞   Write a witty saying on the wall of a toilet stall.
  • ⃞   Find the end of the Earth.
  •  ✓  Read Crime and Punishment.
  •  ✓  Learn how to drive a motorcycle.
  •  ✓  Get a motorcycle licence.
  • ⃞   Get driver's licences from three or more countries.
  • ⃞   Get passports from three or more countries.
  • ⃞   Lose my farmer's tan.
  • ⃞   Join the mile-high club.
  • ⃞   Visit an Efes brewery.
  • ⃞   Play ping pong with at least one grandchild.
  •  ✓  Finish and successfully defend my Master's thesis.
  • ⃞   Grow my own vegetable garden again.
  • ⃞   Learn how to play a simple tune, reliably, on the guitar ukulele.
  • ⃞   Win the game.
  • ⃞   Find that special someone and marry her before she realises her mistake.
  •  ✓  Get a tattoo.
  •  ✓  Help invent a drinking game.
  •  ✓  Pull off a storybook surprise on my family.
  • ⃞   Directly save someone's life.
  • ⃞   Go paragliding.
  • ⃞   Get a photo published in a semi-respectable magazine / newspaper /
          journal / etc.
  • ⃞   Do 25 chin-ups without stopping.
  • ⃞   Do 50 push-ups without stopping.
  • ⃞   Do 75 sit-ups without stopping.
  • ⃞   Take part in an international flipcup tournament.
  • ⃞   Win an Ig Nobel Prize.
  • ⃞   Create a song remix or mashup that earns approval of both Stash and JHo.
  • ⃞   Have a room in which all or almost all walls and possibly ceiling are
          covered in maps.
  • ⃞   Have a wall covered in photos.
  •  ✓  Read War and Peace.
  • ⃞   Visit a country starting with each letter of the alphabet:
  •       ✓  A
  •       ✓  B
  •       ✓  C
  •       ✓  D
  •       ✓  E
  •       ✓  F
  •       ✓  G
  •       ✓  H
  •       ✓  I
  •      ⃞   J
  •       ✓  K
  •       ✓  L
  •       ✓  M
  •       ✓  N
  •      ⃞   O
  •      ⃞   P
  •      ⃞   Q
  •       ✓  R
  •       ✓  S
  •       ✓  T
  •       ✓  U
  •       ✓  V
  •       ✓  W
  •      ⃞   X
  •      ⃞   Y
  •      ⃞   Z