LONDON, England — A heartbroken Briton is one step closer to starting a new life as he tries to auction his “entire life” online following the break-up of his marriage.

Ian Usher said he was selling his house and all its contents because they remind him of his marriage.

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Ian Usher, who moved to Australia six years ago, is selling his house, car, job and even an introduction to his friends on eBay. By 1530 GMT on Monday bids had reached almost US $285,000.

Usher is saying goodbye to his three-bedroom home in the western Australian city of Perth and all its contents, including his car, motorbike, jet ski and parachuting equipment.

The auction closes at 2 p.m. Australian time on Saturday (0600 GMT) after which he said he would leave the country. “My current thoughts are to then head to the airport and ask at the flight desk where the next flight with an available seat goes to, and to get on that and see where life takes me from there,” he said.

The 44-year-old, who originally came from Darlington, in northern England, will even include an introduction to his friends and a trial run at his job. “On the day it’s all sold and settled, I intend to walk out of my front door with my wallet in one pocket and my passport in the other, nothing else at all,” he said on his Web site, ALife4Sale.com.

Usher said he wanted a fresh start because his current life reminds him of his former marriage.

The couple parted a year ago but details of the breakup are only available to those who pay a fee on Usher’s Web site.

He said: “Everything that I have — the furniture in the house — all has memories attached to it. It’s time to shed the old, and in with the new.”

Usher’s employer at the rug store in Perth where he worked as a shop assistant, said she backed the auction. Her company vowed to offer the successful bidder a two-week trial run that could result in a permanent job.

She said: “When Ian came up with this idea, because we had seen him go through a break-up of marriage and pain and bits and pieces, I thought it was really exciting.

“We thought, why not give it a go?”

Usher said his friends in the city were prepared to be introduced to the highest bidder so he could advertise his auction as offering a complete lifestyle.

Okay…. This is important:

from CNN (CNN! CNN! yes. CNN. not fucking FOX News or some other stupid shit, or perez hilton, from CNN)

“

‘Sex and the City’ director addresses death rumor”

Will “Sex and the City” have a “Death in the City”? It’s been a persistent rumor in cyberspace as the buzz kicks into overdrive for the film opening later this month.
Sex and the City

Chris Noth plays Mr. Big and Sarah Jessica Parker is Carrie in “Sex and the City.”

If you want the rumor to remain in play, stop reading now.

But director Michael Patrick King is ready to free us from some of our worst fears. Namely, that Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw’s longtime, on-and-off love played by Chris Noth, will kick the bucket.

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Okay … several things:

Looking into the headlines CNN is covering its something like this:

Myanmar Cyclone (poor bastards, as if the country didnt have it bad enough to begin with)
Sect “Messiah” arrested on sex charges (oh my)
Worldwide hunt for pedophile
Election News
and then fucking Sex and the City Rumor

i mean cmon, every day i try to go to CNN and BBC for news, prior to heading off to work, and occasionally I see the dumbest shit. It just annoys me that they consider this “Breaking News” or even important to be in the headlines category.

Now, on the other hand.

wtf? Mr. Big should die. He is completely overrated, hes ugly as shit, and I just hate him in general. Plus, Aidan was a MUCH better dude. I loved Aidan I cant express that enough. And I think that the scene where him and Mr. Big get in a fight (if i remember correctly) was probably my favorite scene ever. Isnt Mr. Big married too? DOesnt this teach us bad values? Carrie should not go for a guy like Mr. Big. SHe should go for a guy like me… but she would need to be about 50 years younger.

There used to be a time I would take Miranda in a heartbeat. And I dont remember much else. I havent watched the show since my mom cancelled HBO about 9 years ago, or something ridiculous like that.

Hmm, I think I kind of got off on a tangent there.

Oh, and for all you haters : A lot of dudes like Sex and the City a lot more than we let on….

Just a short one cause it was a video-based news story

Synposis: J.C. and Josie Cox were married for 75 years. They died five hours apart. Affiliate WFAA’s Jim Douglas reports.

Wow. Thats freaking beautiful, I dont care who you are….. thats awesome.

Most Americans say U.S. on wrong track, poll says

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the highest such number since the early 1990s, according to a new survey.

NO SHIT!

Hawk Attacks Girl At Fenway Park

Girl Injured During School Tour

BOSTON — A red-tailed hawk attacked a girl on a tour of Fenway Park Thursday, drawing blood and sending the girl to a hospital for treatment.

Sweet! Any chance its my ex girlfriend?

just kidding, I think that its kind of crazy that random stuff like this happens to people.  I understand getting mugged, hit by a car, etc. etc. but damn….. to have a hawk attack you?  Wow. I dont know what else to say.

In other news there is no other news.  Same thing different day, up for work, going to put on my “outfit” as someone used to call it, and head out to work.  Yea. Shitty.

I want to find some way to express how I feel about yesterdays news.  But… I dont really know how to yet.  More will come at some point.  I dont want future mike to forget this feeling.

Wow.  Check this out:

WAYCROSS, Georgia (AP) — A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday.

The plot by as many as nine boys and girls at Center Elementary School in south Georgia was a serious threat, Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said.

“We did not hear anybody say they intended to kill her, but could they have accidentally killed her? Absolutely,” Tanner said. “We feel like if they weren’t interrupted, there would have been an attempt. Would they have been successful? We don’t know.”

The children, ages 8 and 9, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, Tanner said. A prosecutor said they are too young to be charged with a crime under Georgia law.

So in addition to gambling addicted nuns we have a posse of murderous kids led by a young charlie manson.  I like it.  Wait… no I dont.  Its scary, what the heck is the world coming to?  642, tired boy.   I think I will go back to sleep instead of PTing this morning.  I say hooah.

 Oh yea, talked to Taeyoung for like 4943534098 hours on Msn last night.  This mofo is learning Korean fast. 

Oh, Taeyoung is one of several KNU students I teach english on the weekend.  KNU is the largest university in Taegu, and its pretty cool.  Good kids, except apparently now they are afraid to drink with me, because I drank them under the table (thanks for the training, DC Friends!)

Howard Dean…. Hyeaoh!