1. Go skydiving.
2. Run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, at the San Fermin festival.
3. Throw a football on the Sand Lake Road lawn of Lockheed Martin.
4. Climb a radio tower ladder.
5. See the northern lights.
6. Spend a few weeks (or an entire summer) chasing tornadoes across Tornado Alley in the Midwest.
7. Catch a really big (250-lb.+) gamefish on a deep-sea fishing expedition.
8. Learn to scuba-dive.
9. Scuba-dive an old, old shipwreck.
10. Successfully ride a major roller coaster.
11. Build a database to catalogue all the books in my house and all future acquisitions.
12. Present a paper on 'Buffy' at a standard academic conference.
13. Track down my paternal grandfather's heritage.
14. Complete a substantial culinary course.
15. Go to the Super Bowl.
16. Attend a major championship boxing match.
17. Dye my hair any obnoxiously unnatural colour.
18. Own a cottage directly on a Florida beach that I only stay at a few weekends a year.
19. Buy the Petris home.
20. Shake Muhammad Ali's hand.
21. Own a really powerful home telescope.
22. Build a substantial treehouse on a property I own.
23. Eat a funnel cake. I DID IT: 01/24/04
24. Learn Latin.
25. Learn Arabic.
26. Go on hajj.
27. Adopt a racing greyhound.
28. Compile an oral history of my family.
29. Have a snowball fight with the girl I love.
30. Get my picture taken at midfield of Texas Stadium, standing on the Big Blue Star.
31. Get into a real bar fight.
32. Have a son named Edward Clive.
33. Terrify my daughter's boyfriend(s).
34. Completely restore my 1980 Trans-Am.
35. Complete my collection of Buffy comics.
36. Visit Castle Dracula in Transylvania.
37. Get Mariana to buy me the Easton Press books.
38. Cross a picket line.
39. Somehow obtain a complete, full collection of Peanuts comics.
40. Make a New Year's resolution that requires a daily commitment, and keep it for an entire year (at least).
41. Jump into a fountain in a major city.
42. Publish a book.
43. Discover an ancient artifact (coin, arrowhead, etc.) buried in my yard or on some public property.
44. Catch a foul ball or homerun in the stands of a major league baseball game.
45. Swim with the Polar Bear Club.
46. Visit all seven continents.
47. Celebrate a New Year's Eve in Times Square.
48. Slam dunk a basketball.
49. Sponsor the total rehab and recovery of a drug-addicted teen.
50. Try to escape the police in a car chase.
51. Watch whales in the wild.
52. Play in a poker tournament. I DIT IT: 12/25/05
53. Learn to oil paint.
54. See the Rolling Stones in concert.
55. Break a bone (one of my own, of course). I DID IT: 6/30/07
56. Pierce my nose.
57. Play Santa Claus with gifts for poor children.
58. Kick a 40-yard field goal.
59. Learn to serve powerfully in tennis.
60. Ride a bull.
61. Climb a 15,000-ft.+ mountain.
62. Go white-water rafting.
63. Join MENSA.
64. Haggle for prices with a vendor in a Moroccan street bazaar.
65. Play bongos.
66. Dig for fossils in the Great Rift Valley.
67. Wear my big black leather cowboy hat without shame or embarrassment.I DID IT: 3/24/05
68. Duck under a crime-scene tape and ask somebody, "Ok, whaddya got? GET THOSE PEOPLE BACK!"
69. Fly-fish for trout alone.
70. Paint my face for a major sporting event.
71. Sit shirtless in sub-freezing temperatures at a major sporting event.
72. Allow myself to dance like nobody's watching. I DID IT: 7/29/06
73. See the Shroud of Turin.
74. See a space shuttle launch at night from as close as possible.
75. See a total solar eclipse.
76. Live on a houseboat for awhile.
77. Wake up someplace I don't recognize and not remember how I got there.
78. Tour Jerusalem.
79. Visit the Giza complex in Egypt.
80. Go to the Louvre.
81. Hike in Alaska.
82. Row the Amazon.
83. Visit England.
84. Visit China.
85. Visit India.
86-100. (Hey, I'm young; while doing all of the above, I'll find more.)