{"id":50,"date":"2004-11-30T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T07:46:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:39","slug":"the-big-three-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/11\/the-big-three-oh","title":{"rendered":"The Big Three Oh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/images\/inline\/30.gif\" width=\"126\" height=\"134\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" class=\"rightinlineborder\" \/>Tonight, I am 29, and tomorrow morning, December 1st, I will turn 30.  Hot damn!  That decade just flew by!  The whole decade thing is not that big of a deal to me because I feel like we count things by tens only for neurological convenience&#8230; not to mention that no other animal gives a damn about the number ten.<\/p>\n<p>But still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When you reach a decade mark in your life, you can&#8217;t help but reflect on previous decades and measure expectations for the coming one.  Rather than write a sappy, rambling essay about life and what my place in it is, I just wanted to sum up my three decades so far with one (run-on) sentence each and then spell out some goals on the record with the hopes that I might actually follow through on them:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age 0-9:<\/strong>  I was a standout wiseass in school, got in trouble quite a bit, and eventually learned to treat formalized education like a beneficial experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age 10-19:<\/strong>  My family moved from Pacific Palisades, CA to Seattle, WA, I grew to love the Northwest, and I drank my way through high school and into the University of Washington School of Business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age 20-29:<\/strong>  My career focus landed decisively in advertising, design, and the creative arts, at one point I was one signature away from a nice early retirement, and now I have a great job that I love.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really have any spectacular promises to make for the next ten years, but I have a few things I want to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy a house in the South of France.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.fr\" target=\"_blank\">Nice<\/a> would be nice.  A buddy and I decided in college that we&#8217;d go in on a summer home there.  My target age was 34.  Time to make good.<\/li>\n<li>Get married. (Note to self: requires girlfriend)<\/li>\n<li>Start thinking in seven figures. We&#8217;re on the verge of another, slightly more sane, tech boom, and I plan on doing a good amount of the booming.<\/li>\n<li>Make various unspecified health improvements.  I treat my body like a temple, but only the sort of temple you&#8217;re allowed to throw concerts in occasionally.<\/li>\n<li>Drink a lot more water. That&#8217;s an easy one. Anyone know if this is really worth it? I&#8217;ve always thought the whole &#8220;8 tall glasses of water per day&#8221; campaign was a bit of a scam.<\/li>\n<li>Dive the top ten dives in the world. I&#8217;ve already done one in Kona, Hawaii and it was the most surreal thing I&#8217;ve ever seen &#8212; television, movies, and all other things included. I&#8217;ll take nine more of those please.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, I hope that the next time one of these decade marks passes, my country will be a bit more popular around the world again. Or else, I&#8217;ll be writing you from <a href=\"http:\/\/zapatopi.net\/cascadia.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cascadia<\/a>.  :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I am 29, and tomorrow morning, December 1st, I will turn 30.  Hot damn!  That decade just flew by!  The whole decade thing is not that big of a deal to me because I feel like we count things by tens only for neurological convenience&#8230; not to mention that no other animal gives a damn about the number ten.  But still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}