w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

Today's lyric:
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"Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone."

The Beatles: "Lucy in the sky with diamonds"
From the album: "1"

Said Simple Simon* to the SkyMan
"What have you got there?"
"It's the Sky+ box you ordered, Dumb-ass!"

I waited the recommended "few hours" before trying out the record/pause function, which didn't seem to work, so vacuumed up the brickdust thoughtfully left behind the tv? and re-rigged the box through the surround-sound - not with phono plugs as suggested by His Numptiness, but by simply plugging the VCR scart into the relevant port. And set out to mow the lawns. And picked up the old tranceiver** which Mr Sky Engineer had hacked off and left abandoned in the side entrance.

"I'll dispose of that, then, shall I?"

Some more hours later, Pausing and Recording generated an on-screen message to 'Phone this number to upgrade to Sky+'

Er, but I'm looking at the new box, right now?

"I'm really sorry" said the lovely (UK-based call centre) lady - "all we seem to have done is renew your Sky subscription, not upgrade it. Give it a day or two to kick in."

Harrrummmph.

But the (free) replacement of the BT Home Hub went swimmingly well and smoothly. Made damn all difference to the download times (to be expected, when the pipe's only a half meg and we're furthest from the exchange) but it's new?

* Me
** whatever that thing's called that points at the satellite dish?

Labels: Sky+age