My goal in life is ...

“... to become a redneck hillbilly.”

“To backpack as much as I can.
To make lots of new friends.
To make my club even better.
To help the earth.
To be one with the wild.

And most of all go crazy and have fun.....:p”

“To thru-hike the AT (may become a reality in 2003 if I feel physically up to it by end of 2002).

To retire by age 50 (I'm half way there).”

“Get Angelina Jolie in bed.”

“Buy some land, lots,,,,, because you ain't no man if you ain't got no land!

and

Have a kid(s)!!!! ya,,,,, I said it.

and

See the world....”

“To retire in 10 years”

“Coach potatoes unite!”

“Die on the trail.”

“When they pry the trekking poles from your cold dead fingers?


Hell, I'm just going to transmorgraphy into a being of pure energy and zip on outta here!”

“Hey Steve Hiker! Congratulations on meeting your goal early in life!!! (JK)”

“...to be the All-Being, master of time and space. And then I want to go to Hawaii.”

“I thought a Tempist was a Pontiac... ?

%^ )”

“Have a job that let's me take my dog to work with me.”

“I like yours Tilt that sounds cool....:)”

“GOOD plan Artex!”

“My goal was to raise my kids and spend as much time with them as I could. Now that they are grown or nearly grown I need a new goal. Any of you young skeezers wanna start a family? I make great looking kids.”

“Goals? Raise my kids, pay my mortgage, get stronger and stay healthy.”

“Sorry folks, but every time I look at the thread title it looks like "My GOAT in life..."”

“...to get a sex change.


Just kidding.”

“To meet Bob Barker and Wink Martindale!”

“Dang! All of the good goals have been taken!”

“Not sure about the goal in life, but my goal of the week is to survive another 4 hours or so,,,,,,this week sucks.”

“To learn how to pee without getting any on the rim.



















Oh wait... that's my wife's goal for my life.”

“Well, she holds the whip, so learn fast, Violin!”

“Chili, how ya' feelin man?

How are those ribs?”

“Outlive my pension and become a burden to the taxpayers.”

“Not quite as tender as they were Fritz. Should be able to hit the trail again soon.”

“Hey Militiaboy, I met Bob Barker. Here's proof:

http://www.geocities.com/spaz_ny/Jamie.html”

“To get my golf handicap down below 10 before I retire....which I hoped to do by the time I was 55,but...the way the market is going...I will be working until SS kicks in...ouch!!!

But hey, the truck will be paid off as soon as I get my tax refund...and the house will be paid off by 2004...maybe sooner now that the truck payment is gone.”

“Hmmm... my house is already paid for and I don't owe anybody anything. My kids are grown and doing well--they all make more money than I do. I have reached that give back to the community stage. I just hope I don't make a total fool of myself in the process!!”

“My goal in life is to have a ton of fun and not make the Darwin Awards list”

“MaryPhyl, that comment just begs the question, "Why, whatever do you mean?" You are at the stage where you can give back to the community, OR you are planning on getting up on the community stage OR both?”

“In "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"!”

“Mine is to be here in 2 weeks...

Today's Weather atop Mount Washington

Friday, February 8, 2002

Weather: Blowing snow, freezing fog

Temperature: 8° Visibility: 75 feet

Wind Chill Index: -20°F Relative Humidity: 100%

Wind: West at 77 gusting to 84 MPH Station Pressure: 23.34" and rising

Ground Conditions: 15 inches of snow and ice


”

“That's a really good photo Tarpie!”

“It's from the live weather cam near Mt washington:

Check it out: http://www.mountwashington.org/cam/jackson/index.html

Here is a live view of the Summit:

”

“Here is november...

http://www.mountwashington.com/pictures/november.html”

“I had not thought about a community stage!! I am doing some tutoring two days a week.That and and trail work are all I have found so far. Any ideas?? I don't want drudge work.”

“MaryPhyl, I don't know, every town is a little different. Right now I am in the middle of a program called "Great Paintings" where I get a set of prints from the library and a guidebook that can be speedread. I present two of the paintings at a time, to my daughters' classes (1st and 3rd grade) for about 30 minutes, for five presentations. The kids ask a million questions, I describe the techniques that the artist used and what might have been his or her motivation, etc. It is usually fun. In some classes, we don't have any parent volunteers, so they don't get the presentation. We also do a science program, where parent volunteers help with experiments. So there are "teaching" oppurtunities in the schools.


Then there are the Girl Scouts. Most of the people teaching the training classes are women who's children are grown. These classes involve camping, fire making, hiking, trip planning, orienteering, etc. As far as I know, these people are volunteers, not employees.

There are all the well known avenues, like the Food Bank, Meals on Wheels, the churches, Special Olympics, and the womens shelters. Some hospitals have a number of boarder babies that no one wants to take home. They need someone to hold them and talk to them, because the nurses don't have that much time not given to urgent tasks.

There are always fundraisers that need running at various charities, scouting groups, etc., if you like that kind of thing.

My older daughter's scout troop went to a nursing home to sing holiday songs in December. Some of the patients had bright decorations all over their rooms, and some had none, either because they had no funds or relatives to bring things and put them up. So the girl scouts went home, made decorations and went back and put them up, and sang some more songs. The patients were extremely happy and grateful.

The scouts made a request for toiletries to be donated, and then sewed drawstring bags, filled them with shampoo, soap, toothpaste and brushes, and gave them to the local homeless shelter.

I use to buy a ton of school supplies during the back to school sales, and put together bags for the school kids at the local low income housing complex.

There are a zillion of things that can be done to "give back to the community", and everyone has to find those activities that they enjoy more than the rest.”

“I thought he meant Bob Barker, the thru hiker!”

“Habitat for Humanity... it's not only fun work, but you are doing a good deed at the same time”

“To retire by age 50, its looking good so far (famous last words),to hike the AT following my retirement, and to raise my daughter and other kids (yet to come) in a way I wont regret...BTW my list is NOT in order of importance.”

“THX Splash and donman--I printed your ideas. I had not put my mind to this in awhile. :)”

“play play play and never pay

sex beer rock n roll beach partys keggers cars backpacking and to live long enough to become a hassel to muh kids when i have em”

“to become a teacher, but until then the Angelina Jolie idea sounds good to me.”

“Visit and hike in all of the National Parks, get married ( hopefully) and thru hike the AT.”

“A sturdy sailboat and the skills (and bank deposits) to captain it, then all my hikes can be from the beach of a sheltered tropical island anchorage to the mountaintop towering over the palm-fringed shore.”

“Find a woman that like hiking and backpacking as much as I do...........:)”

“Geez Mike, I'm already taken! Heeheehee!”