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Completed Items
  1. Start a blog
  2. Have 100 different beers (in-progress)
  3. Try 3 new foods (butternut squash soup, a flower and a mini-pumpkin)
  4. Blind date
  5. Visit Salem during the Halloween season
  6. Get a psychic reading
  7. Get some movie culture (3 old Best Pictures)
  8. Do yoga
  9. Eat at Kelly's Roast Beef
  10. Wax my chest
  11. Attend a ballet 
  12. Go to Foxwoods . . . and win  
  13. Make homemade cookies 
  14. Buy stock
  15. Go Snowshoeing
  16. Visit the MIT Museum
  17. Visit the Mall of America
  18. Get pizza at Santarpio's and Pizzeria Regina 
  19. Visit Barcelona
  20. See soccer in Europe
  21. Take a trapeze class
  22. Try new foods (Round 2) 
  23. Do hot yoga 
  24. Join the 9-9-9 Club
  25. Visit the MOMA
  26. Go wine tasting
  27. Take a Duck Tour 
  28. Visit Puerto Rico 
  29. Go Spelunking
  30. Go to a cock fight 
  31. Ride a Unicycle
  32. Ride in a Helicopter
  33. Interstate Video Game Tournament
  34. Run the Warrior Dash
  35. Get on a Jumbotron
  36. A week without TV and Video Games
  37. Go to Second City Chicago
  38. Go to the Roller Derby
  39. Climb the Bunker Hill Memorial
  40. Go Indoor Rock Climbing
  41. Play the Ponies at Suffolk Downs 
  42. Go to a Boston Breakers game 
  43. Go to a Mets Game & Finish the 30 Stadium Tour (Part 1) (Part 2)
  44. Run the Brooklyn & Manhattan Bridges
  45. Go Surfing
  46. Take a Guitar Lesson
  47. Learn to Drive Stick
  48. Get a Mani-Pedi 
  49. Go to Funspot in New Hampshire
  50. Shakespeare in the Park 
To-Be-Completed Possibilities (new ideas always welcome)

Boston-ish Adventures
  • Visit the Mapparium
  • See a Boston Cannons lacrosse game
  • See the cranberry bog flooding on the Cape
  • Take a ferry to the Boson Harbor Islands
  • Take the stairs up the Hancock or Prudential
  • Bike Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket
  • Visit the Sam Adam's Brewery 
  • See the Paw Sox
  • Go whale watching

Traveling Adventures

  • Hike Mt Washington, or at least get above the tree line
  • Attempt Ferris Bueller's Day Off in Chicago
  • Hike Mt Graylock, or the to the point in western Mass where 3 states meet
  • See Sloan in Canada (my all-time favorite band in their home country)
  • See an EPL game
  • Do the cliff walk in Newport, RI
  • Visit a new country. Any new country (Update: 1 down, but open to more)

Challenges

  • Break 7 minute pace in a 5K race
  • Attempt the 24/24/24 challenge (run 24 miles and drink 24 beers in 24 hours)
  • The 2 1/2 Men drinking game (watch my most despised TV show and drink every time the laugh track goes off)
  • Do a sprint triathalon
  • Attempt a food challenge (a quantity of food thing, not a new food thing) 
  • Go ketchup-less for an extended period
  • Run a 6 minute mile (this was our HS soccer team's goal for awhile. I never made it, but i think 31 year old Alan may actually have a better chance than 17 year old Alan)

Get “Cultured”

  • Read a book in a day 
  • Go to an art fair (to buy/see art, as opposed to being dragged there and counting the time until departure)
  • Attend a political event/rally
  • Attend a hillbilly event (Nascar, rodeo, etc)
  • Attend a local wrestling event (town hall-style, like in The Wrestler)
  • Go to church (preferably something out of my element, aka, non-Catholic or even non-Christian)
  • Listen to an entire country album
  • Lesbian bar night with Sarah and company

New Skills / Experiences


  • Learn to make my own homemade pasta sauce 
  • Go to a shooting range 
  • Bake a cake from scratch
  • Bake a pie from scratch
  • Go white water rafting
  • Learn rugby
  • Make a viral video
  • Take a dance class / go salsa dancing
  • Take an art class (or get taught screenprinting by Meg)
  • Learn to hockey stop
  • Make pasta from scratch
  • Learn to ride a motorcycle
  • Change a baby diaper and feed a baby without breaking out in sweats
  • Do pilates
  • Try sushi
  • Take a punch to the stomach / get slapped by a girl
  • Suit up (wear a suit to the bar for no damn reason)
  • Go speed dating
  • Be Santa at Christmas
  • Go skydiving
  • Go scuba diving
  • Try Korean BBQ
  • Go on a fad diet for a week
  • Go to church bingo
  • Go for a night hike and camp out for the sunrise
  • Make a kite and fly it
  • Get in a poker tournament (not the friendly home game)
  • Start a pub crawl
  • Have or attend a Festivus party
  • Sell a ton of crap on eBay and see what the most ridiculous thing I can sell is
  • Volunteer / sign up for Boston Cares
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