5 things I'd do if I had enough time.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So I was sitting at home with a cold Thursday and Friday and I thought of all the things I could do if boogers didn’t constantly seep from all of the holes in my head and I didn’t keep falling asleep every five minutes. Then I started thinking of what I could do if I had all the time I needed.

Achieving world peace and feeding all the starving children entered my head but then I realized that those problems are to complicated and I could never do either of those things, not even with a time machine. I set my goals a little lower.

5.Help OJ find Nicole’s killer.
4.Make a reclining chair out of diet Pepsi cans and bubble wrap.
3.Teach a chimp American Sign Language.
2.Raise the temperature one eighth of a degree in my bosses office every 15 minutes until he boils to death in his own juices.
1.Sleep 15 hours a day.

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In random order:

  1. Learn to knit

  2. Finish several computer games I have bought but never played (Ghost Recon, Silent Hill 3, Operation Flashpoint, Metal Gear Solid and a few others.)

  3. Learn a couple of languages (Spanish and Albanian come to mind)

  4. Buy a go-kart and start racing

  5. Get a degree in Philosophy

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  1. Learn a new language
  2. Learn to cook
  3. Learn calculus
  4. Take out the trash
  5. Live forever
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Learn any language, proper grammar, the basics of all disciplines of science and math, how to read and write music, and then just sit on a building and mellow with the flow of traffic. All realistic goals, all I hope to achieve by minimizing time spent else where. I am a simple man I suppose.

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  1. Learn guitar. I will do this. My best friend will learn keyboards, we will both learn recording technique, and we will make some kickass music.
  2. Learn Japanese. I will do this too. I’m already on my way via excessive watching of subtitled anime.
  3. Learn a martial art. Either Tae Kwon Do or some sort of weapons art (I have a katana I’d like to learn how to use, but I doubt if Roanoke has any Kendo schools).
  4. Start the Freedom of Thought movement. I am 90% sure I will do this at some point, but I must finish quantifying my philosophy first. I’d explain, but it’d take longer than you want to read about it.
  5. Figure out what the hell I want to do with my life. Although, if 1 and 4 come into fruition, that will be quite sufficient…
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Would you be willing to e-mail it?

I would:

  1. Learn several languages as fluently as possible.
  2. Read several holy books, as close to the original texts as I could get. Number one obviously will be a big help here.
  3. Learn to play musical instruments.
  4. Learn to debate more effectively.
  5. Shape myself into an efficient, healthy physical form.
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Sure. Drop me a line at RolandOrzabal “at” cox.net. I might take a couple days to respond, but it won’t be because I’m ignoring it; I’ll want to make sure I’m satisfied with my explanation. As I said, it’s something I’m still piecing together. And on a side note, how is it that we always wind up in the same threads?

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Will do. In exchange, I could tell you about my plan to take over the world, but I’m not sure it’s exactly a philosophy.

Whatever anyone says, I’m not following you. It’s just coincidence. I’m over my smiley quota for the day, or I’d put one here.

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  1. Read every thread on the SDMB and respond in a witty, informed, and insightful manner to each.
  2. Read all the books I’ve bought but didn’t read (yet) because I bought another book. Ditto watching DVD’s.
  3. Find inner peace.
  4. Do the dishes.
  5. Check the thermostat. It’s been acting funny ever since Biggirl was here in my office.
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Polish up my french and become fluent, instead of can ask prices of stuff, hail a cab, find the bathroom. :smiley:
Get over my mathphobia and finish my degree
Start sewing again
learn to windsail

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  1. Walk cross country.
  2. Balance my checkbook.
  3. Detail the car.
  4. Landscape the backyard.
  5. Marisol Nichols. Twice.
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I’d be learning a lot more, for one.

[ul]
[li]Learn Spanish, Japanese, German, and more French[/li][li]Get a degree in Law and/or some type of Engineering[/li][li]Sleep 15 hours a day, yeah![/li][li]Spend even more time with family and friends[/li][/ul]

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[ol]
[li]See if I can find relatives still living in the Ukraine[/li][li]Wash my dishes (actually, I think I’ll do this tomorrow)[/li][li]Make a bead necklace for my best girl[/li][li]Learn to speak several different languages[/li][li]Figure out where I left my other gray argyle sock that’s been missing for several months[/li][/ol]
In the spirit of today’s modern way of marketing fast-food, I offer you a sixth idea…a super-sized list, if you will:

  1. Figure out what the hell Roland Orzabal’s Freedom of Thought movement is all about, and participate in some way.
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  1. Become fluent in at least one other language. I’d like it to be Italian.
  2. Get in shape. I’m not out of shape that much, just a bit of flab, but I’d love to have a rock hard body with a six pack and good pecs and all that.
  3. Get my masters. This is also an issue of money.
  4. Clean my apartment REALLY well.
  5. Think of a fifth thing.
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In no particular order:
[ol]
[li]Learn Italian, then read some of Italy’s greatest works in their native tongue (i.e. Dante’s Inferno et al)[/li][li]Read the Discworld series (Actually I’d do this now if my local library had the books…)[/li][li]Learn to program/code and write something decent (probably a game of some description)[/li][li]Go to Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, the US, Switzerland and various other countries (Hopefully I’ll realise the first in about 2-3 years)[/li][li]Learn to cook more than I already know (my current repetoire is stir-fry… variants of stir-fry, and I can do bolognaise but I want to learn more)[/li][/ol]

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If I had enough time, I’d:
[ul]
[li]Audition for community theatre productions[/li][li]Really, really look for a new music project (not just skim the City Paper classifieds every now and then)[/li][li]Volunteer more[/li][li]Get back into radio[/li][li]Finish my Master’s Degree in 2 semesters (instead of the 8-10 it will currently take)[/li][/ul]

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I’ve got some extra bubble wrap sitting around. I’ll save it for you.

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  1. Hike the Appalachian Trail.
  2. Travel. A lot.
  3. Finish my wedding thank you notes.
  4. Take a photography class.
  5. Work out more regularly.

Wait, this is if I had more time, not less laziness. Scratch #5.

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  1. Master playing the piano or the guitar.
  2. Writing rock songs, perhaps a classical symphony, depending on which way I decided to go.
  3. Visit all the national parks and take lots of pictures of my journey.
  4. Go bowling often enough to get my average past 200.
  5. Clean my damn house!