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I have a dream...
Sat, 2011-01-01 22:20
#1
Boom Boom
I have a dream...
Sat, 2011-01-01 22:23
#2
Boom Boom
I worked almost 25 years doing a lot of travel in my last job, and it often involved being billeted in someone's home. I also belong to an online group associated with my vocation that meets live in person usually once a year, and I got to stay with those folks, too - in Canada, the USA, and England and Wales. I retired a while ago, and my travelling ended about the same time.
One of my many obsessions is food, and having been billeted in so many places - easily over 400 to date - I've had more varieties of cuisine than I can remember today, as well as having been treated to dinners in restaurants along the way. There are meals that definitely stand out, however, in my memory: an old English pub where I had a sampling of bangers and mash / steak and kidney pie / roast beef with yorkshire pudding with horseradish sauce; Farley's Pub in Ruiduso, New Mexico, with a New Mexican sampling dish; and, here on the Quebec coast, codfish served up every which way, and also the best crab cakes I've ever had.
What's my dream? To fulfill my ultimate food fantasy: to be a judge on Iron Chef. I watch that show at every opportunity (both the original Japanese and newer American versions), and I go nuts watching the preparation of some pretty extreme and exotic dishes.
Do others have a dream/wish they'd be willing to share?
Sun, 2011-01-02 15:00
#3
ElizaQ
I think that's a really great dream Boom Boom. :D I don't watch the show as much a you but when I do I'm fascinated by some of the things they make. At times it's inspired me to put things I have on hand together in ways I wouldn't have thought of.
I'm actually having a hard time coming up with a dream I could share. I've already managed to complete a few of the dreams I had before. I think though if right now I could do anything I would love to travel around the world and visit and perhaps work in different types of gardens and experience first hand all the different ways food is grown, all shapes, sizes and methods, urban and rural. I do a lot of book, net and media travelling that way already. Would be great to actually go and see some of these things and talk to people first hand.
Sun, 2011-01-02 15:14
#4
Boom Boom
I have several other dreams I could share - who doesn't dream of world peace, for example? 
But I just wanted to get the discussion started.
Sun, 2011-01-02 15:24
#5
N.Beltov
Sun, 2011-01-02 15:42
#6
ElizaQ
I have several other dreams I could share - who doesn't dream of world peace, for example?
Yes of course. :) I thought of that at first too but figured that one was obvious. I have dreams and hopes for some of the community work I do of course, things I'd like to see.
Oh I know. I'd love to wake up tomorrow and and a fabulous, easy and all encompassing solution to climate change be discovered. Something that everyone, no matter who, where they are or what politically they are can agree upon without arguing and then it just gets done without question.
That would be nice.
Sun, 2011-01-02 18:31
#7
Refuge
Hmmm Dreams
1. Raise a child (mucking my way through that one right now)
2. Work on a tall ship going around the world a la Tall Ship Chronicle.
Mon, 2011-01-03 00:10
#8
Stand-up comedy. Probably too late, but if i had the chance, i'd give it a shot.
Mon, 2011-01-03 10:04
#9
Inner tranquility.
Mon, 2011-01-03 10:12
#10
Boom Boom
A Caissa sighting!!! Welcome back.
Mon, 2011-01-03 13:02
#11
N.Beltov
Hmmm Dreams
1. Raise a child (mucking my way through that one right now)
2. Work on a tall ship going around the world a la Tall Ship Chronicle.
In relation to number 2, please check the following very carefully.
I have lots of experience on the water and, in my view, a smaller boat with a reliable crew would be better. But that's just me.
Mon, 2011-01-03 14:40
#12
Stand-up comedy. Probably too late, but if i had the chance, i'd give it a shot.
Why would it be too late? If you can still stand, you can do stand-up! 
Heck, I don't think even standing is a requirement.
Mon, 2011-01-03 14:52
#13
absentia, work on a routine. show up at any open mic and talk to the person who is doing the listings and ask if you can go on between some musicians. the smokers will go outside, but the loners sitting around waiting for something new can always use a laugh. usually open mic organizers are really happy to have people stand up and just spit whatever they want to say. i've done it tons of times and seen people who are undoubtably much your senior (we're talking starting to push the very edges of double digits) do it too.
plus, you have the option to remind hecklers that you are their senior and that you demand respect and really tear into them on a deep, personal level all rickleslike.
Fri, 2011-02-18 23:59
#14
RevolutionPlease
Priceless...
Sat, 2011-02-19 00:00
#15
Retirees having fun (another dream):
"Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day, Mary my wife and I went into town and visited a shop.
When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket.
We went up to him and I said, 'Come on, man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?' He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him an "asshole" . He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn-out tires.
So Mary called him a "shit head". He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing more tickets. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote.
Just then our bus arrived, and we got on it and went home.
We try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired.
It's important at our age."
Sat, 2011-02-19 00:03
#16
Love it George. I've heard it before but it still makes me laugh.
Wed, 2011-02-23 19:51
#17
Hey, thank, guys. I should have come back sooner, but sort of forgot about this thread. In my rural retirement, there isn't that much night-life, but who knows?
The raising a kid thing? Way overrated.
Thu, 2011-02-24 00:36
#18
RevolutionPlease
Thu, 2011-02-24 00:38
#19
RevolutionPlease
We came together once or twice...
Thu, 2011-02-24 00:44
#20
RevolutionPlease
We failed MLK 101.
Thu, 2011-02-24 00:49
#21
RevolutionPlease
I have a dream.
Thu, 2011-02-24 09:26
#22
Nice. But all those people had the same dream - a quite simple one. It didn't turn out entirely as they intended and they stopped well before completion, got confused, lost the thread....
Now, i'm not sure you can get that many people marching in the same direction, let alone figure out what they all have in common. Without a leader who can articulate the desired outcome, we're sunk.