getting wired

TV!
We have TV at last. Which is not to say we have a TV, but we can at least pick up and watch broadcasts now. We found a TV tuner card for the laptop during the week (with dramas over whether a PCMCIA card version would fit – it didn’t…), so the small screen is working overtime. There’s actually quite a few channels which can be picked up (about 10), but that doesn’t mean that there’s great content to be found. Discovery can be good sometimes though, as can C4.

Don't know if the Mt Ruapehu lahar made news over there, but certainly the Burnley tunnel crash was a leading story here, so I hope everything is OK.

We finally have broadband too. Woohoo, high speed downloads! (Having used about 60MB on dialup just to get Norton antivirus updated, I hope you can appreciate the excitement!). So you can keep emailing those big video files and YouTube links, or call us as we’re no longer hogging the phone line… email addresses are unchanged.

So the entertainment system is slowly developing. We dialled in to internet radio broadcasts a couple of times, good to hear some good tunes out of Oz. I am definitely missing RRR in the mornings though, with the eclectic music, and more importantly the weekly autobiography readings from Burt Reynolds. I know this is sounding like an ad, but seriously, have a listen one Thursday morning… very funny stuff.

Jo saw an osteopath this week about an ongoing neck pain. According to him, it is interrelated with some lower back pain, as well as creating various central nervous system symptoms. Thinks he can fix it in a few visits, though apparently Jo is as stiff as a board – something about joints fusing together. The description of the manipulation procedures was pretty entertaining, lots of weight applied to make joints go crunch…

The bike riding novelty hasn’t worn off yet, though I had the first wet ride a couple of mornings ago. It was interesting to get to work and discover that my backpack of clothes wasn’t totally waterproof. That left me with the choice between wearing undies that were wet at the front, or those that were wet at the back. Or going commando. Not sure I should reveal which option I took…

Might finally get Jo on the bike this weekend too! She can no longer use the excuse of not having appropriate clothing after we hit St Lukes Mall last night, so she will have to start working on another one. Hopefully the pedals will turn before the free first service expires.

*edit* Forgot to add (stupid memory as usual!)... I met up with my cousin Juliet on Thursday for lunch. She lives in London but has been back with the family in Wellington for a couple of weeks, and was flying out via Auckland. Good to catch up, and hopefully I can meet David as well when he takes a similar route in a couple of weeks.

take care all, don't forget to tell us how you're going!