The digital transition is coming!

Wilmington NC has been chosen as the test city in the US for converting from analog broadcasting to digital television! I guess we are big enough to be a test case but small enough that if something goes wrong it doesn't really matter. So on Monday 8 September our local stations are being switched over at noon. The rest of the US converts on 17 February 2009. I'll let you know how it goes!

Temperature range: 0 - 4 degrees celsius

It was supposed to snow after midnight but we lucked out. It is pretty cold at the moment but we are snuggly warm with the heating on, hot chocolates in hand (Williams Sonoma of course) and hours upon hours of tennis to watch. We get lots of coverage of the Australian Open on ESPN2 so we have seen lots of the five set matches including Federer, Fish, Blake, Hewitt and my favourite match Kohlschreiber vs Roddick. And given some of the crazy scheduling of matches we have been able to watch them live during the day! So its been fairly quiet here apart from some nail biting tennis. We made a 12 egg pav for church luncheon today, followed up by some fresh custard that Lucy and Andrew made together. We also braved the rain and cold yesterday for an Indochine feast with an excellently behaved toddler. But apart from those adventures we've been camped upstairs in the TV room cheering. Amazing Race finale in 1 hour!!

O TV, where art thou?

With the writers strike going into its 3rd month there is even less to watch on TV than usual. The Office is off the air and Top Gear is on re-runs. The only thing left is Amazing Race (12th season) which has only 2 weeks to go. So I guess in a couple of weeks time we'll be going sans TV for a while. Imagine all that free time, oh the possibilities!

Forty Love

There's grand slam fever here at our place as we can watch the French Open in prime time! I did get to watch some of it last year because Lucy was feeding at 3am but this year I get to sit back on couch with a cool glass of iced water and enjoy watching Federer vs Nadal in the final. In fact channel 137 is the tennis channel. It only broadcasts matches, interviews and highlight programs. All I can say is bring on Wimbledon...