Thing #97: Take great photos - Done!

Sometimes you don't need to know how to take great photos. The landscape renders them great photos because it's just so beautiful. This certainly helps a hopeless photographer like myself!

Anyway, all the photos below were taken in Santorini. I resized them so that you can use them for wallpapers (4:3 screens - they may will look a bit funny if stretched for use on a wide screens)! Just click on any of them, then on the new window right click on the photo and 'Set as background', if you are using Internet Explorer.

Thing #60: Done

After one week (actually almost 8 days!) of not touching a PC (in fact not even coming close to one) I can proudly claim this Thing is now finally done! Now, please let me spend the next week in front of a screen in piece. Thank you.

Thing #60: Done but have I done enough?

I have completed the 7 days of exercising and I am now as 'done' as this Thing.

Now, that I have exercised my body and armed with a new-found confidence I am prepared for the the unthinkable: stay away from computers for 7 days. Only then will I have proven myself worthy of claiming this Thing really completed.

Why start your own list!

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).

Update: 57.142857142857142857142857142857% completed

That's basically 4/7 sessions done! Another 42.857142857142857142857142857143% to go!

Update: 42.857142857142857142857142857143% completed

That's basically 3/7 sessions done! Another 57.142857142857142857142857142857% to go!

Thing #60: Let's try this again

I have previously tried to complete Thing #60, by exercising for a week... and failed. No it's time I tried again. In fact, I have already started and I am already on day 2! Another 5 days to go!

I am already tired. Well, OK... exhausted!

New high score!

A reader who will call 'X' has officially achieved a new high score in the 'Sparkling Cow Look' game. If you want your name to appear in the hall of fame of this exciting game then read the instructions first, play the game and send me a screenshot of your score!

Thing #3: Make an Origami Crane

Not an origami crane, but equally exciting. Use pub supplied beer mats to make a TIE fighter chasing a X_Wing.



PS: Convenience has just been elevated to a completely new level.

High score

Can you beat me? If you do send me a screenshot to prove it! :)



By the, way do you remember Thing #9?

Thing #45: Invent your own game

This was a bit tricky. Coming up with a game that is fun is not easy. In January while on a day trip I came across a Monopoly type of game that you could customise. I thought that might have been a good candidate for this Thing, but how would I share the excitement with you?

Fast forward 6 months and I now proudly present 'Sparkling Cow Look', a simple yet addictive game! Just make sure you shoot the cow in the water pool!

Other games

Build your own games

PS: No animals were hurt while producing this game.

Thing #33: Bake a cake - Done!

If I am going to exercise at a later date, I may as well bake the cake now and lose all the calories later. So for Thing #33 I present a Tiramisu.




I can hear you begging for the recipe, but that's a secret. Well not that much of a secret, googling tiramisu returns more than 5million pages and even if a fraction of them are recipes you get the picture.

One of my favourite cooking sites is Cooking for Engineers! Step by step instructions accompanied by photos make sure you can't get a recipe wrong! Oh, and don't forget to check out the experiments section! For the tirumisu click here.

Let's do something else

It's been raining the last few days so impossible (no really) to go our for jogging so I have to postpone this Thing. Not my fault right?

It's Monday!

It's Monday and I have started training again. Hopefully, I will survive the week and complete this Thing.