If on a winter's night...

Heaven, heaven is a place…

…a place where nothing, nothing ever happens…

BLISS: What do you want to do today.

ME: (without thinking for as split microsecond) Nothing.

BLISS: OK.

So we did…er…very little, anyway.

We walked the dogs (estimated time about 40 minutes, actual time 50 minutes, different route, some intermittent rain, good behaviour (generally, from the dogs)). DLL went into college for her timetable and meet and greet day.

We plumbed in the new Sky kit (estimated times: quickstart guide[1] 30 minutes; BLISS[2] guessed one hour, actual ninety minutes[3]) then watched a bit of telly (not much, the HD hadn’t kicked in yet). DLL let me play Lego Harry Potter for a bit, under strict supervision. Then we watched Taken 2 (a does what it says on the tin film, and none the worse for that).

If on a winter’s night a traveller

A maze crossed with a switchback ride of a novel. I finished Don DeLillo’s White Heat just after getting home, that was a great read.

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[1] In the olden days, you got a manual. With everything. No one read it. So much so that when people who hadn’t read the manual bleated to the one tecchie available who had, the tecchies had that RTFM acronym for their advice. Now, there’s a quickstart guide of a few pages (or a single sheet of A4) that references an online manual for the nerds, in HTML, PDF, or full-on Nerd-o-Vision ™. The quickstart guide gives just enough information for you to get the kit set up and working, so that you can make a schoolboy error and need the helpline.

[2] If you want a more accurate estimate of the time taken to set up, self-assemble, or carry out similar undertakings, BLISS will generally be more accurate than the quickstart guide.

[3] Including hoovering, dusting, trimming redundant cables, faffing about with the phoneline. Not including the four hours for the HD services to work their way from Sky central to our receiving dish.