Category Archives: retail therapy

new coolstand

23 Saturday Jun 2007

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So I bought one of these today …

As the weather heats up so do all the furniture surfaces here and I started to worry about the Sexy Beast getting overheated during the course of a long summer day. There were a few different types at Fnac, including one with a built-in fan, and I opted for the simplest model (it’s exactly like the one in the pic) thinking it should allow for enough extra air circulation between SB and the table for the internal fans to do their job properly.

But while I was googling for a thumbnail pic of my coolstand I discovered that there are tons of the kind with fans – like these. And so now I’m not sure if I should exchange the one I’ve got for a fan model.

Any advice?

fnac is open!

12 Saturday May 2007

Posted by in books & writing, films, media, music, retail therapy, sevilla

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Avenida de la Constitución 8
41001 Sevilla

And it seems to fit in just fine with the ‘new look’ Avenida de la Constitución, so the worries I expressed over here last month turned out to be unfounded.

It also has a very good selection of DVDs and CDs. Lots of cool electronic and computer stuff. And they even sell vinyl records! The English book section is a bit small but I did manage to find a Terry Pratchett book I haven’t yet read. Anyhow, I think it’s a rather nice addition to Sevilla.

How do you like the new trams? This one is just for show as they aren’t operating yet. Apparently they will be removing the overhead cables within the year and we’ll be getting battery operated trams – not quite sure what happened there.

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Now if they’d just blow-up all the Starbucks that have sprouted like vile mushrooms all down the Avenida . . .

new television – eep!

12 Saturday May 2007

Posted by in home, media, retail therapy, television

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Look what we just bought!

Well, we don’t have it yet – it’s going to be delivered on Tuesday.

Courtesy of our big translation job. Not bad for one job – a trip to Lisbon, a 32″ flat screen television and a hopefully debt-free summer (I usually always go into debt during the summer as there is next to no teaching work). But that’ll be the end of this recent spate of retail therapy madness.

Quite looking forward to seeing House on the BIG SCREEN. f_bigeyes.gif

sexy beast

15 Sunday Apr 2007

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Here she is … in all her undented glory!

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Unfortunately my eensy IKEA table doesn’t do her justice. But it makes it easy to keep the old desktop PC at hand and also to use a normal keyboard and mouse when I’m working. And of course, I can use her anywhere in the house at other times. I’m really glad the coin-flip turned out the way it did. Sure it was a bit of a hassle to wipe out all the programmes I’d installed, go back to the store and do the exchange and then reinstall everthing from scratch again.

On the other hand, there is a real pleasure having something so beautifully designed looking as it should.

And it does seem like this ‘spontaneous purchase’ happened at a good time as the ol’ Jag is acting weirder and weirder.

So let’s hope it’s an all’s well that ends well sorta thang . . .