In my office it's the late 90's ...

If you're a regular reader of my blog, then you've probably figured that I'm not really a morning person ... I don't mind getting up early, I can handle that with no trouble, but I am very 'grumpy' (For the want of a better word) until around 10am - because of this I often have my headphones on in the office to drown out the incessesant ramblings of the annoying woman in the office or the slurping and coughing fits of the person opposite me when he has his breakfast cereal ...

So today ... Adam Ant is being asked on iTunes "Don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do?" - the answer to that questions is "Adam throws starter motors through windows of pubs before being committed by his best mate". Bit hard to fit into a lyric though. Needless to say annoying woman is in full flow, and today is singing the praises of SKY + to the nearing retirement bloke (US friends, SKY + is like Tivo). Nearing retirement bloke has just got SKY + and thinks that this invention of Murdoch is a new thing ... I'm going to show him my mobile phone next week, that'll really blow his mind. I believe he still throws sticks at those 'big metal birds in the sky', and this morning complained about nearly being knocked down by one of those motorised horse-less carriages ...

I'm getting rid of my SKY + as to be honest I don't get my monies worth out of my monthly fee to SKY. I begrudge paying SKY as to me they've ruined football (Get out of the Championship and you get £60 million, get relegated to the Championship and they give you £12million ... Which results in the same teams going up and down, unless they have a rich benefactor. Unfortunately in the case of Ipswich, having a rich benefactor hasn't made a blind bit of difference.

Now I have a sod-off large TV on the wall over my fireplace, which is HD ready. To get HD programs SKY want another £10 a month off me, so taking my monthly package cost upto nearly £50 a month .. £600 a year ... So, I'm getting me one of these:

A HD freeview box with the Freeview equivilent of SKY + - and the best bit is (Other than it will have paid for itself after 6 months compared to what I would be paying SKY) is it will use the SKY supplied satellite dish to receive the signal. Sweet.

Dad was in hospital for 5 days last week for minor surgery, eventually being released on Easter Saturday - this meant the Easter Egg hunt he did for the girls was postponed to yesterday evening. Now Dad is obviously bored as he went to town with it this year. The girls had to find 12 bags of eggs, 2 Easter eggs, and 2 Easter related making things - all of which were hidden round the house. The girls soon found everything bar 2 bags, it then took the girls, me, and my Dad an hour to find the remaining 2 bags (Dad having forgotten where they were!).

Bethany had a pack to make an Easter bonnet, which kept her quiet for an hour, which was nice.