Easter Meet
March 16th, 2008 at 17:54

I had an excellent day yesterday – I went down to London to meet my nerdy mates from my other website. Here are some exciting photos of me looking really popular in the company of other people:

Chris, Lottie, Barney, Kyron, Ant, Me, Sam, William, Shark, Kat and Dan. Not pictured: Katy.

Dan bothering a mime.

It being Easter, we thought we should respect the religious aspects, and celebrate Jesus’ death by recreating Leonardo’s Last Supper.

As luck would have it, Barney looks a bit like Jesus. And Sam looks a bit like Mary Magdeline. And I played the part of Judas. The other apostles were perhaps a little less enthusiastic.

Spending about eight hours with me is difficult enough for anyone, really. Unfortunately, William’s Jamesomalley tolerance was slightly less than eight hours, so he ended up punching me.

But it was fun. I may have another tale to tell about this in a few days.

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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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