My Year in Activities, 2012
Post from December 30, 2012 (↻ May 31, 2017), filed under Adventure.
I wrote a short and sweet book about all these activities: 100 Things I Learned as an Everyday Adventurer!
Similar to the Year in Cities series I’m going to move the Year in Activities series I decided against moving either series over to Google+. And I’ll make an adjustment: As opposed to former years I won’t talk about the activities in detail—read at the end, why.
- Vacuum forming workshop
- Ice skating
- Paintball
- First ice hockey game (San Jose Sharks vs. Calgary Flames)
- Soap making
- Glass blowing
- Snowboarding
- Trike gliding
- Book binding
- Damage assessment training (emergency response training, ERT)
- First choir performance (listening, not singing 😉)
- Flying an airplane (Cessna)
- Donating blood (U.S. regulations didn’t permit me to)
- Emergency O₂ administration training (ERT)
- Flower arrangement training
- Fire extinguisher training (ERT)
- Writing training
- First ballet visit (watching, not breaking my bones 😊)
- Floor warden training (ERT)
- Perfume making
- My first straight razor shaves
- Camel riding
- Tuk-tuk rides
- Getting mugged (okay, not quite an activity)
- Laser cutting and etching workshop
- Beekeeping
- Introduction to ham radio
- Motocross (rather: dirt bike) training
- Letterpress printing
- Stand up paddle boarding
- Krav Maga
- Indoor skydiving
- Laser Tag
- Bartending education and certification
- Fencing
- Ikebana
- Rafting
- Drawing training
- Taser training and certification
- Radar certification (ASA 120)
- Body butter making
- Pilates
- Bowhunter online education and certification
- Babysitting online education and certification (ha! ha!)
- Photopolymer platemaking
- Acupuncture
- Drive-in movie
- Facial expressions online training and certification (yes… law enforcement thing)
As I said before, constantly trying new things doesn’t only make you grow, it also makes you look back at a year and say, “yeah, that makes sense—time didn’t just vaporize.”
Now, why do I just throw a list at you, and not share a bit more as I did in the past? Because I decided to write about all of this “for real.” I have several plans for new books, but one will be about my activities. I have done so many things over the years, and learned so much from them, that I think it’s worth sharing more in a little different format. And I would, as of my—given how rarely I write these days—ambitious plans, also talk a bit more about the necessary mindset, logistics, and cost. I hope I don’t over-promise, but that’s the plan. [And it worked out.]
About the Author
Jens Oliver Meiert is a technical lead and author (sum.cumo, W3C, O’Reilly). He loves trying things, including in the realms of philosophy, art, and adventure. Here on meiert.com he shares and generalizes and exaggerates some of his thoughts and experiences.
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