I spent a lot of Saturday working. We began quite early by going down to 238 with Lulu and letting her see the house for the first time. Fortunately, she likes it a lot. Then Lu and I went to collect Nicky, Robbie and Keane and we all went out to Southway to load up. This took a while (in the pouring rain) so we stopped for a breather and then three vehicles drove down to 238 and we began to unload. Once I was empty, I left the rest to it and went home to start work on the terrace into bedroom leak. There was good news and bad, the good is that my hoped for result is that the only place that water is entering is through the nasty hole drilled through the pantiles. The bad news is that there is no obvious way of blocking this up other than removing the tiles laid on the floor of the terrace. However, I have laid a goodly amount of PVA glue down which has soaked into the floor and permeated all the way through the hole so I am hoping that when this sets it will stop up at least some of the minor channels there.
On Sunday, we began in a lazy fashion and then went shopping at about midday. A fairly simple food shop and some work slacks for Hazel and we were home by about four.
I also played with the "Super PVR" this weekend. I have installed two sat tuners in the test PC and have done some serious recording using the facilities of Media Centre. The whole thing is working very well indeed but needs a little more work in order to edit and store the results easily. I have found a very good quality freeware converter that will take the dvr-ms files and output mpg2 files for editing and storage. Windows 7 is already able to convert wtv files into dvr-ms so that works quite well now. I am also experimenting with AVS remaker importing the dvr-ms file directly in order to edit that but I have some reservations about speed of loading.
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