2011 — 12 February: Saturday
Currently1 it looks like it may just be possible to squeeze in a walk between the rain showers in a few hours from now. I have to keep reminding myself that, after all, it is still mid-winter.
As predicted, I finished watching "The Book of Daniel" and very good it was, too... G'night.
There's an empty...
... crockpot in need of my attention before I do anything else this morning. It's 08:23 and there's a sun up there somewhere, it seems. Good.
[Pause] Right, one crockpot stuffed and set to "stun". Marching orders received, confirming time and place of rendezvous. Better get dressed, I suppose. It's 09:43 and the sun is actually shining at the moment. I have just been introduced to the remarkable guitarist Joe Bonamassa who is (as usual these days) unfeasibly young and over-talented. Further exploration will have to wait until after my morning dose of fresh air and (mild) exercise.
I love it when Ken Clarke talks about the "middle class" as an alien species.
Nothing, and nobody...
... lasts forever. It's clear my boots are not much longer for this world. No matter. It's 13:35 and the rain stayed away, though the growing clouds suggest it won't for much longer. A quick shower (inside!) and it's time for a bite to eat. I'm reminded, by the current excitement in Egypt, of that Kafka quote: Every revolution evaporates, and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
I note that the release candidate of IE9 (I've just installed the 64-bit version) once more gets the top coloured bar of my little website in the right place. Good!
It occurs to me...
... as I look (for the first time) at the small print of my new TV licence that it's pretty outrageous:
However, they do say "If you stop watching or recording television programmes... please let us know. We may confirm this with a quick visit". In fact, the way I read this, I think I could make a case for saving £150-50!
Who needs to watch TV live? I'm prepared to promise not to! But would they believe me. The website looks like an arm of the guvmint, but it is no such thing, of course... So how do they get the right to inspect my premises, I wonder?
Later
I have to admit... sometimes BBC Radio 4 is completely fascinating for quite a long stretch (and sometimes, of course, I shout at the idiots whom they grant air time to). But now, after catching up, too, on a podcast or two, I fancy some pixels. And a cuppa. It's 21:08.
Well, that was the plan. In fact,2 I've been listening for the rest of the evening to a 1978 BBC Radio 1 show hosted by Andy Finney, followed by my recording of the first-ever stereo transmission of BBC Radio London's "Breakthrough" rock show from 15 February 1981. That was shortly before my job interview with IBM :-)
Of course, the inevitable upshot is that I now have five cheapo S&G CDs on order to fill in the gaps (as it were).
The middle item is a 3-CD box set of Parsley, Sage, Sounds of Silence, and Book Ends. It's been far too long since I had these to hand, as it were.