This is a bunch of things I experienced for the first time in 2017: 

• Ate grits
• Stood in Lee Harvey Oswald’s bedroom
• Drove a Smart car
• Hiked to the Hollywood sign
• Bought an electric lawn mower & yard trimmers
• Gave away perfectly good, gasoline-powered garden equipment
• Played golf at a country club
• Staged an intervention
• Rotated my own tires
• Wore a $26,000 Breitling for an hour
• Had suits taken in
• Soaked in a hot spring
• Had my hair channeled
• Perfected parking lot donuts in a rented Mustang at Hoover Dam
• Returned a rented Mustang with a wrecked, rear tire
• Was Fastest Bleeder Of The Day at the blood bank
• Bought a copy of The Chicago Manual of Style
• Bailed on satellite and cable—became TV streamers
• Learned some stuff about electricity
• Built a nifty, portable power station from a truck battery and inverter 
• Visited Salton Sea
• Spent a day at Slab City, California
• Bought a gigantic smartphone
• Turned 200,000 miles on a vehicle
• Fixed a broken dryer with a soldering iron
• Found a Violent Femmes disc in a rented Maxima
• Missed an Amtrak
• Got rid of landlines
• Got tattooed in Utah
• Drove the Otay Truck Trail 

–Michael Lane
January 2018

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