2009 — 11 October: Sunday
I'm very sleepy, even though it's not quite midnight, so I'm going to retire in a couple of minutes. But not without posting one of my favourite pictures of Christa from April 2007:
Time for sleep. I'm hoping for a walk in a few hours from now. G'night.
It's only...
... 08:18 and I've already exchanged a couple of notes with the plumber. He's going to try to find a replacement thermocouple as a first move. This is in an attempt to keep flickering the pilot light of thermal freedom for a few more months. Meanwhile, I have breakfast and a packed lunch to prepare and a walk to walk. It's not the brightest of mornings but so what? It's exactly 23 months since Christa died but I can still hear her saying "Get out and get some fresh air, David. It'll do you good!" :-)
She's right, as usual. Meanwhile my main co-pilot has just pointed me to an alternative site for weather forecasts...
It's 11C hotter than Chicago.
Tut, tut
I've read (and enjoyed) only one of the "ten best books of 2008". Shame on me. And none from 2007. One from 2006. One from 2005. None from 2004. I dare not go on! (Source.)
Time (10:00) I wasn't here, as I need now to be there.
And now (14:48) here I am, back again, soaked and chilled to the bone. 20% chance of rain? Pah! More like 200% or so it seemed. I shall shower and change before heading back over to Winchester for an Indian meal and a video feast. I'm guessing summer may be over for the time being.
Sorted
Just finished catching up on some database entries. A self-imposed torment dating back over 45 years to some initial notebooks, and moving on through a card index system, a larger notebook (just to track acquisitions) and then the sublime "AtLast+" on a CP/M Amstrad PCW256 Z80 system, followed by System DeltaPlus on the Acorn A440 RISC machine, and whatever the more relational successor program was, before culminating (though not for too much longer) with Alpha V5 on my first Windows system back in 2003. I've briefly flirted with FileMaker Pro 8 along the way, but life's too short to continue dancing with ugly software and my processing needs are awesomely simple. Most of what I do is efficiently done with a few judicious block-level edits and column sorts in the TextEdit programme. Followed by a simple cut'n'paste into an shtml skeleton. No rocket science involved.
It's 16:31 and drier now. Why couldn't it have been like this on our walk? Right. The washing machine is doing its thing. I'm showered and shampoo-ed. There's an over-sized vehicle directly opposite my little drive. Time to roll my little wagon... it's 17:24 and the sky is now nearly cloudless. Flipping weather!