Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 27, 2024

One of them died from Covid, right?

There’s always Siegfried and Joy.

I have a Phuket list.

Love Thai food.

Siegfried eh. There gotta be a Smart way to Get him.

No ‘Mirage’, either. Soon it will be on the Hard Rock(s).

Is the Bucket List the same as the Honey-Do List ?

A bucket list is a list of experiences and/or accomplishments one wants to have during their lifetime. It is somewhat related to a “but” list, which is a list of things that one wants to do “but” they can’t do right now because of time, location, or monetary constraints and/or work or family obligations: “I’d love to learn Arabic because reading and writing ‘backwards’ fascinates me, but I travel too often for work to take a class” ; “I want to learn SCUBA, but there are no instructors within 60 miles” ; “I’d love to try pottery, but classes conflict with work and the kids’ soccer practice.”

Parents, particularly single working mothers, develop long “but” lists. Fortunately, I am shortening the list now that I’m retired. I am closing in on 100 dives and I putter with pottery making pots and fairy houses for a charity. I’ve still got Arabic to work on [and a few others], ‘but’ I’m learning new things and having fun.

The problem with bucket lists, they get older just like we do and some of them become ‘Missions Impossible’.

Aren’t they both dead?

Substitute with the Hoover Dam tour.

My bucket list is always short, and with achievable items. Next up, learning to make Chicago tavern style pizza.

My bucket sprung a leak long ago.

At least there are cartoons of them to watch

It was going to see Letterman for me

Jerry Seinfeld: “I made a bucket list, then I turned the b to an f, and I was done with it.”

There is really nothing I want to do that I have not done – and I have not done anything of note. There are things I would like to not do again – such as travel (by RV/car – husband cannot fly, take a train, bus or ride when anyone else is driving). Prefer to just stay home.