The Final Tally​ 2018

  1. Sleep in a treehouse
  2. Grow LA Fashion Insider
  3. Ring in the New Year
  4. Do something I wouldn’t do if not for this blog
  5. Go to a Marquette game
  6. Travel w/an empty suitcase
  7. See a Waterfall
  8. Off-roading
  9. Go Snorkeling
  10. Go to a playoff game
  11. Ride a Camel
  12. Visit an American City we’ve never been to
  13. Try 10 of Gold’s top 101 LA Restaurants
  14. Watch a Rocket Launch
  15. Soak in a hot spring
  16. Start a new website
  17. Build a new pool equipment fence myself
  18. Wipe out 50% of Business Debt
  19. Read 8 Fiction Novels
  20. Read 4 Non-Fiction
  21. Go to Wrigley
  22. Go on a pub crawl
  23. Five hikes
  24. Visit a Hemingway Haunt
  25. Sell the Bronco
  26. Colonoscopy
  27. Bake the perfect sausage biscuit
  28. Complete 2017 Cuba album
  29. Go to five live music venues in LA
  30. Spend a day at a lake
  31. Go to a baseball stadium I’ve never been to
  32. Sleep in a tent
  33. Draft our wills
  34. Lunch at a seafood shack
  35. Eat at Vespertine
  36. Small town festival
  37. Eye Exam
  38. Watch a sunrise
  39. Watch a sunset
  40. Star Gaze
  41. Nap in a hammock
  42. Lounge by 5 hotel pools
  43. Attend a music festival
  44. Three Beaches
  45. Walk across a bridge
  46. Sit around a campfire
  47. See 10 New Movies in the Theater
  48. Visit something ancient
  49. Be a tourist in LA
  50. Train Ride
  51. Boat Ride
  52. Go to One of the hardest to reach bars in the world.
  53. Have a picnic
  54. Out of State Concert
  55. Staycation
  56. Don’t eat out for one week (5 times)
  57. Revisit the Hermosa early years
  58. Have a drink in a bar over 200 years old
  59. Commission a Pearl Jam/MU Concert poster from 92’
  60. Eat at a top 100 restaurant
  61. Visit a National Park
  62. Visit a Museum
  63. Bike ride in another city
  64. Jet Ski
  65. Explore a winery
  66. Aurora Borealis
  67. Set my watch to 5 different time zones
  68. Make the most of a layover
  69. Control Blood Pressure
  70. See a Play
  71. Buy a new suit
  72. Have a Catch
  73. Go to a professional sports match I’ve never been to
  74. Write a novel synopsis
  75. Go to an island
  76. Eat a NY Hot Dog
  77. Five rooftop toasts
  78. Garage Sale
  79. Landscape the curbside
  80. Art for the dining room wall
  81. Visit a winery
  82. Remove a tattoo
  83. Explore a New N’awlins Neighborhood
  84. No Alcohol for one week (5 times)
  85. Go to the mountains
  86. Double Online Retail Sales
  87. Hemingway’s One Year Scan
  88. Full Physical
  89. Host a party
  90. Helicopter Ride
  91. Palm Springs
  92. Go to a Giants game
  93. New Dining Room Chairs
  94. Work Out
  95. Weigh 175
  96. Weigh 170
  97. Weigh 165
  98. Complete Dad’s 70th Video
  99. Tall Cacti for the Backyard
  100. Move my photos to the cloud

 

#67 Done

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#67: Set my watch to 5 different time zones

Managed to hit seven this year. Where I’ve been in 2018.

Pacific Time Zone: Palm Springs, Napa, Healdsburg, Cloverdale

Mountain Standard Time: Prescott, Arizona

Central Time Zone: Nashville, TN, Chicago, Illinois

Eastern Time Zone: New York City

Atlantic Standard Time: Dominican Republic

Korean Time Zone: Seoul

Ulaanbaatar Standard Time: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

#2 Done

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#2: Grow LA Fashion Insider

LAFI profits are up a whopping 1%. Although it’s not enough to wipe out 50% of our business debt (#18), it is the first time being up since 2012, so we’ll take it.

A Stroke of Good Luck

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Hard to associate the last week with good luck, but my Dad had a stroke at the right time in the right place. Timing is everything. The future remains bright.

#21

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A great follow up to Homo Sapiens.

They Shall Not Grow Old

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An Extrodinary restoration.

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Dad is down half a lung, but the funny bone remains intact.  Future is bright.

Dog Food Prep Day

Xmas 2018

Supperclub @ Terroni

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Not even three months later. Hate LA drivers.

Dinner at Bavel

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One of the best in a while.

#19

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Another good read from Eskens.

Dinner at Otono

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When he’s not chasing it, he uses it as a pillow.

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Brit and I joined my dad and Georgeanne for the true and uplifting 9/11 story, Come Away From.