This is the Solstice?
Jun. 21st, 2008 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blackberry444It's meant to be Midsummer's day! It's f-f-f-f-f-freezing !!!.
When I awoke this morning it was beautifully sunny, but it soon deteriorated to grey and finally, just as we started out for the shops, to pouring rain. It's like November now. The little button on my browser which tells me what the weather's like says it 's 50F here in Newcastle, but and I quote, it "feels like 46F". I feel so cold, I'm seriously thinking about going to bed to watch TV and get warm!
I've reinstalled Firefox 3.00 and it was still wierdly mis-sized, but I finally managed to find a fix for the problem on the help pages and am running it now. The fix was a bit scary involving fiddling with the inner innards of the program, but it turned out fine. It seems to be a little faster, and I like the way I can adjust the page and text size with the Ctrl key and the the mouse scroll, but we'll have to see how it goes. Unfortunately the Tinyurl add-on isn't available for this version yet. I finally managed to find and transfer all my bookmarks, so it's working fine now.
Today was the day the kitchen TV finally pegged it, so off we went to Comet to buy a cheap Goodman's set for £54.99. John persuaded me to get a Freeview box for it too. That cost £17.99 !!. When we unpacked it, it not only had batteries for the remote control, but also a SCART lead. How on earth can anyone afford to sell stuff at such a price? I've been feeling uncomfortable all day since then, thinking that it was prolly made by Chinese slaves. I can't remember how long we'd had the old TV, but it must be at least 10 years old, if not older and cost just under £100 when we bought it. It's rather nice to be able to watch Channel 5 normally, because for some unknown reason, the reception on 5 was awful; now it's the same as everything else.
It's ironic that we have so many televisions when there's so little on, but, unusually, I've found quite a bit to watch today. There was a really good and very scary Doctor Who, the last programme in the Wild China series, an interesting Extreme Lives on Sky Three about living in Death Valley and I'm about to watch Broken Flowers which I've not seen yet. In any case, we spend hardly any other money on entertainment; we hardly ever even go to the pub any more, so I've given up feeling guilty about it, even if it does enlarge our so-called Carbon Footprint. Snigger!
I'm off now to watch TV in bed. Everyone else in the house seems to be doing so, even the cats! If it's not warmer tomorrow, I shall have to give in and put the central heating back on. Whatever happened to Global Warming?
Perhaps I should extend my Carbon Footprint...........but I can't afford the fuel to run the car, so prolly not!
When I awoke this morning it was beautifully sunny, but it soon deteriorated to grey and finally, just as we started out for the shops, to pouring rain. It's like November now. The little button on my browser which tells me what the weather's like says it 's 50F here in Newcastle, but and I quote, it "feels like 46F". I feel so cold, I'm seriously thinking about going to bed to watch TV and get warm!
I've reinstalled Firefox 3.00 and it was still wierdly mis-sized, but I finally managed to find a fix for the problem on the help pages and am running it now. The fix was a bit scary involving fiddling with the inner innards of the program, but it turned out fine. It seems to be a little faster, and I like the way I can adjust the page and text size with the Ctrl key and the the mouse scroll, but we'll have to see how it goes. Unfortunately the Tinyurl add-on isn't available for this version yet. I finally managed to find and transfer all my bookmarks, so it's working fine now.
Today was the day the kitchen TV finally pegged it, so off we went to Comet to buy a cheap Goodman's set for £54.99. John persuaded me to get a Freeview box for it too. That cost £17.99 !!. When we unpacked it, it not only had batteries for the remote control, but also a SCART lead. How on earth can anyone afford to sell stuff at such a price? I've been feeling uncomfortable all day since then, thinking that it was prolly made by Chinese slaves. I can't remember how long we'd had the old TV, but it must be at least 10 years old, if not older and cost just under £100 when we bought it. It's rather nice to be able to watch Channel 5 normally, because for some unknown reason, the reception on 5 was awful; now it's the same as everything else.
It's ironic that we have so many televisions when there's so little on, but, unusually, I've found quite a bit to watch today. There was a really good and very scary Doctor Who, the last programme in the Wild China series, an interesting Extreme Lives on Sky Three about living in Death Valley and I'm about to watch Broken Flowers which I've not seen yet. In any case, we spend hardly any other money on entertainment; we hardly ever even go to the pub any more, so I've given up feeling guilty about it, even if it does enlarge our so-called Carbon Footprint. Snigger!
I'm off now to watch TV in bed. Everyone else in the house seems to be doing so, even the cats! If it's not warmer tomorrow, I shall have to give in and put the central heating back on. Whatever happened to Global Warming?
Perhaps I should extend my Carbon Footprint...........but I can't afford the fuel to run the car, so prolly not!
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Date: 2008-06-21 11:25 pm (UTC)I certainly think it's faster and some sites that where I've been unable to download textures for a while from, have finally allowed me to download again
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Date: 2008-06-22 01:38 am (UTC)I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
How did Mary's and Joanna's run go?
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Date: 2008-06-22 09:49 am (UTC)I have no idea what that means.
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Date: 2008-06-22 09:50 am (UTC)