2007-04-06 Good Friday

This morning I was running again. This time I could keep it up for 45 minutes. Sign me up for the next marathon! Yeah!

Tomorrow I will go climbing with Mario. Maybe I take some pictures, but I won't promise. Beginners like me need both hands on the rope they say.

There's an interesting (though German) site that lists 200 things you should have done in your life. I translated the first 100 items before I ran out of energy. Here they are:

• Pay for a round in a pub
• Swim with dolphins in the open sea
• Climb a mountain
• Test drive a Ferrari
• See the inside of the Great Pyramids in Gizeh
• Hold a Tarantula in your hand
• Have a bath with somebody in candlelight
• Say "I love you" and mean it
• Embrace a tree
• Do a striptease to the end



• Try bungee jumping
• Visit Paris
• Experience a thunderstorm on the sea
• Stay awake all night and watch sunrise
• See the aurora borealis
• See a sporting event in a huge stadium
• Climb up the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Grow your own vegetables and eat them
• Touch an iceberg
• Sleep under the stars



• Change a baby's diaper
• Ride a hot-air balloon
• Observe a meteor shower
• Have a champaign intoxication
• Donate more than you can afford
• See the night sky in a telescope
• Have a fit of laughter in the most inapropriate moment
• Take part in a fight
• Win at the horserace
• Skip work though you're not really ill



• Ask a stranger to go out with you
• Take part in a snowball fight
• Photocopy your bottom
• Scream as loud as you can
• Hold a lamb in your arms
• Live out a secret phantasy
• Swim naked at midnight
• Have a bath in icecold water
• Have a real conversation with a begger
• See a total eclipse



• Ride a roller coaster
• Hit a penalty kick
• Somehow do the work of three weeks in three days
• Dance off and don't care who's watching
• Imitate a foreign accent for an entire day
• Visit the birth place of your ancestors
• Be completely happy with your life, if only for a moment
• Have two harddisks in your computer
• Visit all states/districts/whatever of your country
• Love your job in all respects



• Take care of a drunk person
• Have enough money in your own opinion
• Have crazy friends
• Dance with a stranger abroad
• Observe wales in free nature
• Steal a road sign
• Hitchhike through a far away country with a backpack
• Be part of a demonstration
• Try freeclimbing
• Lie to an officer abroad to raise no attention



• Have a walk at the beach at midnight
• Do parachute jumping
• Visit Ireland
• Suffer from a broken heart longer than the relationship lasted
• Eat in a restaurant with strangers
• Visit Japan
• Lift your own weight in barbells
• Milk a cow
• Sort your music collection alphabetically
• Pretend to be a superstar



• Do karaoke
• Stay in bed for the whole day just like that
• Pose naked in front of strangers
• Do scuba diving
• Have sex to Maurice Ravels "Bolero"
• Kiss in the rain
• Play in the mud
• Play in the rain
• Go to the drive-in cinema
• Do something without regret, though you should regret it



• Visit the Greeat Wall of China
• Climb a tree
• Use something better than Microsoft Windows
• Found your own business
• Fall in love happily
• Visit a famous historical place
• Learn one form of martial art
• Take part in a trial, either active or as observer
• Play with a paddle for more than six hours straight



• Be in a movie
• Crash/dishonor a party
• Love somebody although it's forbidden or misbecoming
• Kiss until you get dizzy
• Get divorced
• Have sex in the office
• Live five day without eating
• Make cookies after your own recipe
• Dress up from head to toe on carnival
• Drive through Venice on a gondola

Maybe I will post the rest tomorrow. At the original site, you can check off the things you have already done and it tells you if you're above or below average. Last time I checked I was above average in intelligence, but below average in romance. What a surprise.