TV sound setup went wrong again yesterday

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Tue Sep 17

The DVD player / surround system went crazy yesterday while we were watching TV. Luckily it was something subtitled (Darkness: Those Who Kill) so we could have survived, but what's going to happen next time the kids are watching? A full reboot of everything sorted it, but it's been doing this a lot. So I just ordered a Sonos beam ¹. Been wanting something like this for a while AND it clears something of my todo list too. Also it's a step towards one of Clare's aims too, so I'm doing it for her really. Let me explain both of these;

One of my todo list items is "move the subwoofer", though actually that's on my other list, and not the one here. The subwoofer is tucked behind one of the curtains in the lounge, I always planned to run a longer cable behind the skirting and move it to back behind the sofa but keep failing to get round to it. If I get this sound bar ¹ I can get away without a subwoofer. So job done, lounge tidier!And no cables at all.
Clare decided we should get rid of the curtains and get blinds. I love the curtains but can see the point it's worth a try. This means no more hiding anything behind the curtains so the subwoofer would have to go anyway. So really I'm buying this new soundbar for her, not for me.

While I'm here, slight repost from the Slack channel I am in with my buddies. I had a WEIRD one yesterday regarding tiredness. Now I'm not obsessing about my step count any more (even though I averaged 19,000 per day last week, ahem) I'm obsessed with my body fat and resting heart rate. Yesterday I did two runs, a treadmill at lunch and then a 6k after work. The 6k felt really hard, and it shouldn't at all, was all on the flat, I just really struggled. THEN I measured my body fat today, very rough estimate using the fitbit scales but I'd gone down to below 11%... SO, my wild and implausible theory is that I had burned up all my glucose reserves earlier in the day and I started burning fat on the second run. It's unlikely, I think it takes a lot more effort than that, and it's more likely just bad measuring with flakey equipment. But I like the results, so I'm sticking with it.

Back to swimming lessons tonight for thing two. Also he has lost A LOT of teeth recently, I'm sure he has more gaps than teeth.

Will be missing parkrun this weekend as Clare is off to a wedding with her dad, but spoken to the boys and they're keen to give junior parkrun a go. So hopefully doing that on Sunday!

Removed old amzn.to/2NkTyox link here.

5k: Five km, about three miles in old money.

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⬅️ Run stats 17/9/19 :: Boys both asked for extra chilli yesterday ➡️