2009 — 26 March: Thursday

Goodness me, I'm sleepy. Just time for a placeholder entry.

As one of the DVD covers I scanned today was that lovely little film noir "The lady from Shanghai" (with its hall of mirrors scene) it seems only appropriate that for tonight's picture of Christa I use a shot from our own little hall of mirrors:

Christa being reflective, June 2007

G'night.

A somewhat sluggish start...

... despite the best efforts of the council employee riding around our grass verges on what sounded like a combine harvester about 90 minutes ago. It's already 09:57, an initial cuppa is working its wake-up magic, and the weather doesn't seem too grotty.

Here's a piece to which the answer is simple! I like it when the answers are simple — must be the residual politician/economist in me. (This adjacent piece hit the spot, too.)

More interesting than reading gloomy IBM jobs news reported in Big Bro's local rag.

Back up to full speed ahead...

It's 15:44 and there's been a flurry of work with the Dyson, some shelf re-arranging, some much-needed (and long overdue) assessment of "stuff" that will leave the house and another tiny little part of the A/V jigsaw1 arranged. Lunch is once again a distant memory, and Mr Postie has again cheerily dropped off another film I look forward to, this time directed by Catherine Breillat. Here, scanned from the ludicrously small print on the back of the cover, are the details — click the pic:

Viewing for the near future

Nice and light, still, at 18:15 as my tum begins its habitual evening rumbling. Off I go again. Looking back, this would have been another good day for a walk, but I've been letting plenty of fresh air blow through the house. It certainly finished off the drying of the laundry nicely.

  

Footnote

1  Just as there was last July, there's another tiny clue here. There is (in my opinion) a certain method to my madness: I can either re-instate my present Oppo DVD player and the DVDO video scaler (and the little breakout box that takes an hdmi input from out of the player and outputs both DVI-D digital video and co-ax SP/DIF digital audio into said scaler)... or, I can bite the bullet and simply equip myself with a much-enhanced Oppo DVD player (incorporating the latest level of video scaling technology from the same chaps who made my trusty DVDO scaler five years ago). A no-brainer.