Day 12a

Well first I had left my summer project go for way too long and couldn't afford the time that the tasks were taking. Then I was burned out on the project again, disappointed at the lack of super-fun-happenings this summer, and not wanting to do anything in general. Then I got into poker and my blog and my project slipped from my mind completely.

Then I realized how long it had been, and started bracing myself to write some sort of lame "I guess I'll start this again even though no one said much about my stopping, bleh..." post. Then three different people in three different contexts, who happen to know little if nothing of each other's existence, sent me a Facebook message that inspired me to dive back into 30 days.

Now that I have only one week left of my summer job, a good share of activities planned in the near future, and back-to-school excitement beginning to build, I feel more than ready to tackle each and every challenge Brett McKay throws (threw?) my way. Huzzah!

...unfortunately, it's that time of day where my family is getting up and I have not yet gone to bed. Lying in my bed thinking out the items on my bucket list, my fading conscious mind threw out a last-resort warning that if I didn't get up now and blog what I had so far, it would be quite a few hours before I had the opportunity to do so again. So I give you the first five of at least ten items on my bucket list:

1. Play No Limit Texas Hold 'em in Vegas (did I mention I'd gotten into poker?).
2. Climb a mountain.
3. Travel to at least six continents (the non-Antarctic ones).
4. Solve P=NP, help bring about the first AGI, or find an equally significant contribution to make to computer science.
5. Learn guitar.
6. Bonus! Thought of this while typing the last five: Travel to outer space. I believe this will become very doable in my lifetime, and I can't imagine what could compare to the experience of seeing Earth like that with my own eyes.