2011 — 12 April: Tuesday
There was a nice "Brandenburg" — the third — to help me wake up.1 We've now moved on through Elgar's "Nimrod" variation which can be a bit of a teary business to land on some Haydn I don't know.
I think I shall be doing some measuring for a spot of shelf-buying and putting-up today as I could use a better arrangement in what was Christa's study. As long as I can find my drill and spirit level I'll be OK...
It's coming up to 09:00 and seems quite sunny out there.
Go, Tim!
This interview with Tim Minchin was an amusing read. Source and snippet:
I've written a Christmas song that has a verse that says "I don't go in for ancient wisdom. I don't believe that just because ideas are tenacious it means that they are worthy." I like that line, but I think only fifty percent of the audience know what tenacious means, but I can't articulate it more succinctly than that.
Time for breakfast, methinks.
The well-tempered...
... crockpot has just embarked on its next thermal journey. It's 11:04 and, I think, time for my well-tempered next cuppa. Time, too, for my next photo of Christa. I took this one in our room at a boarding house2 in Penzance in September 1975.
This sunshine is far too tempting to keep me at home for very much longer.
Somewhat later...
... it seems to be 17:31 or so, and I seem to have accumulated a little more light reading:
Alas, I had to cheat with the cover of the "Twilight official guide" as all my attempts to scan my copy were defeated by its shiny lamination. So I've borrowed an image from Amazon UK (which, actually, doesn't quite match the artwork on the UK edition, but who's quibbling?) Alexander Theroux's book about his friend Edward Gorey is my second copy; a decade after its first publication Fantagraphics decided to turn it into a hardback. "Kraken" was almost worth getting just to have two books with "Kraken" in the title, of course, and Alan Bennett is always worth reading. Quite how smutty he has become remains to be seen, of course.
No sign, yet, of anything for "Patch Tuesday", though there have been two virus signature file updates. I shall have another peek, and then consider my evening meal, which has been busily cooking itself for six hours or so. [Pause] It turns out Microsoft patches are sent out to play at 1 pm EST so (at 18:40) they are all safely tucked away in their new BlackBeastly home with a mere one re-boot needed.
Next task: do the dishes and cool down the remainder of the crockpot "stuff".