Yes, yes, I know, I haven’t posted anything since the end of last year, but that’s only because I couldn’t be bothered. I fancied a bit of a break, ok? Well I’m back now, so are you happy?
What’s been going on in my life then so far this year? I’m currently on day 14 of no chocolate. I decided to give it up for 2 weeks and I’ve been successful. If I make it through this evening then tomorrow morning my face will be very brown and sticky indeed. I’ve already decided I need to sample Cadbury’s mixture of mini easter eggs, a caramel bunny, a popping candy Terry’s Chocolate Orange, and Mars Celebrations ice creams. Not sure what I’ll eat on Sunday though.
Gadget-wise I’ve been pretty lean. I’ve finally given in to ‘The Wife’ and purchased SingStar, the karaoke game for the PlayStation complete with two microphones for competetive spouse fun. We used Nectar points to buy it though so I’m not sure if that counts as a purchased gadget. I had to buy a new car seat for Poppy as both her and Joseph were growing out of their current ones. Joey will take over the old Britax Evolva 1-2-3 and Poppy gets a brand new Britax Kid Fix Isofix seat which clips easily in to the back of the Scenic. Not very exciting but slightly gadgetty nevertheless.
My favourite purchase this year is the USB-MIDI adapter which arrived this morning letting me connect my keyboard (of the musical variety not typing) to my PC. In years gone by I’d have used a special MIDI-gameport cable to do this, but modern computers just don’t have 15-pin game connectors any more… even when you build the PC yourself it’s an optional extra to put one in and the USB cable is so much simpler. So far it seems to work well but I’ll review that once it’s been given a good hammering.
And finally in Joseph news, he had blood taken last week and sent off for genetic testing in the hope that we finally get a firm diagnosis. Well, that or we find out he is the next Wolverine.
