I would like to be be able to finish a board bow I started years ago. Got a hernia fixing a roof and have not been phyically able to push or pull. Maybe this will be the year I can get it done

If can finish the gauntlet I've started I'll be happy I have a lot of filing to do...

Another thing would be to make an album. I have almost no musical talent, I can't really play any instruments but I've been really inspired by industrial music bands like Throbbing Gristle and their lead singer Genesis P-Orridge. They basically have the philosophy that if something makes a noise, it's an instrument and if someone uses a thing to make a noise, they're a musician. Those who are trained to use instruments can be very impressive and play amazing music but they might never play certain chords, or combinations of chords because they've been taught it's "wrong" or they just don't experiment in the same way as someone that doesn't actually know what they're doing. I really like this attitude to music. With this in mind I want to put an experimental music album together using any old junk I have lying about. The big metal pan I use as a target, for example, makes a pretty cool noise when dropped, I can use a wooden wine box I have for percussion, my girlfriend has her childhood recorder which I don't know how to play "properly" but that I can make some sounds with along with a kantele (traditional Finnish stringed instrument), we have plenty of pots and pans, sticks, glass bottles, a jaw harp I've had since I was a kid, cardboard boxes etc etc.

Basically I'm going to make a load of noise and see if any of it sounds ok-ish

Even though I live in Finland I still haven't seen the Northern Lights. Have to go up North some day.

Curious Aardvark wrote on Apr 30^th, 2018 at 11:21am:


No sir, I guess that would be step 1. 

A good friend of mine in Cali. was into metal detecting. The guy was serious about it. He would go to town hall or wherever they kept the records of where things were built over the years and look up where settlements used to be and go metal detecting there. He had a nice collection of old coins and heirlooms found in such spots. What looked like nothing more than a field might have been a mining town a hundred plus years ago with all sorts of interesting stuff buried.

In turn I got him into slinging and mushroom hunting. Good times. Are you into metal detecting CA?

Hard to really say but one that's suited to this site is competing in Mallorca.

I'm against bucket lists.    

I sort of have the feeling that if I accomplish everything on it, I have to die.     And if you do everything on it, now what?

So, every time I see something I think is cool or could be fun, I just plan to do it some day.  When I get around to it.

After all, I've got plenty of time, I'm only 26.  That's when I quit having birthdays, I just didn't see much purpose in having anymore, after that.      

@ Bill, I quit @ 33. Same reason; no point.