h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

finally working from the HiFi in the front room still not entirely convinced I've the polarity right, and the passive trebble controls on the front of the left speaker don't seem to work as the right speakers' controls do making up the cables was a right faff... turns out microscopic tiny grub screws with blindness and* neuropathy is ... tricky and the tiny three pin plug things are equally as fiddly ATM have the single negative runninginto only one of the bottom two pins, and the positive on its own running to the top of the three pins... - I played wround with it some more earlier, and I'm not convinced the other bottom, negative 'hole' is actually any differnt to the other one; could be they've just been crossed together with a wire on the inside, or, dunno... gona play about with it some more tomorrow; on the left speaker anhow, try running a cross wire from pin to pin on the negative pins, see if that makes the passive tone control on the front behave like the right one does... or... Hmm.... yeh, couple of things to try there. but. they really are a very substantial set of cabinates/speakers with a very nice rounded balanced sound...

dinner was so late tonight I doubt I'll sleep now which may mean I can't make it to yoga tomorrow - well I'll try an early shower when/if I get up to wake me, and see if I can muster the energy. Mind, if I feel like I did for most of today, doubt I'd be able to walk to the bus stop. so faint feeling and not with it... not sure if thats a reaction to the thyroxin or not or perhaps just to slightly upping the hydrocortisone dose, as directed, the other day; mind, was back down to 15 MG today, so that wouldn't explain today, and I did sleep last night... though often that is a weird one; I've frequetnly found I'm more alert, wide awake, feeling less 'brain foggy' etc, if I've missed one or two nights sleep

Made a sort of pork and bean stew thing tonight; rahter I prepared the ingredients and W had to cook it on the tempory electric hob thing, which I can't understand how your ment to use it, as the controls opperate so slowely to alter the temp
Was diced chorizo with diced onions, mushrooms, and garlic, olive oil mustard seeds and cumin seeds, fresh ground black pepper, and a couple of thin pork steaks, that we had left from yesterday, diced up and thrown in; then a can of Carabien mixed beans from nextdoor, kidney, pigeon peas (gungo beans or congo beans), and a couple of other beans I can't recall), plus a carton of pesanta (sp?) the tomato stuff... and, we would have done rice with it, but instead just had some thic sliced bread

a single portion left for tomorrow; so think we'll throw in some extra mushrooms, and a tin of pigeon peas/gungo beans, to make that enough for both of us tomorrow night Must try find some local kitchen fitters/places with show rooms, who might be able to quote for the kitchen, most round here don't seem to carry any physical stock in their show rooms, or, like the one we went to the other day, want to charge 'approximately ... average price... £20000 for a kitchen... yeh... right, I don't think so

Still waiting to hear quote from bathroom people, and one of the quotes for the painting of s bedroom and front room isn't in yet. dunno what we can do about the bathroom, again the store doesn't sem to have much stock in, and their main thing is to show you stuff on a screen, which doesn't work for me, and I'm fed up with taps that don't work and can't be cleaned because the chrone on them is so apaulingly fixed to the metal, and plugs which corode as soon as they've bene fitted, so actually being able to see some of the fittings etc woudl really be kinda useful, so I don't get ripped off a second time with a bathroom costing thousands that doesn't work.