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Well, as per my meta-goal 101 – Do 100 day updates, here is the Day 200 update.

Not much movement really….

The Good:-
66 – Via Ferrata in Italy
I go on Friday, cant wait.

82 – Visit Egypt
I go in October for 2 weeks, 1 week cruise – 1 week sun and as much archaeology as I can get!

94 – Go to Edinburgh festival
Will fly over for a weekend in Aug, let me know if you are interested in joining

28 – Drive Offroad
Going back to Dubai in December when it cools off, will be driving a mates Hummer in the desert.

75 – Watch SICP, do exercises from book
Did half when visiting Germany from Den Haag a few weeks ago, mind bending but wonderful stuff.

72 – Read “Winning Ways”
Inspired by Martin Gardners death, I did half of the first book when I had some downtime in Manchester. First bit of new Maths in ages and it felt great. See Games of No Chance for more fun.

8 – Read all the VSIs
Read Vikings, Human Prehistory, Memory, Archaeology, Evolution, maybe more – i need to get tactical and create a master list.

13 – Release 303 books on bookcrossing.com
Tasked my long suffering mother with labeling them all, need to teach her how to register them then release them. Still need to sort out the Crossing Zone in Liverpool too.

48 – Create a backblaze storage pod
They are getting made soon, due on the 28th

The Bad:-
5 – Lose 2 stone
Got half way Jan/Feb, might have taken a step back living away again… Correctable though!

19 – Blog on average once a week
Way off, need to blog furiously to catch up.

The Almost Had:-
22 – Spend 3 months in another country
Spent two in Holland (Den Haag / The Hague) working for ING.

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Well, it has been an interesting few months, in brief:

• Went to Libya to work for a big telco
• Went to Oklahoma for a mates wedding then drove 2000 miles (or rather, made my girlfriend drive 2000 miles as I lost my driving licence…), visited 5 states and two national parks to see ancestral pueblo people sites
• Moved to Den Haag (The Hague) for 2 months to work on INGs Next-Gen data center
• About to move to Camden for the next bit of work

Not much movement on 101 goals, planned Egypt in October and Via Ferrata next week. Behind on learning goals though have done half of SICP in one mind bending train journey!

I kind of feel my life has been on hold the last 6 weeks I have been in Holland and am really looking forward to being back in the UK (though perhaps could have done with more of a break in between)

Expect more jollys to get planned before the end of the year (VMworld, Citrix Synergy, War Horse, Japan and Edinburgh all sounding fun at the moment), perhaps I’ll find time to blog about some of the cool shit at the NGDC and my US trip.

Tom

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