I used to be a proper hardcore gamer spending hours playing the latest releases, playing a range of genres from platform to sports to strategy and first person shooters. Some of my fondest early memories are of playing games with my friends. You say the words GCSE's and I won't tell you about the hours spent studying I'll tell you about mammoth Goldeneye marathons around Jonesy's house when we were supposed to be studying. a large proportion of my first year at university was spent playing horse on Tony Hawkes skating or our weekly CFC tournament on This I is football.

In case you hadn't guessed yet I'm a big history geek and in particular British history. I think it started when I was at Gipsey Bridge, when Mr Jones told us all about these powerful kings and queens of years gone by, of battles won and lost, none of them really gripped me like the story of Henry VIII though. In fact my topic folder all about the Tudors and Stuarts got countywide recognition as being an excellent study into the time period.

It's been a little while since I ticked off something off my list with work being busy and other commitment's but as I had 72 hours off from the normal world I thought I would check off a couple, this being the first one that I did.

The Bro Code, we've all heard about it before, such things as 'Bro's before hoes' being commonplace, but what does it actually mean? We hear characters like Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother endlessly quote different rules from it. A little research and apparently there are 150 rules contained within his version of it. Mostly concerned with close male friends and there obligations to each other, and in ways that they should aid them in the pursuit of women.

I used to be fit, not in the attractive way, I don't think I could ever claim to be that in a million years! No in the actual health wise, I used to be a very fit, agile young person, who could play pretty much any sport half decently.  Football was my chief source of exercise, but I also played rounders and cricket for the school. I used to even go for cross country runs around the Lincolnshire countryside just for the fun of it. It also wasn't unheard of me to play the occasional game of handball or hockey and on one occasion netball.

In a previous post I spoke of songs that remind of certain situations or events that I found myself in, this one is a bit more of the same, but more specific, songs that remind me of certain people. I only have to hear the opening bars of certain songs and there face pops into my head, or maybe it's a certain lyric and pop there they are running around bringing back memories.

Music is all around us in our day to day lives. The songs we hear on TV and radio, the ever present background to our life. It can pump us up, chill us out, remind us of days gone by, make us think of loved ones, of enemies, of lovers and everything in between. That being said there is nothing like live music being played in front of you.

Another one crossed off the list and that makes it 10% completed, I never expected to cross them off this quickly! This was one of the easier ones to do and I was down in London again (seems I spend more time down there than in Boston at the minute!) I thought I would cross off number 88, a trip to The London Mithraerium.

Recently in a coffee shop awaiting my order with Emma, the barista called out Brenda when giving me my black coffee and then Brandon when giving me the medium hot chocolate with cream. She found this highly amusing, however it's something I've got used to in my life. People are constantly spelling my name wrong, whether it be on educational certificates, or lease agreements, it's become something of a running joke, one that I don't see ending any time soon.

Legend is a word thrown about a little to often for my liking. You only have to watch some of the reality TV shows to hear it thrown about loosely. TV legend ....insert name here of someone from third rate show like TOWIE or my own personal favourite wrestling legend....insert name here of someone who once appeared as a jobber on Monday Night Raw in the 1990's. Then there are true legends of there field and this challenge is all about honouring two of the true legends of British TV comedy, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson.

For the years that I lived in Luton my home away from home was this fine establishment, The Park. Located on Park Street right next to the university I hate to think of how much time and money I spent in there. On the surface it's no where special, your bog standard average student bar that existed, big screen TV's on which we watched every football match going, some crappy pool tables that we attempted to play on, an IT box on which I personally wasted so much money on, it's here I would like to boast a little and say that I was the first person to win the jackpot twice in a day!

It's been a while since I checked one off my challenge list and I took the opportunity having a free day in London Town to do just that. Challenge number 83 to visit the Greenwich Royal Observatory. This one is all about celebrating the geek in me, with a touch of nationalistic pride.