99 problems and spelling is one
So there seems to have been a little thing in blogland to tell readers about you in 50 useless facts, the latest being the wife’s 51 useless fact. Now given that 52 uselessfacts doesn’t roll of the tonuge and backwards is a direction I don’t go in, I had to go over the top and go to 99. Now I started of thinking yeah easy, I though of loads, but then by the time I came to write it up I’d forgotten them all (see 79).
- I was born on a Friday at around 4pm
- I have a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering
- I taught myself plumbing, wiring and plastering
- I’ve refurbished two houses
- I want to build my own house
- I hate waste
- I want an electric car
- I want to rebuild a Landrover, or any car but I see Landrovers like mechano / lego
- I can’t grow vegetables
- I can grow fruit, but alway miss ahrvesting it and feed the birds
- My only memories fo my first house (aged 3) are
- Sitting in a washing basket on moving day
- The cupboard under the stairs
- I have a tendency to try dangerous activities
- I get scared doing them
- I want a LEGO Technic Mercedes-Benz Unimog
- I may be responsable for my 3yr old nephew’s LEGO, he skipped Duplo and went for my LEGO Technic Mobile Crane
- My GCSE French result was higher than my English language
- I strive for perfection
- I don’t always achieve the perfection I’m going for
- This annoys me
- Sometimes I take awesome photographs
- I don’t like having my photo taken
- My music taste is like no other
- I once delivered cake to a Playmate at Silverstone MotoGP
- I’m fluent in several languages, not one of them spoken or conversational
- I can’t sit still and relax
- I’ve only been paid to work one Saturday
- I’ve never been paid to work on a Sunday
- I a lot of the cooking in our house
- Half of that I make up as I go
- I’m still convinced that a dream about a tree falling down in my old street was real
- I don’t like larger
- I could eat cheese all day
- I’d rather not wear shoes
- I don’t like being to hot
- I don’t like being cold
- Anything above 15 degrees is shorts weather
- I’d go ‘off grid’ to save my wallet first, the enviroment second
- I’ve eaten at 1,2 & 3 * restaurants
- I’d still have a bacon roll from a van at the side of the road
- I don’t like poached salmon not even ala Heston
- I love smoked salmon
- I like strong tea
- I struggle to remember the first song at our wedding (Train, Drops of Jupiter)
- I always remember the last song (Rage Against the Machine, Killing in the Name)
- Bright sunlight makes me sneeze
- I’ve dived of all four coasts of the UK
- I own more specialsed (sporting) footware than normal shoes
- I don’t like inefficiency
- Before the age of 15 I can’t remember not spending my birthdays anywere other than at my Grandparents and up mountains
- I want a large plot of land on a hill with a stream, to build my house
- I can’t type the t at the begining of a word that follows a word ending with t (that the: that he)
- 90% of my T-Shirts come from Decimal
- I can dress head to toe in North face
- All my trainers are Salomon
- My back won’t let me have an Aston Martin DB9 and walk
- I want a fast car, I’d settle for a van
- My perminant residance has always been near the Thames or its tributries
- I learn’t to talk with a Cumbrian accent I was living in Oxfordshire
- I was born on the banks of the Thames (not literally)
- I’m a country boy, I don’t do cities
- I’ve never had a pet
- I have hair that grows like horns from the front of my head
- I have at least one bruise, cut or graze at any time
- I don’t know where half of them come from
- I don’t have a middle name
- I can’t even think of going potholing, but I’ve happily dived in caves and shipwrecks
- I can’t put things away unless they have a place to live
- I could never be vegatarian
- The temperature of my feet control my body comfort
- I work best with music playing
- I lost count of how many dives I’d done
- I had logged over 100 hrs of trimix rebreather diving
- I’ve serviced all of my own cars
- I hate the smell of cigarettes
- But like the smell of pipes and cigars
- I met my wife on a dive forum
- I don’t like football
- Horses scare me
- I have a terrible short term memory
- I often read what I want to read not what it says
- I’ll make life change decisions in an instant but can’t decide what to have for dinner
- I like to take things apart to see how they work
- I can’t always put them back together
- I shouldn’t be left alone without something to keep me occupied
- I don’t like going out without a watch
- I could drive a boat before I could drive a car
- I’m a terrible procrastinator
- I really don’t like going back on things
- If I could once I start something I’d rather not stop until its finished
- I don’t like to start thing I know I can’t finish in one go
- I still love the randomness of our wedding music, bring your daughter to the slaughter and the imperial march (instrimental)
- Love it even more that no one picked up on it
- I’m half convinced I build a time machine in the future and come back
- I hate being late
- I don’t like being so early I have to wait around for ages
- I get really restless if not occupied
- I’m competative, even if I don’t win that often
- I want to learn something new everyday
- I often do
So now you have the completly usless guide to me, it won’t help you and you’ve just wasted a fair amount of time if you read all of them, not a problem if you like 87 🙂