4 days until I hand in my notice... still no RTW ticket purchased...

Good news is selling my life has gone well - both through amazon and work noticeboards. Chalked up aobut 400 quid from games, books and videos, with another 400-500 quid coming in from selling PCs and Palm Pilots.

One final selling drive of old board games and books once I'm back at home, and then see how the finaces are going. Should hopefulyl have sold enoguh stuff to pay for my entire ticket (leaving saved cash for rent and beer money).

Heck, I can sleep on long night bus journeys - more beer money that way :)

I declare today, April 22nd, "Sticking your tounge out" day
So there :)=

It appears there are a lot of people buying second hand shit out there... must of made alomst 200 quid on amazon marketplace in 2 weeks !
Been feeling the cold turkey of not buying CDs though... no new White stripes album for me... or Manitoba... or Massive attack... :(

Also been looking closer at routes and such - it looks like 1 grand will get me London -> NYC -> LA -> Fiji -> New Zealand -> Sydney -> Singapore -> Bangkok -> London, with a few thousands miles to spare for deviations.

Cancelled direct debits today - it's amazing how easily you rack up these "money leeches" to drain your salary. It feels so good to just lop them all off every year by moving house or travelling - to be able to confirm that every penny disappearing from your account is either being invested wisely, or contributing towards a painful Sat / Sun afternoon of hangover hell :)

Pre-holiday pledge :- no blogging while drunk !

Money - need money.

Apparently budgeting, like dieting, requires you to do more than say you are doing it - you actually have to do it as well !

So, in a killing 2 birds with 1 stone style-ee, I think I rigorous session on ebay should raise some extra funds, as well as clearing some of the old games / books / videos out of my folks place, for a fresh layer of crap to sit on top of.

Not sure I want to do a complete "all my life for sale" job, but anything that has gathered dust for 10 years is probably only worth keeping if dust replaces sterling as currency (In which case I will just haul all my old junk down the travel agents and blow in there direction...)

Told parents - tick.
Ordered iPod - tick.
Sorting house move - tick.

Not going too badly then. Just gotta farm off some furniture to family and friends, and sort out that all important route and ticket.
Gonna make a deadline of 31st March to sort those things out... after which I'll do some sums and see how much cash I got knockin' about !

Sorry about the incredible dullness off all this - it's basically a progress tracker for me at the moment.
Besides, no-one is supposed to be reading this for a couple of months yet ! Then I promise more stories of (mis)adventure.

As your here, I gift you my quality link de la jour to be more entertaining than I.
Au reviour, T

No real progress so far - how lame. Need to sort out :

• A route


• A round-the-world ticket


• Getting enough cash together


• Sorting out some job thing in Oz


• An iPod full of 'choons to keep me sane


• Moving out of the house I'm in right now


• Telling my folks there getting a whole load of crap deposited back home quite soon

Better "phone home"...