101 Things/1001 Days

At the start of May I decided to sit the presentation section of the ECDL and have been waiting since that time for confirmation that I had actually passed. I knew I had passed from how well the exam had gone and the tutor had already told me but you know what its like you don’t want to believe it until the certificate arrives though the post. It did yesterday so another goal crossed off my list.

I have been a fan of Quantum Leap since I caught the first episode on BBC2 over here and always thought it was a great idea for a television show. At school on a Wednesday all my friends would be talking about the episode on the night before. Like all good programmes they have to end at some point and the final episode was quite a talking point and still is today to be honest. Back in those days they started to release the episodes on video and I have a grand plan to collect them all, in fact I only ever managed to buy the pilot episode and never seemed to have the money to buy the other releases. It seems that others couldn’t either as they never released the complete series, and only a few videos were released so when I saw that the dvd was being released with all the first seasons episodes I had to have it and when it came to compiling this list I knew that I just had to complete the collection. The final box set to complete my collection arrived yesterday.

Guinness Storehouse – Dublin

After visiting Dublin for the day a few years ago I always said that if I went back it would have to be for more than a day visit, so it ended up on my list and I am happy to finally be able to cross it off my 101 things list. Only went for a few days and still not really enough time to do everything that you could possibly want to do but saying that there is so much you can do that I don’t think you could ever do everything. One place I did visit was the Guinness Storehouse, where the photo was taken (would you believe I could not find many signs which actually said Dublin)

Anyone who is planning to visit Dublin should invest in one of the open topped bus tours and if you have a student card be sure to use it for some great discounts.

Me on the worm

I used the fantastic weather yesterday to re visit Rhosilli and was finally able to make the trip to “Worms Head” On my two previous visits I have been unable to get across to the actual worm as the tide had been in. I was lucky yesterday as the tide was out and the causeway was still passable so I set off and have to admit that it was a lot further than I originally thought. In the past I have looked from the hill side when the tide is in the gap looks very small but it is a fair trek just to get to the first island and then you I discovered that there is another causeway to climb over to get to the second island. Unfortunately it was not as clear as I would have hoped and a lot of the photos I took of the coastline are very hazy. Apart from that it was a good day and I must have walked miles and burnt up loads of energy with all the climbing that needed to be done to get across the causeway. So been a while but I finally get to cross something else off my list

It was the 1st April 2006 when I started this project and to be honest I thought I had gotten off to a good start but when I look at what I have achieved and what I have actually crossed off my list in the last nine months it does not seem that much. To me it seems that I have neglected this site for most of the year so maybe that is why I decided to do an update at the end of the year.

In fact I have only crossed off five items from my list –

58. Complete EDCL Level 3 Word course
63. Create a sub site for this project.
69. Complete EDCL Level 3 Access course
77. Visit a continental market
79. Visit Llyn Llech Owain country park

But I am well on my way to completing the following –

1. To watch all of the AFI top 100 films.
2. To watch all of the BFI top 100 films.
3. To watch all of the IMDB top 250 films.
(Out of the 367 films that I need to watch to be in a position to complete the above three tasks I have currently watched only 42.)
41. Create at least 50 handmade cards [16/50]
(I set myself the task of creating 50 handmade cards and I am pretty sure when I finalise all the cards I made and sent out for Christmas I should be able to cross this off)

So I still have another 728 days left to complete the remaining tasks I set myself.

It’s been ages since I last updated this sub section of the site and I have not forgotten about my 101 things to do in 1001 days. Things have just been very hectic in my life lately and I have not had a lot of time to do many of the things on the list, not that I had planned on doing a great deal of them during the summer, I think the thing I am most disappointed about is the lack of progress I have been making with my list of the various top films, I had hoped being such a film fanatic I would have watched a lot more but again been busy and not had the opportunity. I am however hoping to add some new tasks to my list in the vacant spaces I purposefully left at the end.

I really did not think that I would complete much of the advanced ECDL course seeing as I only joined the class in the middle of February after everyone else had started the previous September. Needless to say I sped through the Word module taking that test before the Easter holidays and once we returned I started on the Access module with a few others from the class. What with half term and me getting a job I really did not think that I would be in a position to sit the database exam before the college closed for the summer holidays. I did however manage to switch to an evening class and sat the exam during the last session before the college broke up and today I received my certificate so two down two more to go!

May is finally over and I really don’t feel that I have done a great deal towards achieving many of the 101 things. Over the last month I managed to watch a further six films from my various lists and completed two actual things. Looking at things however there are quite a few little things which are being done towards achieving other things from the list, such as my card making.

A continental market has been held in Carmarthen this weekend and I thought I would take the time to explore it and try out some of the food and drink available from other parts of Europe. Okay it would be a lot cheaper to buy similar products from the local supermarket as my mother was quick to point out but I felt that would be a waste to not enjoy what was on offer at the market. I did notice that some of the stallholders were not really selling anything that I considered to be “continental” but there were more than a few stalls manned by foreigners offering samples of their wares.

I did notice that the stall selling biscuits from Brittany and the chocolates from Belgium but the prices were ridiculously expensive. I worked it out that only a few biscuits would cost me £3.50, they may have been handmade but I have better things to spend my money on and spend it I did.

Ended up getting some pear cider and some items from the French stall, which had been freshly baked and there really is nothing better than freshly baked pastries.

I arrived in college yesterday afternoon to be told by the tutor that I had passed the first of the four modules of the advanced ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) course in Word. Not bad seeing as I took the test after only four weeks in the class. Unfortunately I will not get to know my final mark all I do know is that I would have achieved more that 76%.

Hopefully the certificate will arrive soon but in the meantime I have already started on the next module which is databases and Access, I’m hoping to sit the exam for this before college breaks up for summer but we’ll have to see how I get on.