So The Missus is away in Amsterdam attending some media show and I am left at Chez Lock, feeling miserable and so alone. Boo-hoo! Me and Alex the Wonderdog are pining and we take it in shifts to lay on the doormat sniffing at the front door, waiting for our mistress to return
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Today, I received a phonecall from BT Broadband. This time it was BT Broadband UK and not India and someone higher up the foodchain had heard about my internet problems. We spoke and I explained and she listened and she was incredulous at my problems and agreed that it was pretty shitty getting a random connection somewhere between the speeds of 3.5Mb (rare) and 135k (common).

She said she’d have a word with billing to see what could be done and returned saying that they weren’t shifting and weren’t going to give me a regrade back to my old service. So she said she’d send me a new Home Hub (my first one never worked and got binned) and we’d see what happens. Her advice was, “You’d be better off with cable because these phone lines are that good when it comes to broadband”. Ouch! However, I really appreciated the truth coming from a BT minion and it kind of endeared me to her.

However, when my contract expires in May, I am off to my cable company…UNLESS…something magical happens in the meantime.
I’ve been using my crappy broadband connection to research my council tax rate. I saw something on TV saying that many homes had been miscalculated when it came to the original council tax bandings back in 1991, so I had a nose around. Apparently, all the tunnel-linked homes in our street are in band “C”, the bungalow next door is in band “B” but all the properties in the middle of the street, which are of a larger size and command a higher price at market are all in band “A” and are paying £200 a year less than the rest of us in the street. How the heck did they work that out then? Oh well, it is another injustice heaped on me from an uncaring, money-grabbing world. If you want to check out what your neighbours are paying and be a snoop go to the following link and enter your postcode. I have a feeling you will be just as surprised as me:
http://www.voa.gov.uk

With the Missus away, I’ve been trying my best to justify all the musical equipment in the house. I believe in the “Use it or lose it” ethos, but I am having trouble finding my groove. I think it might have something to do with going through all my old recordings and putting them on the site. I realise that 98% of everything I’ve ever done is utter toss…oh why did I waste my time when I could have been getting drunk or shooting up speedballs? But no, it is a stupid hobby. Creativity sucks…but all the music bar a few CDs of stuff are now on the site. You just have to go to the music section on your way in.

Go on, do it! Do it now!

But back to futility, I recorded a little soundscapey thing. I had a good vibe going but I ruined it but putting this awful wah-wah pussycat noise on it. Because of this, I call it a Catscape. Meeeooow!


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