aardvark.dj

the archives of my old site. No longer regularly maintained.

Saturday, August 31, 2002

Thursday, August 29, 2002

Wednesday, August 28, 2002

• You're thirsty: Rocket Fuel.


• You're hungry: Scottish Haggis.


• You're lonely: When alone.


• You're pissed off: With life.


• You're restless: Excess caffeine.

1. I married my first ever serious girlfriend.


2. We'd had a break from first dating to getting back together of nearly 13 years.


3. During that time I had been married and widowed.


4. I have 5 body piercings.


5. Only 2 are "normally" visible.


6. Those 2 have both almost healed up.


7. I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.


8. When out clubbing I like Hard House or Hard Trance music.


9. My Grandpa solved Fermat's Last Theorem on a paper napkin.


10. He never published his solution.


11. Without his input to the design, the Lancaster Bomber would never have flown.


12. I once grew my hair down to my waist.


13. I cut it because I started going thin on top


14. I have over 300 vinyl single and albums.


15. None of my Hi-Fi units have a turntable.


16. My HTML is self-taught from just 2 books.


17. I hand code all of my HTML and CSS using Notepad or "HTML-Kit".


18. A friend I taught HTML to has since made over £500 setting up websites using Frontpage.


19. He still regularly asks me for advice on layout and coding.


20. My ideal woman would look like Kelly Brook.


21. My wife looks nothing like Kelly Brook.


22. My wife is the most beautiful person in the world.


23. Go figure!


24. I used to be a Scout.


25. Before that I was a Cub Scout and after I was a Venture Scout.


26. Whilst at Ventures, I achieved the Queen Scouts Award, the highest accolade in scouting.
    
27. I met 5 of my first 6 girlfriends through Scouting, either directly or indirectly.


28. Including Sharon, who is now my wife.


29. About 50% of my current circle of friends, I met through Scouting.


30. I'm not in touch with anyone I knew from school.


31. I have committed at least one arrestable offence with a prison sentence exceeding 6 months.


32. It did not cause harm or heartache to anyone other than me.


33. I have been driving for 13 years.


34. I have owned 13 cars.


35. Yes, this is a co-incidence.


36. My favourite food is Haggis.


37. My favourite dessert is Banoffee Pie, but only if it is made by my Mum.


38. I'm known by my middle name, not by my first name.


39. My Dad is also known by his middle name.


40. My first name is the same as my Dads middle name.


41. Both my sons are known by their first names.


42. My memory is appalling. Short-term and long-term.


43. I have very few memories of my childhood despite having a reasonably happy one.


44. I have 7 email addresses which are in regular use.


45. I have another 10 or so email addresses which I didn't want but was required to sign up for. They are therefore not used.


46. I'm an Aquarius.


47. I don't believe in astrology.


48. I don't believe in the supernatural.


49. I believe that mediums are tricksters and fraudsters.


50. I'm not religious.


51. Although sometimes I wish I were.


52. I do believe in the possibility of extra-terrestrial life.


53. I do not believe that "aliens are among us".


54. At school I learnt to play the cello.


55. I later learnt to play the trumpet.


56. I only did it to get out of lessons.


57. I now can't read a note of music.


58. I get headaches at lunchtime if I haven't had 2 cups of coffee.


59. I am terrible in the morning.


60. I can drive for an hour in the morning and still not be properly awake.


61. I used to know how to firebreath.


62. I managed to avoid hurting myself whilst learning.


63. I have had one threesome in my life.


64. It was not the type that most men fantasise about.


65. But was not unpleasant.


66. My first marriage lasted 3 1/2 weeks.


67. She died from a brain tumour.


68. We knew she had the tumour before we married.


69. Although we didn't know it would kill her so soon.


70. I have suffered from depression since then but medication doesn't seem to help.


71. I have decided to live with it and try to find happiness in what I've got.


72. Its not always easy.


73. I have hated all of my jobs.


74. I really, really hated my last job by the time I was made redundant.


75. I'm left-handed.


76. My mum reckons I'm really right-handed and pretended to be left handed at school just to be awkward.


77. I do not entirely disbelieve her.


78. When I was 18 I wanted vampire teeth.


79. This year I bought some.


80. Now I want Cats Eye Contacts.


81. I hate the taste of fish.


82. I hate the smell of fish.


83. Although I like tuna and mayonnaise sandwiches.


84. I am not a vegetarian.


85. I ate almost exclusively vegetarian meals during weekdays when my sister lived with me.


86. I will order the vegetarian option at a restaurant if it looks more appetising.


87. I have suffered from 3 addictions.


88. I have 8 GCSE's at grade C and above.


89. I have never been a patient at a hospital.


90. I have been inside approximately 15 hospitals with loved ones.


91. One of my best friends came out to me after we had known each other for 9 years.


92. This caused me to go through a mental re-consideration of my sexuality.


93. I am straight but believe that everyone should be entitled to be sexually and emotionally attracted to either sex.


94. I do not believe myself to be artistic or creative.


95. I don't like the monopoly that Microsoft has over software.


96. But I use Microsoft products.


97. My favourite swear word is "Bollocks".


98. I suffer from occasional insomnia.


99. I believe that everything will be OK.


100. This list took over 3 weeks to compile.

Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Monday, August 26, 2002

• 1. What do you do to make things better when you feel sad and/or lonely? Ignore the world until it goes away. I used to vegetate in front of the TV but now I tend to drift aimlessly around the internet.


• 2. Are you a "touchy-feely" person? That is, do you like to touch people you don't know that well? And on the flipside of that, do you like being touched by someone you aren't close with? It depends on the situation and on the gender of the stranger to be honest.


• 3. Do you like to have "me" time, time to yourself to be alone and relax? Or do you prefer to just do your own thing with someone else in the room? When was the last "me" time you got and what did you do? I desperately need some "me" time and I'm not getting enough of it. When I do I tend to just sit and contemplate my navel. But when you've got 3 kids you learn to get on with what you're doing and "tune out" the background noise.


• 4. Generally speaking, how do you feel about the concept of marriage? Are you the marrying type? Do you think the act of getting married means something today or is it simply just "a piece of paper?" I am married. We "did the deed" nearly 10 months ago. So I guess you could say that I'm a believer in it. I did it for a couple of reasons. 1) To show the world, and all my family and friends, how much my wife means to me, and 2) To help Sharon's (our) 2 children feel that I wanted them as part of my family.


• 5. That said, as many as 25 states have passed legislation regulating who they believe should be the "marrying type." What are your thoughts on the banning of same-sex marriages? Same-sex marriages should be allowed legally. There is no reason why the law should ban it. If some of the less forward thinking religions wish to frown upon it then that is there problem, but it should not effect the law.


• 6. If there was one law you had the ability to create or change, what would it be? It wouldn't be a law. Rather the belief of those who set the laws that they should protect us from ourselves. Laws should be there to protect us from each other, but where a crime's only victim is the perpetrator, should the law makers really intervene?


• 7. What would you like someone visiting your Blog for the first time to know about you? Now is your chance! I'm a nice person really. And funny. And occasionally witty. And, I'm told, quite intelligent.


• BONUS: Can you hear them? Nope. The drugs stopped that a long time ago. Every now and then I feel secure enough to remove my aluminium foil beanie too.

Sunday, August 25, 2002

• My personal favourite. Self regenerating making it the ultimate waste of time.
• A touch crude but with a "boss button" to save your hide.
• Unsatisfying unless you go for the "large" size which goes with a bang. Has an annoying background tune and "pop-up" ads.