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Derek's 200 things

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This is a fun bandwagon, so I'll jump on it.

UPDATE: Watch the trend spread and spread and spread.

Bold I've done:

1. Bought everyone in the pub a drink (The pub was pretty empty.)
2. Swam with wild dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain (Come on, I live in British Columbia and I was in the Boy Scouts.)
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula (Earlier this year, at the Victoria Bug Zoo.)
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said "I love you" and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease (There's video, but I'm in the background.)
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watched the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights (In my front yard, a few times.)
16. Gone to a huge sports game (It was the Vancouver Blazers hockey team in the '70s, but the Coliseum was full.)
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa (Not long before they closed it as unsafe.)
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg (Like Dori, I'm counting a glacier. Otherwise no.)
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby's diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne (With my wife, mom, and dad.)
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope (My dad has about five of them.)
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
31. Asked out a stranger (I later heard through the grapevine that she said our date was "as exciting as a trip to the bank machine." Ouch.)
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days (In the soutwestern U.S., again in Australia, and, sadly, while doing work for a software company.)
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking (Heck, that's half my living.)
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day (See above.)
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer (Just two?)
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was shit-faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales (You can occasionally see them from BC Ferries.)
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government's official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach (Camping on the beach.)
62. Sky diving (1986.)
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love (1990-93.)
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records (CDs too.)
70. Pretended to be a superhero (I even built my own.)
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater (The Cat From Outer Space)
80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog (Isn't that true of every blogger?)
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better (I've been an Apple guy forever, but we did ditch our den PC for an eMac this year.)
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites (Rome, mostly.)
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman (In a play in elementary school. My other hand was a hook.)
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn't have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest (Dracula. I wore the tux I got married in.)
100. Ridden a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an "expert" (There's video, although "news" is debatable.)
105. Got flowers for no reason
106. Masturbated in a public place
107. Got so drunk you don't remember anything
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage (See numbers 44 and 45.)
110. Been to Las Vegas
111. Recorded music (Go listen.)
112. Eaten shark
113. Had a one-night stand
114. Gone to Thailand
115. Seen Siouxsie live
116. Bought a house
117. Been in a combat zone
118. Buried one/both of your parents
119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
120. Been on a cruise ship
121. Spoken more than one language fluently (Finnish was my first, but I forgot it all. I was almost there with French in high school.)
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a check
124. Performed in Rocky Horror
125. Read—and understood—your credit report
126. Raised children
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy (My own kids are the best excuse.)
128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
129. Created and named your own constellation of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did
132. Called or written your Congress person (MP, in our case.)
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. More than once? More than twice?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
137. Had an abortion or your female partner did
138. Had plastic surgery
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived (Maybe. If I hadn't been wearing my bike helmet, head-butting that tree could have been fatal.)
140. Wrote articles for a large publication (Here's one.)
141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held someone while they were having a flashback
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray (Aquarium only.)
145. Broken someone's heart
146. Helped an animal give birth
147. Been fired or laid off from a job (I work in technology.)
148. Won money on a TV game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Ridden a motorcycle
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph
154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (Boy Scouts again.)
156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
157. Ridden a horse
158. Had major surgery
159. Had sex on a moving train
160. Had a snake as a pet
161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days (Grade 10.)
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
169. Been a sperm or egg donor
170. Eaten sushi (In Vancouver, it's like bread.)
171. Had your picture in the newspaper (There you go.)
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
173. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
174. Gotten someone fired for their actions
175. Gone back to school
176. Parasailed
177. Changed your name
178. Petted a cockroach
179. Eaten fried green tomatoes
180. Read The Iliad (I liked The Odyssey better.)
181. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read (Darwin, and it was a slog.)
182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
183. And gotten 86'ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184. Taught yourself an art from scratch (Playing the drums, and writing HTML, I guess)
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (Fish.)
186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
187. Skipped all your school reunions
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language (Ah, the Internet.)
189. Been elected to public office
190. Written your own computer language
191. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care (My grandmother.)
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you (I'm counting music.)
195. Had a booth at a street fair
196. Dyed your hair
197. Been a DJ
198. Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
199. Written your own role playing game (1982, and it never worked.)
200. Been arrested

Not bad. 113 out of 200, or 56.5%. I wouldn't want to get 100%.

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