Drive-thru sterilisation

Our cat had to be sterilised today, so we took her to the vet. The vet had actually moved a hundred metres down the road, so it took us a few minutes to find it.

And it actually had a drive-through lane out the front of it! Drive-through desexing... what a brilliant idea! Snip snip, you don't even need to turn your engine off.

Of course, that's not true, but there is a drive-through lane at the front of the vet from the previous tenants.

Last night I realised that I don't think before I write, and in the past and present that has hurt people. And it's had an impact on my life that I possibly can't even comprehend. I mean, I love to retell the story of Stan and the timer record on his VCR, and I only tell that story to make people feel less embarrased - but now that I think about it, Stan wouldn't want me spraying that story around, because it would make *him* embarrased.

So from now on, I'm going to be much more careful. I have two new mottos:

"Next time you want to make some kind of idiotic pronouncement, you should first get up, step outside and plunge your head into a bucket of iced water" - what a judge told Alan Jones, featured in the "radio advertisement" for an earlier incarnation of this website

"If you don't have anything nice to say, then STFU".

In other news, I had a reasonable day of sales thanks to eBay. A couple of people bought dishwashers from eBay, and some others came in to look at the d/ws and bought other things too. I also got some product training on Asko dishwashers, which really was a gap in my knowledge before.

Oh, and the rep from NEC told me how to get into one of the hidden menus on the NLT20G TVs. You press Display, then the first three colour buttons, then Menu. This brings up a menu where you can lock certain functions, set a maximum volume and stuff. Turn the TV off to exit the menu.

The first time I put in this code combination, I did it incorrectly, and actually discovered a SECOND secret menu! I think I did Display, all four colour buttons in order, and then Menu. This one seems to give you the ability to move the picture on the screen and change the RGB, brightness and everything else to do with the panel. Excellent! I love finding secrets in consumer electronics.