Sep. 7th, 2005

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I fixed my bike

Well, not quite. It has a slow puncture. But it's rideable, just. The wheel seemed to have several faults stemming partly from my lack of practice. Lots of punctures. Inner tube doubling over inside the tyre and popping up as rabbit ears. Valve being twisted and not entering pump. Which were mutually causing -- I think a partially flat tyre being ridden on managed to double the tube. A rabbit ear catching on a strut causing a puncture. A valve leaking air. Time for gel tyres, but at least I can cycle to the shop.

Made, ate and enjoyed caesar salad

Quite nice. I think my objection to lettuce stems from it not having interesting stuff on. God, I really am a vegetarian now :)

Bought universal remote and headphones

Just a couple of toys that make my life a bit easier.

Retuned TV

Putting all the available channels at the start, so I don't have to scroll past 20 shopping or blank channels to get to ITV3. And I get E4 and abc1 which I didn't realise, which have some cool stuff on.

Got an interweb

Why am I constrained to call it that horrible ironic name?

And NTL seem to have changed their customer line slightly. Despite the frustration of being asked repeated and patronisingly why I didn't try their website (*does* their online customer enquiries work?), there were a few good things: an estimate of how long I'd have to wait, rather than "we are experiencing an 'unusual' volume of calls"; I was disconnected and they called me back, when I expected, since it was 5.02, I'd be lost; ok music and slightly less annoying adverts; helpful teleoperator. Though I have to take friday PM off, damn.

PS NTL

Sep. 7th, 2005 04:13 pm
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And NTL just texted me to confirm the engineer would be visiting on friday. How non-muppety is that?! :)

Saturday

Sep. 7th, 2005 04:57 pm
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Is anyone doing anything fun this weekend?

If not, does anyone want me to organise another cinema trip? Bewitched?
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Dukes of Hazzard was surprisingly cool. I expected it to be just the enjoyable side of mediocre, but it was totally enjoyable.

Of course, it goes without saying it wasn't anything in the plot department, but it was fun all the way through. And lovely to see some completely uninhibited characters for a change.

And I liked the narrator, who kept chipping in occasionally to set things in context.

Of course, we were all too tired to go for food after, but I can't get everything right <- demonstrated fact :)

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