things I want to do, june 2023 edition

• week-long through-hike in the Rockies
• host another LAN party
• throw a building-wide potluck / meet-and-greet event
• go to city council and get more involved in the community
• learn Zouk with Savannah
• build a digital shrine with Dave
• rent a giant house for a week in the forest with all my friends and party
• learn sewing to modify and fix my clothing
• bungee jump off a tall bridge
• take a week-long voyage on a luxury airship
• watch a meteor shower from a cozy sleeping bag in the mountains
• prompt a nyc studio gallery exhibit into existence with Cody
• bake a loaf of sourdough bread
• read more long books in my hammock near the creek
• read every book on my to-read list
• visit South America again
• snowmobile through a fresh coat of powder in the woods
• build Exquisite Land Canvas 2 and invite the art community we found to play
• help contribute to a DAO I’m excited about
• visit the space station / spend a night in the first orbital / moon hotel
• build an espresso cart for Burning Man and figure out ergonomics, power, water, and waste properly
• start doing squats again
• visit my friend Michael’s Acro Yoga class in the park
• watch a movie in a theater and eat popcorn
• own and hang out at a small combined coffee shop / bar when I’m retired
• drive buggies over sand dunes really fast and tip over
• cross the ocean on a container ship
• stay up till 7 am coding a side project and watching youtube videos
• play synth in a little band on a friday night
• hike a mountain in a thunderstorm at night again
• see the Northern Lights
• drive across the country in a sports car
• get a tour of a nuclear reactor (darn you Diablo Canyon Power Plant covid protocols)
• do the Boulder walking marathon this month
• visit the Alps
• make my own candle
• build my own journaling app which also hosts my blog
• attend a Vipassana silent meditation retreat
• share a warehouse with my friends for a combination art studio / maker space
• throw a neighborhood-wide block party
• build a better blogging platform
• visit Asheville, NC with my boo to see if we might enjoy living there
• a tab of acid while biking down highway 1 in the middle of spring
• visit the Amazon River
• spend a few nights in an A-frame in the mossy dew-colored ferns and redwoods
• visit friends in Guadalajara, Dubai, Shanghai, London, Vancouver
• take a wrestling course
• grow my own mushrooms
• plan and execute a heist in a reverse escape room sort of game
• talk to all of my twitter mutuals
• bake an apple cherry pie
• surf Baja California with CJ
• go to interesting conferences focused on decentralized governance and collaboration
• co-run a small impact investment fund
• design a house with Savannah focused on nature / ergonomics / sustainability
• read the rest of A Pattern Language
• scuba dive and see a shipwreck and some coral reefs
• get two cats, named Poos and Pamplemouse
• build a treehouse

the list is forever incomplete but I’m grateful for every day I get to play in this life!