Grrrrr!!!!!!

After having a reasonable experience with BBC's I-Player (had to configure it to use RealPlayer else it doesn't buffer adequately) and realised that I really wasn't missing much on BeebTV at all I had a brain-spasm and installed Channel4's version as I seem to remember they produce most stuff of televisual interest). Only realised this morning that it was the Beta version and it was playing merry hell with the CPU usage and christ know's what else in the Dingley Dell-Box. There's an option in the BBC I-Player to not load on startup (always a good idea!) but alas and alack, no such (nor any options that I could find) in CH4 so have had to resort to MSconfig which seems to have eased the situation - on the evidence of this soft-boot... so I was indeed correct to subscribe to ColdTurkey TV a couple of years back. It's evil!!!!

What else goes on in the Hermitage?

• Sainsbury's saga goes on... it closed for 10 days yesterday. Supposedly at 6pm which should have made for a reduced basket-saunter (can't trolley-dash in my condition and quadragenarian dotage). Not so!!! Shoppers were met by staff advising of a "cabinet failure" taking out most perishable produce. Hmmmmm... rather convenient methinks! Odd that the affected cabinets were distributed around the store in a manner that roughly coincided with the location of said perishables. My theory is that they were turned off and cleared out prior to opening, thus avoiding Saturday overtime past 6pm and allowing and extra half day or so of working time for the contractors. Grrrr...!!!! Really can't get on with the new tills at all. So small and hardly any conveyor-tills. No packing space. Makes the whole experience rather frenetic and stressful. I don't know about you but I need a conveyor, even for my basket. I get control over the order in which I pack i.e. heavy on bottom, light and fragile on top. A basket till means that the eggs will come off the top of the basket, through the till and finally back to you, first. So one has to reserve all the softies and wait for the spuds, fluids and tins thus creating embarrassing 'dead-time', increasing blushes, sweating and stress and forcing an undignified rush to pack and pay at the same time. With no reserve packing room this all adds up to a bottleneck of stressed, shoppers. On the bright side... did get two fair-sized caulies for £1. Small consolation.
• I don't deal well with change. My pub drop-ins are out of bounds due to the health fascists and now my Sainsbury drop-in is being made less-tolerable.
• Warren Peace is no longer sharing my bed. Oscar Wilde snuggled up to me for a few nights but we weren't really compatible. Henry Fielding and Jonathan Wild made nocturnal overtures to me last night - now I've had a couple of flings with Henry afore now so it's purely down to whether JW shares our proclivities... Matron!
• Musically... finding it difficult to get my head down. Had a dabble yesterday and the plan is to lay down a new rhythm track today (PC willing). We shall see.
• Reading Group was cancelled this week due to OT-lurgey. I turned up to mop up strays of which there were two (would have been 3 if K hadn't got the message, so to speak). Book's panning out better now.
• Plagued with a particularly persistent groinal boil. By no means the most spectacular but in it's location and persistence it's outstayed it's welcome. You can tell by the way I use my walk, I've a groinal boil that chafes as I walk.
• Not a fan of the redesigned LouReed.org. Far too fancy and clever-clever. The flash-player videos play rather poorly. Good marks for content as usual, but sort out the FlashPlayer and simplify the navigation, perlease!!!

That'll do fer now.

2008 snogs

posted by Andy 06:13