30 Weeks, 30 Side-Quests

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In 208 days time (as I write this) I turn 40. Seems like a good excuse to set myself a fun challenge to make the most of life, enjoy some new experiences and hopefully achieve a few goals between now and then.

Here, in no particular order, are my sidequests to attempt. As I complete them I’ll add links with details, descriptions, photos, etc… Wish me luck!

• Write a short story
• Walk 50 miles (80km in a week)
• Make myself a new website
• Try a new hobby
• Go camping
• Draw something that I’m proud of
• Master a new recipe
• Travel to a country I’ve never visited before
• Get a new tattoo
• Get high
• Explore sexual pleasure
• Write a song
• Enter a Game Jam, complete a game and submit it
• Go to a music festival – either a day or full weekend
• Experience new media – watch a movie, watch a TV series and listen to a full album.
• Take a day off work and go swimming
• Stretch my earlobe piercings to 6mm
• Try to work out what I really want from life in my 40s
• Make an effort to reconnect with old friends
• Read a book recommended by someone else (not something I’d typically read)
• Donate to charity
• Stay up all night
• Jog 5k
• Do clay sculpting and pottery painting
• Eat at a new restaurant and try food I’ve never had before
• Visit a museum I’ve never been to
• Fly in a hot air balloon
• Buy myself something lovely that I want (but don’t actually need)