I was reading a blog yesterday with 101 things to be done in the next 1001 days by some girl who lives in London or somewhere. It made me want to make a list myself, but with a more immediate completion date, but less goals. I started writing a list of things last night. Some of them should be interesting, and some of them are just a bit weird, but I intend to do all of them before this December 25th. I will also be adding more to the list, too, because I only have about 15 or 16 at the moment. I think about 25 targets should be a good number. There are some pretty unlikely things on there already.

I’m beginning work on two of them tomorrow. I will try to be a dietary vegan for the entire month of July. I’m using this as my oppourtunity to eat no junk food, and drink no soft drinks or alcohol either, thereby achieving two goals. Len agreed to join me on the no alcohol part when we were chatting on the triangle last night.

So, my day so far has consisted of looking around at what kind of things are available for me to eat. I’m going to have to go shopping either tonight or tomorrow so that I have at least something worth eating in the house. Wholemeal bread is fine and you can get vegan cheese, so that’s my lunches sorted 😉 Soy milk, fruit, lots of vegetables…

I don’t think I’ll enjoy this month very much after the first few days, especially when I have to watch people eating pizza or burgers or something. I guess that’s sort of the point of the list though, to get me to try things I wouldn’t ordinarily try.

Looks like tonight will have to be a night of eating pizza, and getting drunk one last time. 😀

I’ll post my list of 25 things to do when I finish writing it. I’ll make a separate page and link to it at the top or something. I hope I manage them all.

I was reading Explosm the other day when I noticed that they were having a guest strip week. I had an idea in my head about a month ago for what I thought would make a good comic, so I went ahead and made it today.

I’m pretty proud of it. It’s just about as offensive as their regular stuff, which is pushing taste pretty far. Obviously this in no way represents my actual feelings, it’s just a comic. A silly depiction of fictional events. Click on the image to enlarge it.

Well, last weekend sure was different.

I can’t be bothered with dragging things up again and I’m not writing any of this to re-awake the lovely conversations I’ve been having, but I write down pretty much everything on here. Blog Therapy. I’ll try to stick to the facts so there’s nothing that can be argued, because I can’t be bothered with a comment bitch-fest.

Leanne and I started to like each other quite a bit after my failed experiment with Rebecca and so we started sort of seeing each other. Leanne used to go out with Len over 7 months ago. Len kissed some other girl and their relationship ended on bad terms. Leanne asked Len to get back with her and he said no. He’s now sort of seeing another girl.

Craig is a flirty person by nature and has a habit of randomly grabbing, hugging, and generally hitting on every girl he goes near. He also once had sex with a married woman. He had arranged to go see Lily Allen with Dave, Jo, and Rebecca. I’d mentioned to Rebecca, when we were seeing each other, that it’d end up being Dave and Jo together leaving her and Craig together all night and he’d be hitting on her. I mentioned the same thing to Craig shortly before he left, as he was telling me how he made sure Rebecca could still go to the concert regardless of a lack of funding.

Me mentioning that he would hit on Rebecca annoyed Craig and, being the good friend he is, spoke to Rebecca and came up with a plan to try to upset me. He sent me a message saying he’d just kissed Rebecca. I was annoyed at first, but then I realised I had no need to be bothered because Rebecca has nothing to do with me any more.

A little while later I was with Leanne and I spoke to Dave who told me that h and Rebecca had slept together. I didn’t take him seriously at first, and for most of the night, because his story didn’t make sense. He kept switching around the people he was supposedly with. I told him I wasn’t bothered if he did sleep with Rebecca because I have no say over what either of them do. I also said I expected something like that would happen anyway because Rebecca can’t say no, and Dave wouldn’t think when he was drunk.

Because I was with Leanne I spoke to Rebecca to see if she’d ever kissed Len, and she said that she had done. So I told Leanne the news. Both of us suspected we were being wound up.

I kept saying over and over how I wasn’t at all bothered if they were telling the truth, and the only thing that would bother me is if they were making it all up on purpose just to hurt my feelings. It turns out that Dave and Craig were both lying just to upset me, and Rebecca was playing along too.

I sent a message to Len to ask about Rebecca and then went back home to sleep when he didn’t reply. I awoke to a reply from Len saying he’d never kissed Rebecca, and asking me why I thought he had done. I said “Rebecca told me you did, last night” to which he replied “It’s true.”

I decided since everything was so messed up anyway I might as well let Len know about Leanne and I. I tried to call him but couldn’t get through, and I figured he was just ignoring me, so I told him in a message.

A little while later I spoke to Dave who told me that he was so upset about the way I thought he would have sex with Rebecca that he actually did… He then proceeded to tell me how morally wrong I am to sleep with a friend’s ex-girlfriend, the whole time claiming that what he had done was entirely different.

Len spoke to me and wanted to arrange to meet up and discuss stuff. He asked me to call him the next day to arrange it. He told me he was at Eli’s (the girl he’s sort of seeing) house, which turned out to be a lie, as he was at Craig’s house. I called him about 15 times the next day and he ignored me completely. Craig also ignored my calls, apparently annoyed that I should believe that he would “cross that line” (see paragraph 3 RE: married woman). Dave continued blaming me for everything via email for a day.

I don’t really know what else to say, despite the fact that I’ve written things down in the most factual way I can I’m sure there will be little discepancies that people will write giant comments about, but oh well. I was sober, I recorded the calls. I trust my recollection more than that of anyone else.

I eagerly await a right royal flaming.

The stuff I wrote here previously wasn’t actually correct at all. It was just my friends trying to upset me.

There’s no point in me voicing my opinion. It doesn’t matter.

Len, Leanne, and I stayed at Craig’s flat for the night while Craig went out with Glenn, Shaun, and Baxter.

We got very drunk. The usual.

It’s been 13 days since I ordered my new card from Natwest and still nothing is here. I called the telephone banking line a little while ago to discover that my new card was never ordered at all. The person I spoke to on the phone that night I cut up my card lied to me.

Now I have to wait 7-10 days for my card to arrive. It will have been the best part of a month by the time I get it all sorted with all the pissing around with the PIN and such. On Saturday I’m going to go to HSBC and see about opening a new account and getting my wages paid into there. They tell me they’ll give me £50 if I do it.

I’ll probably have that account sorted out before this one.

I was just reading some Reuters articles when I found an article about George Bush and the US administration blocking Belarus assets in the US because of corruption accusations in the Belarus electoral process.

Alexander Lukashenko is the president of Belarus and he’s beginning to remind me of Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian Premier. One of Lukashenko’s spokesmen, Andrei Popov, said the following about the assets in the US: “We propose that the United States send the mythical funds to which they are referring to needy U.S. citizens.”

Ouch!

7 of us went to visit the Major Oak last night. It was a lot of fun going there. We took some more pictures, but a few people didn’t bother climbing or even touching the tree, oh well.

After the tree we drove back via pretty much everywhere in Edwinstowe and the surrounding area. I threw cheese strings at Glenn and the people in his car. We went to Thieve’s Wood to take a look at the doggers and see what was going on there, but left pretty quickly when some people started getting out of their cars 😀

After a bit more driving around like that Glenn and Shaun were going home, so we took Dave from that car and then we all drove around for a few more minutes before Glenn and Shaun actually did leave.

Craig drove us up towards the old General Hospital and Dave suggested exploring inside it, like 0lly did once. They didn’t actually go in at all, and came back before too long. we played around with Craig’s car without the handbrake to see if we could hold it on a hill. It was a bit wet out there and very difficult for anyone to get a grip, but Dave did actually manage to move the car up the hill a tiny amount. After a little bit longer Dave wanted to go home so we dropped him off and continued our journey with a lot more space on the back seat.

We decided to go investigate a town called Gotham to see if it was actually the fabled city from the Batman series. Len cut off his boxer shorts at some point because they were bothering him. When we finally got to Gotham Len and Craig took some pictures which I have yet to collect from them for the site. Then we decided to head towards Newark for a while before changing our minds and finding our way back to Mansfield.

Craig hung Len’s boxer shorts on the back of Glenn’s car and then we drove off to a park next to the Civic Centre. After a while of messing around on there I started to get a migraine and craig was getting cold, so we went back to the car and hunted high and low for somewhere to buy something to eat, with no luck.

I decided I should really get some sleep before I turned totally blind and my head really started hurting, so Craig dropped me off at about 06:00 and Len and Leanne waited with him for McDonalds to open at 06:30.

It was a really good night and hopefully there will be more like that in the near future.

I’m bored and I can’t really find anything that keeps me interested for more than about 10 minutes.

I wrote a new comic strip last night for the first time in over 2 months. I found it funny at the time I wrote it, but now I just think it’s a bit political and silly.

I wrote some more code for my project to help get a job in California this autumn, so that’s all good. I’m getting it to move along in shunts now… It recognises what I want most of the time, I just can’t get it to play with the data properly yet 😉 Minor details slowing the rest of it.

I added a change to my iTunes to XChat script so that it runs properly on non-English Windows installations, so that’s also good 🙂 That’s thanks to a comment left in my shoutbox. Whoever wrote the comment should leave a comment with their name or something so I can thank them properly in the ChangeLog.

Anyway, I’m considering coming up with a new series of comics if I can be bothered to draw a new selection of characters… Stick characters are extremely tempting. Oh well. I wish I could draw… Or just find someone else who can draw and I can write for them. I’m Tycho looking for my very own Gabe, if you will. If you get that reference then well done. If not then you need to read more web-comics.

So yeah, father’s day tomorrow. I bought season 1 of Only Fools and Horses for my dad. I used to work with the girl who served me at HMV and she said “father’s day?” when I handed it over 🙂 An excellent assumption. As I was walking out I realised I should have said something more like “Father’s day? When’s that?”

Oh well. I didn’t.

Oooh! I got a sweet looking new library card! I realised I hadn’t had a card since before I moved away, so I got my act together. It cost me £1.40, which is nothing, and it has our planet on the front of it. It’s very nice, I doubt I’ll use it more than once a year…

My co-worker called me over to the window a few minutes ago to show me something.

This guy who goes to college here in a wheelchair was outside “playing football” with a few other people. He was basically on the floor sitting up and the three other people were taking penalties against him… A tad unfair I think.

The more i think about it now the more I think it’s actually kinda cool, not cruel. He can’t really play in any other position, and I’m sure he’d rather play and lose than not play at all.

Just seemed kinda shitty, y’know?