The Summer in Numbers
September 30th, 2007 at 21:23

Today is the 30th September. The last day of summer, more or less. Tomorrow is the start of my first week back at university (er, not that I have any lectures until Wednesday). I had an incredible summer and managed to do an awful lot, so here is my summer in numbers (aka: some statistics generated between two moderately arbitrary dates: June 1st and September 30th):

Capital cities visited: 2

I took a trip to Paris with my friends JD and Fundar in August. We saw tonnes of sights, art galleries, museums, and, er, dodgy parking techniques.

Trips to London: 8

I also went to London many, many times. With Katy, I saw everything from BBC Television Centre and the Foreign Office, to the Houses of Parliament and National Gallery, to London Zoo, to the Natural History Museum (and Science Museum, but I didn’t blog that), to the Tower of London and the London Eye. I bloody love London.

Prime Ministers seen: 2

I was also down in London for the big Prime Ministerial changeover day. I saw Tony Blair leave Downing Street for the last time, and Gordon Brown leave the Treasury on the way to Buckingham Palace.

Internet friends met: 20 or so

My other website had a big meet-up, and it was one of the most amazing days ever. I met around twenty people I’d only ever known via the internet before and they were all wonderful, excellent people.

Money spent on non-Paris holiday rail travel: £226.35

I knew, er, logging my train tickets would come in useful someday. I’ve used the trains quite a bit this summer. This explains where all of those savings I used to have have gone. This massive amount of money is why I feel comfortable getting all self-righteous about rail travel.

Bands seen live: 35

According to another spreadsheet, I’ve seen 35 bands live since June 1st, at 11 different gigs. It’d be 38 bands if I counted the night of May 31st. I saw quite a wide variety of people: Tom Morello, Me First & the Gimme Gimmies, Citizen Fish, Leftover Crack, Send More Paramedics, Frank Turner, Lethal Bizzle and Gallows, RX Bandits, and Hadouken, to name a few. All of this live music has empowered me to try and tell bands how it should be done.

Musical instruments I’ve failed to master: 1

Earlier this summer I thought it’d be wise to try and learn the trumpet to take on a friend in a stupid bet. Unfortunately, I’ve since lost my enthusiasm for the instrument, after it turned out that its really hard.

Films seen at the cinema: 5

Fantastic 4 2, Ocean’s 13, Die Hard 4, The Simpsons Movie, and Transformers.

Miscellaneous events I’d like to link to but can’t think of context: 2

I met Ming Campbell, and went to Woburn Safari Park.

Number of Cokes consumed: 498

I haven’t written about this for a while, but I’m still tracking my Coke intake. Over the summer I had 498 Cokes – or on average, 4.08 a day. Which is, er, rather a lot. The average (calculated by records beginning in early 2005) has gone from 3.131 to 3.252 – and this summer’s coke intake accounts for about 15.8% of Coke consumed since records began.

271 one of them were Coca Cola, 3 Diet Cokes, 52 Coke Zeroes, 119 Pepsi, and 45 Pepsi Max.

There is still officially “little to no purpose” for this data existing.

Blog Entries: 121

That averages one post every 1.008 days. And every single one is pure gold. Cough.

If you include this one then its averaging exactly one a day.

Change in amount of currency in ISA: Down 29%

Bugger.

Not doing a Master Card parody gag: Priceless

Summer was excellent. Hooray!

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