Pete let loose in the shops

[skyring]

The video recorder carked it a while back. Getting steadily sicker and sicker and became absolutely unusable last week (of course when I was removing it I found one of the cables had come out, but that's neither here nor there). When i say that our toddler daughter, now into her twenties, used to stickteaspoons into the slot, doubtless to the amusement of the overpaid repairman, you'll get an idea of how old it is.

And the DVD player's remote control gave up working a while back too. No, it's not the batteries, it's something more tragic.

So when Aldi put out a special DVD/video recorder on sale today for about a hundred or so less than any competition, I raced out to Queanbeyan to snaffle one up. I had visions of having to fight over the last one with a horde of screaming people, but no, they had enough for all, at least trhey did at a few minutes past nine this morning. Seeing a couple of people come out clutching the boxes while I was still parking didn't help my state of mind.

You look a dam fool when you run up, unshaven, sweating, wild-eyed and there's a stack of a couple of dozen.

Still, it was a bargain. Now I can transfer all those videos I never watch onto DVDs that I'll never watch.

I also had time to go around the op shops. Got a Tim Tam mug, which i'll donate to some worthy person next time I'm overseas. Perhaps I'm a bit nutty on the subject of Tim Tams, but I reckon there's a lot worse things to be nutty about, and if it was semi-naked Italian soccer players, people'd wonder.

And a couple of books (of course).

Thank you for listening and understanding.

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[resqgeek]

A couple of weeks back, I came home from work to find a new, unopened box of individually wrapped Tim-Tams on the table! Imagine my surprise, considering our supplies from last August have long since vanished. I thought my wife might have discovered a way to order them online or something, as a surprise. The reality was that they weren't for me, at least not exclusively. One of my wife's friends had been to New Zealand, and had returned bearing Tim-Tams, and the box was intended for the family. At least they've helped to suppress the Tim-Tam cravings for the time being.