Blog of Josh Hall

I want to be a LEGO certified professional.  To think that there are less than 12 in the world, makes that a very daunting task.  There are not clear career paths, you just have to "make it" and be affiliated with LEGO.  I’m not even sure of the benefits beyond bragging rights.  At the very least, I’ll [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]