Apparently most of the country had ground to a halt due to the arrival of about three flakes of snow. We’ve had nothing here. I can’t remember the last time we had proper snow here. It’s not fair, I want snow dammit.
Another “one of those days” at work again. I’m expecting tomorrow to be just the same.
I did manage to take back my old TV though, hopefully the refund cheque will arrive shortly. It’s also payday tomorrow, that’ll be the first pay for 6 long long weeks.
Wish I’d not gone back to work today, it was just one of those days which actually felt like two of those days rolled into one. Hopefully tomorrow will be slightly better.
Congratulations to Gray on becoming Dr. Gray.
Just got back with a replacement TV, this one appears, so far, to be much better in that white pictures are actually white. Now for some serious testing, currently it’s Monsters Inc.
Hmm, whilst looking at a DVD over on Amazon.com, the page kindly informed me that “People who wear clothes also shop for:” and then proceeded to list Clean Underwear, Ladybug Rain Boots, Pet Socks, and Helicopter Sleepwear Sets for Baby.
Nice combination.
Well, the new TV is faulty which is a major pain in the arse. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it exchanged on Monday as there is a supplier over it Bristol.
Otherwise a quiet day really.
The new TV has just been delivered. It was actually too big to fit through the front door whilst in it’s box, I had to get the assistance of a volunteer (well, volunteered by someone else), and unpack it before bringing it into the house. It’s now set up and installed, the picture geometry is far better than the Thomson was, and it has the ability to rotate the picture. All I need to do is to set the brightness/contrast/colour to more sensible levels.
In an attempt to use up my remaining 12 days leave before the end of March, I’m taking a nice long weekend. Hopefully my new TV will be delivered on Monday, which was the main reason for using it now. They took the money today but don’t appear to have dispatched it yet.
Today was the first time I’d commuted to work by bike since the beginning of December. This was down to the Inbred being off the road for 5 weeks with a broken freehub, and the weather being crap. I tend not to ride to work when it’s raining as I stay drier if I walk, and it doesn’t take that much longer. Ite felt wierd riding the Inbred with V brakes on it again. Maybe that front disk will come along sooner than I intended.
Well, Comet agreed a full refund for my current tv, once I take it back they’ll process the paperwork and send me a cheque. I’ve just ordered a slightly more expensive Philips to replace it which will hopefully not take too long to arrive.
Shopping is fun.
Hmm, Sanyo, Philips, Sharp? The choice is (almost) endless.
Maybe I’ll just offer them £100 for my current tv.
Didn’t manage any riding at the weekend. Hangovers and rain conspired against me.
Apparently Comet have written off my TV as they were unable to get the part to fix it in time. Shame they didn’t actually get around to telling me this and I had to chase them to find it out. Unfortunately they cannot replace it with an identical model and don’t have a suitable replacement at a similar price.
Arse.
Slightly miserable weather today. It started off dull and grey, and just seemed to get slowly worse.
After a lazy lie-in this morning, I ended up just pottering around and sticking rubber feet under various bits of AV equipment, then tweaking the postition and setup of the subwoofer to even out the response a bit. Rather than use overpriced audio specific feet, the sub is sitting on 4 rubber door stops (total cost £3), and the Amp, CD, and MD sit on small rubber plumbing thingies (technical term), cost £1.40 per unit. It might make no difference to the performance, but then it’s made virtually no difference to my wallet.
Cannondales first singlespeed, the 1FG (1 Fucking Gear), has now been spotted in the flesh, or more accurately, in the aluminium. There are some pics up over at Shitshifter. It looks OK, probably (hopefully) better in real life. Never been a huge fan of Cannondale myself. However I’ve no doubt that there will several of them making an appearance at this years SS Nationals in June. The Inbred-jihad will still outnumber them though.
Another busy day at work purging the system of unused user and email accounts.
Came home to find a nice package from 24seven containing the pedals I’d ordered Sunday, along with some free grips. There was also a new cd/dvd tower from Ikea. I rearranged the room to fit the unit in, unpacked it and realised it was badly damaged. After a quick trip across to Bristol and back, the replacement is built and in place. At least I have room for another 60 odd DVD’s now before I need a 4th.
I can’t be arsed to pedal-swap now, beer beckons, so that’ll be a job for tomorrow night.
Had a nice lie-in this morning, very restful.
Finished fettling the bikes this afternoon. The Inbred should now be back in fully working order, although I never got around to a test ride. The Jack Flash now has fully functional new wheels and disc brakes, however the pedals are shot. To rectify that I’ve just ordered some new 24Seven Slack pedals for the Stiffee, then I’ll move the Stiffee’s current pedals to the Jack Flash. That’ll probably all change as/when I go back to using SPD’s again.
After a busy day, the bedroom now has new paint on the wall, and bikes have been fettled.
The Inbred now has a working freehub, and it’s XT disc brakes have been replaced with Deore V’s.
The Jack Flash gained some new X139/Deore disc wheels and the XT disc brakes, it’s Deore V’s have gone to the Inbred.
I just need to finish setting up the brakes on both bikes tomorrow when it’s daylight again.
The freehub parts are here. Yay!
The first (and hopefully only) coat of paint is on the bedroom walls. Yay!
I’m off into town to get some new hubs, spokes, and maybe a front disc brake. Yay!
Well, my new sub arrived. It’s absolutely massive, I only just managed to get it into the house.
Unfortunately it arrived about 8 hours after a nasty/messy norovirus infection (gastroenteritis), which has knocked me completely flat. I’m struggling to keep even boiled water down at the moment. Fortunately, if it is norovirus, it should last between 24 and 60 hours, and I’m 14 hours into that already. The downside is that I’ll be infectious for 2-4 days after the symptoms clear up, which means I’ve had to turn down the invite to a dinner party on Saturday that I was looking forward to.
Life really sucks today.
Still no freehub parts for the Inbred, however my new Velodyne subwoofer should arrive tomorrow, so that should take my mind off it.
Current plan is to get a new rear wheel next month for the Jack Flash, then swap brakes and the front wheel from the Inbred onto the JF, and the wheels and brakes from the JF onto the Inbred, then send the broken inbred wheel up north to Doncaster to be inserted somewhere painful. I can’t afford it until next month though, so I’ll be Inbred-less for a few weeks longer. To say that I’m pissed off would be a bit of an understatement.
Amazon seem to have invented time-travel now. My order still shows as “dispatching soon”, and still with a delivery estimate of what is now yesterday.
Amazon are being hopelessley optimistic again. An order which is shown as “dispatching soon” has a delivery estimate of today. I’m not sure they will manage that.
Shock news: we won a skittles match last night. It doesn’t happen very often, but it’s nice when it does.
Well, my cold from mid-december seems to be returning, if it takes the same course as last time, the next two days will end up being spent in bed on an IV drip of Lemsip (or something).
Had a reasonably quiet weekend, went shopping saturday and bought some paint and stuff to re-vamp my bedroom. That will probably be a job for next weekend.
Still no freehub parts for the Inbred, I chased them up again today but have more or less given up hope of them ever arriving.
I’ve just worked out why I couldn’t see very much. My new contact lens was split down the middle. These things are meant to last a month, it lasted just over two hours. I now can’t see very well as I don’t carry spares with me.
Anyway, the new year has begun, it’s seems uncannily like the last one, only wetter. The Inbred is still broken (4 weeks now), anyone want to place bets on when the parts will finally arrive?