Today marks the 777th list on my blog, so to celebrate here is a list of 777 things!
- Came up with the dumb idea of doing 777 things for my 777th post
- Got a new job
- Got rid of our server
- Bought shoes
- Made coffee
- Bought a yearly season ticket to Euston
- Completed a competition cryptic crossword
- Shouted at the neighbours
- Stopped 2 guys from racing their remote control cars in the car park
- Discovered a whole pile of books we didn't know we owned
- Saw the devil
- Boxed up junk to move
- Emptied the loft
- Got 3 new penguins
- Photographed all our Smurfs
- Spent Christmas day at my Brother's
- Got 2 new mobile phones
- Bought an iPod Nano
- Learnt Flex
- Started learning Italian
- Opened a Facebook account
- Discovered I like photographing insects
- Learnt how important bumble bees are
- Did an occasional cache
- Went to a wedding
- Made new friends
- Became re-acquainted with old friends
- Stayed in the Sleazy Salmon
- Discovered a passion for spinach
- Learnt to roll deli wraps
- Contributed in the creation of a feather tree
- Bought a new computer
- Locked myself out of the flat
- Broke a window
- Repaired a window properly
- Saw a solicitor
- Opened 2 savings accounts
- Handled a woodlouse
- Feed 14 Shetland sheep
- Got invited for a free pizza by our local Italian restaurant owner
- Spent almost a month without running hot water
- Became a connoisseur of cheese
- Learnt how to spell connoisseur
- Had a parking ticket revoked
- Phoned the police about alarms going off
- Got over my fear of ice skating (by ice skating)
- Drove a Landrover blindfolded
- Missed my stop on the train
- Went to the ballet
- Resigned as a director
- Got stuck in a car wash
- Read 'Gaia' by Robin Lovelock
- Got album covers for all our digital music files
- Tracked green nail varnish down to a small shop in Covent Garden
- Got asked if I work for High Wycombe council
- Viewed other people's houses
- Perfected the Maretti
- Saw Mel Smith in London
- Scored over 500 points in Scrabble
- Broke the steering on the car
- Saw a white stag
- Got told to stop taking photographs on top of a multi-story car park
- Nearly got electrocuted
- Won a tie
- Became the biggest brain
- Discovered that standing on the 09 makes me feel sick
- Been sued
- Acquired two sunshine buddies
- Learned how to make Yorkshire Puddings
- Watered the flowers
- Scootered around the office
- Played pass the parcel
- Ate some candy sticks
- Visited an Italian market
- Bought a new camera
- Acquired more than a dozen new dictionaries
- Learnt Photoshop CS3
- Got a number of cat scratches
- Ate chilli chocolate
- Bought a cappuccino maker
- Tracked down the cheapest Red Bull in Lambeth
- Suffered an Illy fountain
- Gave a presentation on Google Analytics
- Photoshopped my bosses hair by request
- Took the Myres Briggs test
- Completely removed our dependency on plastic bags
- Started composting
- Learnt about transformational management
- Watched Pepa Pig
- Watched the Night Garden
- Got shouted at by a Muntjak Deer
- Danced
- Solved a maths problem on the first lady's blouse
- Watched the land flood
- Bought an oyster card
- Had my car windscreen replaced
- Visited Eden
- Went to Montgomery
- Reversed into a rotten fence post
- Decided not to use the rusty bbq
- Visited Montgomery castle
- Watched a mollusc disappear under the skirting board
- Slept on a far too soft bed
- Fell asleep in the sun
- Discovered the car's air cooling fan doesn't work
- Bought a new scanner
- Dropped a pyrex dish full of boiling oil at my feet
- Drew a venn diagram
- Moved office
- Invented a system of organizing music by shape
- Phoned Virgin Media
- Changed ISP
- Got a tax rebate
- Taught 3 colleagues how to create XML documents
- Threw away a down duvet after the cat was sardine sick on it
- Learnt how to tie a bow tie
- Haggled over house prices
- Sung
- Whinged at Waitrose about light pollution
- Watch someone throwing a cake out of a window
- Texted a phone number that some girl kept shouting out in the street
- Inhaled fire
- Watched a neighbour's restaurant burn down
- Bought a little alien
- Received a new car stereo
- Signed up to Twitter
- Wore a stocking on my head
- Got accused of having an ulterior motive
- Learnt how to configure Cisco firewalls
- Had a abysmal Sunday roast at a carvery
- Was described as 'Abstract'
- Ruined several song lyrics
- Stroked a cow
- Had a fever
- Threw a snow-ball
- Visited the psychedelic shack
- Bought an Etch-a-sketch from Hamleys
- Formulated an escape route from London
- Used Non-Euclidean geometry
- Spread the word about CAPS
- Saw Anubis
- Finished Psychonauts
- Discovered hundreds of spider mites in our bathroom
- Decided I still don't like courgettes
- Got a corn on my toe
- Got a piece of glass stuck in my hand
- Had a hard-disk die on me
- Found a full sized spacecraft in a field
- Prepared the cat's auto-feeder
- Visited the Longwick fete
- Saw a golden eagle
- Went to the dentist
- Learned how to make a May Day garland
- Found a dog training school
- Met a Golden Retriever that liked to chew stones
- Fixed the ball-cock and valve on our toilet
- Learnt some Tai Chi
- Checked the news
- Made a salad dressing
- Learnt about recycling box collections in Crowell
- Discovered that our car horn doesn't work any more
- Made Pilau rice
- Made Chicken Provencale with Dijon potatoes
- Tried Red Bull Cola
- Scored a combined score of over 1000 in Scrabble
- Gained an understanding of the plea of temporary insanity
- Bought a house
- Relocated a false-widow spider
- Hired a van
- Moved to Longwick
- Cycled to the station
- Stained a bookcase
- Bought a yearly season ticket to Marylebone
- Unboxed junk after the move
- Bought a sideboard
- Ate plantains
- Changed the locks
- Bought a half moon edging tool
- Fed the birds
- Commented on a blog
- Discovered an eating apple tree in Ashridge
- Stroked the cat
- Fitted a cat flap
- Replaced a light switch
- Plumbed in a washing machine
- Saw the Mona Lisa and was underwhelmed
- Went on a treasure hunt around Paris
- Bought 12 bottles of water from Starbucks
- Replaced a cooker
- Walked from Marylebone to Waterloo
- Visited the Apple store
- Phoned out the AA
- Bought a Nabaztag wireless rabbit
- Found Ikea in Milton Keynes
- Decided on a lamp, changed our mind, and then bought a different lamp
- Fed a pill to the cat wrapped in cheese
- Witnessed the cat growling at some dogs at the vet
- Got a milkman
- Refilled a lighter
- Tried 'Red Devil' cheese
- Replaced over 1000 Watts of light bulbs with Eco bulbs (in our new home)
- Emulated a Sega Genesis on my phone
- Saw Pete Waterman in Waterloo
- Repaired a table with a walnut
- Went to my brother's 40th birthday bash
- Scoured antique shops
- Gained/became a stalker!
- Discovered Thame on foot
- Created a Web Mapping Server
- Bought a new TV
- Met our new neighbours
- Got to grips with the Wycombe district recycling schedule
- Made bread
- Bought some recliner sofas
- Had our radiators checked by British Gas
- Watched a crow carry a chicken wing onto our neighbour's roof
- Got a Blockbuster card
- Turned our nose up at Sainsbury's in Aylesbury
- Found an organic veg company that delivers every fortnight
- Shopped online with Ocado
- Visited our local chippy
- Burnt some CDs
- Got some bean chairs
- Discovered our cat now has epilepsy due to a cat fight
- Cleaned a mirror with Cilit Bang
- Serviced my bike
- Watched 'Top Gear'
- Carried a rucksack
- Finished several 'Super Fiendish' Sudoku
- Made a home made curry from scratch
- Ran for the train
- Bought a retro-phone
- Sourced a phreaking box
- Walked along the Phoenix Trail from home
- Found a good kitchen shop
- Successfully created a Java web service
- Invented the Springbok event
- Bought 2 Sicilian lemon cheesecakes
- Bought a new bed
- Had to de-package the bed to fit it in the car
- Scraped a dolphin off the tiles
- Rode on a double decker metro train
- Found a new route to Aylesbury
- Cleaned the windows
- Signed up to last.fm
- Learnt the Pictometry API
- Bought a new Spoonzilla
- Received some plants from our neighbours
- Were able to unpack all our books
- Mowed the lawn
- Brought composting home from work
- Cracked my helmet
- Bought some french incense
- Laughed at Alistair Darling
- Signed up to the Waitrose "Blip Blip" in Thame
- Raked the leaves
- Saw the cat fall down the stairs and was powerless to stop it
- Sent back countless pieces of mail addressed to the previous owner of our house
- Went to the Debenham's Sale
- Was told by a child that I had left my lights on my bike (switched on)
- Came home from work to find our Graham had changed colour
- Changed a white handle for a wooden one
- Realized that 777 is a big number!
- Blew up an air bed
- Worried about Mary
- Watched 'The Mist'
- Watched the mist
- Made soup
- Sneezed on the cat
- Picked up some Alsatian poo from the end of our drive
- Argued against using a Hedgehog as our company mascot
- Blew a bugle
- Implemented a drinks fridge
- Watched a sunrise
- Wrote a OSGB to WGS84 conversion object
- Read a book on Feng Shui
- Filled the shed with photographic developing equipment
- Used the only shop in the village
- Bought a blow up bath pillow
- Cycled in the snow
- Talked about buying an Audi before March
- Realised the water pump booster in our shower sounds like a space craft taking off
- Watched the blonde haired woman from up the road walk past
- Bought a nest of tables
- Shopped for a new dinner service (unsuccessfully)
- Kept finding previously undiscovered bird boxes in our garden
- Almost missed our drive in the dark because Chris wasn't in next door
- Spotted cows in the field opposite our house
- Played Yahtzee
- Found a quicker route to John Lewis in High Wycombe
- Drove to Bletchley in the pouring rain, pitch black and howling wind on a Saturday night
- Spoke to a Jehovah Witnesses
- Visited the CyberCandy store
- Discovered you have a pulse in your nose
- Discovered that our cat can't type
- Received 3 free tickets to travel on the Chiltern Line
- Destroyed a sofa
- Did some yoga
- Played chess
- Debated watching 'Ladies in Lavender'
- Decided on our dog's name but haven't decided on getting a dog
- Had a polar bear quarantined
- Said the word 'Dude' far too often
- Had cat litter ordered in specially
- Bought a stack of sheep
- Scratched my head
- Walked down the stairs sideways
- Ground spice in a coffle grinder
- Learnt how to tell the difference between a ladybird and a harlequin
- Did some Zen calligraphy
- Went to a Cuban restaurant
- Saw the Queen
- Won some money at the bookies
- Watched every race but one of the F1 season
- Discovered gloss paint in the most unlikely of places
- Realized that the cursor keys on our keyboard aren't printed centrally
- Switched on the F-Lock
- Shoulder mounted the cat
- Cleaned a mouse with a screwdriver
- Hid from a trick-or-treater
- Had my hair cut
- Contemplated going into our garage for the first time
- Sold some items on EBay
- Edited several Wikipedia pages
- Planned a new web site
- Used a box of books as a bedside table
- Spent several evenings coming up with items for this post
- Bought a tuxedo
- Watched the cat attacking his auto-feeder
- Ate some chilli jam
- Fell asleep on our sofa
- Lost a ladybird
- Dreamt
- Went through the Channel Tunnel
- Spent the weekend in Paris
- Visited the Louvre
- Got very drunk
- Visited the Buddha Bar
- Accidentally spoke Swedish to a Frenchman
- Accidentally spoke Spanish to a Frenchman
- Bought some slate coasters
- Panicked as I realised that the petrol station wasn't open on Christmas Day
- Fixed the tree lights with a bit of foil
- Spent Christmas Day at my Mother-in-Law's
- Visited the Quadrants
- Listened to several podcast novels
- Was unimpressed by the John Lewis cheese room
- Changed the battery on a mobility scooter
- Was given a digital voice recorder by my dad
- Bought an old school pop-up telephone index machine
- Started a sock buying war
- Went to a race night at work
- Discovered Red Bull Cola is actually cloudy
- Received a round robin from neighbourhood watch
- Watched a waterfall form
- Curled my tongue
- Ran out of tissues
- Stood at the foot of the Eiffel Tower
- Made Ubuntu bootable from a USB stick
- Received a scarab beetle key-ring as a house warming present
- Counter-signed a neighbour's daughter's house sale
- Was offered an umbrella to share in the pouring rain by a complete stranger
- Bought a combination lock for my bike
- Gained more awareness of cyclists whilst I'm driving
- Cultivated a deep dislike for Ercol furniture design
- Heard a really good didgeridoo busker in Waterloo
- Visited a Bavarian fair
- Got an apology from Nat West home insurance
- Got charged 70p for using a debit card in Ikea for a transaction over £200
- Contemplated buying a Mac
- Dodged traffic at the Arc de Triumphe
- Got banned from a hotel
- Switched to Media Monkey
- Noticed that our MyBook external hard drive is covered in morse code
- Acquired a laser distance tool
- Cycled to the station at 05:30 with a full 55Ltr rucksack on my back
- Saw several low flying Chinooks
- Spell checked
- Ate cold pizza
- Built a 36TB Cluster
- Watched a collegue lose 38Kg in weight
- Ran over a transformer
- Discovered an art shop in Thame
- Bought an iPod Touch
- Sneezed
- Ate cheese before going to bed as an experiment
- De-legged and de-winged a chicken
- Hung a coconut feeder
- Fixed the outside light
- Handed Bekie a packet
- Had a shave
- Bought raffle tickets
- Went to Wales
- Resorted our music collection
- Re-resorted our music collection
- Bought a Zeppelin
- Archived some caches
- Bowled on the Wii
- Simpsonized myself
- Improvised when we ran out of real coffee at work
- Counted the number of footsteps to the local garage
- Watched a fly ball demonstration
- Visited a dog show
- Shopped for a dinner service (successfully)
- Demonstrated an iPod Touch to a customer in John Lewis
- Scraped Ice
- Froze a bottle of Irn Bru
- Ranted at the milk depot about HDPE bottles
- Figured out the changes to the recycling dates
- Bought some presents
- Finally opened the garage door for the first time
- Bit my nails
- Hosted a house warming party
- Kneaded dough
- Bled the radiators
- Read the gas and electric meters
- Made garlic bread
- Installed a new car stereo
- Got a mortgage
- Bet on the tennis
- Installed some Python eggs
- Wore waterproof trousers
- Trawled Oxford Street for some curtain hooks
- Bought some cashmere socks
- Installed and configured a bug tracking system
- Drew a picture
- Walked the cat
- Opened several bottles of wine
- Had a cold
- Took a taxi
- Rented some DVDs
- Took a purity test
- Started a Facebook group
- Played Laser Quest in woodland
- Jump started an Audi
- Bought a mini tornado
- Bounced on a space hopper
- Wore a wig, false moustache and glasses
- Eat some popping candy
- Hit a road block
- Held my breath through Bedfordshire
- Constructed a compost bin
- Jumped up and down
- Cycled in the fog
- Wrestled with the car's back seats
- Walked through Paddington Square Gardens
- Traveled on a dark train
- Polished the silver
- Ate an olive (still don't like them)
- Bounced on a trampette
- Wiped iTunes
- Got a copy of the 'I Ching'
- Bought some new aftershave
- Completed Sonic 1, 2, 3 a Sonic and Knuckles
- Watched the fireworks
- Evacuated some cellar spiders
- Became a beta tester
- Made a strange beeping noise
- Changed a shower head
- Found the stopcock (eventually)
- Defrosted my bike seat
- Gave up my tube seat to an old lady
- Had a nightmare
- Converted some video files for Marketing
- Burnt a saucepan
- Took my mother-in-law out for a bagel
- Counted Anthony Gormley statues
- Made a Chilli
- Ironed a shirt
- Got my throat slashed by the cat
- Unintentionally killed an Azalea
- Solved some maths problems
- Wiggled my leg
- Weighed myself
- Cooked way too much rice
- Texted the wrong Fiona
- Received text messages meant for someone else
- Fixed a drain pipe
- Bought a half empty can of Red Bull
- Attempted the impossible and failed
- Laughed at George Bush on a Segway
- Learnt how to avoid a trapped arm in bed
- Saw a ninja cat
- Wrote on a graffiti wall
- Chatted to the big boss about Malcolm McLaren
- Visited the alley
- Painted Bekie's nails
- Shouted very loudly
- Cut myself dissecting a chicken
- Thought about joining neighbourhood watch
- Drove through Hicksville whilst playing Hicksville
- Put my finger through an egg
- Got distracted
- Neatly avoid the flu
- Visited the dentist
- Parked illegally
- Bought a 15 watt pygmy
- Put the kettle on
- Drove without purpose
- Visited a car boot sale
- Miscalculated
- Got shouted at by the cat
- Bought a new red duvet cover
- Brushed the cat
- Had a bath
- Wrote my 7 things blog
- Rejected a job applicant for using the word 'leveraged' on his CV
- Discussed tesla coils
- Bought 3 bookcases
- Gave a presentation
- Photographed an Acorn Weevil
- Discussed chillis
- Squeaked
- Overslept
- Accidentally left a vendor in the server room during a fire drill
- Gave adobe feedback
- Scrobbled my iPod
- Returned a product to Comet that had a fundamental design flaw
- Lost some hooks
- Discovered muscles in my legs I didn't know I had
- Drove around a field
- Wrote with my left hand
- Played sonic on the tube not realising the volume wasn't muted
- Photographed a ramp
- Bought a DTMF dialler
- Laughed at the cat's ridiculous snoring
- Interviewed people
- Watched the Towersey Morris Men
- Fell off a scooter
- Sprained my thumb
- Complained to Ocado about a driver
- Purposely clapped out of time
- Pruned our ornamental fruit tree
- Tried a free organic orange cookie bite
- Sourced Terabytes of disk space
- Made a paper aeroplane
- Stopped wearing a pendant
- Snarled
- Let out a primal scream
- Watched a red plane looping-the-loop
- Entered a competition to win a camera
- Went on a barge
- Made several compilation CDs
- Became a proper coffee snob
- Played Topple
- Wiped some iPods of all data
- Sharpened knives
- Dug out wax
- Learnt new words
- Bought a new mouse
- Photographed puddles
- Got over my arachnophobia
- Lost a car park ticket
- Used a photo booth
- Redesigned my blog
- Watched countless progress bars
- Fixed some bugs
- Phoned the operator
- Tried butternut squash
- Stalked the bluebell pilgrims
- Picnicked
- Unblocked a sink
- Put a puffer fish in our toilet cistern
- Wore an alien
- Declined an extended warrantee
- Pitched 2 tents
- Bought a ladybird house
- Discovered Yarg
- Made popcorn
- Realised SPAM is MAPS backwards
- Advised a policeman
- Watched skateboarders
- Created a meme
- Moved desks (3 times)
- Saw Paul Merton
- Cut myself shaving
- Wore odd socks
- Had a Dexter marathon
- Found an almost duplicate posting in my blog!
- Made toast
- Played the bongos
- Filled a room with books
- Overshot the car
- Pumped up my bike tyres
- Stumbled around in the dark
- Hit my head
- Drank decaffe coffee
- DJed
- Saw an urban rat
- Admired the rime ice
- Visited the seaside
- Calibrated monitors
- Fixed the coffee machine
- Telephone interviewed a Portuguese coder
- Moved a doll's house
- Removed a door
- Updated Genius
- Battled with the wind
- Googled our competitors
- Lost my black hat
- Removed a bumper from my car
- Huffed
- Made tea
- Played tennis
- Caught paper butterflies
- Checked for duplicate entries
- Hung up on someone
- Recovered a hard drive
- Cleaned a virus from a computer
- Stayed up too late
- Ran out of Red Bull
- Balanced on one leg
- Made some moves
- Swallowed a bug
- Had a jacuzzi
- Heard Big Ben chime
- Joined the dots
- Doodled on Gordon Brown's face
- Waited
- Wrote a shopping list
- Had 2 birthdays
- Posed for a company photo
- Got new business cards
- Got involved in Purplegate
- Transferred my pension
- Fixed a mail server
- Watched the fish
- Got a headache
- Hung a picture
- Re-strung a guitar
- Watched a marching band
- Traversed across roofs
- Created an on-the-go play list
- Went to the hospital
- Was bitten
- Dried my socks on the radiator
- Fixed the curtains
- Watched the eurovision song contest
- Was occasionally unpredictable
- Did the Yamomo dance
- Settled in
- Dragged a sofa into the dining room and back
- Confused the cat
- Searched for the solution
- Searched the shed for a rolling pin which we knew we didn't have
- Popped some bubble wrap
- Spoke to strangers
- Guided a ball around a maze
- Pulled a cracker
- Got confused with someone else
- Wore many hats
- Used a pair of pants as a duster
- Rearranged my speakers
- Measured things
- Was proved right
- Was proved wrong
- Span a top
- Overheated the car
- Shredded important documents
- Rebooted my phone
- Drew an Uzamaki
- Directed a Japanese man to the police station
- Poked a penguin
- Told a joke
- Gave eco credit to the junior school
- Sold raffle tickets
- Read music
- Watched a juggler under a bridge
- Impersonated a female colleague over the phone
- Played follow the Audi
- Saw the Venus de Milo's bum
- Sat through 'Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Take-away'
- Fashioned a photography backdrop rig
- Picked spinach
- Re-enacted a scene from 'Wrong Turn'
- Asked people for lists of 7 things
- Broke the speed limit
- Took the wrong bag
- Sorted our lego into individual bags
- Ate fish and chips
- Argued about final versions
- Changed clothes
- Broke a bowl
- Attended a planning consultation
- Contemplated writing a book
- Bought a bigger bird feeder
- Found a supplier of local honey
- Hired two Martins
- Reported a broken drain and got it fixed
- Battened down the hatches
- Discussed the complexities of life
- Fed the cat over 1400 times
- Published 776 lists of 7 things
- Visited the British Legion
- Watched water droplets sliding down a telephone wire
- Made several maps
- Acted as an aftershave test subject
- Bought a shirt several sizes too big
- Got stuck in some knee deep mud
- Installed Windows 7 beta
- Found some money
- Created a messaging system
- Discussed sewage plants with a property developer
- Realised one of our neighbours has a crucifix on her wall
- Read the paper
- Was stuck in several traffic jams
- Tried to find our local pick your own before realising it closed 3 years ago
- Got a case of RSI
- Virtualised
- Discovered I don't like 'Hairy Goat's Cheese'
- Had a heart drawn on my hand
- Got a pay rise
- Got accosted by a chugger
- Wore a wok on my head
- Examined small areas of grass for life forms
- Was frisked
- Had 2 family bbqs
- Peered around several people's gardens
- Had my grammar corrected
- Thankfully said goodbye to our old way of life
- Forgot what I was going to say
- Discussed fabric colours
- Picked up other people's rubbish
- Rescued the cat from a neighbour's garden
- Cleaned the toilet
- Stubbed my toe
- Stayed at the Paris Hilton
- Was asked to interpret a collegue's dream
- Cheered at the central heating
- Laughed at a man falling asleep on the train (and I do mean falling)
- Double parked
- Smoked out the kitchen
- Visited the sales
- Streamed our music collection wirelessly
- Got hemmed in by a herd of cows
- Learnt about frisbee golf
- Visited the outlet tent in Kent
- Sent out invitations
- Mended the vacuum cleaner by taking it apart and putting it back together again
- Bagged some trig points
- Photographed mushrooms
- Blew bubbles
- Tracked someone's progress using their mobile phone and google maps
- Bought 2 secret Santa presents
- Weeded the garden
- Re-routed our phone cabling
- Received too many sales calls for the previous owner of the phone number
- Helped someone get his car out of the mud
- Corrected a typo in the title of one of my blog posts from 2007
- Had to convince someone that I wasn't Donovan
- Extracted a cat ball from a sub-woofer
- Was diverted
- Made a 'moving countdown chart'
- Drank at least 1000 litres of Red Bull
- Whinged about someone else's pre-vis efforts
- Discovered that 'Windows Key'+M shrinks all windows
- Walked up the spiral staircase at Goodge Street station
- Bought matching bedside lamps
- Defrosted the fridge
- Stuck my tongue out at the monkey cam
- Found 15 duplicate entries in this list
- Removed 'track 6'
- Got pins-and-needles
- Registered several domains
- Discussed home automation with 5 of the partners at work
- Saw the brightest moon
- Curdled soured cream
- Sewed a button onto a shirt
- Spooked a squirrel
- Investigated track leveling
- Realized our doorbell had stopped working
- Shivered
- Listened to the howling wind
- Forgot my train pass
- Was stopped by customs officials
- Caught a mouse
- Completed a list of 777 thing I've done since starting this blog
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