Spaced Out Man !!!

No I haven't gone hippy dippy. My new external HD arrived first thing this morning via Citylink from Amazon. I haven't had time to do much but link it up to my laptop, I do love how Windows XP doesn't often need the software/drivers supplied for new hardware.

I do love Plug and Play.

Anyhow, I have received my new HD, taken my parents to B&Q and picked up his birthday, two days late but it's worth the wait for the 10% discount my Mother's pensioner discount card gives me. Especially on large items like we were shopping for today. My Mum bought him a new hedge trimmer, this one cordless so there is no chance of cutting through the cord like what happened to his last one. I bought him a new strimmer, a flymo, it has a higher engine power than his initial one which lasted only months, this one also has dual automatic feed for the main strimmer itself. His last one was a manual rotor, so you had to feed out the plastic string when it broke. And as we found out it isn't all that easy, the strimmer cord broke after a just months and no matter what we did we couldn't extend anymore cord at all. So it has been lying in our shed for over two years gathering dust.

Luckily most strimmers are now auto feeds and you just take out the whole spindle and replace when there is no more cord, no fuss no muss. He's pleased with it and that is the main thing, it also has a wheel which you can use to keep those borders straight, you just roll it along as it strims as it goes. It also has two handgrips and an fully adjustable handle. You can lower/highten it so you own most comfortable fit, so if you're too tall you can elongate it to avoid hunching over the entire time your using it.

I also got the new sandpit/water table I bought for my nephews last Wednesday, it's rained everyday since here and we couldn't get it built up for use, all built up. Well, as my middle nephew was waiting to finally get to play with his new toy we put together the tables and a couple of the attachments, leaving off the various stickers and other accessories of the play kit, so that he could play with it now rather than wait for us to get it all assembled. He loved it. He especially loved the crane, which was one of the accessories we did assemble, and the new tower toy he got today from Asda, and he was out all afternoon in the lovely weather playing with it. He even opted to stay with his Grandad rather than go with us to pick up his older brother from school.

Generally you can't prise him away from a car ride but he waved us off with a loud cry of 'Bye Bye' and trotted off to play with his sandpit once again. Once his brother returned with us they both played with the sandpits until just before their parents turned up for them, they only left their new toys when rain threatened. So I think that the new sandpit is a definite hit.

Well I am now off to start organizing and transferring files off my internal HD to my new external one. Hopefully my system will also benefit from this and I will stop getting that annoying low virtual memory message several times a day. When I see that Windows Update logo flash in my toolbar I cringe when I know that I will have to juggle/clean and uninstall programs to speed up Windows and stop the warning messages appearing so often.