London scorecard
Birthday parties attended: 1
Combined age of attendees, in years (estimated): 1118
Average age of attendees, in years (estimated): 46.6
Number of attendees who were the same age as the host/guest of honour: 9
Languages that I heard spoken at the party: 7
Languages that I spoke at the party: 2 (French 70%, English 30%)
Hours away from home: 98
Hours spent in transit: 16
of which actually in flight: 3.3
Hours in London: 82
Hours spent waiting for taxis, busses and Tube trains: 1.25
Hours spent walking in Richmond Park: 3
Minutes spent attempting to get online via Post Office DSL: 45
Minutes spent online: 0
Indian meals consumed: 3
of which vegetarian: 1
Italian meals consumed: 1
Greek meals consumed: 1
English breakfasts consumed: 2
Pints of Guinness consumed: 1
Pints of Cobra beer consumed: 2.5
Pints of other beer consumed: 3
Glasses of Jameson's Irish Whisky consumed: 1
Glasses of Remy Martin VSOP consumed: 1
Glasses of Italian red wine consumed: 5
Books carried with me from Germany, to read on the way: 1
Pages of said book that were read on the way: 0
Locally-available books read: 1
Books bought: 10
Music CDs bought: 1
Music CDs "ripped" i.e. stolen: 1
Strangers flirted with in the Tube: 1
Strangers flirted with in bookshops: 1
Art exhibitions viewed: 1
Sightings of St. Paul's Cathedral: 2
Visits to St. Paul's Cathedral: 0
Sightings of Sir Norman Foster's Thames Bridge: 1
Crossings of Sir Norman Foster's Thames Bridge: 0
Blogging buddies met in RL: 1
SecondLife buddies met in RL: 0
Persons I met who had heard of either blogging or SecondLife: 0
Labels: cities, happy, statistics, tired, tourist
8 Comments:
So, a drink every seven hours, how did you mange?
So, people you "met" meaning those who you did not know before, or else there is a blogger who doesn't know about blogging.
Sounds wonderfully exhausting.
In England blogging is called 'thrazing' and SecondLife is known as 'VirtualBobface'.
You did know that, right?
Zhoen: thanks for pointing that out, I have attached a ticklertext to the Zero. I did indeed mean "people I met," the blogger is self-aware. The trip was indeed wonderful and exhausting, and made me remember both how much I enjoyed London as a student and how delighted I was to escape it.
Pacian: well, that explains an awful lot. They must have thought I was right daft, aye.
I would love to berate you over not reading the book you bought but instead reading another and buying ten, but as I'm sure you are aware, I would have no leg to stand on in that instance. Therefore: good job Udge, way to represent the team!
Blood is thicker than India Pale Ale, as they say.
How about a few counts to follow that last:
Number of people who now know about SL:
Number of people bored to tears after SL explanations:
Total hours of laughter and enjoyment produced by the trip:
Number of memories that will be played back as time goes on:
God, the list was as fun as the comments! ROCK ON.
Udge, I never have
nor ever will visit SL, and kind of
glaze over your descriptions of it.
So:
Number of people bored to tears after SL explanations: count me in!!!!
But I love the rest of your blog.
This list was a classic reason why.
Very cool. You are cool.
Shari
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