1 post tagged “kimplowright”
This weekend is a bank holiday in the UK, and as we'd found out that the schedule on the project we're working on has been extended, I decided to take the Friday off too. And, to cap it all, Kim was able to get the day off too, so we managed to mooch around together.
So on Friday, we did some long-overdue chores: heading down to the post office to collect three parcels I had (all from Amazon), followed by a rather nice (and rather cheap) fried breakfast in a local greasy spoon. Kim tried to get three pictures that she's been wanting framed for ages sorted out, only to find that the local framer actually isn't open at any time that she gets near the door.
The rest of the day was spent idling, mooching around the house and doing odd little chores. For me, this involved getting the download software for our PVR (a Humax 9200 - highly recommended) installed on one of the Windows machines, so I can now download stuff and burn it on to DVD for archives. I'd actually love to have things set up so that we can do this and keep the archives on the PC, but that will have to wait for the terabyte array that we'll no doubt install one day (Kim is obsessed with having more storage than you possibly imagine - no bad thing, really.
Today we've been on a whizzy trip down to Canterbury, to visit Kim's parents and get their broadband installed, which is why how I'm typing this while sat on their sofa - even though the connection is only 1Mb (twice as fast as my original broadband!) it's still more than good enough for the kind of things that they do. There's a download cap (of course) but it's something reasonable.
It also means that they can upload lots of photos to Flickr of Kim when she was a very cute little child, such as this one:
Now isn't that the cutest thing ever? :)
Hopefully, we'll get back to London this evening so that I can carry out my latest project: reinstalling Linux (again) on the Sony laptop, this time as a second operating system rather than a first one.
