What Is In Your Bucket List?

Maybe a little early, Happy Birthday.

At 81 maybe that old hard disc is turning slow, has few bad sectors

but it still turning.

So don't give up!

Getting away from computers, smart phones, politics and the media!

The problem as I see it is two fold, first your time perspective changes over time, second, it takes a lot of energy and time to learn new complicated processes, and that requires dedication and proper motivation, the kind that comes with the instinct of survival and hunger....When you take a leisurely approach, such as in a hobby, the intensity of your interaction is diminished, therefore more time is needed to learn, but then the problem is it seems like it's taking too much time because of your perspective, then concentration and confidence breaks down, leading to abandonment of purpose....

Sheesh... You sound like my fourth grade teacher. I got that same dribble from him... all three years.

Seriously, I think you're right about the time perspective. Additionally, the cumulative concerns of a seven year old are both fewer and simpler than any of us.

That passage of time thing. I hear a lot of people talk about it but for me I apparently don't have the same range of scale.

I don't perceive a day or week or month or year with any significant difference in time than I did as a kid or anywhere inbetween.

I can sit down at any time look at a clock change numbers then do a 58 count open my eyes and sure enough 1 - 2 seconds later the number changes again. Been able to do that since I learned to tell time.

You just have to grow old. You don't have to grow up.

I've never felt the need to see if I could count out 60 seconds and I couldn't tell you in what year many things occurred in my life, mostly what years I was employed by the various companies I ran into the ground.

I have no bucket list, I just get up in the morning and live for the day.

Survivors like you and me, tend to take the same attitude. However, I still enjoy going to work every day (well most days♫♫). Perhaps that is because I really don't have to, but I need the learn something new, or try to improve on something or even better, try to impart some knowledge from my experiences to someone else. One of the reasons I haven't retired yet and I am still not sure when I will do so.

I can't recall ever having had a bucket list per se, and don't really have one now. Life comes one day at a time and as long as I wake up tomorrow, well,,, life will continue for me and I can make of it what I want to. The only difference now is that I have more choices.

You're not old enough yet to hit that time when, one day, you realize that a year has gone by and it seems like it was only a few months. You hear a hit song you know and sing along with it, then suddenly it hits you - that was recorded 50 years ago - how is that possible? When you were 40, something that happened 20 years ago seems like 20 years ago. When you're mid 60's, 50 years ago seems like 20 years ago. Time lines seem to compress as you get older. IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU - just wait.

Do you remember when a 30 minute TV show lasted forever?

In my "earlier" years, they were actually 24 minutes. Advertising was limited to 6 minutes per half hour.

I have been experiencing that with my projects.

My bucket list uses real buckets.

That's about 400 of them.

Bucket culvert under my driveway and sections of my yard.

Looks like I may need about 400 more to finish it being the bucket stash apparently got raided this summer without me knowing it. At least I Didn't dig the whole ~140 foot trench only to find out my culvert materials had been raided.

Unhappy questions will be getting asked.

Hey, I ressemble point 1 !

Not sure what goes on my bucket list, but being able to deal with 82 candles sounds good. Many congrats, ronsetto. The older people I know take on new challenges, anything out of their norm. When a little older, I'll get youngest members of family to put suggestions in a pot and pick one at random. Short of it being visit the moon, I'll give it a shot.

Like your #4.

Several years ago I had the privilege of visiting Arlington for the burial of a relative who earned the right to be interred there.

The interment included the whole nine yards: honor guard, USMC pallbearers (members from the service of the deceased serve as pallbearers), 21 gun salute, and "Taps" by a bugler. Just watching the pallbearers folding the American flag covering the casket would send shivers down your back.

If you get to D,C., be sure to visit the Marine Corps memorial in Arlington, but just outside the cemetery, as well as the WWII memorial honoring those who fought in both theaters.

Hope you get your wishes!

There's a hole in my bucket list, dear Liza.

I want to hold a room temperature superconductor in my hand!

Me too.

Many years ago now, a post on CR4 asked, what is curiosity? My reply was that curiosity is an emotion? And that is my feelings regarding CR4, etc. and like some on this forum, I am retired, and after a working life of problem solving, I am still curios, and yes the mind is getting slow, so my entries are aimed at younger minds to see if I can stir up some curiosity?

So! My curiosity is, what is correct vocal singing technique.

This is prophetic.

You said, "after a working life of problem solving, I am still curios".

The definition of curios is "a rare, unusual, or intriguing object".

I agree.

Yes such is life, welcome to the club.

I think he meant curious....He won't be a curio for a few thousand years, if ever...

I submit that we are all rare and unusual.

Well as a collector of curios, I believe I can speak with some authority here in saying that though we may be rare and unusual, we do not qualify as curios....although I do believe we are all curious...

Yes, on all points.

If he manages to mummify himself, he could be a curio in as little as 50 years.

Well if he could attach his upper body to a horse or something, that would be really good....

Mummified Centaur found, proof at last...news at 11

I'd put it right next to my Jackalope...haha

The idea is to die young, but so late as possible.

Great, Wish you all the best and joyful learning in life ahead.

Happy Birthday to You in advance.

If you can atleast know how to use computer then it is enough at this age.

My younger sister has places she wants to visit on her bucket list. I can't tell you mine, 'cause my wife might see it. (kidding)

For some reason I can't put my finger on, I've always wanted to see the giant redwoods in California.

Having just gone to look for more info. I wouldn't mind going to see several of these superlative trees.

I wonder why most of the tallest are in California and Tasmania? I see that Tasmania is about the same distance South of the equator as the Redwoods are North.

They are a sight to behold, indeed.

My father worked for the US Forest Service one summer and the family lived in a primitive cabin all summer in Sequoia National Park. I was 8 years old and in Heaven.

There was a fallen Redwood Tree that had been flattened on one side so that vehicles could drive along the top of it for about 100 feet.

First - good luck in your endeavors. Sounds like a good plan to me.

I'm just past retirement age for full SS, but not retired yet. So I'm a bit younger than you. I have had my fill of electronic communications and instruments in my work as a controls engineer, and already can play several musical instruments. My "bucket list" is based on physical activities still possible at this age. Actually, I don't have a bucket list - I have a bike it list. I'm going to bike building school as soon as possible, then taking what I build and hitting all the spots I read about in the bicycle magazines. I was beaten badly in a short sprint by an 82 year old cyclist on a rail trail in Massachusetts about 10 years ago. He said he averaged 10,000 miles / year of cycling ( I was only doing 3500 miles / year) - I want to be able to do that too. So far my knees and heart are holding on fine. Got to make some compromises in the seat / handle bar positions for bad shoulders, but that is part of cycling and wrecking - if you don't break bones you get bad shoulders.

Get yourself an Arduino kit from Radio Shack and get busy. They all sorts of kits.

It is open source software, thus you will learn at first (if not last) by simply copying code submitted on the forums for that.

I am a year older than you but do have an active bucket list. The surprises will come as you go down your list. Alaska just happened. Wanted to see it for its geography. But what I found were way beyond simply the views. Earthquakes happen regularly. We saw a fault line going up the side of a mountain with a ravine filled with boulders. Interesting to contemplate a visible line and what was below thousands of feet. But on this road to Dawson that crossed the ravine, the engineers got tired of rebuilding the bridge so they anchored it on one side of the fault line and simply cantilevered it across to the other side. The bridge stays in good condition and they simply rework the road to meet the bridge on the other side after the quakes. Also to see the 10' depression in a wide swath where the 1964 Anchorage quake sunk the land but now large trees are growing.

Many things I did not see, such as Mt. Denali which was shrouded in clouds, so Alaska stays on my bucket list. My health is good so the bucket list is actually growing!

First order of business-HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

My bucket list consists of building all of the models (mostly cars) that I purchased or received during the past 30+ years.

Number 1 will be finally assembling a Formula 1 Lotus racer that I received from my wife several years ago. After that finishing some kits that I had started, but was interrupted by family and work.

Then some kits that I bought, but never even took out of the box - I knew they weren't going to be available when I had the time to spend when I had the time to work on them (and twas right). Then I'm looking forward to working on some warbirds, and finally a nice full rigged sailing ship, rigging and all.

I figure that will keep me off the streets for a while, and I've become a rather voracious reader - really into history and non-fiction.

My bucket list at one time was to retire at age 55 which would have given me 36 years with my employer. Many years back I attended a lunch time seminar on stress reduction. The moderator asked, "What would you do if you didn't need to work for a living"? When my turn to respond arrived, understanding what said moderator was looking for, I combined my love for motorcycling and photography and said, "motorcycle photojournalist". All of my former English teachers would tell you, without any argument from me, that I can't write! Approaching my 55 birthday I was offered a package which I accepted although my employment continued for another 9 months. Somewhere along the line I had submitted an article to a motorcycle magazine which got published. Then there was a second one. Next thing I knew I had been added to the magazine staff as a "contributing writer". My 21st. article will be in this December's issue. Not only did I get my bucket list but something else never anticipated. Manufacturers of aftermarket equipment send me free equipment to install and test then write up evaluations. I'm preparing to go "independent" providing me greater opportunities to seek out what I want to evaluate without restrictions from those formerly above me and the delays involved with printed publications. My reviews will be published as long as I want them to be with no limitations on how many photos will be used since I won't be constrained with X number of pages...my Website has lots of room.

Now all I need is for someone to hand me the keys to a $30K Trike with matching trailer and for them to pay me by the mile to ride and write. I'm working on this.

Member wmerryall, why not publish some of your work, such as that which you sent to me. It is good.

I'd have done it myself, but it does identify you by name.

Cheers.

Lyn, I'm not certain what you meant by "publish" some of my work. Anonymity is not an issue for me and I would be happy to put a link to my Website here for anyone who wishes to peruse my writings if that were permitted.

I think it is fine.

There's even a provision in your profile page for it.

Thanks for the tip Lyn. My profile has been updated to include a link to my Website. To everyone else, if you read something there you don't like, blame Lyn...it was his suggestion.

With a line like "wherever my motorcycle has taken me", you might enjoy the music of Moe Dixon. Well worth searching out.

More of a "Sixties On Six" guy myself. It follows me all the way across the country.

All I can say is...........SNAP!!!

I know the feeling well, I retired from full time work last year and I am afraid my only forte........if I could call it that.........was power point presentations, and I needed those for teaching.

Give this software a try.

I taught it to myself a year out of college and I've managed to fashion a career out of it.

Programming with pictures. much more intuitive than text based languages.