{"id":3264,"date":"2010-05-19T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2013-11-29T00:11:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T00:11:52","slug":"omg-i-am-turning-in-to-my-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3264","title":{"rendered":"OMG I am turning in to my wife!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a strange smell around here; it is most peculiar.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is lunchtime and I’ve just had breakfast. That’s nothing to do with being lazy – I was up at 6.30 and working from 7.15; instead it is everything to do with being too busy to stop and eat.<\/p>\n

Except now I have – stopped, and am eating.<\/p>\n

And the television is on, and therein lies the thought behind the post title.<\/p>\n

Soph loves to have the television on when we’re sitting on the couch eating, and I suppose I’ve got in to the same habit.<\/p>\n

I’m watching this year’s Badminton Horse Trials.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know it happened weeks ago, but I can appreciate the skill of the horses and riders in all three phases, without seeing the Event as a real-time competition. Besides, I know a significant number of the competitors.<\/p>\n

A mug of tea, a bowl of cereal and a Pringles sandwich, that’s what I’m having for brunch.<\/p>\n

And Badminton Horse Trials, obv.<\/p>\n

This evening Soph’s going out with Pigeon Girl, so I’ll be doing my own thing for tea, too.<\/p>\n

Tom saw the Vet yesterday afternoon; I wanted a professional opinion on some small lumps that have come up on his saddle-patch. The good news is that they’re nothing to worry about, probably just a kind of sweat rash; we have remedial treatment to make them go away.<\/p>\n

I’ve just had a phone call from Vodafone.<\/p>\n

Because I’ve been on contract with Vodafone for so long, I am now, apparently, a Gold Customer. This means that they’ll give me a new contract for 24 months, upgrade my tariff, knock \u00a310\/month off the contract price and will give me… free of charge… a new handset…<\/p>\n

OF MY CHOICE!<\/strong><\/p>\n

My brand spanking new Nexus One is being delivered tomorrow.<\/p>\n

FREE OF CHARGE!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Woot!<\/p>\n

Anyway, because I am a Gold Customer, I can offer one person a discounted PAYG deal; 300 minutes to any network and unlimited texts for \u00a310\/month.<\/p>\n

I am probably going to offer this to the yard. Just yesterday Hayley was moaning about how expensive the yard PAYG phone is.<\/p>\n

I was in the yard office yesterday, trying to come up with a reason for a slow PC. It took a minute to identify the cause and ten minutes to fix, but while I was there I noticed how slow their internet is, so I’ve been digging in to that.<\/p>\n

It turns out that their local exchange is not ADSL+ capable. This means that no telephone subscriber in the village – or any neighbouring villages that also connect to the same local exchange – can have broadband.<\/p>\n

Isn’t it funny what we take for granted?<\/p>\n

I discovered that the office PC at the yard is connected to the world via an ADSL line that delivers 1Mb\/s.<\/p>\n

The ISP that the yard uses is charging them \u00a317.99\/month for a 1Mb\/s service, with a 5Mb ‘fair use’ download cap. The ISP throws in free hosting of a very small website.<\/p>\n

When you look at the service level and the cost, that’s a pretty shit deal really, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Have I mentioned that I’m getting a brand new Nexus One tomorrow?<\/p>\n

Free of charge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a strange smell around here; it is most peculiar. It is lunchtime and I’ve just had breakfast. That’s nothing to do with being lazy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}