Just not got a lot to say at the moment. 🙂
Hello
just one of those posts to say I’ve not forgot to post here. I really haven’t been up to much to be honest.
Ditching things
A new series on which I reflect on clearing out things form the past. Tonight it’s home cinema:
Well I should start at the beginning. I was a slow adopter to so called home cinema. In fact I’ve only ever had one attempt at this. The kit came as part of my old Sony 32″ CRT TV. I guess it was a little sweetener to soften the £1199 that it cost (Home Cinema kit was free). The TV has long since gone, but the system still remained – possibly due to fact that the rear speakers were attached to the wall. In its life it had probably been switched on less than 20 times, a few of these accidental when I couldn’t find the Wii plug.
So it’s 2012 and wife comes home with paint (£5 from John Lewis Clearance) and a few ideas about changing the room around. I thought about it and decided the Home Cinema was to go. So with a lick of paint, the holes in the wall have gone – the amplifier and speakers set will so go soon (probably to the British Heart Foundation shop in Acocks Green). In truth the room was never set up for the system correctly – the main left and right speakers had very little separation.
Not too sure if I’ll go down the amp route again, maybe next time something with just a couple of speakers (and maybe a separate bass unit) like one of the Bose multimedia offering (though probably not the Bose system).
Project Kingfisher update
Just in case anyone was wondering what happened. Well weather happened, you may have noticed. I made a decision not to do anything near Kingfishers (not that I managed to see any) as they are probably having a bad enough time with rain, increased water levels and probably a more scarce food source.
So until things improve I’ll keep well clear.
Spectrum30 day -4
So now the end is near etc,
Right I know I said all day, but I’m thinking ‘1982’ day you know when I was at school. So it’s going to be school hours, hence I’ll be clocking off early.
16) Lunar Jetman – 2nd outing on the Spectrum for Jetman. This time with a vehicle. Now I always found this game tricky. I still do!
17) Sabre Wulf – now if this loads I’ll be surprised – as I type it ‘R Tape Loading error’ appears – sounds like a strangled cat (not that I have – just guessing). So I’ll try again. After years of not being used I guess it might be a bit of tape stiffness – a few FF and Rew might fix it. – Failed 🙁 Shame as it my favourite Ultimate game
18) Knight Lore – Sabre man returns, this time part man part wolf. The pioneering isometric game play was revolutionary at the time. Never got too far on the game in ’84, still not got any further!
So that’s your lot*. Actually quite tired considering I was just playing games all day.
* I do plan to post spectrum30 day ‘thoughts’ – so keep an eye out.