MrGrumpy upgrades his TV choices

After a busy Friday and Saturday MrGrumpy was planning to do very little today. In the morning he spoke to Little MissNaughty to check how her and MrBarneyDog were getting on without him. MrBarneyDog is still having some problems which is not good, at least he is still happy and eating fine.

The Mustang needed a clean, so MrGrumpy decided that was his first job of the day, it did not take long which was good, as it was starting to warm up outside.
With that done he decided to just sit an surf the net for a while, what he actually did was nod off for a little Sunday morning nap (well it was an F1 weekend even if he can't watch it). He woke to iMessages from Little MissNaughty, once they he exchanged several messages it was time to go out shopping.

MrGrumpy was having intermittent wifi issues, it would just drop sometimes, mainly on the iPad (the new one does not seem to be as good as the original one, maybe because it is a dual 2.4/5GHz device. So he headed off towards BestBuy, he was going to try and navigate without putting the route into MrSatNav.
As you would expect, this did not go perfectly, he ended up on the wrong side of I85, so walked around the other shops including CostCo before driving to the other side of I85 where BestBuy is.

He had been thinking for a week or two about getting a wifi extender, so now it was time to choose, he decided to get the basic 2.4GHz Netgear with 4 wired ports. While he was in BestBuy he also brought a Roku2 XS video streaming box, this will give him access to NetFlix, Pandora etc. on the TV.  I'm sure you are all wondering why MrGrumpy did not buy an AppleTV, well he would have done, but it only supports HDMI and the antique 4x3 Sanyo set only has composite inputs, therefore the Roku was a better choice as it supports both.

MrGrumpy returned to home and expected to run into issues setting up the items, to his surprise it went smoothly. In fact very smoothly, he was able to connect to the wifi extender (via wifi) and configure it to connect to the existing wifi/internet. So MrGrumpy now has Somersham2 local wifi to connect to. Additionally he plugged the AirPort express into the wired port and configured that for 5Ghz only to use on the iPad and MacBook.
Now onto the Roku2, that also JustWorked (tm),  "wow, I am amazed" MrGrumpy thought. He normally expects something to go wrong, because it generally does.

He watched an episode of TheWalkingDead on NetFlix, then he tried out some of the other channels. On Crackle he found the original GhostBusters, what better way to spend a Sunday afternoon (if F1 is not available).

It's food Jim, but not as
we know it.

It was mid evening and MrGrumpy was quite peckish, he did not want to go out, so had a limited choice of items he could microwave. He had brought a HungryMan chicken, mash and sweetcorn meal from WallMart a few weeks ago, so now it was time to try it... Several minutes later, the ping of the microwave signaled time to eat.
It was edible, nothing wonderful, but he was expecting that, pretty much like airline food really.
It did come complete with a chocolate brownie (which he had to remember to rescue half way through the process).

So now at the end of another weekend, time to fill in the blog and then sleep. It has been two days in a row he has posted the blog just after midnight.