Random

I’m alive and well, and will post something meaningful here shortly.

Probably lol

Picture the scene…

There I was sat in my comfy TV chair with my headset on, playing Halo 3 with two friends.

We had just rescued Cortana and were about to turn High Charity into a hole in the ground when”pop!” the TV goes blank and there’s a horrid burning plastic smell.

My initial thought was that the TV had exploded, however then I noticed the Xbox was off and there was a red light showing on the power brick.

So after letting it cool off I try turning it back on and Wham, RROD. Although the red light was still showing on the power brick.

So, after spending £30 on a replacement power brick the console is STILL showing the RROD, so I now have a £300 paperweight!

I can’t send the console back to MS due to certain… modifications to it.

Oh well, I’ve saved £900 through the modification and new Arcade consoles are only £160.

Anyone want to buy a used yet good working power brick? As I seem to have a spare now

I’ve just had a lovely weekend with my OH.

Ok, so she didn’t get to mine until 2am on Saturday morning, but the next 4 days were lovely and relaxed I like weekends like that

I don’t “do” chain email things but as a consolation to my friends I do post them on my blog for everyone to rely to

Three Jobs I’ve Had In My Life

1. Payroll Operator.
2. Office Administrator.
3. Freelance IT Consultant.

Three Places I have Lived

1. Wylye
2. Minehead

Three TV Shows I Like To Watch

1. Family Guy
2. My Family
3. Two Pints of Lager

Three Places I’ve Been On Holiday

1. Dunster
2. Paris
3. Brecon

Three Of My Favourite Foods

1. Chinese
2. Chocolate
3. Fried Chicken

Three Places I’d Rather Be Right Now

1. Peterborough
2. At Home
3. On Holiday

Three People Who I think Will Respond

1. Dalif (if he still reads this blog)
2. Lily (might if I poke her enough)
3. I have no other friends who read this

This time last year a camping I would go (grammatically atrocious, I know) and I had great fun… As it was bone dry and boiling hot!

This year it wasn’t so dry.

I still had as much fun, but I got a bit damper and I realised that having a tent one needs to crawl into, isn’t much fun in the rain.

This is my current home away from home.

Now it’s perfect for a night’s camping and has loads of room for one person, but you do tend to get wet entering and leaving it. So, I’ve decided to upgrade to a slightly larger tent for future longer camping expeditions.

Now I say slightly larger, I just looked at the dimensions and didn’t twig that it’s length (end to end) is 18 feet! Still, at least it means I can walk in and have somewhere I can sit and watch the rain whilst talking to a few other people. Also it has a spare room should I have guests round!

The thing is that it’s only a 4 man tent whereas my current one is a 3 man, so theoretically it shouldn’t be a huge difference.