Now I'm not normally one to gloat ( ) but yeah, I have been eagerly waiting for that little statistic to roll over, and I must say I'm quite chuffed, especially as the blog isn't linked in my signature anymore. But this is just background detail; whats important is how things are shifting in accordance with the Brownian motion of life at the moment -

The Global Adventure! .... hasn't even been planned yet. And wont be for some weeks, maybe even a couple months because it needs to be done with supreme clarity of thought and I've literally just started another bought of the coughin' and splutterin' that comes with the delightfully common cold. No, my first priority is selling everything and raising the cash...

Immediate travel plans: This S.A.D. idea (Seasonally Affected Disorder, or somesuch moniker) is quite plausible - I bloody hate Winter in the England, probably even in the whole UK too and I've really got to get out of here and into the land of sunnyness before I go nuts and start cracking some skulls. I had a plan to go to the middle east, for some bizarre reason...

Well its only bloody academic now because my holiday in Egypt is buggered; the tour was operating with only 2 customers, myself being one of them, and they needed another £200 to get the damn thing running at all, making a 6-day trip cost just over £1000. *fruitcage*. That. f/Game. Soldiers, etc.

That was my emergency release trip that I had planned for the end of next week, taking a short tour through Egypt, Jordan & Israel visiting the ancient rock city of Petra and....aww screw it, I aint going now so to hell with even thinking about it. Now, I reckon I'll spend a few days off work getting as much done on the gun sales as I can, then mebbe take a cheap flight to somewhere sunny (read: anywhere sunny, being honest) and sit on a beach for a coupla days. And thats my immediate relaxation plan; to make sure I've got plenty to relax from ....

-I've got all you smiling mother*fruitcage*ers tee hee hee - yeah, 'tis true, you're making me work for my money alright, what with keeping track of each deal as it comes in, making sure no-one gets final confirmations of sale except those who have confirmed and readied payment themselves (hectic when 2, 3, 4 or more poeple are all asking for the same item!) also trying to keep everyone informed in those situations etc.

The tricky part really is clearing the cheques though, because I've got 5 or 6 waiting to clear just now and with the other payments and deliveries I'm sorting out I have to be honest and say that really, I'm just waiting for any given cheque to come back bouncy because I'm just gonna wait about a week since I received them all then get the package together.

There's quite a lot of money going into my bank at the moment and despite my incredibly efficient *ahem* filing system, some things are hectic to keep tabs on when you've got to run into the local town every day to see the state of ya bank balance.

I gott get myself into this online banking shindig.

But otherly plans of an additional nature include me perhaps, and I daren't really think this one out loud in case it escapes, but perhaps I'm going to start the running/jogging hobby thats been on the cards for about a year now. Its actually been so well adhered to `the cards` that its never made it as far as the street though so far so I'm just tinkering with the idea lest I start believing it (and it then inevitably collapsing around my ears like all Good Intentions do).

Also, my booze missions has been eased by supplements of a herbal nature - I've always replaced one with the other but at least now I'm not doing both together all the time, and have managed to stave off the urges to get totally hammered with one by simply getting mildy concussed with the other. Next meeting is a week on Tuesday, meeting a new caseworker or whatever they call themselves.

I feel quite small and pathetic in having to do this but the truth is that I just have to, simple as.

What I actually need to tell you guys however, those of you who are buying or in the process of negotiating sales from me, is that I am busy. I don't mean with the actual selling guns fandango, I mean in other ways, I am busy, so I'm not answering PMs instantly, and I'm not getting back to everyone as quickly as I could because I'm still going out climbing once or twice a week which totally rules out those evenings because all I can do when I get back at about 11pm is collapse into bed, and I also seem to have loads and loads of old friends turning up and inviting me to their new hobbies or lifestyles.

A really good old buddy from way back (back in the old days, when everything was better and the trains ran on time and...) brought me down to his social scene in Chichester on the weekend before last and I met some really cool folks that I'll defo be seeing again, then last weekend another really good old friend I hadn't seen in years had a massive birthday blowout in Winchester, where I made some new friends too....

They have this prided and much-revered statue of a terribly symbolic man on a terribly symbolic horse in the town centre: Winchester is the ancient capital of England and has the nicest architecture of anywhere in the country; or at least has more of it closer together than anywhere else outside of London; and is the most expensive place to buy property and is generally viewed as the `best` place to live in the UK. So they say.

So Saturday night about 11:30 saw me, my old mate Wayne and some random stranger we had aggregated into our rather large group group sat astride this bloody great horse, either side of the rider (wayne in front of me, partially crushing unmentionable bits of my anatomy) and in full view of the most expensive CCTV system in Southern England.

I do hope I dont get a letter saying `This is not a circular` anytime soon ..

And this weekend I'm going Go-Karting for the first time ever with another old friend from my stupid-mashed-up-no-sleep-ever clubbing days (think of the character Tires from Spaced, and thats most of the guys I used to spend my social life with), bit of a shame my driving test is this coming Tuesday though as I'm always being told to slow down and stop being impatient as it is I'm kinda hoping this cold will have removed some of the mental cotton wool from my brain by then, with a bit of luck...

So yes, another entirely self-absorbed entry and yes, when things have calmed down a bit I reckon abstract thinking, barely-credible pontification and largely incredulous perambulation through the worlds of philosophy, world events and life theories will be back on the agenda for this blog.

At the moment though most of my thoughts are with more immediate concerns, so please:

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