Felt much warmer than it was today.I did some washing up, had lunch and then fell asleep. When I woke up watched repeats of The Rockford Files and will start on webcomics after feeding the pets.
Paid my phone bill and the water rates this morning and have $40 in the access a/c. This will have to last me until next Wednesday. I also have $50 cash, which was an Xmas present from mum, but that will be spent on my annual "Boxing Day Film" which should be <td valign="top" align="right"></td><td valign="top">
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I also have a bill from the electrician somewhere for fixing the lights. Sigh. Fun times around Xmas.
Kevin got me this for Xmas:
I think it's one of the better pressies I've had in a while - it actually brought me to tears when I saw it (though I've been in tears today anyway, thinking about how Pegasus isn't here with me this Xmas).
Here's a photo of the bloody Media PC + peripherals from this morning:
It's a bit shaky and blurry as I was shaking when I took it. The image on the TV is a streamed anime Death Note. The extra monitor is needed at the moment when the TV screen flips out. Lots of bugs still (two out three media programs don't seem to be able to detect the Prime and Ten networks) but it's a work in progress. Now I have a proper remote (the wireless keyboard) and it's hooked to the LAN / Internet, I can take my time perfecting it (with Kevin's help probably).
Well - that was my big Xmas present to myself, though the next post will tell you about another one (from Kevin) that was really touching.
I was hoping to include the Youtube version of this here, but I can't find the embedding code at the BRITISH MONARCHY site. I always watch this at Xmas, as I did today. This year's said nothing much in particular.
Bugger. Oh well, it's been a better day than I expected, so it's off to bed for me and tomorrow's boxing day.
Well it's just gone midnight and now it's Xmas.
Don't feel that bad. Went into SL and while exploring ABC Island, was chatting with someone who was a furry and trek fan. Just makes a difference tonight, is all.
The ABC is showing some drama with two men chained to a wall. Looks like a period piece. Media is bizarre.
Must get some sleep soon, though.
Got to the library, did the shopping, came home. Feel very very washed out/strung out. I just want this to be next week.
Mr Zevon understood...
Well, Xmas day has come and almost gone.
I've had a good day. I spent most of it rearranging furniture, watching Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and helping ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
mycosys tack up Ethernet cables on the walls (we both have 20m feeds from the modem - long enough to reach each end of the house). I fed Pegasus a Xmas meal of beef and veggies, and Kevin's making stroganoff tonight.
Not too many dead on the roads or drowned this year, though they seem to be having a time of it in Indonesia. And snow - snow falling in Victoria and Tasmania! Whatever next?
You know, this year's Xmas day has been OK. Nothing special, but that's just what I like. Hopefully tomorrow (Boxing Day) will be just as goo. I plan to see my "traditional film" tomorrow, and this year it'll be Eragon. Looks good.
Well, it's been another long day, but a good one.
Set the alarm to 6:20am so I could get up early and re-arrange the telephone wiring with Kevin. We did this, replacing all sorts of hideous extensions and double adapters with just a few cables. It's not yet complete, as I don't have a phone in my bedroom yet, but maybe tomorrow.
Anyway the new arrangement meant much less drop-out with the broadband and that all phones were filtered. It was also just in time for the Telstra techie to check the lines outside. Apparently, he couldn't find a fault, so maybe it was more to do with all the patches here. The new ADSL modem is finally installed, and what a difference!
Mind you, by noon I was still really washed out and exhausted, still recovering from the flu. But I went out anyway. I had to go to EB Games at Glendale to return a games controller I'd bought the other day. Mum sent me $50 for Xmas, and I spent some of that on a games controller that looked like a PS2 one, but plugged into USB.
Only trouble was, it was hard to operate, and didn't work properly (not all the buttons were being detected). I returned it today, and did a bit of window shopping at Glendale, checking out phones (it'd be nice to have a working speaker phone again). Felt pretty exhausted however with all the crowds, with all the crush. Had a double cheese burger at Hungry Jacks but still wasn't very energetic.
Rather than go home, I hoped on a bus and went to Charlestown instead. I discovered a cheap copy of the Firefly series, and episodes of Leo the Lion in a 2nd hand DVD/CD shop and snapped 'em up. After some hunting I found an "aerial combat fully rotating vibrating joystick"! Sounds vaguely obscene, doesn't it, but it was going for 1/2 price at about $25 so that got rid of the rest of my Xmas money.
I was still pretty tired by the time I got home though. I'd had to get of the bus at Glendale and rush into the cinemas there to use the toilets, and I had a bout of diarrhoea - something that continued when I got home (URGH). I bought some food while waiting at Glendale for the 2nd last bus, so Kevin was able to cook a quick dinner.
He was in better spirits, as after a struggle with his hardware he finally has a working PC! Hurray! Not only that but using the very very very very long (100m?) Ethernet cable attached to the modem, we can now both be on-line at the same time. Now maybe I've been going on a lot about getting the broadband, but it's no fun sharing only one PC between the two of us. It's not that I do a lot on-line, but not getting to the PC to do other stuff (games, scanning and web comics) when I wanted to was starting to get to me.
Phew - long day, but least some good things came out of it. Seems funny - I'm 49 this year and here I am having fun buying something for Xmas with money my mum sent me! Most of the games I've been "testing" the joystick on are 20-30 years old, and yet they still produce the same reactions in me. I really get physically into stuff, and this joystick seems just the thing to use to do that.
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