Jailbreaking my Kindle

Typical, the moment I decide OD is unusable, it comes back from the dead. I’ll try a few more entires here before I give up and go elsewhere. I was all ready to go to PB, but Serea has sown doubts in my mind on that.

We were promised the storm of the century with hurricane force winds and torrential rain last night and today. The weather has been fairly foul, but there were no fallen trees or flooded roads in my town this morning, and even my train was on time. The rail network is affected, but astoundingly First Great Western seems to be managing better than most.

The weekend was unremarkable. I cleared a lot of dead material from the allotment. Someone appears to have taken one of our pumpkins, which was annoying, but we still have three good ones left to carve for Halloween. We’re also still picking raspberries, and we had the last of the potatoes as well. I bought a bunch of garlic cloves to grow as well, but they haven’t gone in yet.

In other news, I painted one wall, and sanded down most of the woodwork downstairs ready for painting, and bought a bucket of paint for the ceiling. One wall was covered in hairline cracks because it’s not been made with proper plasterboard and when it was skimmed it dried out super fast. I’ve painted it with very sticky cracked ceiling paint and it seems to have done the trick. I may do another coat tonight.

Lou Reed apparently died today. I had no idea he had had a liver transplant. He was 71, which I think he can be reasonably pleased with, considering the illegal substances he experimented with over the years.

I’m in the process of trying to jailbreak my Kindle. Kindles are the greatest gadget since the safety match, but I have to say, if you’re thinking of buying one from Waterstones, don’t. The idiots have decided that it’s a really good idea to lock down the screen saver function, which is already stupidly restricted by Amazon. Who in their right mind would think it a good idea to take away the, admittedly boring, alternating screensavers provided by Amazon, and replace them with a single hideous screensaver. It has become a personal goal of mine to break this now.

I quite want to see comedian, Adrienne Truscott, who appears to perform naked from the waist down. She looks cool.