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7 December 2011 13:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mimi_sardiniaSo I went to the hospital for one of my usual appointments (long story short, which the surgeries I've had, I'll always be under observation to keep track of my vitamin levels) and while coming back I investigated the possibilities of the inner city JB Hi-Fi store for a computer accessory I have been considering for a while: A digital TV tuner.
In case you haven't guessed the obvious, it's for watching TV on my computer.
So far it's working fine, I'm picking up a fair few channels, though I have to use my rabbit ear aerial that I usually have on my main bedroom TV. The only problem with that is the prospect of the small aerial that came with the tuner not working down in Sydney and me having to invest in a larger one. I suppose if I have to, I can leave it there, because last year the reception on the main TV was an absolute horror on some channels.
If that discount electronics store I got my ball speaker from is still there, that could be a good buying location, though there's also a JB Hi-Fi in the same section of the centre as well.
Also got a copy of Green Lantern - still haven't watched it yet, too busy installing stuff.
In other things, for those who aren't on dA or just don't see my dA journal during my LJ exiles, I got both my Kmart Xmas laybuy and my purple laybuy (Target) off. That means a big box of random basic Lego, Leader Class Ironhide, Voyager Class Shockwave, and a remote control Tarantula.
I also got a Kre-O Bumblebee, and a Scout Class Decepticon jet named Hatchet. His name amuses me considering the fandom's name for Ratchet.
I have also become rather interested in the Slender Man, an internet meme/urban legend about a creepy stalkerish, overly tall, overly thin, sometimes tentacled figure in a black suit and with no face. I even had someone on FF.net take up a HP/Slenderman plotbunny I posted on the fic challenges forum.
Hmm... now that I think about it, TF/Slenderman cross. Red Alert starts seeing a strange, tall thin human with no face. Maybe I'll put that one on the bunny farm.
I confess to reading human slash again. NCIS slash. Still not quite back into the pron part of it, the effects of TF sticky still linger I guess.
As for what I mentioned earlier about Sydney, I don't know if I mentioned it before, but Mum and I are going down for Xmas. Mum wants an Xmas with all three of us (me and my brothers). The tickets were paid for ages ago, so mostly it's just waiting until the day we're due to go. I applied for an advance on my pension yesterday, it's due in tomorrow, so on Friday I'll open a second account and shift it into that. It's mostly for the trip - general funds.
I should also track down the rest of my digital copies and load them on my compy - cuts down baggage if I do that.
Random thought: I love "Jukebox In Siberia". Fun song. If you want to know, it's by the Skyhooks, an Australian band from the Seventies. That particular song however was from a brief revival at the start of the 90s - right in the middle of the time I religiously got up early on Sunday mornings to watch the top 50 on Rage. Shirley Stratchen (Skyhoooks lead singer and celebrity carpenter) is still missed.
Along with random Kre-O packs and ironically named jets, I also bought a CD of classic Aussie rock songs last Friday. It prompted me to dig out my Skyhooks Greatest Hits CD because it had Living In The Seventies on it. Good music.
Well I think I have streched everyone's flists enough!
In case you haven't guessed the obvious, it's for watching TV on my computer.
So far it's working fine, I'm picking up a fair few channels, though I have to use my rabbit ear aerial that I usually have on my main bedroom TV. The only problem with that is the prospect of the small aerial that came with the tuner not working down in Sydney and me having to invest in a larger one. I suppose if I have to, I can leave it there, because last year the reception on the main TV was an absolute horror on some channels.
If that discount electronics store I got my ball speaker from is still there, that could be a good buying location, though there's also a JB Hi-Fi in the same section of the centre as well.
Also got a copy of Green Lantern - still haven't watched it yet, too busy installing stuff.
In other things, for those who aren't on dA or just don't see my dA journal during my LJ exiles, I got both my Kmart Xmas laybuy and my purple laybuy (Target) off. That means a big box of random basic Lego, Leader Class Ironhide, Voyager Class Shockwave, and a remote control Tarantula.
I also got a Kre-O Bumblebee, and a Scout Class Decepticon jet named Hatchet. His name amuses me considering the fandom's name for Ratchet.
I have also become rather interested in the Slender Man, an internet meme/urban legend about a creepy stalkerish, overly tall, overly thin, sometimes tentacled figure in a black suit and with no face. I even had someone on FF.net take up a HP/Slenderman plotbunny I posted on the fic challenges forum.
Hmm... now that I think about it, TF/Slenderman cross. Red Alert starts seeing a strange, tall thin human with no face. Maybe I'll put that one on the bunny farm.
I confess to reading human slash again. NCIS slash. Still not quite back into the pron part of it, the effects of TF sticky still linger I guess.
As for what I mentioned earlier about Sydney, I don't know if I mentioned it before, but Mum and I are going down for Xmas. Mum wants an Xmas with all three of us (me and my brothers). The tickets were paid for ages ago, so mostly it's just waiting until the day we're due to go. I applied for an advance on my pension yesterday, it's due in tomorrow, so on Friday I'll open a second account and shift it into that. It's mostly for the trip - general funds.
I should also track down the rest of my digital copies and load them on my compy - cuts down baggage if I do that.
Random thought: I love "Jukebox In Siberia". Fun song. If you want to know, it's by the Skyhooks, an Australian band from the Seventies. That particular song however was from a brief revival at the start of the 90s - right in the middle of the time I religiously got up early on Sunday mornings to watch the top 50 on Rage. Shirley Stratchen (Skyhoooks lead singer and celebrity carpenter) is still missed.
Along with random Kre-O packs and ironically named jets, I also bought a CD of classic Aussie rock songs last Friday. It prompted me to dig out my Skyhooks Greatest Hits CD because it had Living In The Seventies on it. Good music.
Well I think I have streched everyone's flists enough!
