I haven't lived!

I'm 21 years old, about to start my final year at uni and - despite what I had previously thought - it seems I haven't lived!
I've travelled round 13 European cities in one month, I've been in a hot air balloon many times, I've flown in a microlight, I've taken part in more than one ballooning world record, I've played 3 different musical instruments, I've reached brown belt in Karate and I've lived and worked in Paris for 10 months to name just a few things I've done.
However, despite this, I do feel that I have failed. To start with, I weigh just 9 stone. This is no kind of acheivement when you see that the girl in this BBC news story weighs 34 stone and she is both younger AND shorter than me!
The second example of how little I've done comes from a young lady my mother met the other day. This girl was 20 (a year younger than me) and, it seems, has done far more than I have. She is already married, for the second time, and has not 1, not 2, but 4 children, the first of which she had when she was 13.
I look at these two people - both younger than me - and realise how much work I've got ahead of me.
Still, there's about a month left before I get back to uni - I'd better get started!

Campaign for Common Sense

After seeing a label "Contains Nuts" on a barrel containing loose nuts I have been moved to use my web space at Google Pages. I am hereby starting a Campaign for Common Sense. The aim is get rid of stupid signs and labels such as the example given above and to fight against the ridiculous amount of tolerance given to stupid people.
Over the coming days I will (hopefully) be adding content to http://alasdair.ross.googlepages.com which will, until I get around to getting my own domain name, become the home of my struggle.
I invite you all to join with me and rally against the idiots and the people too dumb to realise that Peanuts ARE nuts and that there is no need to label them as "containing nuts"!

Changes

Ooh, shiny!
You may have noticed some changes on here (well, that depends if there's anyone reading this I suppose). Blogger is in the beta (testing) phase of a new version so I thought I'd give it a go. It makes changing the layout far easier and, as you can see, I've added photos from my Flickr stream and a top 10 chart for the songs I listen to as provided by Last.fm (although at the moment I still need to tidy the layout up and make sure all the text fits).
I'm thinking of making my own blog at some point (rather than use this Blogger one) but that would mean buying a domain name and depends on whether I get round to learning any sort of web development.....

What I love about the internet

I've just watched MySpace: The Movie . I really recommend you download and watch it. I really hate MySpace.com and I think the way this film portrays typical pages will help explain why. I will admit that I haven't used MySpace, nor have I spent much time on the site but that was because I felt physically ill from the abominations created by people on there. I thought I was going to go blind after seeing pink, Matrix style text scrolling down a red background.
Anyhow, just wanted to post the liink to that movie. I'd better go before this starts becoming a tirade about everything I hate on the internet and chavvy people.

Titsup!

"It's funny what life throws at you". This is something people say when something unexpected and unfortunate happens to them. This sentence is pretty stupid as the thing that happens is rarely funny.
A week before I moved back home I brought some of my stuff back. Up until that point I thought my life was pretty damn good. It was that weekend that I found out that everything had gone "titsup". No-one died or anything thankfully but I feel a bit like everything I knew and thought was stable has vanished.
I've been back home for almost a month now. I still haven't got a job but I can't say I've tried too hard to look. There are some adverts in the paper I'm going to chase up though; I need to get some money to do some things to my car (but that's another story).
I finally managed to upload the rest of my photos to flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/aross . It took ages - I did 294 in one go.
Well, that's all I have to say at the moment.