life
no, ikea
no matter what your illustrated, wordless documentation says, one of these is not a screw
(s)nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo(w)!
siggimus has grand plans for cycling on saturday :s
as if …
a slightly crashed into car wasn’t enough …
a broken bike (a bit actually came off! – quite an important bit) wasn’t enough …
a dead tv wasn’t enough …
a laptop starting to pose as a paperweight wasn’t enough …
another dead tv wasn’t enough …
the (admittedly) ancient desktop puter has now decided to follow suit
google effing body browser literally killed it dead
after some 2-3 mins of showing the wife (a nurse) the incredible magic that can be performed with modern technology, the prehistoric machine gave a hiccup, froze, started whining like mad, and a few mins later passed away
(a moment of silence, please)
to borrow a bit from a classic:
it’s not pinin’! it’s passed on! this puter is no more!
it has ceased to be! it’s expired and gone to meet it’s maker!
it’s a stiff! bereft of life, it rests in peace!
if it wasn’t a puter it’d be pushing up the daisies! its metabolic processes are now ‘istory!
it’s off the twig! it’s kicked the bucket, it’s shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!!
brand “new” tv, part ii
“new” tv is kinda working now
sorta kinda
there was no functioning remote, so there was no way to search for channels
a flick through revealed four or five channels, two of them with actual proper sound and not just white noise
those two are sky sports 2 & itv 2. so this weekend was x-factor weekend. probably last week’s stuff on repeat, not that it makes much difference if you didn’t watch it the first time
managed to get some actual tv by recommissioning an ancient vcr that has spent the past 6 years or so taking up space & showing incorrect time
no remote for that thing either, but you can (with difficulty) search for channels and such without one
yay!
unfortunately, a long long time ago, the makers of the vcr decided it would be real clever to include a feature that kills the thing if you don’t use it for 5 mins. you know, puts it to sleep, to save electricity and whatnot
not insurmountable in itself when you have a fancy remote & can remotely poke it back to life, from the relative comfort of your greenish, if aging, couch
but … well, at least we’re getting more exercise
out with the old
& slightly broken
the old and slightly broken - turning off when it thinks we´ve watched enough - one
in with the … erm … older & slightly less(?!?) broken
the new and slightly less(?) broken - no remote to search for channels - one
so the old, humongous & broken tv that had taken to going off with a highly dramatic poof! when it deemed enough tv had been watched, has been replaced with a new(?!?) one that’s way petiter & fits snugly in the cabinet (a biiig plus)
now, if only we could find a remote that works with this new one so we could search for channels other than sky sports 1, itv2 (pictured, in the middle of x-factor), the state tv channel with no sound & omega (local christian abhorrance)
cat + fly
a fairly accurate depiction of events yesterday @ casa siggimusum:
fridays rock!
freshly deep-fried friday kleinur!
borsch & blackbread
blackbread & borsch
september 15!
september 15!
oh, the glory of google translate
it starts with "dear sales. announcement of PRIZE comfort attractive" - and then it gets bad
on an unrelated note; in a week or so, you will find siggimus living in luxury in a small island in the caribbean. probably renamed within days to something like isla siggimusa or insula siggimusum
thank you
thank you for having the dog crap in the elevator
