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Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 18 YEARS OF STUFF!

On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less.

3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2025 – 18th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,973 posts in our archives, +11K comments and +3.1M referral links that comprise

Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.

We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different.

—>Last Year’s Top 11 Hits linked here<—

The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity. Unfortunately WordPress has modified its statistics tracker and only includes the top 400 or so.

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.” “NA” is “Not Available.”

Click on any link below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!



No. 11 / NR / NA – Trotify


No. 10 / NR /  NA – Doodle Challenge Accepted


No. 9 / NR / NA – Google Street View


No. 8 / NR / NA – The Essence of Doggo


No. 7 / NR / NA – Chat-N-Chew Cafe, Wing ND


No. 6 / NR / NA – Vomit Clocks


No. 5 / 6 / 60 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever


No. 4 / NR / NA – VW Lead Sled Beetle


No. 3 / NR / 374 – A Hindu God


No. 2 / NR / 360 – Halloween Costume Suggestions

And the No. 1 Post of the Year:

Unreal Abandonment

Posted on 26 February 2025, with a rank of 1 / NR / 104, this collection of computer-generated abandoned houseboats got a surprising amount of attention in a relatively short amount of time.

Top 5 Audio posts for the past year:

[I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.]

Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.

Bunk

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Happy Independence Day!

Independence Day 1919 Washington D.C.

Have a happy 4th, and if you do the splody things, may you have the same number of fingers tomorrow – your hair will grow back, but they won’t. For those in the BBQ and beer crowd, here are some random tunes from the archives in no particular order.


[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of the recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

Hump Hump Day 2025

Celebrate as your cultural heritage allows.

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

FIVE YEARS!

Chemo pump, depleted after 48 hours.

On 5 February 2020 I was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. I made the mistake of looking up survival rates on the internet. Scared the crap out of me.

The following month I had surgery, but they couldn’t get at a couple of malignant lymph nodes, and on 16 March I began chemotherapy infusions every two weeks. My oncologist said that something would happen by my third year of treatment, but he didn’t know what.

In 2023 I passed the three year mark. Nothing happened in my fourth year either, and the onkydoc said I was an unusual case, an outlier within the top fifth percentile of patients. He reduced my chemo dosage for a second time in October 2024.

On Monday, 12 May 2025, the oncologist informed me that Infusion No. 129 would be my last, and that I’m officially in remission.

I still get to visit the pretty nurses in the clinic every three months for a blood draw and Signatera test, and have a CT scan every four.

I’ve been fortunate that my side effects have been tolerable. The most bothersome was chemobrain – the mental fog that never quite dissipates. I’m hoping that as the toxins flush out things will improve, but then I won’t have chemo to blame for when I get a case of the stoopidz.

Thanks to all for the good wishes and prayers. Seems they worked.

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Cinco de Mayo

[Previously posted in here. History of the holiday here.
More CdM fun here.]