… on with the arrangements in here, I’ll tell you.<\/p>\n
I had a closer look at the TV today. there’s a USB socket that, surprisingly, can be used to record TV programmes (not that this concerns me of course) but it’s also a data input socket.<\/p>\n
And so Brain of Britain had a marvellous idea. He found a USB memory stick and copied a pile of black and white films onto it, and then inserted it into the USB socket.<\/p>\n
Making the TV read the memory stick wasn’t the work of five minutes though, but eventually I managed to make it function, and there on the menu were all of my films. <\/p>\n
The problem is, however, that the format of most of them isn’t supported by the television and that was something of a disappointment.<\/p>\n
But not to be outdone. Where there’s a will there are relatives, so the old saying goes.<\/p>\n
Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I have an old laptop that runs perfectly well, apart from the smashed screen and keyboard. And it has come in useful at times too in the past.<\/p>\n
But it’s having a dramatic lease of life right now. Because regular readers of this rubbish will recall that a few weeks ago I bought an HDMI cable in the NOZ for \u20ac1:99. And there’s a HDMI socket on the laptop and two on the television.<\/p>\n
And so I connected the one to the other via the third, and spent the next considerable while trying to make the TV read the signal from the laptop.<\/p>\n
It was easy once I’d figured it out, and then I had the delightful pleasure of not only watching all of my films, but a slideshow of my photographs and also some Youtube videos in full glorious technicolour.<\/p>\n
Not only that, I reckon that the streamed football matches that I watch at weekend can be picked up on the old laptop and I’ll be able to watch them on the TV too and maybe even, if I can configure it properly, to record them too.<\/p>\n
But I need a much longer HDMI cable. At the moment I’m having to make do with an old cordless mouse to control the laptop – or I would if I had any batteries. I must sort this out. <\/p>\n
Yes, it’s all systems go here – even if it did take much of the day to sort it out.<\/p>\n
For one reason or another I still had the alarm set at 07:30 this morning. But I did manage to beat it out of bed.<\/p>\n
After breakfast and doing some paperwork and watching a couple of miscellaneous itemsfor which I was bidding (and winning) on an on-line auction site, I began my marathon odyssey with the television.<\/p>\n
We had an interruption for lunch when I finished off the soup from Saturday, and another one when I went for a walk around the headland – first time for quite a while. And yet another when I stopped for half an hour on the guitar, during which I … errr … fell asleep.<\/p>\n
Just for a change I managed a third meal tonight too. Baked potatoes with cheese stuck in the cuts and baked beans. The cheese melted nicely in the microwave and it was all delicious. <\/p>\n
When the washing-up was finished I went for a walk around the city walls. And that’s the first for quite a while too. But that proved to be a little too much and it was something of a struggle over the last 400 metres.<\/p>\n
So now I’m sitting listening to Led Zeppelin on my new hi-fi, with which I’m even more impressed that I am with my galvanised steel dustbin, and I’ll be off for a well-earned sleep in early course.<\/p>\n
I really can’t stand the pace these days.<\/p>\n
