Frustration leads to …

Desperate measures !

One of the things I’ve been watching again lately is Doctor Who. The repeats have just gotten to the end of season 4 and while I’ve been watching it on the telly off iPlayer through my cable box, the last episode just … isn’t … listing …

Grr !

Desperate measures time.

My newer laptop can’t help this time, as the TV output on it is Round Peg Square Hole and doesn’t fit the telly. So …

Old laptop gets resurrected (first time in a bunch of months)
Network cable is stretched across the room to give it internet
Telly hook up cables
And hoping for a decent video considering it’s old and tired

Here’s the result :


Picture’s a bit washed out from camera flash but there we have it, laptop beside telly feeding me Dr Who amidst a swath of cables.

Result 🙂

Not a bad picture too, although I think I’m getting a taster of the improvements HD telly makes with the two screens side by side. I think the laptop picture is doing HD while the telly is limited to normal definition. Yep, there’s a difference. Gotta be looking for it but there’s a difference.

Right – time to get back to Dr Who before I pack away the old laptop again for another 6 months.

PS There’s an impending crash, bang, wallop from when I trip over the network cable.

That Saturday's pizza – imagination hadn't…

That Saturday's pizza – imagination hadn't turned back on after bugs so it was a Meat Feast

Wednesday's – Hawaiian

Last Saturday's pizza – Carne Mista from Bella Pasta. Really wanted something pasta-ish from the pasta place but I'm not a fan of their latest menu.

Pass me the jump leads !

Cos I think I need them at the moment 🙂

That post last week, where I said I’d take those cold symptoms, lock them in a box and stuff the box somewhere to give it a good ignoring. Lol – guess who got put in the box instead of the bugs ? 🙂 Heh heh heh, apart from Wednesday (yes, right after that post got dispatched …) it wasn’t too bad.

It just coincided with a week I was planning to have as rest and recharge … I don’t think it changed much of what I did though, which was listen to lots of music, catch up on recorded stuff and have a crack at the occasional game. Not much Eve, which I reactivated a week or so ago, cos I wasn’t particularly feeling like being involved with the rest of the human race.

Until Saturday … when I went Pizza Hunting. Rejoined Human race, Human race didn’t quite know what to make of it. (Human race being a dazzingly cute cherub in the pizza shop taking the form of a blonde possibly half my age – i.e. jailbait) Truth, I wasn’t impersonating a particularly impressive member of the human race at the time. Pizza was worth it 🙂

Recorded stuff – lots of Stargates. I still think Babylon 5, closely followed by Farscape is the best sci-fi on telly, Stargate SG-1 definitely gave them a good run for their money. I’m up to the end of season 3 now, great early years in this series (fantastic entertainment value), it’s a shame it went on probably a couple of years too long. Not sure what to make of Stargate – Universe, needs more time.

House, shaken up again, still good stuff. Regenesis, wanna watch this again from season 1 – it’s intelligent drama with strong and highly amusing characters. Warehouse 13, fluffy stuff, still watching out of curiosity. (What’s the line about his men would follow him anywhere, if only out of curiosity ?) Flashforward definitely has my attention now.

Music – been raiding music stuff again 🙂

Impressed with : Roberta Flack, Cardigans First Band On The Moon (album with Lovefool), Dr Who season 4 soundtrack
Not so impressed with : Paramore’s latest – sounds like the other two but not as good. Bit disappointed.

So – couple of hectic days back at work, got stuff done plus I had a few major victories in making people laugh. “Im in ur filez editin ur commentz”. I like to make other people laugh cos it makes me feel better too. No-one’s noticed the haircut though. Or maybe they have and they didn’t want to say anything 😉

Still not back to full form after the bugs and I have an early start tomorrow, so it’s time to wrap this one up before I start rambling and babbling. Oops – Too late !

Improving :-) Wednesday was the bad day for me. Th…

Improving 🙂 Wednesday was the bad day for me. Thursday not so bad, not decided to rejoin the human race yet though (as Scottish Power Rep Boy found out today! muahaha) so no pizza trip yet …

Mebbe tomorrow or Sunday 🙂

AAA Choo !

Lol – as so often happens with me, a week away from work is accompanied by bugs …

Seems I share that this time around, most of my friends around Bristol seem to be suffering from bugs in one shape or form. For me, it’s an extremely runny nose with the accompanying sinus trouble. Not much sleep last night but I don’t seem to be feeling the effects of that.

But hey – my bugs aren’t too bad at the moment and I know other people have it worse. So it’s time to do what I usually do with stuff that slows me down, stuff it in a box and lock it away. What else have I been up to ?

Trip up to see my mum & dad, always worth it. Drove 3 different cars in 3 days, the Focus I own and the Mazda they’ve had for a while. The third was something a little more special 🙂 My dad’s retirement gift to himself is a Mazda MX-5 and if various of my muscles weren’t unhappy with me at the moment, I think there’d have been many more thoughts of WANT ONE 🙂 It’s still another 18 months though before I can change car and I’m hoping something good will come from hybrid car technology.

Gaming again on Monday night, first time for a while. I have another Bashara this time around, think Girl With Big Sword. Our party this time around is all about getting in fast, doing huge amounts of damage and clearing the bad guys before they know what hit them. First encounter this time around, blue dragon matching the blue dragon on my t-shirt of choice on Monday. Next week’s t-shirt is either going to be my Alien t-shirt or my Send In The Wookie. We shall see 🙂

Right – time to get back to catching up on all the telly I have recorded, there’s lots of it 🙂 Hopefully I’ll improve tomorrow, enough to take a trip into the centre of Bristol for a music raid 🙂

PS I see another music post coming on soon …

:-) Me fine, just having trouble figuring out some…

🙂 Me fine, just having trouble figuring out something new to put on the blog. Been doing stuff but somehow it doesn't seem to want to translate into me tapping fingers on the keyboard.

Yep – I got lucky a few years ago to get picked up by a project with some very special people 🙂 There are a few highly annoying people around (hence me grabbing this week off to get away 🙂 but I don't comment about them here cos I prefer to focus on the good instead of the bad 🙂

PS Trying to add you in on my FB but it's struggling to complete the "add friend" bit …

It's great that you like your work. Most/all o…

It's great that you like your work. Most/all of my co-workers are fake and/or rude. I will be so glad when I no longer have to work there….unsure when that will be. You are lucky.