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EDIT: No, I have not eaten dog and do not plan on doing so, nor did I at the time. And, no, I’ve never been drunk nor even had a beer. If the Braves had won the 1991 World Series over the Twins, I’d have gotten drunk on wine coolers because I had told my roommates in mid-Aug 1991 when the Braves we’re 8 games back of the Dodgers that if they won the World Series, I’d get drunk. Oh so close.

Came across this list today in an old cigar box that has my nostalgic stuff in it. I run into it every couple of years. I made it right after finishing grad school and was working at a small TV station doing the weekend weather and making $7.93/hour (no lie). There are lots of Alaska items because I knew I was going to be living there a few months later.

As you can see, I’ve gotten about one fifth of these done so far. Some simply will never be achievable, even if I want to do them. Others I now have no interest in ever doing. I think I could easily knock another 20 off the list. Maybe another 20 would be doable with some extraordinary effort.

Pretty interesting to see what a 24yo me had on a list like this. Enjoy.

p.s. Yes, I know Number 100 on the list is “Get to Heaven”, which is kind of hard to do before you die, unless, I suppose there is the rapture or something. And, no, I haven’t been drunk yet.

EDIT: No, I have not eaten dog and do not plan on doing so, nor did I at the time. And, no, I’ve never been drunk nor even had a beer. If the Braves had won the 1991 World Series over the Twins, I’d have gotten drunk on wine coolers because I had told my roommates in mid-Aug 1991 when the Braves were 8 games back of the Dodgers that if they won the World Series, I’d get drunk. Oh so close.

Came across this list today in an old cigar box that has my nostalgic stuff in it. I run into it every couple of years. I made it right after finishing grad school and was working at a small TV station doing the weekend weather and making $7.93/hour (no lie). There are lots of Alaska items because I knew I was going to be living there a few months later.

As you can see, I’ve gotten about one fifth of these done so far. Some simply will never be achievable, even if I want to do them. Others I now have no interest in ever doing. I think I could easily knock another 20 off the list. Maybe another 20 would be doable with some extraordinary effort.

Pretty interesting to see what a 24yo me had on a list like this. Enjoy.

p.s. Yes, I know Number 100 on the list is “Get to Heaven”, which is kind of hard to do before you die, unless, I suppose there is the rapture or something.

https://www.kwch.com/2026/05/05/wichita-state-discontinuing-its-ncaa-mens-womens-golf-programs/

Another victim of the new college sports world we are living in.

The more I wear them, the more I need them. My closeup vision has dropped like a rock since I started using them.

This show used to freak me out in the late 1970s, especially the intro music. I had an obsession with Bigfoot and Aliens, but there were lots of great episodes on there.

What were your favorite episodes?

Who better to narrate this than Mr. Spock? This show was epic.

The above was taken from this week’s ENSO outlook from CPC where they are consistently predicting only a 61% chance of an El Niño by late summer. This is TERRIBLE messaging. It is embarrassing that CPC is unable to communicate more effectively what is nearly certain to occur at this point…a massively significant El Niño event. Why even put this document out with a 61%? It is misleading and puts the public too much at ease regarding the coming event.

People can talk about the spring predictability barrier all they want, but the spring predictability barrier cuts both ways. The barrier doesn’t only mean that an El Niño is forecast in the late winter or early spring, and then those forecasts change and no event occurs. It can also mean that a weak Niño is forecasted when a super event is actually going to occur. It just means the error scores are worse at this time of year.

There need to be questions asked at CPC as to what their purpose is with respect to El Niño events. That’s great they have an El Niño watch out right now, but that does not get the messaging across.ill be interested to see how their messaging evolves in the coming months. The Niño 3.4 region is going to be into the moderate territory by the middle of May and will only go up from there.

For a few cents per rocket, you could get in a lot of trouble with these. My buddy about got his eye shot out with one when we were firing them at each other at a sleepover. Hit a few cars driving by, too.

Heard they got outlawed in a lot of states.

Who has some wild bottle rocket stories from the 70s and 80s?

And the above pack was called a “gross” (aka 12 dozen) and was dirt cheap relative to the mischief they could cause. IYKYK