Out for Coffee

I guess I'm the type of person who likes to socialize a lot, so naturally have a talk over coffee is great fun, and enjoyable.

Number of people: 1+

Time of day: Day or Night

Duration: 1 - 2hours

Budget: $5 - $30 (depending on if you get food or not)

Its coffee... don't need any instructions just drive/bus/taxi/train/walk (what ever your mode of transport is) to the coffee shop and sit drink and talk about lots of crap.

Guidelines:

If you're not a coffee drinker there's always hot chocolate, tea, and other stuff. If you don't know any good coffee shops, I'd recommend looking up reviews of coffee shops before you go, do a quick Google search.

If you're going at night time make sure the cafe you're going to is open at night, most cafe's close in the afternoon, but there are night time cafes.

Board Games!

Another one of those things everyone already knows about but don't think about sometimes when they're bored. Yet again not for everyone but most people like one or 2 board games, heres some ideas and guidelines to help you out.


Number of people: 3-10 (not many board games support more than 10, OK a 2 person board games is just sad so I'd recommend 3+)

Time of day: Anytime, but I'd recommend rainy days or night time.

Duration: 2 hours - 5 hours

Budget: $0 - $100 (depending on if your going to buy a board game or not)

Equipment:

-The board game, here are some common ones which are good fun.

• Monopoly - Good game but sometimes people get too competitive
  
• Cranium - Good fun and all round game for everyone, some funny out comes.
  
• Risk - A old classic, more for the boys but do suit some girls
• Pictionary - You get some good laughs from the pictures
• Cludo - Another good all round detective game
• Settlers - Very fun to play, a little like risk mixed with monopoly

- Some snacks and drinks

Guidelines:

Remember its a game don't get all worked up over it, have fun, kill some time.

Leave town for a few days

Camping or just leaving town for a few days is quiet fun, a snow trip, camping in the woods, on the beach, fishing trip etc, I usually go away about 3 times a year and its quiet fun, nice to get away from usual life.



Number of people: 2+

Time of day: All

Duration: 1+ Nights

Budget: $100+

Equipment: I'm sure you know what camping or renting a Bach is and how to do it so I won't go into detail too much but here are a few things which would come in handy.

• bug spray
• togs
• night games
• music
• night light
• food
• spending money
  

Guidelines

No real explaining needed really, just find a place to stay, find some stuff outside town to do and go do it. Realistically its going to cost you $100+ after gas, accommodation food, activities etc, plan for it.

Girlfriend magazine for old people (18+ not cause its rude lol).

OK so I guess you could say I was real bored on this one and it started off as a joke, but turned out to be a good hour and a half of good fun and laughter and a bit of blast from the past memories.

By the way, this isn't really for anyone still in there teens, well mainly anyone under 18 or still in high school else it won't be as fun cause your still in your teenage phase.




Number of people: 2+ you definitely can't do this by yourself and one of these people has to be at least a girl.

Time of day: Day or night

Duration: 30min - 2hours

Budget: $5 - $20

Equipment:

• 1 Girlfriend magazine (or any other trashy teenage magazine)
• a packet or 2 of lollies
• some chippies (chips)

I'm do most stuff with food so you may see food in everything I do (food is just a social language)

Guidelines: (this is pretty easy but its part of my blogs structure so just read)

OK so this is pretty simple, pretty much you go to your local supermarket or convenient store buy some trashy teen magazine, some lollies and other snacks and then read the magazine.


Its pretty fun and funny cause at some point you were a teen, and reading the magazine will probably bring back memories laughing at our own teenage hood, and how dumb we were in high school. Reading this you realize how much you've changed and how much of an idiot you were, teenage crushes, silly things you did to impress people or fit in, laughing at how super naive you were...And if you really didn't pick any of these up then you can just laugh at the teens these days and think "is this what teens are really getting up to these days?" any ways either way I'm sure you'll have a good time reading the magazine.

Have some fun!!

Duck feeding

So as again, nothing much to hanging out on a friends wharf and saw some ducks come along so we fed them, was some good fun.


Number of people: 1 - 8+, no real rule to how many people can feed ducks, but I'd recommend maybe under 8 as too many people can take some of the fun away.

Time of day: Day time activity or afternoon activity

Duration: 30min - 2 hours, just depends on how much bread you have and how many people.

Budget: $0 - $10

Equipment

• Bread,
• Bread,
• and more Bread

Directions (its not rocket sciences how to feed ducks but here some help)

1. Go to your local convenient store and buy some bread (we used 4 loafs for 5 people), you might think its alot of bread but its pretty fun and after the first loaf you'll want more.
2. Find a place with ducks, the less people the better, we had a private wharf/jetty that our friend have at the back of their house.
3. Feed the ducks, hang out with friends, talk, laugh while your at it and then feed some more.
4. Try ripping them up into lots of small pieces and making it rain bread, its pretty fun.

Well that should last you a good 30mins - 2hours depending on how much bread you have, its a good way to hang out with your friends/family talk and have some nice peaceful time.

Make Waffles

OK, so I had nothing much to do last night so I got together with a buncha friends to make waffles. They turned out amazing, and super delicious. Hope you enjoy.



Number of people: 1+

Duration: 1.5-3hours

Budget: $0 - $20 depending on what you already have at home

Recipe I found at allrecipes.com after looking at a few others this one had the best review rating of 4.5/5, and man were they amazing I'd give this recipe 5/5. Best Waffles I'd ever had and even better cause we did it ourselves. They are deliciously fluffly and crispy on the outside. This recipe is a bit more complicated than most, so remember to follow the recipe closely and make sure your yeast isn't past the used by date (cause ours was and it didn't work so we had to buy some more yeast). If your good at baking then this should be simple for you.

Other notes before you start

-This recipe makes enough to feed about 6 about 2 big waffles each.

-Do a few test on different temperatures we used a mid-high setting on our waffle iron, the hottest setting seemed to cook the outside too fast leaving the inside slightly under cook.

-We used a Breville waffle iron (looks like this),

Ingredients

• 7 g active dry yeast
• 60 ml warm milk (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 3 egg yolks
• 650 ml warm milk (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 170 g butter, melted and cooled to lukewarm
• 100 g white sugar (100 g is the standard amount form the recipe, we liked it a tad sweeter so we put another 2 table spoons in (about another 50g)
  
• 9 g salt
• 10 ml vanilla extract
• 500 g all-purpose flour
• 3 egg whites

Directions

1. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm milk. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, 1/4 cup of the warm milk and the melted butter. Stir in the yeast mixture, sugar, salt and vanilla. Stir in the remaining 2 1/2 cups milk alternately with the flour, ending with the flour. Beat the egg whites until they form soft peaks; fold into the batter. Cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap. Let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 1 hour.
3. Preheat the waffle iron. Brush with oil and spoon about 1/2 cup (or as recommended by manufacturer) onto center of iron. Close the lid and bake until it stops steaming and the waffle is golden brown. Serve immediately or keep warm in 200 degree oven.
4. Serve with your favorite toppings, ice cream, berries, cream, sauces, syrups.
   

Hope you loved them as much as I did.

Write A blog

Its pretty plain and simple, I started writing this blog when I was bored, and I also started a personal blog about my thoughts and life (when I was bored), I don't even know if anyone reads them but hey its pretty fun when your actually writing them, you get the feeling of sharing/talking to people.
Number of people: 1+

Duration: 5min - 1hr, you can post short posts or long ones, just depends on your style whats your blog about

Budge: Free (providing you have a computer and internet at home that is)

Equiptment

• A computer
• Internet access

Guidelines

-Pick a topic to write about, this can be anything, there are blogs about anything and everything, i saw someone a blog a bout cats that look like hitter.
-This can be can be done just by yourself or you could get together with some friends and together keep it up to date.
-A successful blog needs to be have regular posts (so I've been told), maybe once or twice a week, but depends on what your blog is about. If its about news/current events then its appropriate to post every day.
-Tell people about it, post it on your facebook/myspace/twitter page so people can see you have a blog, who knows maybe you could get famous from it (if you want to that is).
-Make it look pretty (I know his blog isn't that pretty but I will work on it).

Pretty much it spill your heart.

Visit The Museum

Visiting the museum may not be for everyone but if you like it then this is just a reminder that its there. I love the museum, its cheap its fun and there's always interesting things to see and it gets allot more fun after you leave school.

Number of people: 1+, this is something that's OK to do by yourself, and maybe kill some time.

Time of day: Day time activity, sometimes night time, when they have special events.

Duration: 30min-3hrs, you can have a quick troll round or a slow one, depending on the size of the museum also.

Budget: $0 - $40, some museums cost money, some are free some have donations, usually no more than $15, sometimes there are special events that may cost more.

Nothing much to it, easy and fun trip, if you want opening hours, costs, and locations you can pretty much find all this on the internet, and you can always call up if not.

Making A Spud/Potato Gun

Making a spud gun is an awesome experience, its one of things you feel a real accomplishment doing. Its fun and its powerful and you get some good times just shooting potato out into no where. They can go from 50-200 meters and break bones, just don't be too silly and you'll be fine. Some countries spud guns are classed as firearms so to own one you need to have a fire arms licenses or equivalent (pretty much rights to own firearms).

(funny picture I found on Google thought I'd put it up cause I'm to lazy to take my own)

Number of people: 1+, I'd recommend more, that way you can split the costs, or just get some help of a friend and plus its not that fun going around by yourself.

Time of day: Day time activity, though you can make/use it at night time too, it does make a little bit of noise.

Duration: 1-3hrs building, 30min - 3hours using, something you can take camping, fishing etc.

Budget: $40 - $120, depends on what you already have, or what you can get off your friends


Equipment

• A BBQ piezo (figure A)
• A 3" PVC door/lid junction this has to be a seal tight lid (figure B & C)
• A 3" joiner (figure D)
• 30-35cm of 3" diameter PVC pipe (figure E)
• A 3" to 1.5" or 2" reducer junction depending on what you chose figure G (figure F)
• 80~100cm of 1.5" or 2" diameter PVC pipe (figure G)
• PVC glue and Epoxy glue (figure H)
• Bag of Big potatos (figure I)
• Flammable spray liquid (hair spray, air freshener, butane, etc) (figure J)
• A drill (figure K)
• A hacksaw (figure L)
• A file (figure M)

if you feel the need, get a tape measure and a pencil too.

You can get most of these supplies at your local hardware shop, you can get the piezo at a BBQ shop, and potato obviously at the supermarket. Make sure your fittings all fit before you buy them! and make sure your piping is PVC pressure rated piping (something like schedule 40 or 80, 3" pipe rated at schedule 40 can handle about 150 PSI, and at 80 can handle about 220psi, smaller the pipes the higher pressure they can handle).

Instructions

1. Cut all your piping to size, no need for exact measurements, the combustion chamber (3" pipe) should be roughly 1/3 the length of the barrel (the 1.5" or 2" pip)
2. Drill a hole roughly in the center of the 3" pipe this hole should be the size of your piezo in diameter, so when you put your piezo in it should fit comfortably.
3. Apply the epoxy glue around the hole, then put the piezo into the hole making sure you don't get any glue on the tip else it won't spark, apply glue around the piezo to ensure a good seal. check to make sure the piezo is still working before continuing with the next steps. Some piezo's have threads, in that case apply some glue and screw it in, always good to add extra glue in after.
4. Roughen up the joining bits with the filer (only where they will be joined), this helps ensure a solid join.
5. 5. Apply the PVC glue and join it together, you only want to apply the glue only right before you put them together, so do them one at a time. (follow the image in which way to join them). Make sure you don't get glue on your lid/door, else it'll become a big hassle to get off.
6. Allow a good 24hrs to settle (or what ever it says on your glue), most of it will have dried up after about 2hrs but to get the glue fully settled in and for your spud gun to be most robust you should let the glue fully settle in.
7. When your spud gun has been all set in file the end of the barrel to make it sharp (this helps with cutting the potato's)
8. Now your ready to go, find a big open field, or next to the beach lake etc. force the potato into the barrel, and push it close to the end of the barrel, make sure you don't push too far else its a big mission getting the potato out of the combustion chamber.
9. Open the lid/door, spray a little bit of flammable liquid and quickly shut the lid/ door. Don't spray too much as you'll flood the combustion chamber, remember you need oxygen to burn your fuel. You'll get use how much you need. If it doesn't fire the first time try a few more times, if it still doesn't fire, you need to air it out and start again with the fuel.

This is just the basic spud gun, you can make them a little bit more complicated, like adding a handle with a 'T' junction to making real complicated with like double combustion chambers, do some Googling and you'll sure see some crazy ones.

(a crazy spud gun i found on Google)

Remember spud guns are classed as firearms in some countries, they can seriously hurt people, so be ware of where you aim it. I'd recommend not to take in to anywhere with too many people, when people see it they tend to come up to you and start asking questions.

DIY Kites/Kite Flyin

Kite flying is something I've done when I'm bored and it's really fun once you get your kite in the air, I once flew a kite that took a whole 5kM roll of cotton string off, had to get binoculars to see my kite, and the good thing is once you've had enough fun you can just let the kite go if its too far gone since its only made with cheap materials.

On holiday during new years flying kites (I stole your photo Nichole cause I don't have one)

Number of people: 1+ , I'd recommend doing this at least one other person as doing anything alone is usually boring, but if your the type that likes to have some alone time then doing this by yourself is fine too.

Time of day: Day time activity, with light to moderate winds.

Duration: 30min - 2hrs+

Budget: $0 - $10

Equipment

• A4 or A3 paper
• kebab sticks
• A rubbish bag
• Sellotape
• Scissors (that can cut plastic bags and kebab sticks)
• Cotton roll or any sort of light string at least 30 meters long

Instructions

1. Take a piece of paper and fold it in half.
2. Fold the top layer towards the right so that the crease mark is at an angle. Exact dimensions are not important, try to leave one inch at the top and two inches at the bottom, and do some trial and error for best angles.
3. You will get the basic kite shape.
4. Place a long strip of tape and tape down the middle of the kite. This connects the two front flaps.
5. Cut the kebab stick to length and place a across the top of the kite and tape it down corner to corner. If your making a A3 size kite you may need to join 2 kebab sticks together with sellotape to reach across the kite.
6. 6. Turn the kite over and punch a hole (pointy side of the kebab stick works well) in the middle flap about 1/3 of the way down and about 1 or 2cm in so the paper won't rip easily. Make sure you don't disfigure the paper too much during this process . Then tie the string through the hole.
7. Fold the middle flap towards the right. Wiggle it back and forth a little until it stands upright
8. Turn the kite over and attach streamers (1 to 3) with sellotape at the bottom of the kite. If you have 3 you want them about 8mm (roughly) wide if you have 1 you want it about 15mm (roughly) wide. A tail that is 5 to 6 feet long flys very well. A tail that's 3 feet also works well, the tail is for balancing the kite to help prevent spinning.
9. You can decorate them if you want with felts coloured pencils etc (usually girls want to), sometimes they break quiet fast and turns out a waste of time decorating them.
10. Now your ready to take it out side, start running against the wind, with a short bit of string and slowly let more out, once you've got it in the air maintain a bit of tension to keep the kite sitting right in the air, if the kite is pulling let more string out.

Hope you have fun!!