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"...

Hmmm, a blog to record my progress around the world - good plan. So here it is (woo).
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Ok, so I'm not actually going for a few months yet, but at least I can get warmed up to this blogging lark first ^_^