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scrubbedexpat141 Sep 4th 2013 11:00 am

Re: What are your targets?
 

Originally Posted by The_Citizen (Post 10885078)
Wasn't really anything nearby or within say 40-50 miles that I could go to on a regular basis.

Yeah that's pretty limiting...!

Meow Sep 4th 2013 11:31 am

Re: What are your targets?
 
The person who annoyed me earlier today. He's in my sights...

Bahtatboy Sep 4th 2013 11:49 am

Re: What are your targets?
 
Aside from the girl in the adjacent office with the demeanour of a slightly-drugged hippy, a gorgeously-languid lilt, and deep, deep, deep dark eyes…

Long-Term
Manage my (albeit currently mainly putative) investments in a balanced way sufficient to fund my retirement
Maintain my health (as far as that’s within my control) sufficient to keep doing what I enjoy
Refuse to let my chronological age inhibit me

Medium-Term
Retire in 3 and-a-bit years via doing what my current employer likes me to do
Have as much fun as I can during what is, admittedly, a somewhat unbalanced existence
Get into 34” jeans with no overhang, since that’s my self-imposed condition for buying a Moto Guzzi V7 Racer
Buy a Moto Guzzi V7 Racer

Short-Term
Learn the control that is necessary to be able to go round within 18 over
Get more sleep
Exercise more
Talk to that trusted IFA…

scrubbedexpat141 Sep 4th 2013 11:53 am

Re: What are your targets?
 

Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 10885165)

Short-Term
Learn the control that is necessary to be able to go round within 18 over

Great one. I should have said this.

I'm shite at golf and broke 100 for the first time a few weeks back. Then shot 103 at AD National and 102 at Al Badia.

Both rounds were great until about the 12th at AD and the 14th at Al Badia where I shot a 10 both times. If I didn't have such a stinking hole which stood out like a sore thumb then I'd be under 100 consistently.

I don't want to be great, I just want to not be utterly shite. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

weasel decentral Sep 4th 2013 1:48 pm

Re: What are your targets?
 

Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 10885165)
Buy a Moto Guzzi V7 Racer

Now that's a nice plan, just put with it a goal to attend a motorcycle maintenance course :p

Bahtatboy Sep 4th 2013 1:57 pm

Re: What are your targets?
 

Originally Posted by weasel decentral (Post 10885365)
Now that's a nice plan, just put with it a goal to attend a motorcycle maintenance course :p

I'll do it in a Zen-like state, man :shades_smile:

OleJanx Sep 4th 2013 2:09 pm

Re: What are your targets?
 

Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 10885383)
I'll do it in a Zen-like state, man :shades_smile:

:thumbsup:

co durham boy Sep 4th 2013 2:31 pm

Re: What are your targets?
 
Short Term

* Run my second marathon

* Visit Moscow and Tokyo and Namibia

* Buy more distressed property


Long Term

* Take 6 months out to do a charity build project in Sri Lanka for Oxfam

* Retire at 55

* Get the fu** out of Qatar

Bahtatboy Sep 4th 2013 2:41 pm

Re: What are your targets?
 

Originally Posted by co durham boy (Post 10885444)
Short Term

* Run my second marathon

* Visit Moscow and Tokyo and Namibia

* Buy more distressed property


Long Term

* Take 6 months out to do a charity build project in Sri Lanka for Oxfam

* Retire at 55

* Get the fu** out of Qatar

That's quite impressive :thumbup:

By the way, can you recommend anywhere for lunch in Durham?

NorthernLad Sep 4th 2013 2:49 pm

Re: What are your targets?
 

Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 10885470)
That's quite impressive :thumbup:

By the way, can you recommend anywhere for lunch in Durham?

The Court for good pub food.

Bahtatboy Sep 4th 2013 3:00 pm

Re: What are your targets?
 

Originally Posted by NorthernLad (Post 10885487)
The Court for good pub food.

Town centre?

Ethos83 Sep 4th 2013 3:37 pm

Re: What are your targets?
 
Short term: buy a house (will happen before December).

Mid-term: Get out of London and buy a bigger house.

Long term: former rectory in Dorset.

scrubbedexpat141 Sep 4th 2013 3:42 pm

Re: What are your targets?
 

Originally Posted by co durham boy (Post 10885444)
Short Term

* Run my second marathon

* Visit Moscow and Tokyo and Namibia

* Buy more distressed property


Long Term

* Take 6 months out to do a charity build project in Sri Lanka for Oxfam

* Retire at 55

* Get the fu** out of Qatar

Awesome.

By distressed do you mean knackered or off banks etc?

commander Sep 4th 2013 5:38 pm

Re: What are your targets?
 
Do my second sub10 hour Ironman triathlon
Qualify and race at the world champs in Hawaii
Podium for GB at the Euro Champs next June in Austria

Workwise, continue to enjoy and develop with my current company.
Move eventually to either Houston or back to UK

We just sold our house in scotland so looking to invest somewhere.

To find a cure for MS.

That's about it really, nothing much of any interest.

Go a whole day without stressing about people's driving

scrubbedexpat141 Sep 4th 2013 6:02 pm

Re: What are your targets?
 

Originally Posted by commander (Post 10885788)

Go a whole day without stressing about people's driving

Amen.


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