You haven't seen yellow: UNTIL YOU'VE SEEN YELLOW!

Today started fine. I wasn't working until 2pm so I had the whole morning to myself in which I did nothing. On the bus I met Paul and Robert. We discussed Paul's plans to take over the world, calling it "Paul", and the fact that under this regime, everyone will worship him and have his picture in their houses. Also he wishes to become the head of the BBC and rename it the BBP; British Broadcasting Paul. Once in town we all headed off to Currys where Robert was intent on seeing the new Sharp Quattro, featured in the advert I quoted in the title. Basically, every colour tv for the last 50-or-so years has displayed pixels of red, blue and green. From these primary colours of light it is possible to create the entire spectrum of colour. Sharp have decided this is not enough and have inserted a new fourth pixel of light; yellow. In theory this will make absolutely no difference as when the whole spectrum is available already, no more can be added. When we compared the quattro against a regular LG we were astonished to discover that we were completely right. Except for the fact that, being made by Sharp, the Quattro had a far lower quality picture than the LG as they make shit TV's. Their walk to Currys was worthwhile though, as they got to sample the amazing Panasonic 3D TV. Since it came into store I have often been watching things and thinking to myself "I wish this was in 3D." That is how effective it is. As Robert pointed out, if there is a "format war" for what type of 3D is used in the near future, it is absolutely pointless as what we have on display is really as good as it can get. If you're sceptical about it, please come in ans I will show you. Not only will this prove me right but your coming into the store will inject something interesting into my dull days.

This moves me onto my next point. I started work, on my ridiculous 5 hour shift. My first customer bought a TV; from the entire wall of TV's he chose the one for 199.99. Fine; I went upstairs, got him one and put it through the till. "That's 199.99 please." At this point he was shocked and appalled that I had the audacity to charge him the price clearly stated on the ticket. He hadn't asked for discount as many customers do; he had simply EXPECTED me to throw money at him in return for his godlike graciousness in blessing me with his monarchial presence in my lowly, commoner's store. "WHAT!?! There's no discount!?!" he interjected, without a hint of humor or sarcasm I hasten to add: "No. It's 199.99" I repeated, not at all impressed at his arrogance. He continued to object, remarking on our advertising of a sale, to which I stated the blindingly obvious in that the sale tv's are marked as such and the ticket prices are what you pay. He was miffed, and grudgingly accepted my heinous act of charging him for the TV.

This story really set the tone for the day; I had a rotten time and by the end of the day I was really sick of it. The highlight of the day was changing the google homepage on the till computers to the iGoogle England World Cup theme so that whenever my colleagues (many of whom are of the pursuasion that England is a figure of hatred) opened up google, they were confronted with an array of England flags and such.

My final customer was scouting for a TV, quite possibly a 3D one. I showed him the Panasonic, explaining it is the best one available just now. He was apparently capable of paying the 2,300 price tag for it but insisted on haggling as he was only at the point of shopping around, not buying just now. "So, how much can I get it for if I haggle and such?". Firstly I informed him that the ticket price was what it would cost. He then moaned about how he's not wanting to spend so much on it when there's not much 3D stuff to watch on it just now. It was at this point, after the day from hell, that I was most proud of myself in my rebuttal. I took what he said and flipped it around; I said "Well, it's because it's so new and because so few companies are putting 3D out that it costs this much; there's no competition. If you wait six months or so, then the prices will probably start falling as more and more 3DTV's come onto the market." He was stumped by this as I knew for a fact that he wanted his new TV in a matter of a few weeks, not half a year. He said something about a "hard bargain" and walked off, still cheery but visibly defeated. I ended my day victorious.

This evening I finished off my Crystal Maze Theme piano version on sibelius and will hopefully learn the majority of it in the morning.

Song of the day is the Rasmus - Time to Burn. Everyone knows "In the Shadows", but the album that song comes off of; Dead Letters; is genuinely brilliant. This is one of my favourite tracks from it; I particularly like the synth intro and of course the riff. I love how they have a very bass-driven sound, with bass being the only guitar playing in the verses.