Just over a month on from starting my stock predictions and investing a virtual £100k, I'm about £240 in the black! Is anyone willing to make a donation to the Dave Butler Trustfund to make the virtual £100k not so virtual?

The Gauntlet

Does anyone remember that game in Gladiators called "The Gauntlet" where the poor challenger, about as big as one of the gladiator's biceps, had to run down this half pipe and try to get past five or six human brick walls? They invariably nearly killed themselves in the attempt. Anyway, that's what it's beginning to feel like walking down Tottenham Court Rd. The challengers are still members of the general public but the gladiators are substituted by "chuggers" or "charity muggers." You really regret it if you do start to talk to one of them. They do a core information dump on you. I've started to say, "I'll look at the website" (which I do!) just so that I don't get stuck there, noticing everybody else walking past having a that-muppet-got-stopped smile on their faces. There must be better ways of raising money...

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Wait, hold on... one of the best movies ever made is showing later tonight. Channel 5 presents, at 6pm, The Goonies! Yeah baby. ~~Why isn't this out on DVD in UK yet?~~

Ooone undred and EIGHTY!!!

Darts is not a sport in my opinion. Players of a sport must be athletes. It's not terribly interesting, but it is strangely watchable. This guy Tony David is a bit of a legend actually, even though he's Australian. (We don't like them because of the Ashes... even though we whipped them in the 5th Test...)

Related: darts, sport

Resolution #3

Blog far less frequently... only joking! Have been quite busy with a little 3D computer graphics program. It's quite cool but more about that later.

My quest is almost accomplished! When you search for "David Butler" in Google, Nimisis.com comes up at number 2 out of 1.2 million! Yeah baby.

Resolution #2

Move. Out of the dump that I call home at this particular point in time. South west London seems to be quite appealing. Battersea or Clapham I think. Some new flat mates would be good. Petros, a poisoned dwarf, is my nearest neighbour and is terrorizing me every night by bouncing his basketball non-stop... I've had enough! (At least bullets don't come through the walls I guess...)

Tags: New Year, resolution, move house

New year's resolution #1

I have 70.96% more of this work day left and then I can go home. An Austin Powers dvd has already been put on by one of the guys, solitaire is everpresent on the computer screens and I've been listening in to my neighbour's domestic over the phone. How foolish was I to turn up a tortuous ten minutes early today... I've done next to nothing. It's a toss-up between asking for some work and being given a tedious photocopying task or honing my acting ability and pretending to be busy surfing the internet googling all sorts of things I've wondered about but never got round to finding out... "pest control", "how to get visitors to your website"...

This is a clear indication I feel that I should start looking for a new job. The NASA website doesn't seem to have many job openings. Being an astronaut seems so 1960s anyway. I could try to get into F1 driving, Shuey gets ?2 000 a day after all, but I don't have a driving license yet. Pixar and Lego are cool but probably only when you get into the top jobs where you can be creative. Being a futurologist or a professional competition enterer sound cool. This is my new year's resolution. I'm on a fairly bargain basement wage for living in London, and this job is not very challenging. It could be for monkeys or small children... Don't get me wrong, I don't hate my job, I just don't like it that much. I will get a software development job somehow!

Related: New Year, resolution, job

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