Well, after a very laszy weekend (awake around 4 hours out 24 yesterday – went to bed around 10pm on Friday night and “properly got up” at 11am this Sunday morning: mainly because of a wrong number telephone call), I now need to start designing our next “killer app” for work (yeah, I know we’re mainly in the web hosting biz, but we need the technology behind it to make things “work brilliantly”). However, until I’ve spec’d things out in my head and my work emails finished downloading (only another 228 emails to go), I thought I’d add a blog entry and since Jay Allen’s done it, Christine’s done it, Neil’s done it and Daisy’s done it (along with many others – it appears to have started from Realization), here’s my “200 things list” – things that I’ve done have been bolded.
- Bought everyone in the pub a drink – We did have the benefit that the pub had just opened and there were just the 4 of us in there
- Swam with wild dolphins
- Climbed a mountain – I attempted to climb Mt.Snowdon in Wales (didn’t even get a quarter of the way up) and I planned to go up Mt.Fiji in Japan: do they count?
- Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
- Been inside the Great Pyramid
- Held a tarantula.
- Taken a candlelit bath with someone
- Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
- Hugged a tree
- Done a striptease
- Bungee jumped
- Visited Paris – Around 3 times if I remember correctly
- Watched a lightning storm at sea
- Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise – several times, mainly “unplanned though” (i.e. I didn’t plan to stay up all night…)
- Seen the Northern Lights
- Gone to a huge sports game
- Walked the stairs to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Grown and eaten your own vegetables
- Touched an iceberg
- Slept under the stars – I used to really enjoy camping out under the stars: but haven’t done it in years!
- Changed a baby’s diaper – Possible my youngest sister’s when I was around 7 or 8 years old: but I can’t remember for sure
- Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
- Watched a meteor shower
- Gotten drunk on champagne – You mean champagne is more then over rated fizzy water?
- Given more than you can afford to charity
- Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
- Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
- Had a food fight
- Bet on a winning horse
- Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
- Asked out a stranger
- Had a snowball fight – When I was much younger of course…
- Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
- Screamed as loudly as you possibly can – I can remember having some sort of screaming competition with my sisters when we were all much younger, I can’t remember why though
- Held a lamb
- Enacted a favorite fantasy
- Taken a midnight skinny dip – Not at midnight..
- Taken an ice cold bath – Especially when my boiler breaks down *brr*
- Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
- Seen a total eclipse
- Ridden a roller coaster – Ridden quite a few!
- Hit a home run
- Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
- Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking – Hey – it’s the only way I dance! 🙂
- Adopted an accent for an entire day
- Visited the birthplace of your ancestors – Most of my fathers side of the family actually come from the area we still in in. My mother’s side I won’t stand a chance!
- Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
- Had two hard drives for your computer. – I’ve got 3 in my main machine (200 Gb total), 4 in my household server (650 Gb total) and 2 in my American based server – but only 1 in my laptop.
- Visited all 50 states
- Loved your job for all accounts
- Taken care of someone who was sh-t faced
- Had enough money to be truly satisfied (money != satisfaction)
- Had amazing friends
- Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
- Watched wild whales
- Stolen a sign
- Backpacked in Europe
- Taken a road-trip
- Rock climbing
- Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice
- Midnight walk on the beach
- Sky diving
- Visited Ireland
- Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
- In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
- Visited Japan – yep, got back two weeks ago (seems ages ago already though! I actually had lunch today consisting of noodles and blackbean beef eaten with chopsticks and drinking Japanese green tea whilst watching a Japanese TV program where they were having a Westernised meal with Knife and forks!)
- Benchpressed your own weight
- Milked a cow
- Alphabetized your records – CDs yes.
- Pretended to be a superhero
- Sung karaoke – Attempted to several times
- Lounged around in bed all day – Yep, as recently as yesterday!
- Posed nude in front of strangers
- Scuba diving
- Got it on to “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye
- Kissed in the rain
- Played in the mud – When I was a kid
- Played in the rain – Ditto
- Gone to a drive-in theater
- Done something you should regret, but don’t regret it.
- Visited the Great Wall of China
- Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
- Dropped Windows in favor of something better – Linux on my server and seriously considering moving to Linux on the desktop. Also got RISC OS machines as double-backup
- Started a business
- Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
- Toured ancient sites
- Taken a martial arts class – Judo when I was much yonger
- Swordfought for the honor of a woman
- Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
- Gotten married
- Been in a movie – Closest is being on TV, radio and in the press and just missing out on being “on set” when Shadowlands (a film) was being filmed quite close to me
- Crashed a party
- Loved someone you shouldn’t have
- Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
- Gotten divorced
- Had sex at the office
- Gone without food for 5 days
- Made cookies from scratch
- Won first prize in a costume contest
- Ridden a gondola in Venice
- Gotten a tattoo
- Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
- Rafted the Snake River
- Been on television news programs as an “expert”
- Got flowers for no reason
- Masturbated in a public place
- Got so drunk you don’t remember anything
- Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
- Performed on stage
- Been to Las Vegas
- Recorded music –
- Eaten shark
- Had a one-night stand
- Gone to Thailand
- Seen Siouxsie live
- Bought a house
- Been in a combat zone
- Buried one/both of your parents
- Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
- Been on a cruise ship
- Spoken more than one language fluently
- Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
- Bounced a check
- Performed in Rocky Horror
- Read – and understood – your credit report
- Raised children
- Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
- Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
- Created and named your own constellation of stars
- Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
- Found out something significant that your ancestors did
- Called or written your Congress person
- Picked up and moved to another city to just start over – Not yet…
- …more than once? – More than thrice?
- Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
- Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
- Had an abortion or your female partner did
- Had plastic surgery
- Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived.
- Wrote articles for a large publication – Archive Magazine
- Lost over 100 pounds – £100 cash, yes – 100lbs in weight, nope
- Held someone while they were having a flashback
- Piloted an airplane
- Petted a stingray
- Broken someone’s heart
- Helped an animal give birth
- Been fired or laid off from a job
- Won money on a T.V. game show
- Broken a bone
- Killed a human being
- Gone on an African photo safari
- Ridden a motorcycle
- Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph
- Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
- Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
- Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
- Ridden a horse
- Had major surgery
- Had sex on a moving train
- Had a snake as a pet
- Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
- Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
- Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours – Quite often!
- Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
- Visited all 7 continents
- Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
- Eaten kangaroo meat
- Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
- Been a sperm or egg donor
- Eaten sushi – Up to 3 months ago, I hated fish. Now I wish there was a Sushi restuarant in Leicester – ideally a conveyor belt on. I quite like Sushi and fish in general now!
- Had your picture in the newspaper
- Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
- Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
- Gotten someone fired for their actions
- Gone back to school
- Parasailed
- Changed your name
- Petted a cockroach
- Eaten fried green tomatoes
- Read The Iliad
- Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
- Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them.
- …and gotten 86’ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
- Taught yourself an art from scratch – Computer programming counts doesn’t it?
- Killed and prepared an animal for eating
- Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt – My parents for my teenage years
- Skipped all your school reunions.
- Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language – Most Japanese people don’t speak English and I don’t speak much Japanese. Pointing at things and displays on calculators work though!
- Been elected to public office – Does “Village Representitive” count?
- Written your own computer language – Yep, on the RISC OS platform. Wasn’t that good though and was very slow, but still. IIRC I’ve written a primitive scripting language for a Linux/Windows environment, but very primitive
- Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
- Had to put someone you love into hospice care
- Built your own PC from parts
- Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
- Had a booth at a street fair
- Dyed your hair
- Been a DJ
- Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
- Written your own role playing game
- Been arrested