Father of Six

1. Go to a Colorado Rapids soccer game
2. Go Camping
3. Go see Oklahoma play football against Iowa St. Oct. 20, 2007 at Ames, Ia. with dad We did this. Oklahoma won a close one, 17-7. We also saw a good High School game the night before in Carlisle,Ia.
4. See Oklahoma play football against Colorado in Boulder, Co. Nope, but Brittany and Danielle did, so you could say I did it vicariously through them.
5. Find an Oklahoma game to see with dad in 2008 and 2009
6. Catalogue my books in LibraryThing
7. Go to the Denver Art Museum 3 times
8. Go to the Denver Botanical Gardens 3 times
9. Go to the Colorado History Museum 3 times
10. Keep membership in the Wine of the Month Club from the Wine Company. I decided to let it lapse because according to my notes, only 2 or 3 wines each year were truly enjoyable. Haven’t come up with an alternative.
11. Exercise 30 minutes times 6 days per week for each week. I think I’m pretty close to being on track with this.
12. Swim one mile without stopping once a month beginning June 2007. Kind of lapsed on this, but I’m closer to actually completing the goal than you might think. I think I’ve only missed a couple of months.
13. Run a 5k race under 30 minutes in 2007. Didn’t do it, and will not do it in subsequent years either.
14. Do a MS150 Bike Ride. Completed this June 28-29, 2008.
15. Do a triathlon
16. Go to the movies with Tami once a month. This is a lot harder than it seems. A failure, still.
17. Go for a walk with Boomer once a week. Same goes for this. We play, we ride bikes, we go outside. The act of “walking” once a week doesn’t occur.
18. Do the 26 Things Photographic Scavenger Hunt each month. I only did this once - and then the site was taken down.
19. Write a 55 Fiction. (If I like the results, revise this entry and do more.)
20. See a Wagner opera. Done - The Flying Dutchman.
21. See a Verdi opera. Done - Rigoletto.
22. See a Mozart opera
23. See three Shakespeare Plays
24. Visit the WWI Museum in Kansas City. Done - During Thanksgiving, 2007.
25. Visit 3 National Parks. Done - Valley Forge, Gettysburg, and Independence Hall/Liberty Bell.
26. Climb one Colorado 14er
27. Drink 1-2 glasses of wine each day for good health. Nope - it seems that taking vitamins is easier.
28. Take Tami on a “beach” vacation
29. Take a cruise across the Atlantic Ocean
30. See the Bayeux Tapestry in the museum in Bayeux, Normandy, France.
31. See the Bayeux Tapestry copy at the Museum of Reading
32. Compare the two
33. Watch Amanda graduate high school in May 2009
34. Take Amanda to New Orleans after she graduates
35. Get a Spa/Jacuzzi at the house
36. See the Gipsy Kings in concert – preferably at a venue with assigned seating
37. Smoke a real Cuban Cigar
38. Drink a glass of Absinthe
39. Increase the contribution percentage of my 401k. Done.
40. Learn and manage my 401k investments. Done.
41. Get a 529 College Invest plan opened for Boomer
42. Play my guitar once a week for 30 minutes. Nope - another noble thought down the drain.
43. Get my entire music library into iTunes and synced onto my iPod
44. Begin the “What Every ___ Grader Should Know” series with Boomer when the time is right
45. Learn the vocabulary words from “The Superior Person’s Book of Words” and blog about them
46. Compile a personal top 50 albums list and blog about it
47. Compile a personal top 50 books list and blog about it
48. Plant a deciduous tree in my yard
49. Take a fencing class. Done - Danielle and I did this together.
50. Go bowling with the entire family – Brad through Boomer
51. Play miniature golf with the entire family – Brad through Boomer
52. Read a biography of Napoleon
53. Ease into a routine Family day/night – activity, dinner, something
54. See a 6-man football game in 2007, 2008 and 2009
55. See a Seiling, Ok. High School football game
56. Subscribe to The Week magazine. Nope.
57. Make Credit Union balance $5000
58. Purchase home audio system for front room. Yep.
59. Purchase new televisions for bedroom and TV room
60. Rig my iPod to my car
61. Rig my iPod to my Outdoor System
62. Post the answers to these questions for 4 consecutive weeks.
What will I try to improve on next week?
What was I most proud of this week?
What was my biggest accomplishment this week?
What have I done to get closer to my life goals this week?
What was hard for me this week, and why?
What was my biggest waste of time this week?
What did I do this week that made me ashamed?
63. Try #62 a second time
64. Play chess at least once a week for 3 months
65. See the Liberty Bell. Done.
66. Read “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco
67. Have flowers delivered to ______ for no reason (10)
68. Hike a 3-day portion of the Colorado Trail
69. Ride my bike 100 miles in one day
70. Research Degree Programs
71. Enroll in Degree Program
72. Take one class each term of this challenge
73. Participate in Book Crossings
74. Locate and view celestial things in my telescope 6/21 through 9/23. Nope.
75. Watch Doctor Zhivago every Thanksgiving after football
76. Participate in Post Crossings. Yes, and still active.
77. Build a book about something on Tami’s software
78. Host a wine tasting
79. Go to a wine tasting at an Art Gallery
80. Go see the Roundhouse in Hugo, Colorado
81. Go to the observatory at the University of Denver
82. Host a Dinner and a Murder party
83. See Dr. Bell three more times – 2007, 2008, 2009
84. Call Dr. Leonard and ask him if he is interested in seeing me
85. Visit the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden
86. Attend the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo
87. Ride the Georgetown Loop Railroad
88. Go to the Denver March Powwow in each calendar year
89. Spend the night at Indian Springs in Idaho Springs with Tami
90. Buy a $100 bottle of wine and don’t drink it
91. Make my house look like the “Griswold’s” for Christmas
92. Re-Read Beowulf accompanied by “Beowulf Aloud”
93. Learn how to rip DVDs and load them onto my iPod
94. Go to a DU hockey game against CC
95. Write a letter to my Grandma. Yep.
96. Yoga once a week (143). Nope.
97. Retire one debt. Yep.
98. Take the train from Denver to Glenwood and Back
99. Visit the Sand Dunes
100. Read “The Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller.
101. See Mary Flower perform at the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center (10/25-26). Nope.