Category: Journal

The little guy on the right is the marzipan and icing fox that Fliss had them put on my 30th birthday cake last July.

Since the feasting of the cake, the fox has taken residence upon an empty bottle on the kitchen worktop. Why an empty bottle? Well, against my take on things, Fliss said that a good way to keep his limbs, body and head together was to stick a cocktail stick up through his… erm… lower part all the way to his head. So he needs to sit on the bottle because of the stick thing jutting out (and hence the facial expression, no doubt). Don’t try that at home.

It has actually worked, except that his ears have sort of crumbled away over the last ten months. He’s still kinda cute, though… and sorta funny looking too =o)

But why is he here now?

For want of a better reason, the camera in my new phone was begging to be used for something – even if it was pointless!

After a weekend of slobbing, I decided to go for a brief jog tonight.

Big mistake.

Fifteen minutes later I was flat on my back on the living room carpet wheesing like Darth Vader with whooping cough.

The strange thing is that during five a side once a week I can manage to totter about for the full hour, sprinkling occasional bursts of speed into the performance. But due to the recent overcrowding of our five a side night (i.e. eight a side on a five a side pitch) you don’t exactly get any fitter because you don’t have to move much.

Looks like my master plan to get fit again this year may take a little longer than first thought… hmmmm.

My Bluetooth dongle arrived in the space of 24 hours from the previously untrustworthy Scan Hardware. Kieran convinced me that they had cleaned up their act, and I have to say I am very impressed with the speed of the delivery.

Anyhoo – the bluetooth dongle plugs into the USB port and after a little bit of installing and twiddling it picks up my 3650 no problem at all. I copied up a new version of the video recorder software, so now I get sound recorded along with video… which is cool. I also copied a couple of games over, which are fairly tame, but you cant have too many games on the go. Oh, and I downloaded some pictures I had taken with the phone – all of which made the thin-air journey almost instantly.

What can I say, Bluetooth rocks!

I can remember reading about it three years back thinking “wow – so your PC can talk to your phone without any cables and you can exchange files through mid-air. Cool.”

And here it is – Sci-Fi technology right here in this dimension ready to use! It’s not a pipe-dream, it’s not financially prohibited (the dongle was only ?20) and it’s just exceptionally cool for a techno-geek like myself.

I can almost hear myself telling my grand-kids “When I was your age, we used to have to connect stuff with cables.” They’ll gasp and be amazed at the very concept, asking wide-eyed “Grandpa… what’s a cable?”