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Seven Things To Do Before I Die

1. Have a book of my photos published
2. Go back to being self-employed
3. Travel more – particularly the US and New Zealand
4. Have hellspawn (now there’s a scary concept – me with a child)
5. Do more charity gubbins
6. Write a book or a screenplay. Get published
7. See something I’ve written on TV

Seven Things I Can’t Do

1. Write Lists
2. Run a Marathon
3. Completely cut out caffeine
4. Stop Swearing but hey, you wouldn’t want me to, right?
5. Knuckle Down
6. Get to 12 stone in Weight
7. Not be a techie

Seven Things That Attract Me to Blogging:

1. Keeping on Writing
2. Proving I can keep on with a project
3. Immediacy
4. Readers
5. Using blog as a brain-dump for ideas/stress
6. Photoblogging (must get round to that, I know)
7. Meeting people through their blogs

Seven Things I Say Most Often:

1. Fuck (and variants)
2. Cunt (and variants)
3. Bollocks (and variants)
4. Fucking Cunty Bollocks
5. For Fuck’s Sake
6. Personally
7. I Think So

Seven Books That I Love

1. Homeboy by Seth Morgan
2. Green River Rising by Tim Willocks
3. anything by Chris Brookmyre
4. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
5. anything by Peter F Hamilton
6. Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
7. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Seven Movies That I Watch Over and Over Again

1. West Wing on DVD – not a movie, but still most-watched thing
2. 10 Things I Hate About You – embarassing, but true
3. Split Second – Rutger Hauer, and the line “We need bigger fucking guns“. Say no more
4. Nikita
5. Matrix – but mainly for the lobby scene
6. Tootsie – again, embarassing, but if it’s on, I just keep on watching it
7. Jesus of Montreal – Weird, Canadian, Fantastic

Seven People I Want To Join In Too
Yeah, well, whoever. Times 7.

Savers?

Bah, £350 later, I’ve ordered new glasses.

In fairness that £350 does equate to two pairs of new glasses, one standard, and one with high-index reactolite lenses by Zeiss – which accounts for £200 of it on their own. Plus £30 for the anti-scratch coating. So yeah, could be worse.

And, because I’m officially Blind As A Badger® the NHS sticks me on their “complex lens” thingy, which means I get a whacking £12.40 off the price of the lenses. Which is roughly half the cost of the anti-scratch coating. Or roughly 5% of the cost of the lenses. So, based in the real-world, then. *ahem*

They’ll be ready in a couple of weeks time, and I’m actually quite looking forward to getting them. My prescription had only changed slightly, but the current pair have lasted me three years (if not four, thinking about it) which isn’t bad, all things considered.

Starting Off

I seem to have hit the beginning of 2006 as “start the way you mean to go on”.

So today I’m at the opticians first thing to get an eye-test and two new pairs of glasses (Should’ve gone to Specsavers? Oh, I have) And then tonight it’s my induction at the new gym.

Yes, I’ve changed gyms. The one I was going to was quite out-of-the way, so if we were busy then gym attendance was one of the first things to bite the dust. The new one (I signed up on the 31st Dec, but the induction is today) is just behind the office, which makes it a) easier to get to and b) harder to avoid. Although B) is probably a good thing.

So what with new camera bag, new gym, and new glasses, things are looking fairly impressive so far.

Don’t worry, it won’t last…