Cars

It's that time of year when I have the credit card savaged by the local Toyota Dealer.

Time for the annual car service. 

This time it was fairly major one. Still not as expensive as I'd expected it to be :)

Demise Of The (Decent) Record Shop

WH Smith has just announced it is closing the CD/DVD department in my local branch. Ok it was only a small choice, but it did add a bit more choice.

25+ years ago a small independant record shop opened in town. (Record Village) Not only did they sell a big range of music, they also hired videos. During the 80's they had 3 branchs in the area.

Not only them, I remember Smiths, Boots, Woolworth all sold records. As did Comet and a local electrical dealer, Vallences. All gone now :(

They may not have had massive shelves of music, but we had much more to look at then.
(Im talking about shops selling LP's and Cassettes. (I even remember 8-track tapes as well)

Now since Record Village closed, (mainly due to the high rents in the town) all we have is a tiny branch of HMV.

No wonder on line sales are going up.

My Local Pub

The Malt Shovel, Ashby
As promised earlier in this blog, here are some photographs taken with the new digital camera.
Nice friendly atmosphere. Have wide range of real ales 7 on hand pump, serve good food at reasonable prices.

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250 Years On Sunday

Wee, sleeket, cowran tim'rous beastie,
O, what panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murd'ring pattle!

Laptop IV

Got the laptop sorted now.

Installed Nero 7.

Just a few minor apps to consider reloading.

Keep doing a hard disk image in case I want to go back a step.

Once again, its raining (Oh what a surprise)

At least its not freezing.

Outside temperature, according to Mr Watson 3.5°C Centigrade

Laptop III

The laptop is now almost sorted. 

Main applications all loaded. Secure wireless network up & running.

Just need to install Nero now. Will have a think about upgrading to V9 first, though most likely reload version 7. 

It does all I need, and the laptop has'nt blueray so don't have to have it yet.

Never did like too many icons on the desktop, so thats nice and tidy too.

Weekend

The weekend is here at last. :) Its also halfway through January already.

Been Really busy at work since the new year, I do like the weekends.

Still rebuilding the laptop, got windows fully patched now, and some of the main applications loaded, i.e. email, photoeditor music database, firefox,acronis backup.

Still not done anything much with the digital camera. Weather was crap last weekend and its dark before I get home during the week this time of year.