Ok, a couple of little odds-and-ends to blog about from my life in the past week.

Firstly, my new TV. I've been saving up for a flat-panel TV now for the better part of the year, and I've been waiting specifically for the new Pioneer PDP-507XDA 127cm plasma. Anyway, it was due out last week so I went to the local Myer store to see about preordering one.

My mate at Myer (who knew I'd been waiting for this TV for some time) had some very good news for me. The local store had received a single unit to act as a demo unit, and he had permission to sell it, since they didn't have space on the floor for it anyway. So I was all set to be the first kid on my block with this tele.

Only problem is, I didn't have the cash handy - I didn't expect to be getting the unit for another month.

So I transferred a couple of grand from my home-loan into my savings account, which should be in there by Tuesday. Not wanting to wait, though, I figured I'd write 'em a cheque, and by the time that cleared the money would be in there. No such luck - they rang up to get the cheque authorised, and the credit union knocked it back. So my cunning plan failed. Now I'll have to wait 'til one day next week before I can pick it up.

So that's the TV news. Now, health news.

On the drive home yesterday, I started getting weird flashing effects in my right eye. I knew straight away what it was - an ocular migraine. I'd had one about a year ago. I didn't concern myself with it too much, because the last time it happened it went away by itself.

A few minutes into the drive, however, things started getting really weird. It's like my brain disconnected from reality. Everything turned very dream-like, and I had a lot of trouble even talking to my buddy in the car - finding the word I needed to end a sentence etc. It was like I'd lost the power of speech or something.

Freaking out, I told Sal when I got home that I thought I might be going insane. She immediately (cyberchondriac that she is) looked it up on the net, and what do you know? It's a symptom of migraines too! It's known as dysphasia and is usually followed (half and hour or so later) by the headache that we normally associate with migraines. Needless to say that the headache did follow, and it was not pretty.

I'm all good again today, but that was certainly a surreal experience, and not one I'm ready to repeat any time soon.