A new TV and a new resolution (did you get the pun?)
Guess what this is:
That's right; it's a 26" HD TV. Do you now what else it is?
It's mine. All mine!!!
Well, it will be once I get round to paying for my share of it but it's residing in my room and I can hook up all my stuff to it, ergo it's mine. And you can't have it. You can look at it and maybe I'll let push some buttons on the remote but that's as close as you're getting. You're not even allowed to watch any programs on it.
Actually, I can't even watch any programs on it either, until I get it hooked up to an aerial. Which I can't really do until I decide where I'm putting it. Which I can't do until I've gone through with my plan to rearrange all the furniture in my room. Which means that I'm going to spend most of tomorrow moving furniture around. Which is going to be a pain in the neck. Which is bad.
Still, you'll note that I tested out the TV using my NES and Super Mario Bros. I was originally going to just hook up the Gamecube or something and make sure it worked but I saw the RF lead dangling there and just couldn't resist. Why would I possibly do such a thing, you ask, as using a game more than 20 years old to test a brand new TV?
Because I can. I'd put that in italics but I don't like to do the whole "asking myself a question then emphatically stating the answer in a melodramatic way" thing too often in one post. I figure it's not melodramatic if I don't put it in italics.
I've just been reminded that it's in less than two weeks (two weeks yesterday, in fact) that I go back to school. I can't decide whether the summer holidays have flown past or if it just feels like they have. I'll meditate more on that later, since my mind is already busy rationalising the fact that two weeks is actually a kind of long time, relatively speaking, in order to prevent me from falling into a deep pit of despair. And you don't want to read about that.
On the other hand, it would at least give me something to write about other than my boring life. I think I've hit a bit of a wall (not a big bit, just a few bricks, unfortunately I hit them with my face) in terms of topics for blogging. I'm not sure if I'd think so if I read over the posts for the last few weeks, but something's giving me the feeling that I've not been doing any purely thinking stuff in a while, "musings", as it were, which is what I more or less set out to do in the first place.
It's that whole summer holidays idea, where I've got so much that I want to do that I never seem to be able to find the time to do it. I've still not done most of the things on the to do list that I've only just noticed and remembered hanging from my shelves.
Skippy, quite coincidentally, seems to be having a similar problem, except with fewer videogames and more... stormtrooping. Seriously. That helmet makes him look like he should be riding around forest moons on a hover bike, getting beaten up by teddy bears. Scroll down, you'll see what I mean.
I doubt I'll have much more for tomorrow. Though that reminds me, I need to remind Skippy of a couple of things. I can't be bothered emailing him so I'll state them here and then get angry if he doesn't read my posts. First, he needs to do a New Word Thursday for tomorrow, since he's about 2 months behind, at least and second, I'd appreciate it if he could give me the TWToday visitor numbers for the past few months, which I keep meaning to ask about. They'll probably just depress me though.
Anyway, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by my own thoughts, I reckon that spending the day moving furniture (if I ever actually get round to it) will leave me without much to tell tomorrow so I'll have to come up with something else. I've been meaning to write another sketch... Meh, we'll see what tomorrow brings.
That's right; it's a 26" HD TV. Do you now what else it is?It's mine. All mine!!!
Well, it will be once I get round to paying for my share of it but it's residing in my room and I can hook up all my stuff to it, ergo it's mine. And you can't have it. You can look at it and maybe I'll let push some buttons on the remote but that's as close as you're getting. You're not even allowed to watch any programs on it.
Actually, I can't even watch any programs on it either, until I get it hooked up to an aerial. Which I can't really do until I decide where I'm putting it. Which I can't do until I've gone through with my plan to rearrange all the furniture in my room. Which means that I'm going to spend most of tomorrow moving furniture around. Which is going to be a pain in the neck. Which is bad.
Still, you'll note that I tested out the TV using my NES and Super Mario Bros. I was originally going to just hook up the Gamecube or something and make sure it worked but I saw the RF lead dangling there and just couldn't resist. Why would I possibly do such a thing, you ask, as using a game more than 20 years old to test a brand new TV?
Because I can. I'd put that in italics but I don't like to do the whole "asking myself a question then emphatically stating the answer in a melodramatic way" thing too often in one post. I figure it's not melodramatic if I don't put it in italics.
I've just been reminded that it's in less than two weeks (two weeks yesterday, in fact) that I go back to school. I can't decide whether the summer holidays have flown past or if it just feels like they have. I'll meditate more on that later, since my mind is already busy rationalising the fact that two weeks is actually a kind of long time, relatively speaking, in order to prevent me from falling into a deep pit of despair. And you don't want to read about that.
On the other hand, it would at least give me something to write about other than my boring life. I think I've hit a bit of a wall (not a big bit, just a few bricks, unfortunately I hit them with my face) in terms of topics for blogging. I'm not sure if I'd think so if I read over the posts for the last few weeks, but something's giving me the feeling that I've not been doing any purely thinking stuff in a while, "musings", as it were, which is what I more or less set out to do in the first place.
It's that whole summer holidays idea, where I've got so much that I want to do that I never seem to be able to find the time to do it. I've still not done most of the things on the to do list that I've only just noticed and remembered hanging from my shelves.
Skippy, quite coincidentally, seems to be having a similar problem, except with fewer videogames and more... stormtrooping. Seriously. That helmet makes him look like he should be riding around forest moons on a hover bike, getting beaten up by teddy bears. Scroll down, you'll see what I mean.
I doubt I'll have much more for tomorrow. Though that reminds me, I need to remind Skippy of a couple of things. I can't be bothered emailing him so I'll state them here and then get angry if he doesn't read my posts. First, he needs to do a New Word Thursday for tomorrow, since he's about 2 months behind, at least and second, I'd appreciate it if he could give me the TWToday visitor numbers for the past few months, which I keep meaning to ask about. They'll probably just depress me though.
Anyway, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by my own thoughts, I reckon that spending the day moving furniture (if I ever actually get round to it) will leave me without much to tell tomorrow so I'll have to come up with something else. I've been meaning to write another sketch... Meh, we'll see what tomorrow brings.
posted by Alasdair Corbett at
11:05 PM
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