30 Things (Updates & Revisions IV)

In 2010 I set a list of thirty goals for myself to accomplish before I turn thirty. While I’ve made good progress on many of the goals, I have yet to complete many of them – and with my 30^th looming in under a year, this will be the final revision to the list. I’ve had to drop a number of goals that realistically cannot be accomplished by next July 17^th, and which will form the foundation of my ‘40 before 40’ list. These have been replaced, as have some others which are no longer important goals to me.

Previous Versions:

The 30 & the Things
2-30 2-Things
30 Things: Tokyo Drift
30 Things
Which by the world’s most sensible sequel numbering system makes this post ‘35’.
Moved to ‘40 before 40’

• Learn to play an instrument
  
• Travel to Uluru
• Purchase some land
• Te Araroa
• Visit every continent: 5/7 - I am missing Africa and Antarctic
• Write a novel
• Learn a martial art
• Read the Gateway to 'The Great Books' (and the Great Books themselves)

Totally Incomplete (9/30)

• Propose to a woman
• Learn this by my 30th birthday on guitar, so I can subject you all to a live performance (replaced the more ambitious, ‘Learn to Play an Instrument’)
• Eat at a Three Hatted restaurant
• Road trip Across Australia (replaced ‘Travel to Uluru’ simply due to a change in logistics)
• Get a Fitted Suit (new, but not replacing anything in particular)
• Grow and eat my own food
  
• Walk 50mi in 20h (replaced ‘Hike Te Araroa’ as both a Strenuous Life goal, and a good hiking alternative)
  
• Craft Something (new, but not replacing anything in particular)
• Host dinner party (4+ guests, 4+ courses) (new, but not replacing anything in particular)
• Start Lucid Dreaming again (new, but not replacing anything in particular)
• Get a DNA test (new, but not replacing anything in particular)

In Progress (6/30)

• Still Omitted: Progress slow and boring
• Get a tattoo: Design is picked so I need to actually take some time and find a good place to get it done - maybe this summer.
• Get a PhD
• Put together a GOOD bag and BOAT
  

Completed (15/30)

• Become a member of the ADF (Reserve)
• Save (in some form) at least $15,000 (AUS)
• Go on a date without regard to cost
• Give blood
• Omitted and completed
• Give away or sell all my excess junk after graduation
• See a country music act live in concert
• Have a research paper published (several now!)
• Drive a car faster than 100 mph
• Fly in a helicopter
• Cook my way through a cookbook
• Spend a week in the woods: Field portion of my last training block
• Learn to ride something with 4 legs or less than 4 wheels: Know how to ride a motorbike (though still need to buy my permit)
  
• Swim naked in the Pacific Ocean (finally!)
• Omitted and completed (was on my original list, then removed, then re-added and completed – what a thrilling rollercoaster)