Coconuts out for a ride on a sunny day.

For all of you out there who have kids and wonder what us unmarried types do with our extra time…we do lots of silly things. Like listening to Howard Stern all day long, reading a book a day, memoriz(s)ing the dead kings of England, and this…

The Hundred Pushups Challenge

This website gives you a program to follow so that in 6 weeks you should be able to do 100 pushups(that’s pressups for the limeys). What a strange goal. It’s like trying to become a millionaire. But somewhat easier. And quicker too! You gotta have goals, right?

My summer exercise regimen was already in full swing. Yoga goes year round and I do a lot of bike riding when the weather is decent. So this challenge seemed like a nice diversion, especially since I work from home. Working in an office would have made this very difficult indeed.

I have to admit, it took more than 6 weeks. But not once did I go backwards. If I had, that would have been enough to stop the momentum. Changing my diet helped too. No kebabs. Those delicious dripping yummy pockets of shredded lamb. Chock full o’ lamb-y goodness.

So if you’re looking for a healthy diversion to your endless days of not picking up after the rugrats, this challenge is one that just about anyone can do, check out this site: The Hundred Pushups Challenge

Update

I’ve had a few recent emails (from the same person perhaps?) asking me to post a video of myself completing the 100 pushups. Well…I ain’t gonna do it. My tiny brain can think of only 3 reasons for someone requesting such a thing:

1. Proof. I did it. You’ll just have to take my word for it. It’s not THAT difficult if you put in some time.
2. Entertainment value. It’s sort of like watching those hulking great Scottish blokes pull steam engines and toss tree around. But admittedly, not quite as impressive.
3. You’re a prevert (sp?) of some sort.

So I respectfully decline to post a video of my accomplishment. But here is some inspiration from YouTube:

So you’re interested in reading about Dog Fish Sunglasses Salad? You’re weird. Here is a sample of images from Google when you search for “Dog Fish Sunglasses Salad”. There seems to be more dogs than anything. Hardly a fish to be spotted anywhere. Sunglasses are common. The bat…well, I guess he saw someone taking a photo of the sunglasses and thought he’d better get in there before it was too late. The salad frog is nice. There are probably much worse things walking around on people’s salads that they don’t know about. And frogs are pretty clean. They don’t eat much either. The graduating dog really looks happy. I hope he got good grades.

…shout out to all the 30DC members!

But I love it!

I’ve just changed my blog theme to the grungy crunchy organic dirty bacteria-laden look you see here with the SoulVision WordPress theme. I love it. It’s so NOT web 2.0. It’s more like web 2.01, the first rebellion of design against the glossy-button look.

However, after a week or so, I noticed that Google Analytics was reporting no traffic. Yes, zero! It’s set up not to track my visits for obvious reasons, so I thought maybe all y’all had gotten bored of my clever and witty remarks, insightful observations and monkey-themed writings.

Nope. That wasn’t it. It’s this stupid theme. They forgot to add to footer.php! Der. So if you like this theme, Google it. I’m not given these morans any credit for breaking my plugins.

Remember last year when the media, particularly in the over-reactionary U.S., when the bees started disappearing? What happened to that? I mean, have the bees come back or are they still missing? I’m currently spending some time in the coun-tree and it’s the beginning of June, and I’ve yet to see a honey bee. I’ve noticed a few bumbly-type bees, and one of those flies that pretends to be a bee to scare away bee-eating things. But no bee-bees.

The price of honey doesn’t seem to have gone up much. Although, I wouldn’t know since I bought a jar back in 1998 and haven’t finished it yet. It’s not that I don’t like honey. In fact, I love it! But I don’t like having sticky fingers. And after about the 4th time you open/close a jar of honey, the jar becomes a gooey sticky mass with the touch-appeal similar to that of drain-goo.

Maybe it’s not warm enough up here in the Lake District. Maybe they’ve all moved back to Poland after they found out all the good bee jobs were taken.

Whatever the case may bee (see what I did there?) I would like to know. I guess it’s time for a-googlin…

Tags: bees, honey, hysteria, mystery

I’m blogging with Flock! Woohoo! Now I might start updating this website more often. I still have nothing to say, but now it’s even easier to say it.

Twitter sucks. Peace out.

I just ate a peanut that tasted like a skunk. Actually, I’ve never tasted skunk before. But it tasted like a skunk smells. Weird.

Hey everybody look at me! I’m blogging! (I need a life)

… I am not proud.