Lack Of Motivation
Basically I haven’t posted on here because I can’t. I have no motivation. I have about 10 posts half written or mapped out but no motivation to actually finish them.
I have a lot of time to do it. But I just can’t. Its almost like its been too long. I have gone so long without posting that now I am frigid!!!
I think maybe this is the post thatll clear the block……….. maybe……..
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GeoCaching Cartoon # 2
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My Challenge To You! – Part 6
See the original post.
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Downsides To Losing Weight
I am losing weight. yes you heard me right. I have so far lost the equivelent of 112 sausages. Though I aim to lose another 800 sausages. But everyone goe son about the good bits of losing weight.
Here I have made a list of things I will miss when I lose weight. But also below them are the alternatives.
- Ill never get the front seat on a car journey anymore.
But at least I’ll be able to fit in a back seat
- My female friends wont want to cuddle me as much
Instead they’ll want to rub genitals.
- I’ll get my ass handed to me on the rugby pitch
Find a better position where you score tries rather than get beat up and watch the more slimmer players get the glory.
- People don’t start fights with me coz I am a big lad
If people do start fights ill be able to run away.
- When playing wrestling with my housemates 4 year old who by the way does an awesome knee drop to the back, there is something so damn funny about saying “In the blue corner, at 3ft high and 40lbs…. Sammy!!!” then in a more sombre voice “ANNNNND in the red corner, at 5ft11, and weighing in at 357lbs…… the defending heavyweight living room champion of the world/galaxy/universe….. Sulleyp”.
- It just wont sound the same being “ANNNNND in the red corner, at 5ft11, and weighing in at 217lbs…..”
His dad won’t have to take him to the hospital when I mistime a belly flop from the sofa again.
- I won’t get out of breath by going up stairs because I’m overwight.
Instead people will realise I am just unfit
- I will have some muscle definition for people to see instead of claiming I work out and that you can’t see the results
People CAN see the results and know full well I don’t work out.
- My willy will look bigger
I can no longer claim its a grower not a shower.
- I am no longer too big for high street chains
I have to start giving a shit about fashion
- I can fit comfortably in an airline seat
People will sit next to me and snore loads as there is now room for them.
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Tags: losing weight, slimming world, weight loss, weight watchers
GeoCaching Cartoon
In keeping with my pants drawings. Here is a caching related one.
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The World Of Geocaching
I started this one 6 weeks ago but have finally got round to finishing it with photos… wooooooo I hear you say.
Geocaching is a reletively new hobby in the history of the world from around 2001. The Earth is as scientists estimate to be 4 billion year old. That means Geocaching has only been around for 0.000000002% of the time Earth has been here. Now is not much compared to say hoooomans who have been around if you believe god’s bumchums to be 0.0000015% (6000 years). Or the scientists who think it’s more like 0.000175%.
Geocaching was invented in 2001 when 2 geeks wanted to have a practical non road use for their GPS (satnav) devices. So to cut a long story short they started a trend of hiding caches in places and getting other to find them.
Finding the cache is the name of the game. A cache is a container of some sort placed at a predeermined location. the cache can be any size and contain anyhting from a piece of paper to lots of goodies!
The most common cache containers tend to be plastic food storage boxes. They contain a log book and most of the time some little pirzes. The philiosophy is that if you take some you must leave something. It tends to be small things like keyrings, pens, coins. Though when placed a cache normally has an expensive item. I put a £20 watch I never used in my first cache.
Currently I cache alone though I have been with Calamity Jane (photo below) at lunchtime from work a few times. See her blog to the right.
There are also many types of cache. Though I will cover the :
Traditional
This is where a person hides a cache, and then palces the coordinates on the website and a clue to help you find it. These are the most common and simple ones. It’s a good job to crack out a few of these before moving onto the others.
Multi
These tend to take time to do but yet can be very rewarding. They normally invovle a circular walk round a town centre or a park finding lots of small caches before leading you to the final one which has lil prizes in.
Puzzle
This one normally involves a bit of brain to get the answer. The coordinates are somehow obscured from the user and they have to solve a puzzle to find out where the cache is. These are the best ones as they make you work for it!
Virtual
These tend to be at locaitons where it isn’t feasible to have a cache but is still a landmark. For instance theres one near me where theres a fighter jet at the local RAF base by the side of the road. And to complete the cache you have to email the guy who created it the plane regestration number to show you were there.
Earth
These tend to be similar to virtual cache but focus more on geological areas. Same sort of completion criteria though. A photo of you by the geographical feature or something similar. Seaside resorts tend to have a lot of these.
The thrill I have found is often in the hunt rather than whats inside the box. Theres nothing more exciting than hunting it down. Especially if it is in an odd place.
I often cache in shorts and a hoodie and it has caught me out a couple of times when going through the woods.
One of the main reasons I do it apart from being a healthy option to the pub is the views. Caching takes you to place you sometimes didn’t even know existed. There is a clay piegeon shooting place just 5 minutes from my house.
Also if you are a keen photographer, a sunny day can provide you with oppotunities to get good photos of you and your friends. And maybe even try a meaniful snap.
And if you get a nice young lady along there are good views of other proportions
Though it isn’t for everyone. I took 2 friends out on Saturdya and they weren’t that impressed with walking round for 90 mins to find a soggy box full of mush.
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My Halloween Pumpkins
Well as you know. I am a loser. I am a massive geek. I like doing things with my hands. I have no girlfriend, not even a sniff of one. And everyone I was supposed to be doing something with bailed out on me on halloween for a miriad of reasons.
So while wallowing in self pity trying to make out which bleach would be tastiest. I decided to spend 4 hours carving pumpkins.
But not normal pumpkins. Disgusting, revolting horrible pumpkins. Here are the results.
CANNIBALS
The cannibals are basically 2 evil mofos eating an innocent pumpkin. The big pumkin is my firebreathing one (see below) and the other is my Terminator pumpkin (see below also). This one made my housemate gag when she saw the brains.
FIRE BREATHER
This one I am most proud of. It took me only 20 minutes to make but scarred me. I wont give away the secrets but it is safe to say I at one point got a mouthful of liquid fire and was eating ice cream the rest of the weekend.
THE TERMINATOR
This one is a great idea. I basically rummage din my old pc spares box and found a thin bendable metal sheet and cut and glues it to the pumkin after hacking away at its skin. I also embedded real computer parts in the pumkin and gave it a red plastic eye.
EYEBALL
This one only took 5 or 6 minutes and 4 of them were scooping it all out. Golf ball and string with superglue 
PUMPKIN POOED HIMSELF
The title is from my young housemate who thought it was the funniest thing he had ever seen.
STABBED
This one was amusing as I used one of those fake knives through the head jobbies.
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The title of this blog comes from a famous speech given by an American Basketball coach live on tv 8 weeks before he died of cancer.
Jim Valvano was heac coach of the NC State basketball team and was a pretty damn successful one at that. In a space of 7 years he won 1 national title and 4 conference titles. Though he was diagnosed with bone cancer in June 1992 he carried on working and even set up a charity to help raise money to find a cure.
For this work he was awarded the first ever Arthur Ashe Courage and Humanitarian Award. Winners since include:
Cathy Freeman
Muhammad Ali
Nelson Mandela
The folks who brought down the 9/11 plane destined for the Whitehouse.
He said many things in that speech that made you laugh. His recollection about his first team speech is amazing, and the way he talks about his friends makes you think. He also brings a tear to your eye when he closes. What Jim Valvano did was make you go through all 3 emtions in the space of 5 minutes.
Have a watch or a read. I’d watch it though to get the full effect and well I do chuckle as his accent.
Just for the record, I have laughed many times today. mainly at myself. I have also thought my way round a difficult moral problem. I also thought about some cosmic problems as well in keeping with my theme of watching the sky every minute I am not working. And the crying? Well that has also been ticked off but thats my business
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Touching Electric Fences
I was out Geocaching today. For those who don’t now what it is there is a post to follow explaining it. Anyway I was walking through the countryside and my GPS on my Iphone was playing up so I stopped and looked out over the hills and was struck as to what a cracking day and view I had. There were horses messing around in the field below so I lent on the fence to the edge of the field and watched.
Around 1 second later my arm flew above my head fully extended and I jumped around 1 metre backwards while screaming “FUCK!”. All of this was involuntary. What had happened was I had lent on the wooden fence. But failed to notice just a couple of inches the other side a thin rope entwined with metal. Metal which was electrified.
So I stood there for a minute. My heart was racing and it was kind of a kick. So I thought to myself:
“Hmmmm I wonder what would happen if I touch it again knowing it will come? Will I still jump? Will I still shout?”
So I put my bag down and walked over. Immediately I had jump into my warped head a popular XKCD cartoon:
I had read somewhere that most electric fences aren’t designed it strike you straight away, but only with prelonged contact. So if you quickly touch it then you will be ok, but if you create an earthed connection then it’ll strike you down. I flicked it and nothing. Touched it with my hand slowly and nothing happened.
I touched it the way I had touched it before. The soft part of the underneath of the forearm. After 1 second however I didn’t shout but my arm was forced back straight in the air and I jumped back. Though only a step, not too far. The heart was racing and I was strikingly alert!
There was not great bzzzzzzzzzzzzt, or a hum. It was more of a ‘crack’. It sounded just like when you light a cooker hob. That electric crack. I picked up my bag and went to walk away. Was I sadistic? Why did I want to touch it again? Was it the adrenaline rush? Am I freak?
Before I went back and gripped it again I walked back to the car. I am sure there are easier ways to get the adrenaline rush without touching an electric fence. Though it was pretty cool.
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Freegle aka Freecycle
Now seeing as I have been a bit boring recently I though I would open up your eyes to freecycle, which for some obscure reason has been rebranded Freegle. I know I know it’s an abbreviation of their motto but Freegle isn’t even a word!!!
Anyway the idea is that one mans rubbish is another mans treasure.
For instance. I move into a new home with my hot new girlfriend who adores me. But oh noes!!!! We both have a microwave, a toast, and a sofa. They aren’t in fantastic nick but a shame to throw them away. You could do eBay but you know they wouldn’t sell for more than a couple of quid and the fees are a pain and you will have to get down the post office…. etc.
So the solution is that you go on Freegle and give it away. They come and collect from you and though you don’t make any money it is out of your hair and you have helped a fellow wo/man. Novel idea, I know. Plus you then get to boast that you are not materialist and it takes you back to the 60s when people really did help each other out except drugs were involved.
So I did a quick poll on my local one thinking it would be useless crap. Well most of it was, but some of it now. The first 10 items were
A cooker
2 Sofas and a stool
2x Bookcase with books
5 boxes of fabric ideal for dress making
A box of vhs cassettes
A Dyson in need of repairs
A double bed with mattress
A king-size bed no mattress
Fishing equipment
A ceiling fan
Also the good thing is you message them as to why you need it. The person who is giving it away (I won’t use the word ’selling’) can choose who has the worthiest cause if they are inundated with emails.
I used this a bit at uni to get a bit of cash. I was naughty, I’d get stuff worth a few quid and sell it on eBay at like £20 a time. Only did it in times of need. But since then I’ve got some useful things from there and saved myself a trip to Ikea on more than one occasion. Why don’t you have a look?
http://www.ilovefreegle.org/groups/
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