Do you ever suffer from delusions of grandeur and start thinking you'll get to everything on your projects list?

I will complete my series of political and economic essays

I will write my series of pulpy action novels 

I will create a hybrid motor vehicle drivetrain suitable for mass production that makes it possible to get 128 mpg while running on pure ethanol

I will create low cost electric power inverters that can be purchased for only a few hundred dollars each 

I will create the Quantum Octave processor core, and a compiler capable of transcribing binary PC code to run at super-fast speeds on my new hardware 

I will create solar energy and waste to potable water plants that will resolve the water problem in California 

I will create a solar energy desalination plant 

I will create a plant capable of converting live-stock waste to syn-diesel 

I will create an advanced ethanol plant that's capable of using methane and solar energy to convert bio-mass to ethanol with zero petroleum input

As a retirement project I'll open the International Museum of Fraud and Forgery

Sometimes I'm crazy enough to think I'll actually get to all of that.