Bustin' our asses

When I'm working all week to pay the bills (Erin too!) I'm going to make sure my pound goes further! Spending money on bills is the least fun way to spend money. We all would much rather be buying food, holidays, gifts, alcohol, etc. You've probably heard me banging on about this already but the revolution in lighting is happening now! This week I added to my LED collection.

I already had these

But I bought these

So what's the deal? My wife loves these new lights. "They are so cute! Niall, you are so creative. They look so nice in our living room. How are you so thoughtful?" I sit there and soak up all the credit and praise. Do I deserve any of it? Not at all! My primary motivation is to squeeze every penny off my electricity bill and back into my pocket. Want to know some numbers? To run those lights 4 hours a day, everyday of the year:

£0.53

See those spotlights above Erin's head in the roof. There are 9 of those suckers. And I mean suckers! These things suck down 50W of power each! That's 450W total. My LED string is 3W. Cost for same period as above:

£78.84

Heck, I'll be a hippy for that price! Save the planet man. Normal bulbs waste 90% of their energy through heat generated. LEDs don't run hot.

Anyway, I don't expect any of you to be as cheap as I am but in case there are some closet misers out there, now you know how to save some moolah.


Hmmm, what else is new with us? Well some of you may have noticed a lull in communication from Erin since she got back to Ireland. Don't worry, you're not on your own! Even I don't get texts or calls from my wife these days. Why? Let me bring you back to Friday 4th January:

Niall: "Hey Erin, did you grab your phone?"
Erin: "Yeah, I have it. Come on mom and dad are waiting."
Niall: "Ok. You're sure you have it then."
Erin: "Yup! Let's go!"
Niall: "Ok my little snugglebunny. Coming."

23 hours later standing in the rain at Dublin airport waiting for my dad to pull up, Erin had been searching through her bag for about 5 minutes for her phone. Fearing the worst, I cleverly pulled up an app on my phone that locates her phone (I normally use it just to keep track on her while I'm in work! Joke). Don't worry hunny, I'll just check for you now:

     

Hmm, 3 hours ago your phone was in CA! That's not good.

So all my LED savings are down the drain. I should have got her a brick.

What else? Oh yeah. That damn typewriter. Want to hear what it was like to be in 'nam?

Erin hammering away

My lovely sister-in-law has been thinking about setting up her own business. Mac cleaning. May I be the first to NOT recommend using her services. Just kidding H-bomb. Except not really. For a while we had one very shiny (but utterly useless) macbook. Anyone want to see what the guts of an Apple product look like:

I was nervous doing this. I may look like I know what I am
doing but if I had one weak subject in Engineering school,
it was electrical engineering!

How on earth does this do what it does? And which wire do I
cut, the red or the blue?

On the operating table. Time of death... No wait doctor!
There are signs of life. (And yes, we were watching The Office
to keep us entertained)

Well something I did must've worked because I'm writing this blog on a born-again (albeit fritzy) macbook! Hurray. Or else it must have been the old turn it off turn it on again trick. Why didn't I do that first?!


Last bit of local news for you. A bunch of idiots are rioting about a flag (pronounced 'fleg' if you are one of these hooligans) and it's wreaking havoc on a healing land. Get a job ya bums! I'll explain more in another post.

The famous PSNI Land Rovers. We're prepared for riots over here!

And the knobs they are trying to protect us from. The British flag not
flying on that building in the background is the reason for all this.

If you are so proud of your cause, why hide your faces?

I can't tell you how angry this makes me. Imagine seeing
the American flag being burned in America! 

But nevermind all that. When are you coming to visit? We may hate each other but visitors are welcome :) Seriously, we better start seeing some more guests to the Bakery this year.

Bed-time!


P.S. Snow is keeping all but the most loyal customer from Soul Food! I love this place!