100 Places to Go and Things to Do When Out and About

Park

Club

Bar

Bookstore

Library

Concert

Grocery Store

Busride

Chipotle

Beach

Carnival

Berry-picking

Farmers Market

Circus

Stargazing

Fire making

Searching for crayfish

Snake hunting

Sand art

Playing soccer

Zoo/aquarium

Roller skating

Horseback riding

Flea market

Cards night

Camp out over the weekend

Moonlight ramble

Botanical garden

Pool

Paint a landscape with an easel

Playing guitar and singing in public 

Have a yard sale

Local Museum

Art Museums/Galleries

Canoeing/kayaking/sailing

Fishing

Make a piece of furniture, a tool, a weapon, clothes (quilt, knit scarf), or a  toy

Local soccer/basketball pickup game

Walk the local boardwalk or mall and strike up friendly conversations with strangers

Go to Panera and play Settlers of Catan, or play Monopoly

Chess tournament

Renaissance Fair

Music Festival

Cinema

Eat at a nice restaurant or cafe

Explore old abandoned buildings, maybe take photos

Volunteer at a soup kitchen, shelter, or animal shelter

Plant native plants that are useful for wildlife and edible/medicinal for humans in the woods

Collect edible/medicinal plants to eat or drink as herbal tea

Go deer hunting

Fly a kite

Buy flowers and give them to a stranger

Buy natural ingredients to make your own toothpaste, soap, and laundry detergent, and make them

Do situps and pushups whenever you think the word "situp" or "pushup", or think something negative about your surplus weight or lack of fitness.

Watch the sun set, write/paint/dance all night, then watch the sun rise

Write five people a letter telling them how wonderful they are, and important to you

Write a short story

Sports Game
Make a flower chain

Write a letter to yourself to be opened in five years

Listen to a podcast/audiobook while driving

Buy a freakum dress

Find someone to kiss in the rain

Girls: Buy a lot of dried nettles, and some black birch twigs, and mix them up. Then bowl a big pot and soak your hair in it every day for six months.

Order a pizza

Camp out for 7 days or longer

Donate to an important cause or charity

Donate 101 things you no longer need

Donate blood

Learn how to change a tire

Learn how to change oil

Take a self-defense course, and clip mace to your belt

See a famous landmark you've never seen

Make a flower chain, and give it to someone who looks your age

Go to a Drive-in Movie

Build a snowman

Build a gingerbread house

Build a fort

Have your eyebrows shaped professionally

Go bowling

Make a tasty snack

Take a sketchbook to a public place and draw

Buy a hand-crank washing machine or sewing machine to replace your current one

Install/buy solar panels

Bike around

Make a mix CD for someone, or for yourself

Design, cut out, sew and complete a one-of-a-kind outfit for yourself. Bonus points if you can dye it, weave it, spin it, or otherwise make it yourself even more.

Send a postcard

Videotape a cover of yourself singing a song

Go to a Karaoke night

Bat your eyes and smile at someone

Get your hair cut/styled

Learn to drive a motorcycle/boat/plane

Collect acorns, soak them in the stream, collect clover flowers and dry them, then make flower and use to make pancakes

Try pot, or alcohol, for the first time. Make it the last.

Go to a Zumba class

Find an unskilled job in your area, find a homeless man, offer to take him out to lunch, offer him the job, then offer him clean clothes to wear to the interview and whatever else he might need.

Throw pebbles at someone's window to get their attention at 11 o'clock at night, and then serenade them with a medieval-style ballad.

See a play

Become CPR certified

Take a Wilderness EMT Course

Rope swing into water

Learn sign language

Make a homemade pizza

Attend a poetry reading

Visit a butterfly garden

Ride a hot air balloon

Make candles at home

Make homemade soap

Go indoor rock climbing

Take a weeklong boating trip

Ride a horse

Go bungee jumping

Go to a roller coaster park

Buy a lottery ticket

Bake bread from scratch

Attend an ethnic festival

Identify 100 things that make you happy, and photograph them

Climb a tree

Live in an artists' retreat

Go mudding

Go off-roading in the country

Join a cattle drive

See a ballet performance

See a parade

Sing karaoke at a bar

Five Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

1. Build a very large boat. Pack clothing, medicine, food, seeds, a salt-water purifier, and put dirt all along the top of the boat. Sail off to sea and live off your own crops and stored food. Zombies can't swim, and even if they walk along the ocean bottom they can't walk up to you because you will be on the ocean's surface.

2. Go to the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. Zombies can't travel through swamp very easily, will probably get stuck, lost and eaten by alligators, and the swamp is impenetrable. Pack food, seeds, guns, etc. in a tiny kayak and thread your way in between the cypresses. The zombies will not be able to find you in the over half-a-million acre refuge, there will be no other people and therefore no zombies, and there is abundant wild edibles and animals to hunt.

3. Hole yourself up in an underground concrete bunker with a huge store of supplies to last for 1,000 people for ten years. Put an airlock in the bunker, with a small adjunct with a few holes to shoot through. Attract zombies with noise and kill them with spears, knives, arrows that you poke through the holes. Let in anyone who arrives so they can help. In ten years, a group of ten can kill 5 million zombies, and a group of a hundred can kill 50 million. A group of 600 could kill every zombie in America in ten years. Disadvantage is you never get to go outside, and you have to live trapped underground. Advantage-- you are completely safe.

4. Go to Alaska and live in the arctic national wildlife refuges there. Zombies are slowed down by the cold, and there are few people there. It will be very cold, though, so you will be at risk of dying due to exposure, the elements, or lack of food. However, you should be able to live there as the Inuits did.

5. Find a tall steel-reinforced building and lure the zombies up to the roof with bait, causing them to walk off the sides of the building. Then, lock all the doors on all the levels and the roof door, and hole up inside. Shoot zombies below through the windows with crossbows with strings tied to the arrows, so you can reel the arrows back up. The only risk is if enough zombies arrive and are able to knock down the building-- so work on building up the strength of the walls and reinforcing the

The simplest diet

Breakfast:

cereal of 2/3 cup rolled oats with one cup of milk

Lunch:

Two baked potatoes, one cup of whole milk, one cup of cooked chard dressed with two tablespoons of Udo’s Choice oil, ½ tsp. added salt.

Dinner:

One baked potato, one cup of milk, one cup of cooked chard, one cup of cooked kale, ½ cup of almonds

• Calories: 1,800
• Nutrients: everything you need and then some
• Prep Time: on Monday, bake 21 potatoes, and while they are baking cook 14 cups of chard and 7 cups of kale in big pots. Put the potatoes in a bowl, and the chard and kale in separate covered pots in the refrigerator. This should take about an hour. You are done for the week. At meal times, serve yourself from the refrigerator.
• If 1,800 calories isn't enough, eat some fish and seaweed to go with your meal.

Weekly Shopping List:

21 potatoes

3 gallons milk

3 bunches of chard

1 bunch of kale

Udo's choice oil

3.5 cups almonds

5 cups rolled oats

Iodized salt

(you can add other herbs and spices if you want, as well as lemon and vinegar)

100 Difficult Words to Build an Excellent Vocabulary

1) puissant- influential, powerful, important

2) encomium- a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly-- like a eulogy, panegyric, accolade, tribute, etc.

3) lusus naturæ-- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed; a freak or monstrosity

4) conceit- a fanciful expression or elaborate metaphor. For example, "the idea of the wind's singing is a prime romantic conceit". It can also be, an artistic device: "the director's brilliant conceit was to film it all in black and white". Or, a fanciful notion: "he was alarmed by the widespread conceit that he spent most of the 1980's drunk".

5) effluvium (singular), effluvia (plural)- an unpleasant or harmful odor, secretion, or discharge. "The swamp's effluvia".

6) chimera- a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is impossible to achieve. For example: "the economic sovereignty you claim to defend is a chimera" or "is this great love of hers merely a chimera?". In Greek mythology, the Chimera is a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's body, a goat's body, and a serpent's tale.

7) peccant, adj-- having committed a fault or sin; sinful; offending; violating a rule, principle, or established practice; faulty or wrong. "The minister delivered a stern sermon warning peccant parishioners of the punishments that awaited them in the afterlife." Or: diseased or causing disease.

8) occiput, noun-- the back portion of the head or skull

9) expostulate-- 

execrable

cant
indemnity

seminary

rapine

repletion

parity

restive

pastern

exhort

descanting

lissome

bailiwick

cadre

frisson

farinaceous

myrmidon

suborn

excrescence

incipient

collation

portmanteau

prolix

discursive

episcopacy

archiepiscopacy

effulgent

fasces

argosy

quiescence

unctuous

cabalistic
cabala

heliotropic

sedulous

anathema

pertinacity

munificent/munificence

ebullition

equanimity

privity

empiric

torpid

tarn

tenuity

abeyance

concision

cataleptical

distempered

extirpate

educe

phantasmagoria

pinion

collocate

treacle/trestle

vagary

casement

incubus

meerschaum

orbicular

renumerative

abrogation

avocation

cistern

inchoate

parfleche

halcyon

supernumerary

immanence

peculation

blandishment

bonhomie

asseveration

celerity

salient

salutary

imputation

parsimony

mendicancy

meretricious

oblation

quid pro quo

invocation

indigent

ombudsman

qua

epistemological

cognizance

metaphysical

dialectical

ineffable

dogma

ersatz

expropriating

chimera

iniquity

determinism

atavistic

coppice
paean- song of praise or triumph, example: "the bards sang a paean to the war".

pannier + dérailleur

political and career radiation

quadrangle

erudite

suzerain
panegyric- public speech praising someone or something

genuflect

solipsism

ailurophobic

monolithic

prelature

offertory

vilify

esplanade

canonization

apropos

gibbous

caparisoned

comity

effuse

melange

dolce affettuoso
eructation
tenesmus
purposive
burlesque
trope
adjudicate
sprezzatura