Part of me is glad I was ill when I was booked off work anyway, the other part of me is grumpy because the whole point of this holiday was for Weasel and I to have some quality healthy time together.

Last Christmas we decided we’d give each other a media server. I have a lot of TV shows that I would prefer watching on that TV and I also have many many CDs that I’ve ripped over the years that needed storing. Since we were trying very hard to get out of debt at that time we decided to hold off buying it until we could pay for it free and clear. Weasel got her yearly bonus from work this month so we ordered it.

It arrived on Friday and my but it is shiny. It has all sort of great specifications I’m sure, but I don’t know what they are. Beyond serving media it also picks up digital TV signals, records TV, plays DVDs and burns CDs/DVDs too. Anyway, Weasel spent Friday afternoon hooking everything up and installing bits and pieces. After she was finished we discovered that our poor six year old television just isn’t up to coping with such overwhelming technology. Weasel spent yesterday researching and I put a thread up on UKA and we finally settled on the Samsung LE26R87BDX 26″ LCD. It should be here on Tuesday. Our old TV will probably go to Free Cycle or we’ll see if Doodle wants to upgrade his.

So yesterday I started moving all my files across. I expect it’ll take a few days to move everything. I’m so excited to have some free space again!

Also on Friday Stoat & Mal stopped by to gift us their old blender and liquidiser! The things I will blend and liquidise! We gave them our old water filter that we haven’t used since 2001 so win-win.

I’ve finally mapped out the route of the Third Annual Ice Cream Tour of London and updated the thread. I’m free! We actually have 16 people confirmed and I thought it was more like six.

I have actually managed to catch-up with a few things, I chased my umbrella feet and my Bulgarian CD [see below], I finally finished the transcontinental trade with Linz and I’m actually doing a few Perplexcity Cards!

At the beginning of June I won an auction for a fancy garden umbrella – £30 for something that is normally a minimum of £100. It arrived but the little base that it stands on was missing along with the bolts to attach it. So I e-mailed them and they said they’d send another straight away. It didn’t arrive so I e-mailed again and they are apparently sending me another set.

I ordered Stoyan Yankoulov and Elitsa Todorova’s CD back in May and haven’t had it yet. I bothered them at the beginning of June and I bothered them again now. I presume all of Europe fell in love with them after Eurovision.

My head hurts, I must stop looking at things now. Very tired of being ill.