I stumbled across this very funny video the other day, but when I saw that it had been posted on YouTube by someone called SassyDonna I started to wonder if this might be where I went wrong!

I purchased my Topfield TF5000PVRt standard definition personal digital video recorder about four years ago when they first came out. It's a great little box with twin SD digital tuners and an 80Gig hard drive. All that techo guff means that you can pause and rewind live TV as well as watch a pre recorded show whilst recording two different shows on different channels all at the same time.

You can also put your music on it if you want via a USB connection, but the 80Gig hard drive is the limiting factor. It's good for about 30 hours of TV. A bit later on they increased it to 120Gig, but even that's not enough. Over time I had filled mine up with movies and shows (mostly cooking shows - Food Safari rocks!) so that I was always deleting stuff to make more room.

Enter Ebay. I've purchased a brand new 400Gig drive via Ebay for the bargain basement price of $79.00 and now I'm about to go about upgrading my trusty Topfield. Read on if you would like to see how it went (with photo's!)..........

That would be right. The highway between my place and the city is closed this morning because it's covered in snow at Mount Nelson. I could have had the day off work (well at least worked from home via the magic of the Internet) but instead I'm tucked up in bed with a chest infection feeling like garbage. I know us guys like to sook and moan whenever we get a little bit of a sniffle, but this time I really am crook. My chest really hurts. The doc has given me some magic pills so I'm sure I'll be OK soon and the Olympics are on the telly so it's not all bad.

Speaking of bad, have you had a look at the little share graph over on the left hand side? It's not broken, and we haven't had a sudden increase in gravity, my shares really have dropped that low. That sort of thing used to really stress me out, but now I'm not so worried. I'm holding shares in way more companies than I should be, but they are nearly all resource sector start up's with great technicals so it's only the current "the sky is falling" mentality that's forcing their value so low. There is nothing wrong with the sector or the companies so I know that they will turn around as soon as the nutters realise that the sky is firmly bolted to whatever is above it and it ain't going to fall.

What are you doing on Saturday? Well not you, but that's what Jo, one of my friends from tennis, asked me last week. Luckily I didn't have anything major planned for the day because she had scored tickets to the match day entertainment in the Centenary room at Bellerieve oval for the Devils football game against Williamstown. The Devils haven't been traveling too well this season so I wasn't expecting a great game of football, but I was looking forward to a collar and tie function with good food, good drink  and good company along with hearing from the guest speaker Australian cricketer Damien Flemming.

The food was OK, but nothing to write home about. The beer was free flowing and available in copious amounts. The company was great, Jo works with a very funny bunch of people and their partners were great fun as well. Damien Flemming was very funny. He is a great speaker and has a lot of funny stories to tell.

As expected the football was crap with the Devils being thrashed, but to be honest I didn't see a lot of that. There were a few funny things that happened during the day. My divorce lawyer was there and I was sitting next to one of his female clients (not Jo!). When he spotted us chatting together he did a double take, but then he almost died when he saw her ex partner (the one he represented her against) sitting on the other side of her! Only in Tasmania. There was an assisted wardrobe malfunction at one point, but that's a story for another time. One of the guys on our table won almost $1000 on the horses, so he was pretty happy.

We went into the Clarence football club rooms after the game (the rules say you must leave the room quickly and quietly as soon as the game is over. The also say there is to be no physical contact. I'm not sure what they meant by that one!) for a few more beers and I was a bit scared to see that many of the Devil's players girlfriends were no older than my own daughter. 

We then split up and headed our own ways. Jo had a family dinner to go to and I had a dinner planned with some friends (Colin, Anne, Andrew, Vicky and Yeutha). Apart from the fact that I drank more alcohol in one day than I have in the past year and felt very sorry for it in the morning, it was a great day/night all round.