I don't want it to be sad.  I'd hope that friends and family that know me well would throw up gang signs in jest at my funeral.  Maybe even going as far as pouring out some champagne on the floor.  If I died in an accident, I'd hope that someone would do an impression of me saying, "what the crap" or "that was ballz."  Death hath no sting.  I wouldn't want to be remembered for being a boring "stand up citizen" or a "good person."  I'd want to be known as the guy who just wanted to have a good time, love people, explore, and be creative.  I've said a few times before, I'd love to be buried viking style; body set on a raft and then set on fire and pushed out to sea.  I'd be screwed if we could feel pain after death...but whatever.

I want to invent something.  Something that will require a patent.  So basically, I just want to have a patent on something.  I think they're pretty cheap.  I have a lot of ideas, but I never do anything with them.  I should start writing them down more...

So I've written before about my deep fascination with Bedford Springs resort, and that's definitely on my list of places to stay and visit.  They have a great history that goes back into the late 1700's and presidents staying there.  you can read about the history on their site or ask me to borrow the PBS DVD I got from my mom for Christmas on it.  Great stuff.

Another similar place that I want to stay is the Greenbrier in White Sulfur Springs, WV.  It has a long and luxorious history much like Bedford springs, but it has an awesome underground bunker that was to be used by the government during the Cold War.  How awesome is that?

I haven't used this category for things I want to see and do, but I should.  James Turrell has been one of my favorite artists for many years now, and I think a few people have heard me rave about his Roden Crater Project.  I want to visit/tour it.  From this NY Times article of someone wanting to do the same, it looks like it won't open until 2011.  I can't wait.

I've always wanted to just hitch a ride on a train.  The real adventurist in me wants to pack a backpack and just jump on and get off whenever i feel like it.  I've seen "Into the Wild" though, and I surely do not want to run into one of those situations where I get the crap beaten out of me by a conductor with a crowbar.  I just want a way to wind up in a random location, not knowing where the heck I am, and that's the only way I can think of.  Every other way involves seeing road signs or landing in an airport.  I guess a hot air balloon my achieve what I desire, but you can't really walk away from a hot air balloon easily...

Maybe inspired from the show Home improvement, or maybe my old dentist, Dr. Birch, but I'd like to build my own car.  I'd love to have a place in a garage to just work on it for years slowly building it, making sure I'm doing it right, learning about how it all works.  Having some friends come over and help me building it, taking some time for a beer or two.  Maybe even having a son to help me work on it, and if we finished it around the time he was 16, it'd be his car.  Too much?  I dunno, I just like the idea.

I want to be on a game show.  I think i missed the boat for jeopardy.  I've always thought my family would be great on family feud.  Price is Right would be sweet too.  I just think it must be so easy to get on those things since it's a new one every day.  If I lived near a studio, i'd go every day possible.

I was at the Roselius' this weekend and they had a chess board with carved stone game pieces.  The pieces were just some sort of tribal theme, with elephants, a monkey, and stuff like that.  I've always loved the themed chess boards.  I've seen peuter civil war sets, star wars sets, and a bunch of others.  So i want to make game pieces, i guess just out of wood...but maybe sculpt them out of clay or something...not sure.  But I definitely want to make a set.

Along the same mindset of the record rama collection, I want to have an awesome collection of something.  I've always had a streak of pack rat in me and a little bit of OCD organizer too.  I use to maintain a database of all my 6,000 baseball cards when I was a kid and I loved that.  I did the same thing with my movies, creating an online sortable/searchable list of everything I had with ratings and covers and everything.  I love that.  I'd like to take pride is something like that, and be able to display them too.  I've already mentioned thecollection of dirt/sand/water from around the world, but I've also thought about what other collections I'd like to have.  One was coffee tables.  Not that i'm particularly fond of coffee tables, because I'm not, but I like the unusual ones, like fish tanks, ones that look like a knight holding a shield, a board on the back of an elephant, interactive ones, etc.  Jay leno has cars and I'd have coffee tables.

I'm going to put it out there because it's true.  I want to write a novel.  I have tons of ideas written down on note pads for stories and characters, but never really get beyond that step.  I'd love to write something like Palahniuk.  If worse comes to worse, I had an idea for a series of books, sort of like the "Whatever : for dummies" books.   It'd be something like "A local's guide to : Pittsburgh"  and it would contain all the underground info about the place that only locals know.  Sure it'd have the incline, primanti's, etc  but it'd also talk about the mattress factory, the O, student rush, when to get a tour of Heinz Field, all the running paths at schenley, places to catch live music, etc.  Details!  because of the potential of outdated information, a website would go along with it (of course!)  something like localeyes.com or localize.com and each city would be a subdomain, pittsburgh.localeyes.com