In a shameless attempt to pass this off as a real blog post so I can get more time to write, and also an illustration of how information does not necessarily lead to people trying things in real life, I present this list of things that I’ve read about in books without ever actually doing them in real life.
- Cleaning Up an Oil Spill
- Salvaging a Shipwreck
- Underwater Archaeology
- Raising Children
- Building a Chicken Coop
- Building a Little Free Library
- Building an Atomic Bomb
- Shipping Container Farming
- Bull Fighting
- Bar Fighting
- Dog Fights (Airplanes, not dogs. Except Snoopy, who really knows his way around a Sopwith Camel.)
- Arc Line Navigation (Although technically, I may have been peer pressured into going along for the ride, when everybody else on the airplane did.)
- Land Speed Trials at Bonneville
- Discovering Penicillin
- Being a Rodeo Clown
- Being President of the United States
- Being a Soviet Cosmonaut
- Being a Spy (Nationality non-committal)
- Being an Assassin
- Being a Mafia Hitman
- Being a Radio Operator
- In respectable service to humanity
- Bored and next to the McDonalds Drive-Thru window
- Being a mortician.
- Being a midwife
John Holton
Gloria Hanlon
Karen