September 24, 2009 
Since I first bought the 101 Things to Do Before You Die, I knew there were items on the list that I would never want to do. Instead, I have other items that I would like substitute for these. Thus far, I have completed 28 and have partially completed 10.
So (drum roll please) I unveil…THE updated List:
1 Write a Best-Seller
2 Swim With… (Dolphins, Whales, Sharks) - COMPLETED
3 Win an Award, Trophy, or Prize - COMPLETED
4 Catch A Fish With Your Bare Hands
5 Make a Discovery
6 Throw A House Party When Your Parents Are Out - COMPLETED
7 Eat Chocolate Covered Ants
8 Realize Your Childhood Dream
9 Learn that instrument - COMPLETED
10 Leave your mark in graffiti - COMPLETED
11 Storm Chase A Tornado Visit Every State - PARTIALLY
12 Get A Piece of Art into a Exhibition – COMPLETED
13 Meet someone with your own name - COMPLETED
14 Ride the World’s Biggest Rollercoasters - PARTIALLY
15 Stage Dive or Crowd Surf
16 Get into the Guinness Book of World Records
17 Own a Pointless Collection - COMPLETED
18 Study the Kama Sutra and Put Theory Into Practice - PARTIALLY
19 Master Poker and Win Big in a Casino
20 Get backstage and hang out with a Rock God - COMPLETED
21 Be a Human Guinea Pig - COMPLETED
22 Go Up in a Hot Air Balloon
23 Get Arrested Ride in a Sleeper Car on a Train
24 See a Space Shuttle Launch
25 Capture the Moment in an Award-winning Photograph
26 Bungee Jump
27 See an Erupting Volcano
28 Sky Dive
30 Stay in the Best Suite in a Five Star Hotel
31 Experience Weightlessness
32 See the Aurora Borealis
33 Get to Score a Hole in One
34 Design your own cocktail - COMPLETED
35 Play a Part in Your Favorite TV Show
36 Visit Every Country - PARTIALLY
37 Make Fire Without Matches
38 See These Animals in the Wild - PARTIALLY
39 Bet on a horse/dog/etc race - COMPLETED
40 Get a Free Upgrade on a Plane
41 Be Friends with your ex - COMPLETED
42 Go Target Shooting - COMPLETED
43 Throw a Dart into a Map and Travel to Where it Lands
44 Attend a Film Premiere - COMPLETED
45 Do a Runner From a Fancy Restaurant
46 Scuba Dive
47 Milk a Cow
48 Be Present When Your Country Wins the World Cup Be Present When UNC Wins the National Championship, Redskins Win the Super Bowl, or Hurricanes Win the Stanley Cup
49 See Both Solar and Lunar Eclipses - PARTIALLY
50 Write Your Name Over a Star on the Walk of Fame
51 Learn Another Language
52 Read the Greatest Books Ever Written - PARTIALLY
53 Complete a Coast to Coast Road Trip Across America
54 Make at least one huge purchase you can’t afford - COMPLETED
55 Score the Winning Try/Goal/Basket - COMPLETED
56 Gatecrash A Fancy Party
57 See the All-Time Greatest Films - COMPLETED
58 Live in the Place You Love
59 Leave a Job You Hate - COMPLETED
60 Take Part in a Police Line-up
61 Get Away with the Perfect Practical Joke or Hoax
62 Join the Mile High Club
63 Make the Front Page of a National Newspaper
64 Drive a Car at Top Speed
65 Shout ‘Drinks Are on Me!’ in a Pub or Bar
66 Be Part of a Flash Mob - COMPLETED
67 Visit (This is a list of iconic places around the world, so far I’ve only visited the Roman Coliseum). – PARTIALLY
68 Save Someones Life
69 In Various Languages, Learn to say…(please, thank you, your welcome, I’d like a beer, swear, etc) - COMPLETED
70 Invent a Word That Makes it into the Dictionary
71 Have Adventurous Sex (in different places) – PARTIALLY
72 Have Enough Money to Do All the Things on This List
73 Stand on the International Date Line
74 Learn to Fly a Plane
75 Get a tattoo and/or piercing - COMPLETED
76 Invent Something
77 Learn Astronomy and Read the Night Sky
78 Drink a Vintage Wine
79 Answer a Personal Ad - COMPLETED
80 Spend Christmas on the Beach
81 Get Barred From a Pub or Bar
82 Build Your Own House
83 Skinny Dip a Midnight – COMPLETED
84 Sell all Your Junk on eBay and Make a Profit Learn How to Ski
85 Visit the World’s Tallest Buildings - PARTIALLY
86 Run a Marathon
87 Conquer Your Fear
88 Get Married Unusually - COMPLETED
89 Learn to Cook
90 Join the 16-Mile High Club Go White Water Rafting - COMPLETED
91 Publish a Cult Website
92 Own an Original Work of Art - COMPLETED
93 Complete the Monopoly Board Pub Crawl
93.5 Get Your Name in the Ring of Honor at Flying Saucer - PARTIALLY
94 Get Something Named After You
95 Get Revenge
96 Be an Extra in a Film
97 Live Out of a Van Attend Mardi Gras - COMPLETED
98 Go On a Demonstration
99 Confess
100 Reach 100 Years of Age
I have lots of stories to tell from our day rafting the Upper Gauley but I haven’t written it up yet. Instead, I’ll give you this posting I wrote some time ago…
Ok, first off, I’m going to have to ask you not to judge. There are certain things that happened in my childhood that have shaped my interests and worldview. I was raised in 
