Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Birthday Present


Yes, I have turned 39. Two weeks ago actually - and I apologise for the absence of posts. I've been away in New Zealand from the 30th June to the 6th July at the SPABC (South Pacific Association of Bible Colleges) Conference. But before I went I was "given permission" to buy myself a birthday present. It is a 37" LCD television. I've been researching these for about 9 months so I knew exactly what I was looking for. So after a morning of shop hopping I ended up - as a last resort - at Clive Peeters Ringwood where they had a great deal on the Toshiba 37WL66A - no inbuilt tuner but they threw in an HD STB with the deal. So all up very happy. I just wish the broadcasters would send their signal out at a higher quality - hopefully in the future.
I looked into the LCD/Plasma options but a 37" was as large as we could go using the cabinet we already had. You will notice from the pic that it fits snugly.

5 comments:

Chris said...

Happy Birthday Pete!!

Oh, tell mimos we had the baby :)

Ludicrousity said...

Nice work! Happy late birthday! Hope you had a great day! 39 eh? That's so old! Just kidding! Without sounding like a suck, you don't look that old.

I met someone today who was at that conference, the principal of the bible college of NZ. Ian someone. Church history lecturer. Nice guy.

Oh, and on an academic note, did you get my email about my journal for david? I did email it to him!!! I hope he got it eventually!

dobbo said...

Thanks for the compliment Megan - I still feel 'young'
Ummm about your journal - I'd say David didn't get it because he gave you a 0 - so you need to contact him and ask what going on!!

Jacobunny said...

Happy birthday Pete!

Nice pressie. Looks like a computer monitor sitting on its stand like that. Guess they've converged a lot in terms of technology and function.

Great to catch up the other week.

Take care,
Jacob.

Ross said...

Nice specs on the TV. I see it has HDMI. That will come in handy when you upgrade to Blu-Ray or HD-DVD.