"Relax, I'm in town at the moment having coffee with My Canadian Girlfriend - I'll be round about 3pm and that'll give us four hours to open the box and plug the projector in. I've done this a million times at work. There's not much that can go wrong." Of course with hindsight, I realised that saying that nothing could go wrong was probably the first thing that went wrong.

My dad is doing a presentation tonight and has bought a brand new projector for it. This is the culmination of weeks of emails.
"What about this projector?"
"Dad, all projectors are pretty much the same thing. If you're gonna get one in this financial year as a tax scam thing then just pick one and buy it."
"Ok, what about this one?"

The projector is very flash, it does not require a laptop - everything runs from a USB memory stick. I arrive at my Parent's house and unpack the box. My Canadian Girlfriend disappears to go and talk to my sister about shoes, celebs and other girly things. Within 5 minutes, I have the projector set up. I kick back and enjoy a cup of coffee and some Lindt Chocolate (on offer this week so I didn't buy any Green and Blacks) and plug in the USB Drive.

I love it when a plan comes together.

And then nothing happens.
The projector projects his Holiday Photos.
Time to read the manual.
I slowly slink off towards his computer.

The projector will not play proprietary PowerPoint presentations per se. Everything has to be converted to pictures so I begin the conversion. I convert his PowerPoint presentation to pictures. And then I hit the video he has embedded. Agh! We need a laptop. And there's only three hours until his presentation.

I calmly pull my Canadian Girlfriend into my Dad's Study and explain the situation. "And if he takes the news badly, I will need you to show him your tits to distract him."

"I can't do that." she says.

"Sure you can." I say, offering her the reassurance she is after, "They're very impressive."

Continued Tomorrow....