Archive for the ‘Life: Personal’ category

Personal: Bring Bring… Sorry, that person is Engaged

March 1st, 2008

As you all should be aware, today being February 30th March 1st, means that yesterday was Feburary 29th aka Ladies Day: the one day of the year (technically 4 years) where a women can, traditionally, ask her boyfriend/partner to marry her.

I think you know what’s coming.

Yep, the gorgeous Katy got down on one knee (although I had to help her up again) and asked for my hand in marriage. After less than a minute (most of which was trying to choke back the tears), I gave in to her and said yes (given the choice of giving my soul to her or giving her a pair of silk gloves in compensation, well, the soul was cheaper :D ).

So, after 1.75 years of knowing each other and 1.5 years of dating, we now have official names for each other instead of just generic “my partner”, “my other half” and “thingy”. I do love her dearly, but we haven’t set a date yet (she wasn’t sure until yesterday whether she was just going to ask me to be her fiancé or do what she did do and ask “Do you want to marry me?”) but contributions are welcome towards the mawwage.

Earthquake hits UK East Midlands?

February 27th, 2008

We’ve just felt quite a strong tremor at 27-Feb-2008 01:00am UTC here in Leicestershire. I suspect it was probably an Earthquake – but has anybody else felt the earth shake tonight?

Thank You Tesco for the cheap Lexmark printer

January 3rd, 2008

I’d just like to say thank you to Tesco’s Beaumont Leys store for supplying me with a Lexmark Wireless All-In-One X4850 printer for just £69.97 – it should retail for £129.99 according to Lexmark (and, according to Tesco, £129.97).

So how do I get it so cheap? Well, I saw a yellow “Discount” shelf edge label promoting the printer for £99.97 so I thought, since I’ve been looking for a cheapish wireless printer for a while, I’ll buy it. Got to the checkout and it was rang up for the normal full price of £129.97. So I wander over to the Electrics customer services – point out that they’ve overcharged me by £30 and they check and agree. They then remind me (although I hadn’t forgotten and would have reminded them if necessary) that Tesco’s pricing promise means that if they make a pricing mistake – you get refunded double the difference. So my £30 over-payment became a £60 credit in my favour.

I’ve just finished setting it up, and the setup was very simple (hardest part was finding where in the house to situate it) and it works well with our SSID hidden WPA2 protected wireless network (much better than the Nokia N95 Series 1 phone which needed the SSID to be visible). Print quality is as good as you would expect from an inkjet on nearly 10 year old cheap 80gsm white laser copier paper (I brought a whole box full from Office World when I was at college and I’ve still got over a ream left) and scanning seems ok. Only disappointment is that the PictBridge software on the printer won’t talk directly to my Japanese-brought Ricoh Capilo RX camera over USB: I’ve got to eject the SD card and insert it into the printer: but at least it gives the option to manipulate/change the photo a bit (borders/frame, red eye reduction, cropping, rotation etc).

Not too bad for £69.97 IMHO!

Personal: I has a tree!

October 20th, 2007

I’ve just participated in Innocent Drinks’ “Buy One, Get One Tree” offer and I now haz a tree:

Personal: Funny

October 5th, 2007

From my other half whilst watching TV last night:

TV: *baby squeak noise*
Other half: Should babies squeak like that? Well, I guess it’s been in water for nine months so it’ll probably be rusty.

I know she was kidding, but still funny! :D