Speakers

I got new speakers for Xmas. The old ones were tied up with string!
They were a cheap item from Aldi and the plug was coming apart as well as the string, so time to get new ones and I put in a request with Santa, alias Bill.
These speakers are lovely, piano black and made by Creative, same as my wee mp3 player that holds all my Audible books.
They make my old beige computer and monitor look even older that they are, which is six years and a couple of months.
I had a difficult time trying to identify the cables and so on, but eventually got them installed, and while I was at it, identified the plug for the printer and put a label on it.
All of this with Bill's help, I wiggled the cable from the back and he grabbed onto it from the front, real high tech stuff.
I've been told that I shouldn't keep my printer on standby as it gobbles up the electricity, so now I am going to keep it unplugged until I need it.
I have long since given up leaving my TV and its other stuff on standby and put the power off at the wall every night. Also the microwave oven used to be on standby all the time and I only use it about once or twice a week, so that is kept switched off as well. I hope that I am saving a lot of money with all of this palaver.
I now reckon that there is at least a mile and a half of cable in this house.
Everything that I buy has a charger or something similar and a couple of yards of cable, and we have four digital cameras working at the moment. All of them have these other cables that you plug into the TV to show your photos to friends, so that is added to the others. I got a laptop last year and had to buy an ethernet cable, which measures about five yards. Also I have various gang sockets, these white ones that you can plug four or six thing into. Most of them are not too long but three of them are quite long, especially the one I use for my iron. What a joy to be able to iron in the room with the best view, by the way!
I wonder if everything will go wireless one day, maybe we'll have a black box in the corner powering up every attachment and tool in the house. Dream on, I hear you say!
Talking of these long cables with the sockets on the end, why are they all white?
Often I imagine a lovely lounge, in specially chosen relaxing colours, a lovely new flat screen TV in one corner and so on. There with the TV, BluRay player and so on plugged into it is a large white cable with sockets attached, sticking out like a sore thumb!
Do they make them in any other colour ? I haven't even seen them in beige.
Bill has a new TV and needs only three sockets behind his set, so he has hidden his cable attachment under the stand, but he has to kneel down to slide it out and switch it on, each time he plans to watch TV.
Sort of spoils the effect............come round to see my new TV, but first you will have to watch me kneeling down and bowing to it before the programmes come on!