Got a chance to try out Limoncello recently. Was actually stronger than I though it would be. Tasted like a sweet lemonade without the sourness of lemons and with the kick of a liqueur. Pretty tasty...
#310 - Try Limoncello
Got a chance to try out Limoncello recently. Was actually stronger than I though it would be. Tasted like a sweet lemonade without the sourness of lemons and with the kick of a liqueur. Pretty tasty...
# 84 - Learn to do a Rubiks cube by heart
up, right down, left....
down, down, left right right, up....
up, left, down, left, up, left, left...
Boom!
I learned how to do a rubiks cube by heart! Took me two days, and a lot of memorization.
currently I'm going for speed... my record is 2:06!
down, down, left right right, up....
up, left, down, left, up, left, left...
I learned how to do a rubiks cube by heart! Took me two days, and a lot of memorization.
currently I'm going for speed... my record is 2:06!
#102 - Run a mile in under five minutes
Okay here are my current times:
12/16/10 - 6:35
12/15/10 - 6:19
12/14/10 - 6:25
12/13/10 - 6:23
12/07/10 - 7:38
Got a ways to go....
12/16/10 - 6:35
12/15/10 - 6:19
12/14/10 - 6:25
12/13/10 - 6:23
12/07/10 - 7:38
Got a ways to go....
#327 Be Tasered
12/07/10
Wapallo County Police Department.
As fate would have it, just as I was was putting the finishing touches on my bucket list, my work in Americorps NCCC drew me to the Wapallo county police station in Ottumwa, IA. I had been showing the members of my team my nearly completed bucket list, and they are trying to help me me complete it. Maggie may sent me a text telling me to ask Mark Miller our contact at the police station if it would be possible for them to help me complete #327 on my bucket list: Be Tasered.
Mark said he could it make it happen he would just have to clear it with his boss. We receive a phone call a couple days later saying that I have an appointment set up with the police station. #327 was soon going to be checked off.
When the time finally arrived, I was surprised to see many members of the police force show up. They were here “for the entertainment.” I learned a bit more about what was going to happen to me.
50,000 volts of electricity would pass from one cord of the taser to the other, using my body as a conduit. After hearing reports from the officers about the state of their tase victims, I was worried I might be out of commission for the rest of the day.
From the stories they told me I was sure that I would soon be screaming and writhing on the ground and that I would be laying there for quite some time. Some quick internet searches revealed some pretty unpleasant looking videos. One danger of being tased that I was not aware of before starting this endeavor was the potential of losing bladder control. As a precaution I ate lots of fiber and and drank a ton of liquids before the proceedings.
….Okay maybe not but I did use the toilet beforehand.
We were set to begin. The crowd consisted of my team, our sponsors and officers helping in the proceedings and the officers that just came there for the show. As the cameras were trained on me and the moment drew nearer, my heart began to race. Sargent Bell clipped one alligator clip to my belt and the other to my left sock. There is no backing out now.
As the countdown began, I thought that I was ready for the shock.... I definitely was not. I have never felt anything like the 50,000 volts of electricity that passed through my body. I would have to describe it as hundreds of muscle cramps wracking my body all at once, combined being jabbed with 50, one-inch long needles up and down my leg. The worst part of the whole experience is how long it went on. Those five seconds were the longest five seconds of my entire life. I remember thinking about 3 seconds in that something had been terribly screwed up. It had already been going on for way to long.
Finally the longest five seconds of my life ended. As I lay drooping in the grips of the two burly police officers, I realized that I was out of breath. My body felt like I had just been through a very strenuous workout.
Despite all this I had survived. My heart didn't give out and I felt pretty good if you take into consideration that I just had that much electricity pass through my body.
My leg was dead for the rest of the day and I passed out for sleep a few times during the day. Not as bad as I thought it could be.
So all in all, a educational and entertaining day. I can assuredly say #327 Be tasered, is completed!
The List
The List:
Travel
- Visit every continent
- Visit 25 nations (not airports)
- Travel to all 50 states
- Visit seven natural wonders of the world
- Visit seven modern wonders of the world
Hitchhike
Stay in a hostel
- Swim in every ocean
- Go to the north pole
- Go to a casino
- Take a Motorcycle trip across the United States
- Visit West Coast
- Go over border Illegally
- Travel Entire Mississippi
- Sail across lake Michigan or superior
- See Mayan pyramids
- Visit the redwoods in California
- Visit the top of the statue of liberty
- Follow Lewis and Clark trail to Pacific Ocean
- Chaco Canyon
- Grand Canyon
- Go to all the Monopoly Properties
- Visit Machu Pichu
- See the Atlantic and Pacific ocean at the same time
- Travel down the Amazon
- Take a gondola ride through Venice
- Visit Stonehenge
- See tulips in Holland
- Pee off the Eiffel tower
- Visit great coral reef
- Visit Easter island
- Visit the Galapagos islands
- See pyramids of Egypt
- Visit cherry blossoms in Japan
- Visit Taj Mahal
- Visit deepest cave in the world
- Travel great wall of china
- Ride Trans-Siberian train across Asia
- See the Terracotta Warriors
- Visit the hidden city
- Mardis Gras in New Orleans
- Halloween in Salem MA or Madison WI & New Orleans
Visit Bonnaroo
- La Tomatina
- Chinese new year in china
- Be in a Rodeo
- See world cup
- Oktoberfest
- Day of the dead in Mexico
- Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
- Participate in a dog sled race
- Running of the bulls
- Participate in a monster truck rally
- Watch every major sport
- Visit Burning Man
- Sundance film festival
- Attend Loy Krathong, the sky lantern festival in Thailand
- Attend a Native American Sweat Lodge Ceremony
- See the Harlem Globetrotters
- Crowd surf
- Wall of death
Mosh
- Learn to play guitar
- Learn to pick locks
- Improve handwriting
- Learn to Draw
- Learn Calligraphy
- Learn Spanish
- Learn to do a Back flip
- Become a Black belt
- Learn Harmonica
- Learn to use a boomerang
- Breath fire
- Walk on coals
- Lie on bed of nails
- Learn to Box
- Learn sign language
- Learn to strip
- Learn to fix a car
- Become a bartender & learn bar tricks
- Learn darts really well
- Be a pool shark
- Learn good magic
Learn to do the Rubik’s cube by heart(12/14/10)
- Learn Morse Code
- Learn to write with my left hand
- Learn to juggle fire
- Write with my toes
- Learn to whistle with two fingers
- Learn to do those pesky finger snaps
- Learn to jaw harp
- Learn to read palms\
- Learn to hotwire a car
- learn to walk on my hands
- Learn tricking
- Learn parkour
- Mountain boarding
- Carsurf
- Skateboard cars
- Climb Mt. Everest
- Do 100 consecutive pushups no breaks
- Run a mile in under five minutes
- Get a real six pack
- Hit a Home run
- Learn to do the splits
- Run a Marathon
- Bike across the USA
- Medal in an Olympic sport
- Run across Death Valley
- Make a hole in one
- Catch an arrow with my hand
- Shoot an apple off a head
Learn to surf
- Learn to cliff dive
- Swim the English channel
- Wake Boarding
- Kite Boarding
- White water rafting a class 5 river
- Learn to Scuba Dive
- Surf and snowboard in one day!
- Go ice fishing
- Learn to snowboard
- Go snow Mobiling
- Learn to Ski
- Long Board San Francisco
- Jump Off stratosphere tower in Vegas
- Sky Diving
- Bungee Jumping
- Base Jumping
- Sand Boarding
- Ride a Mechical Bull
- Learn to Slackline
- Get into a real fight
- X-games
- Bobsled
- Hang gliding
- Climb a mountain
- Learn to sword fight
- Take a canopy tour
- Go kite fighting
- Do cheese rolling
- Do indoor sky diving
- Zorbing
- Dig for Mammoth fossils in Hot Springs, South Dakota
- Experience Zero Gravity
- Learn the napoleon dynamite dance
- Learn to moonwalk
- Learn ballroom dancing
- Learn swing dancing
- Learn to krump
- Learn to break-dance
- Steal a car and fix it up
- Buy a family Dinner
- Join peace Corps
- Another year with NCCC
- Fight a forest fire
- Preach a UU sermon
- Pull a tooth
- Give a hundred dollar tip
- Spend a week homeless
- Be a part of an intentional community
- Get arrested for protesting something
- Inspire someone
- Donate an organ
- Donate bone marrow
- Donate platelet
- Do woofing
- Put on a hunger Banquet
- Run a race in a silly dress for charity
- Save a life
- Keep a journal
Write a blog(Started 12-05-10) your looking at it!
- Write Slam poetry
- Write a Rap
- Produce/Direct Low budget Indie Film
- Become a you tube Hit
- Be an extra in a Movie
- Publish a book
- Be in a band
- Be on a game show
- Learn to yodel
- Compose a song
- Publish a CD
- Write a movie script
- Have my picture painted old fashioned style
- Make a silent slapstick movie
- Make a music video
- Make a list of hundred books to read before I die, and then read them
- Hike the Appalachian trail
- View Full Lunar eclipse
- View Full Solar Eclipse
- Feed myself from the land for a summer
- Hike pacific crest trail
- Live in a tree
- Get really lost and find way home
- Hike continental trail
- View an active volcano
- Be stranded on a deserted island
- Visit tallest waterfall
- Shower in a waterfall
- Slide down a natural waterslide
- Swim in bio-luminescent algae
- See the northern Lights (aka. Aurora Borealis)
- Find a 5/5 geocache
- Chase a Tornado
- See a green ray/flash
- Discover a New Insect
- Put head inside lions mouth
- Swim with sharks
- Swim with dolphins
- Learn to horseback ride
- Catch a swordfish
- Go whale watching
- Sucker fishing
- Cow Tipping
- Ride a camel into the dessert
- Fight a bull
- Wrestle an alligator
- Charm a snake
- Send a message via Carrier pigeon
- Learn to fly fish
- Train a dog
- Build a Computer from scratch
- Build a net Gun
- Build a Monkey Bridge
- Build a hammock out of duct tape
- Make a tuxedo out of duct tape
- Build a tree house
- Build an Ice Sculpture
- Make a time capsule
- Smash a building with a wrecking ball
- Build a motorized couch
- Make a potato cannon
- Make a successful tennis ball mortar cannon
- Sew an outfit
- Build a giant domino trail
- Make an awesome cake!
- Ice sculptures
- Build my own shoes
- Build an off the grid house
- Patent something
- Make an igloo and live in it for a week
- Build my dream house
- Build a recycled bench
- Rebuild a vintage car
- Build a car that runs on fast food oil
- Sculpt with a chainsaw
- Build myself a suit of armor
- Build a jetpack
- Become a science teacher
- Start a Brewery
- Start a Vineyard
- Start a Café/Bookstore
- Run for President
- Work on a Cruise Ship
- Become a massage therapist
- Become an EMT & wilderness EMT
- Be a volunteer firefighter
Get a motorcycle license
- Get a heavy machinery license
- Get a semi truck license
- Get a heavy machinery license
- Learn to fly a plane
- Learn to sail
- Learn to drive stick shift
- Ride a tandem bicycle
- Fly in a blimp
- Hot air balloon ride
- Ride in a submarine
- Hang under a train track
- Be a stowaway on a ship
- Put the pedal to the metal
- Drive a race car
- Learn to ride a unicycle
- Flatten coin on a train track
- Ride a bike in Wal-Mart
- Hire a plane to drag a message
- Sky writing
- Plan a very elaborate practical joke
- Ping pong somebody’s car
- Aluminum foil someone’s office, room, or car
- Reverse OR Upside down someone’s room or office
- Release 3 greased pigs into a public area with the numbers 1, 3, and 4 on them.
- TP a house
- Move someone’s car inside their house
- TP a sky scraper
- Water cup somebody’s room
- Fill somebody’s doorway with magazines
- Build a fake elevator
- Clap on/off somebody’s house
- Make a funny announcement in Wal-Mart
- Shake Hands with president
- Meet the queen
- Meet the Dali Lama
- Giant Bonfire
- Kegger!
- Become a beer pong champion
- Win in Vegas
- Crash a wedding
- Hang out at playboy mansion
- Be part of a luau
- Fill a trash can with match heads and let it fly!
- Attend a Rumspringa
- Make a food Bucket list
- Make my own Cook/ Recipe Book
- Squish berries with my feet
- Become a vegan for a month
- Become a raw food vegan for a month
- Drink actual absinthe
Try Limoncello(12/19/10)
- Eat sushi in Japan
- Eat Gumbo or jambalaya or alligator in New Orleans
- Become a wine connoisseur
- Perfect my Guacamole
- Make cheese fondue
- Fast for 72 hours
- Hunt and eat an animal I killed myself
- Eat insects
- Eat like other countries do for a month
- Perfect a chili & win a chili contest
- Eat the hottest pepper on the planet
- Lead a Parade
- Name a Street
- Be at top of tallest building in world
- Streak
- Beat a world record
Be Tasered(12/07/10)
- Participate in a rock paper scissor tournament
- Go to a strip club
- Have an out of body experience
- Make a buried treasure
- Find a buried treasure
- Serenade somebody with a love song
- Spend the night in a haunted house
- See a UFO
- Learn the alphabet backwards
- Take a picture of myself everyday for a year
- Get dreds
- Send a message in a bottle
- Have a lucid dream
- Receive a standing ovation
- Be part of a zombie walk
- Blow glass
- Learn how to give a tattoo
Learn how to make stained glass
- Get lasik
- Deliver a baby
- Shave my head
- Win & yell Bingo!
- Think about getting a real tan
- Buy stocks
- Develop my own film
- Shower in the rain
- Give the police a anonymous tip
- Literally rip a women’s clothing off
- Cut a woman’s bra off
- Go to a drive in movie theater
- Fall asleep on a bed in a mattress store
- Play music in a subway
- Be on a jury
- Ask someone I’ve just met to go on a date
- Write my will
- Kiss the blarney stone
- Live without electronics for a month
- Make fire with sticks!
- Get stuck in quick sand
- Make my own kite and fly it
- Jump in a swimming pool of Jell-O
- Take a Manners course
- Learn an impersonation
- Siphon Gas with my Mouth
- Be on the red carpet
Spend a day walking backwards(01/04/11)
- Say yes for an entire day
- Say no for an entire day
- Light myself on fire
- Be covered in bees
- Learn constellations and the stories behind them.
- Barter for goods in another country
- Smoke a peace pipe
- Do a house swap
- Participate in a logging competition
- Jump off a bridge into a pile of cardboard boxes
- Be part of a medieval war
- Create Theremins
- Do larping
- Have Barbara straighten my hair
- Go over Niagara falls in a barrel
- Joust
- Ghost hunting
- Investigate a conspiracy
- Participate in waiter Olympics
- Mud Wrestling
- Climb a building
- Go to darkest places on earth
- Go spelunking
- Learn to speak with a heavy Boston accent
- Build a ship in a bottle
- Have a giant nerf war
- Learn lasso and rope tricks.
- Go to Disney
- Do warrior dash
- do Urbanathon
- Great urban race
- beach Palazoo
- do extreme ironing competition
- do chess boxing
- herd cats
- pillow fight competition
- thumb war competition
- summer redneck competition
- air guitar competitions
- conker competition
- worm charming competition
- bike polo
- underwater hockey
- kite fighting in Washington USA
- mobile phone throwing Finland
- kinetic sculpture race- California
- Portland Urban Iditarod – Oregon, USA
- Zoombomb- Portland
- Be part of an ARG
- learn to write in runes
- make a family emblem
- sail around the world
- learn to Dyno wall climb
- learn to toss pizza
- see Halley comet
- participate in a paper airplane contest
- ghost ride the whip
- make my own wedding ring
- Baja rally
- make a steam punk room
- make cheese
- milk a cow
- Do a Chinese fire drill
- Learn the worm
- Start a riot
- try Everclear
- learn to hot-wire a car
- learn to walk on my hands
- drive a car off a ramp
- make baklava
- zomb
- giant pillow fight
- Irish step dancing
- visit bikini coffee shop
- Make crop circles
- make a grappling hook
- improv
- learn to cry on demand
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