I think I am done for this year! 35 Things and 86 posts later I will wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. You may be older when I next see you, but do make sure you have a great time during the holidays!
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It's been a while since I've completed a Thing, so I though to do #28 and come back with a bit of magic!
Interestingly, Thing #28 is the 28th Thing I complete!
For those who follow the blog (apparently there are more than one people reading these pages regularly, and yes I am serious!) you would have known by now that the book is called '101 things to do before you are old and boring'. Unfortunately the book can not stop you getting older (you are already 5 seconds older since you started reading this post), but it can help with the boring bit! It's now 6 months since I started this and all this time it has provided a plethora (remember the Thing with the words!) opportunities for coffee chat. More importantly it gives you something different to do every week. So if you are thinking about embarking on your list then my advise is: stop reading this and start writing.
If you are not convinced yet, do a little experiment. Ask 10 friends to list their hobbies. I bet they will list the usual stuff like going out, TV, dinners, music, reading. Are you still awake? I am not saying these are boring things to do. On the contrary! I go out, watch TV (well sort of), enjoy dinners (that's an understatement), listen to music and enjoy reading. But what I think is missing from the picture is variation. And that's what the book can do for you. It also makes other things interesting too. Everything around you is an opportunity to complete a Thing. In fact, chances are your existing hobbies would be in the book in one way or another.
I am confident by now you are on Amazonordering the book. Was it my strong and convincing arguments or have you just realised how bored you are that you have nothing better to do but read my blog? (The correct answer is the first one). Either way when you start your own list don't get throughit very quickly. What's the point? I am not 14 and I have already done many Things (e.g. Thing#I-don-t-remember-the-number: Be a genius) already, but so what? Skimming stones may be a novelty if you are a kid, but come on: It's a great excuse to go to the beach! And make sure you don't go alone. Get your friends with you. After all they will be glad to see you humiliated and humbled. That's what friends are there for, right? And if someone claims your blog is boring then you be serious and say the next few words in a posh way: 'I will not dignify your comment with a response'. If you choose to respond then claim that it takes a boring person to know a boring blog or that they are so old that they can be fun anymore. My suggested course of action is to ignore them, you are not doing it for them, but for you. You are getting older and more boring while explaining why you are doing it after all.
Finally, a piece of advice I keep giving myself: if you are to do something do it properly... and look good while doing it. So go ThinkGeek.com and buy a PROPER t-shirt to wear while blogging (male/female).
The "European" menu:
The "Asian" menu:
All the above are suitable for vegetarian who eat fish, so I also claim Thing #99 done. I know it's not for a week but the shear complexity of the above menu is a good enough reason to make such a claim.
Oh, and for desert go to a friend and have coffee.
Of course, one could argue that this was my fault as I forgot that I had posted the clip and then went on and posted it again. In such case, I have to assume responsibility for the deterioration of the posting quality. Of course, this is not an option and I will blame it on you who did not notice it and claim that Thing #88 is now completed.
"I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but realized that it would have been indeed "Greek" to all present in this room. I found out, however, that I could make my address in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, l shall do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions, only Greek words."
And then we went on..
"Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a Panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my euharistia to you, Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizes and protagonists of his Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia".
Being able to read and actually understand what he is talking about qualifies me for Thing #87.
It's now 5 months since I started going through the list and I have completed 14 Things. With this rate it will take me 3 years to complete the entire list, which is a good thing (ironic isn't it?) because it means I will have something to do for some time. If nothing else, the list and my adventures provides a good source of topics for discussion over a top: "so, how come with your fitness levels you managed to survive the stairs thing?"
So I guess I can claim this Thing is now completed!
It would have been soooo much better, if I had to show you a video clip like the one below:
Anyway, for this Thing I put forward my collection of... unread Wired magazines. I have now 12 issues that I have not managed to read due to other committemments (i.e. work). Still, every month I make sure I pay the -now regular- visit to the local newsagent. 
2) I will repeat some but not all the Things that I have already done; life is too short to do the same thing more than once, for the sake of doing it.
3) I do not need to do things sequentially. Isn't it great when you can make the rules? I know I sound like Monica in Friends!
By the way, I added a table with the numbers between 1-101 so that I and, of course, you valued reader can track my progress. As decision number 2 allows me to retrospectively claim that a tasks was completed I officially announced that I have just completed Thing #36: Start your own blog!
There are a few books with "x things to do before y". So I though to compile -perhaps ironically- a list of them:
Grissom: So, let's see. You surf, you scuba dive. You're into latex, you like fashion models and Marilyn Manson. And you also have a coin collection?
Greg: Weird, ha?
Grissom: Well, I race cockroaches.
