Monthly Archive for June, 2007

FIIIINNNNAAAALLLLLYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dad just phoned Sky and signed up a little while ago, so we now are finally getting it! They’re sending out the viewing card in the post in “about 5 days”, and we’re getting all six mixes plus Sport, and access to Sky HD. So the only thing we’re *not* getting in HD is Sky Movies HD 1 and Sky Movies HD 2. Still, there’s always Sky Box Office.

So anyway, I can finally put the Sky dish and my Sky HD box to good use.

Yay!

I got a new bike! Well…it’s not completely new, it’s actually a hire bike from the local bike place. What I did was last weekend I placed an order for a bike for me, a not-that-good Giant bike. It’s all dad would let me get unless I paid for it, and since I had no money, I’ll have to get a job or something and get a better one in a few months time.

So anyway, they said it would be in on Wednesday, however, it was delayed, because apparently Giant slashed the prices on a whole lot of their bikes recently, and some company bought all of them. So they said I’d have to give them back the lent one when my new one arrives.

First of all, I hate cliffhangers. I’ve just got into a new TV show called “Weeds”…yes, it is indeed about that illegal stuff, but it’s funny as hell! Anyway, the end of season 2 ends with this MASSIVE(ish) cliffhanger, which annoys me, because I have to wait until September to see what happens (still, better then the Feb 08 wait for season 4 of Lost).

Sky HD. Right, so, I ordered a Sky HD box off eBay. Yes, I know I got a Sky+ box just days ago, but since the HD boxes are pretty cheap on eBay anyway (brand new one for £150 if you look carefully ), I thought I’d get one. I can either sell the Sky+ box or keep it for multiroom if/when we get a better TV (more below). I paid for the Sky HD box with the money I got from my Xbox 360 (I sold it since I rarely use it for games anymore, and it’s only really sitting there being a DVD player).

Also, dad said to me on Thursday that he’s probably going to get himself and me a bike, even though it’s a really low end one. I want the Giant Terrago Trail, but it’s £425. I might get a job at Tesco (eek) or something though and get it for myself for Christmas. In fact if I got a job I could finally get a new phone too, the Sony Ericsson W880i. My SE V600i is getting dated.

My Logitech Z-5500s arrived today too. They’re pretty good, they look nice and produce a good sound. The BIG upside is I can lower the base a lot. The X-530 set that I had before had way too much bass, even with the level set to minimum.

Also, I went to see Ocean’s 13, and I must say, it’s the best of the three films so far (I think), just bypassing the 2nd one, Ocean’s 12. This new one is pretty…interesting, to say the least. There are a lot of things that you’d expect to happen, and they happen, but you’re still shocked. If that makes sense. lol.

Finally, I really want dad to get a new TV. We’ve got some cheap-o budget 19″ LCD TV at the moment, just until we get something better, but the colour reproduction on this one is horrific – people’s heads look all shiny, and don’t even ask me to explain what happens to shades of white. The TV I want is a 40″ Sony 1080p LCD HDTV, and it’s a really nice set. I saw it at the Sony store here in Stafford and it’s got very vibrant colours and looks the part too. It’s £1499 from there. (FYI: I had virtually the same TV, a 40″ LCD panel, but with a lower resolution in Australia, however dad sold it before we came to the UK. He promised he’d get another one here, which I’m still waiting for, as you can see…)