Im going back to bed ( though I'll probaly spend all afternoon on here )

Today is a boring grey damp and dreary Sunday afternoon in March . I think this says it all . Im tired but I cant sleep . Im bored rigid but I cant be bothered to do anything . My hands are dry and catching on every material I touch . This is tiresome .
    My new " Boom Blaster " arrived late this weekend , and its a light weight poor sounding modern version of the original . It has smaller speakers and a tight  strained bass that's just tries  to hard to sound " loud " . My old one produced bass with ease un like this modern piece of plastic cheap feeling ( it isn't a cheap price )  crap ! Yes , back its going to Amazon . In not paying top whack for a mediocre product even if that's the modern way . Of course it has MP3 connections and a USB port ect but where is the LW radio ? There is only FM . Cant get FM here , so that's no good for starters .Anything modern is sh1t . All the accountants and penny counters have ruined this JVC product and the sad thing is that most people who buy it will never know how good the original was . I have only myself to blame and lets be honest here , what did I really expect ?
  

If you have a minute...

Having the house to my self last night made me realise how short my attention span has become . I watched a full film last night in one go instead of over two different nights which has somehow  become my preferred method of film watching , and bizarrely I couldn't tell you when this trend started . I can tell you though after an hour of watching a film I get uneasy . Maybe films arent as good or well paced as they were , or maybe they are to quickly paced , giving everything away too fast  ? Or maybe its the instant gratification of the Internet thats always calling in the background  ; Ebay , blogger , Face book ect all give that feeling  we constantly search for . They however do it in a flash and then what ? Well that dull sat in your chair feeling returns
    We have all become short term seekers of stimulation , hence an hour and a half sat in your home feels like a life time to spend watching a film . This is more so with a family , as noise and disturbance intrude every few minutes . Of course this isnt a problem at a Cinema , but still I feel the need to eat in a film or drink . Again I think its that annoying little need for instant gratification . Its the spirit of the age. The time scale of effort for reward has changed . What may have taken weeks to get said to someone now can be relayed instantly . So then what ?
    Then what ? Its a phrase I keep coming back to. The things I would spend a long while looking forward to are now the things that are over in a flash . Yes , the internet is much to blame for changing our perception of the time scale that's acceptable for seeking pleasure . Films for instance can be down loaded , but there goes a chance to get out for a night even if it did mean a fifty mile round journey ! Ebay means I can order anything I need instantly . Gone are those Saturday afternoons off shopping ! Again everything pleasure wise has speeded up.
   For the generation that's grown up with online from day one its brought them their own particular problems , but they aren't even clued up enough to even acknowledge them . As for my generation we can remember a different age . We have had to adapt . We have seen great change . It takes its toll . This is not our natural state after all . In fact we were ambushed no less ...