The Book of Ashes

Trying to sell the 100 shots idea to Zeebos 2:01AM

Eddie is 6940 days old today. Thats not really doing that bad at all. Do you guys know how many days old you are? Incase you haven't noticed it yet theres a little icon next to my age in days at the top of this page that you can click on and find out how many days old you are. Try it out. Its pretty cool.

So today is real sunny and I'm loving it. I'm going to go for a blade soon but first let me tell you of my day. I got to work and found that the development meeting had been put forward half an hour so I was late. Whoops. Then I grabbed the keys of Damian and went and did a little quick work on the server. Go check out the wellington page, its a little different now with a few more images of wellington there everytime you refresh. Then I came back to work and told Damian we were going to lunch, he didn't know where but I filled him in on the way and it went a little something like this...

Dude, we're going to Zeebo's for business. The deal is we want to hire the place out for a private function, but not just any function we want to get 100 people doing 100 shots of beer in a 100 minutes and its your job to sell them on this. So we tell them we've got a web site and we can promote there pub through this event. We can get all our friends and all their friends and then just invite people off the street, its been done before so the 100 people shouldn't be too much of a problem. We just have to convience them that its not to much hard drinking or else they might not be keen. 100 shots of beer is 9 bottles or 3 jugs, done in 1 hour 40 minutes. Thats quite a bit, but last time I did it I didn't even need to go toilet and none of us spewed, at least before 100, Crispy and I went on to 150 and 125 respectively and I had a little spew from that, but its not that bad. And we can try and get them to advertise on our site for say $20 a month as well which would be sweet and pretty cheap for them considering we'll give them the ability to securily log on from anywhere and update there info. Also they have to see that its going to be 100 people doing 3 jugs each, which is 300 jugs they're going to sell, thats gotta be good for them. There are of course the logistics of how they hand out those 300 jugs in only 1 hour 40. Do they have enough jugs? or do we need lots of glasses? People won't have time in the 1 minute to get up and buy new ones so they'll need to buy it all upfront or have people coming round and serving us. Maybe buy 3 tickets up front and then waiters come round with masses of jugs swapping them for tickets as we go. Yeah thats cool.

Anyway Damian did the hard sale on the dude there and he suggested we get together the details and meet with the big cheese himself. So I'm writing them up this arvo which will be cool. We are planning this event for manybe 2 months from now but let me tell you, its going to be BIG.

Now I also found 5 cents on the way there. Pretty sweet. I got home and found a parcel in the letter box. It was from Sifty Tom in the UK. Awesome I thought and read the front. Package contains 1 card, chocolates and sweets worth 5 pounds. Well that kinda gives it away doesn't it? But I was pretty happy to open it up and find a belated birthday present. Note skittles look and taste slightly different over there dude. But thanks man that parcel was awesome and made my day.

Well gotta go blade

Ash ironing the wall 4:26AM

So I'm back at work now, just biding my time. Got a few things left in the day to do but lets fill you in since last time. My blade was awesome. The day was beautiful and warm and I was criss-crossing back and forth all over the foot path. My wheels are getting a little wobbly though and I stumbled a few times when turning too sharply or too fast. I will have to swap them over. Then I came home, grabbed my stuff resolved to do a little damage on the world yet and headed into town. I found another 5 cent piece on the road and walked out to get it. I am not worried about people seeing me pick up 5 cents now as once I would have been. I have worked out what they represent now. They are opportunities that keen popping up. I am finding lots of coins at the moment because I am looking. There are also lots of opportunities out there if you look. This is what life is trying to tell me so I'm now off to look.

If you were having trouble picturing it, then here it is in full stereo colour, Ash Ironing the wall...

Eddies birthday and a writing on the difference between boys and girls 10:09AM

19 years ago, to this day, a boy was born. Marked since birth as one of royalty he grew and became wise in this world until now he lives and studies in the land of Dunners. He is the youngest brother of Ashes.

Hey Eddie happy birthday dude!

Me and Eddie get along well. I think out of all my siblings we have the most similar methods of handling things emotionally. I remember once we were all at Mum's place and we found Eddie outside in the back of the yard at midnight burning something. He was a little upset about something. Robyn and Thomas thought he was a little weird but I think he had just had some woman problems and was probably burning her stuff (or something like that). I understand the need for little rituals in life, even if they appear weird to others, they cleanse yourself. If you tell yourself you need to do something then when you go do it, you feel better and it helps. It doesn't really matter what you do, just as long as you believe it will help. I mean I went and climbed that big concrete thing on the lookout yesterday and read my book under the clouds. That was cool but probably looked weird to others, I don't really care though.

Anyway Eddie, you're the man. Can't wait to catch up with you and Thomas in October when I come down. For you I write this...

The Difference between Boys and Girls.

This is going to be a bit of a generallisation so don't take it too literally... From my experience I have noticed that guys assume stuff whereas girls need to be told it. By this I mean, a guy sees a girl, note she looks good, as she does everyday and thinks well she must know that and she doesn't look any better than yesterday so I don't need to say anything (if he thinks about these things at all) and so he smiles and says hi, thinking hes done all he should. The girl on the other hand feels that she doesn't look that good BECAUSE the guy didn't comment. She needs to be told that she looks good. The problem here is that each acts as they want to be treated. The guy doesn't care if the girl doesn't say anything about how he looks. And if she does comment that hes looking good then he'll probably have to look down to check what he's wearing as he would have forgotten already (quick look down the pants, thats right, its pink panther boxers today). So the guy treats the girl as he wants to be treated and says nothing. The girl does the same treating the guy as she wants to be treated and will comment on any new piece of clothing, haircut or nice shirt. Problem here is that you have to swap roles and act as the other would. I have noticed that females complement each other quite often, and that works out well for them. I don't do this, I'm a guy, but I'm learning. Maybe I will put in an effort and try. The only other factor here is that if you complement too much girls can think you're coming on to them as they're not used to it. Be wary.

This is the same with most things. Guys don't often say they love you. They expect you know that because you're happy and not upset or angry at them. But females see it the other way round. If you don't say it then its not true, hence you must dislike them for some reason and its probably because they've been putting on weight. Not true. Why does every thing come down to self confidence (and image) and misinterpretation. Pretty much all arguements are just misinterpretations, guys trying to work out what girls are thinking and vice versa. Why not just talk about it. Ask or say what you think even if you're gonna sound dumb cause then the other person will tell you you're dumb and hopefully you won't think dumb things again.

To be continued...

Right I gotta go visit the outside world. Might be a good day for a rollerblade methinks.

Arizona, Fi back from Auckland, visiting Crispy 11:00AM

And the end of the day went a little something like this... I headed down to Arizona and sussed the place out over a cool drambue on ice. Damian joined me shortly after and we indulged in a beer or two while we assesed our current statis. I would estimate now about 27% complete in our plans for world domination, we just need to get the pubs to pay us a nominal fee to host and advertise on our site to cover running costs and support our drinking habits ;) Then we will be 28% complete and everything will fall into place from there. We argued a bit over what we should charge people, me going on the lite side and Damian on the heavy. The Perihelion is not really to make a lot of money, we just want to cover costs, there are other projects to make the money. Anyway I took a few photos of pubs on the way home and was just about to begin tea when Fi called out hello. I went and talked to her for a while and she was a little happy (and a little feisty which was fun) from her complementory glass of wine from the plane trip (she'd been in Auckland for the day for work). Amy came out and apologised for not coming for a run with me this morning and said tomorrow night instead which was cool. I told Fi of my mission that I had to do but I'll have to write this up later as the walls have ears and its not complete yet and then went home to cook dinner (and found I had left the fridge door open - doh!). Fi came over and offered me a ride out to Crispy's place as I was going to go for a walk out there and challenge him to a game of chess. I gave her some of my tea and we discussed meals to cook. I have discovered that I can cook maybe 10 meals really well such as macaroni cheese due to the fact that I've cooked it over 100 times already and have perfected it. I need to expand my cooking vocab though. At Crispin's place I had a look at a few curry recipes and got some tips off of him and Tammy on how to make them, I also whipped his butt at chess bringing the running totals up to 7 games to 8 to him. Only one more win and we're back on even ground. We had a beer and a good chat and discussed the 100 shots thing a little further. We know of a machine that records your breath alcohol level so we're going to do a test run (at the Loaded Hog) of the 100 shots and graph every 10 shots (which is also every 10 minutes) our alcohol levels to see how each of us handles our booze. Should be quite interesting and also how it tappers off after we stop drinking. I think he with the highest metabolism will process it fastest, I am hoping this will be me, but dunno really. So after that I headed back to home. It took me less than 20mins for the jog back which was pretty good and now I'm at home, preparing my blankie and Mr teddy for bed. Gerry's just getting me my milk and cookies before she tucks me in. Nah, I'm not that soft. I sleep naked in the cold on the floor with marbles under my back just so I don't get too comfortable. Actually let me amend that, I sleep in boxers on the floor as one of those marbles might stray into the wrong place if I was naked. Goodnight people, remember I am more devious than any of you can ever imagine. I scared to think what would happen if I used my powers for evil..