# My Life Goals

Last updated 2022-05-17

My life sucks. That's why I constantly think about dying. Don't worry,
I won't do it *right* now, but it's a prudent act to list out all the
things I want to try before I do. And when I've tried them, I cross them
out.

These may be unrealistic but I don't give an imaginary shit. I might
remove some if I please. I might, at one point, go "screw it" and abandon
the list altogether. Future Me is unpredictable.

There's some cross-referencing among the items, so I've added labels in
__boldface__ and/or dependencies (dep) in parentheses where necessary.

## Art
- Learn bass (__bass__)
- Get enough vocal training to not sound terrible
- Learn basic music theory
- Start playing drums again (__drum__)
- Join a rock band as bassist (dep: bass) or drummer (dep: drum)
- Go to a twenty øne piløts concert in every album cycle (dep: us-uni)
- Buy Trench (2018) on CD or cassette
- Go to an IDKHOW concert (dep: us-uni)
- Learn to properly rap the entirety of Car Radio

## University
- Get a bachelor's degree in ECE
- Get a second BS and/or MS at a US university (__us-uni__)
- Publish a paper of some sort somewhere and snail mail my friends signed
  copies of it
- Become head of tech dep't of student union

## Engineering
- Get access to a machine shop, learn to use the lathe, milling machine,
  and electric drill
- Learn to make PCBs like a professional (__pro-pcb__, dep: reflow)
- Get an oscilloscope and learn to use it
- Get a reflow oven and learn to use it (__reflow__)
- Try more embedded development
- Get a PinePhone Pro and hack it
- This is gonna sound like an sponsorship but it's not. Get a Pinecil,
  PineTab, PinePower, PineNote and PineBuds
- Make a submarine. Around 2 liters in volume, uncrewed (obviously)
- Make my kid(s) a custom calculator to avoid those lame Casios, assuming
  they'd still use those for math 20 years later (dep: kid, pro-pcb)
- Go to my high school machine shop and help out my engineering teacher
  and his FRC team
- Host workshops about electronics (dep: pro-pcb)
- Learn to make better 3D models
- Learn to operate a 3D printer
- Design a PCB namecard that is functional in at least one way
- Document development of a project in a video
- Use the V-USB library somewhere
- Make a portable electronic musical instrument

## Computer
- DIY a desktop computer, which conceivably will run Arch Linux and KDE
- Get a proper OpenWRT router at home
- Configure neovim "just the way I want" and not change it in one year
- Get a secondhand ThinkPad T420

## Travel
- Visit Köln (Cologne)
- Visit the Netherlands
- Visit Shenzhen
- Visit Taipei
- Go to the beach

## Miscellaneous
- Attend a convention of any kind
- Observe a furry convention (but not participate)
- Learn CW (a.k.a. morse code)
- Get a ham radio license and buy a handheld station
- Eliminate as much meat as possible from diet
- Declare myself expert in at least one thing
- Own a cat (probably two)
- Read all books by Karl Marx
- Get a semi-professional filming rig with a greenscreen and stuff
- Have one or more kids (__kid__)
- Get my own credit card
- Install solar panels somewhere
- Seek revenge on that one roommate whose gaming noise keeps me up at
  night
- Drink tiny amount of vodka
- Participate in a protest, verbal or physical
- Host a technical talk on a conference
- Steer employer (if any) into FOSS'ing a software project
- Co-author an IETF RFC
- Get a tiny tattoo
- Restuff my blåhaj
- Make something totally unrelated look like an electrolytic capacitor