Yes. Suprising even myself, I managed 24 hours without turning on my computer or using the internet. I completed Shutdown Day. I’ll be honest, it was tough. As I had to contend with:-
- My mum being completely inept at using the internet, and wanting me to download a (rather important, to be honest) form. I felt I couldn’t tell her explicitly about shutdown day, so I just convinced her that there’d be no point filling in the important form, I’m busy today, so I’ll sort it out tomorrow…err…today.
- My best mate buggering off to the other side of the world today, so I wouldn’t catch up with him on MSN before he went. So I rang him last night, and he said he’s not leaving until 10:15pm tomorrow. So that worked out okay.
- Not knowing the Wales or Scotland score in the football.
So, as you can imagine, it was pretty tough. I knew I had to keep myself busy otherwise I would’ve slipped. In the morning, I went to Llandudno, and bought myself some Wii points as well as a Wii Classic Controller. as I feel I would be needing this later on.
After testing out my new purchase, I then went to to watch Colwyn Bay play against a bunch of thugs, I have never seen a bunch of football players having the shit kicked out of like I did yesterday. We drew, which was probably a fair result. It does mean that our playoff chances to a huge blow, but - worse - we have a bunch of players struggling to get fit for Tuesday night’s game after yesterdays thuggery.
After the football, I went back home and caught up with Rick, who had arrived back from Nottingham. He gave me my birthday present - Eric Bischoff’s Autobiography - which is a fascinating read. We then played Wii Play and Wii Sports for about 2 hours, had tea, watched the rugby then a fascinating documentary on Operation Chariot by Jeremy Clarkson, then took our mum to the pub. We’re nice like that. Rick over the course of two hours installed this traveling bug inside me, saying what I should do, where I should go, that sort of jazz. I arrived back at quarter to midnight, drunk, happy, and quite satisfied that I achieved what I believe was the impossible.
So, what was the damage. Logging on after 24 hours, I had:-
- 33 e-mails, of which 6 were worth reading.
- 92 unread rss feed posts.
- An extra $1.50 in my Adsense account.
- Guy pestering me on MSN.
- A poke from Han on my facebook.
There was 1 thing that helped me survive, Wii’s Virtual Console. I shall explain more tomorrow!
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay.
I think using the Wii is cheating really!
you do know you were the only person on my contacts list who wasn’t online!
As for your emails - if you used gmail you wouldn’t get excited by the 33 emails just the 6
92?! hmm maybe I should unsubscribe from a few!! I have over 1000 a day!!
and you poked me first!
*throws some travel bugs rhys way so he will get to australia at some point*
Nice one on the shutdown, despite cheating a little i appreciate how hard it is for you so its quite a feat!
Im going go try and go without a computer from about 3.30 this afternoon for as long as possible! Should be easy!
Damn you, I was hoping you would fail.
After saying how easy it would be, I found myself halfway through watching a DVD on the computer and smelling the sweet smell of failiure.
The DVD was C.R.A.Z.Y and it is was worth the failiure… everyone must see it
I completely forgot… 92 RSS feeds? Ah, I had 7 and freaked out!
Congrats! If I had read the previous post ahead of time, I might have played along too!