Dramas

I had a very quiet day yesterday, just pottering about and catching up on some TV viewing etc. The cable TV box was broken for about 24 hours. When I got back on Saturday night, it had stopped working. I had a search on the internet and that said the only way to fix it was to get it replaced, but I did eventually manage to get it working again. It seems you can’t believe everything you read on the internet – who would have thought it?

Various dramas on ITV at the moment are sponsored by Clerical Medical pensions and so each ad break starts and ends with a retired couple (they’re Ken and Barbie type dolls rather than people) doing various things that show how exciting it is to be retired when you have got lots of pension to live on. Anyway, I don’t know what this says about the way my mind works but there is one of the clips that they show which is of the couple hiding behind the sofa while their family, who have come round to visit, ring on the doorbell. The first few times I saw this, I wasn’t quite paying attention to what was on the TV but somehow I thought that the advert was basically of them having sex behind the sofa. Obviously old people *never* do that sort of thing anyway but despite it being unlikely that would be the plot to one of the adverts, somehow my mind seems to have wanted to lower the tone. Mind you given some of the programmes they show on TV these days, maybe it isn’t all that unlikely.

Another quiet day ahead with not a lot planned, so I think I’ll have to think of something to do beyond the excitement of going to the supermarket and other such things. A good thing at the moment though is The Killers CD Hot Fuss which I think is really great. I wasn’t too sure how much I liked The Killers when they first appeared but I think that CD is well worth a regular listen. If I had ever made it into the 21st century and owned something like an iPod they would be great to listen to on the way into work in the morning. Really gets the energy levels up. Highly recommended!