Casually swiped from Anna Nother mailing list. Credits to whomsoever thought of this.
15 years ago, this happened...
1) cracked my wrist falling off my bike...
2) wore a plaster cast for ten days...
3) raised a tenner for charity getting people to sign it...
4) moved from the middle to the high school...
5) spent a fortnight touring northern France.
10 years ago, this happened...
1) worked at an election count...
2) ummed...
3) started uni...
4) saw Punt & Dennis on tour...
5) spent a fortnight in the Netherlands.
5 years ago, this happened...
1) worked at my first paid job...
2) wrote lots of list mail...
3) spent two hours a day on trains...
4) saw Kenickie in concert...
5) spent a fortnight in Newfoundland.
2 years ago, this happened...
1) began my current job...
2) left the closet...
3) perfected my Chris Tarrant impression...
4) saw My Life Story's last-but-three concert...
5) spent six days in sunny Brighton.
1 years ago, this happened...
1) banged an elbow falling from my bike...
2) said hello to some bonnets...
3) bought my own home...
4) cut travelling time to thirty minutes a day...
5) spent two weeks in sunny Dallas.
Yesterday, this happened...
1) spend the morning working out how to make a non-trivial zero on the COUNTDOWN numbers game...
2) proved it can be done with any collection of five small numbers...
3) watched episode 6 of 24 in "17"...
4) took a long, relaxing shower...
5) filled in expense claim form.
Today, this happened...
1) found that someone's PC from work is no longer booting...
2) they've been fiddling in their network cabinet...
3) they can't find our recovery disks...
4) the sun shone and the wind blew...
5) someone else figures that big numbers divide to make small ones.
Tomorrow, this happens...
1) wear pink shirt and burgundy tie...
2) show sympathy for Peter Sissons...
3) not watch SURVIVOR...
4) the sun shines and the wind blows...
5) brute force proof that only sets containing three big numbers won't make a zero.
Five Places I've Lived:
1) Here
2) Wolverhampton
3) Leamington Spa
4) University
5) Hotel rooms
Five Snacks:
1) crisps
2) pears
3) choccie biccies
4) soup
5) oranges
Five Songs I Know all the Words to, Even Without the Music:
1) "I Hope You Dance" - Leeann Womack
2) "Southside" - Moby
3) The theme to "Animaniacs"
4) "Star Trekkin'" - The Firm
5) "My Star" - Brainstorm
Five Games I Like:
1) Truth, No Dare
2) Uno
3) Des Chiffres Et Des Lettres
4) Scrabble
5) Which Checkout Queue Is Shorter?
Five Books that Moved Me:
1) "The Phantom Tollbooth" - Norman Hunter
2) The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series - Douglas Adams
3) The Adrian Mole series - Sue Townsend
4) "Dancing Girls" - Margaret Attwood
5) The NODE
Five CDs recently in the player:
1) Andrew Hardin
2) Tori Amos
3) Santana
4) Great Big Sea
5) Jimmy Eat World
Five TV Shows:
1) Big Brother
2) The Enemy Within
3) Buffy
4) Anything with Jonathan Mann
5) 5 News
Five Things I Would Buy With USD 1000:
1) Holiday.
2) Self-cleaning windows.
3) New telly.
4) Broadband internet.
5) Er, clothes probably.
Five Guilty Pleasures:
1) Game shows.
2) Holidays.
3) CDs.
4) Maths problems.
5) Railways.
Five Locations to Run Away:
1) Springfield
2) Three Rivers
3) Sunnydale
4) Northam
5) Strewth Street
Five Bad Habits:
1) Biting fingernails.
2) Bad eating.
3) Procrastination.
4) Writing gibberish.
5) Travelling.
Five Things Never to Wear:
1) Thin tights
2) Open-necked shirts
3) Shorts
4) Bright green anything
5) Baseball cap.
Five Worries:
1) Job security
2) The situation in the Middle East
3) Food
4) Running out of worry beads
5) The baggage retrieval system they've got at Heathrow
Five Joys:
1) Sunlight
2) Laughter
3) Music
4) Chatter
5) Friends. As in you lot.
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