2011 — 3 June: Friday
I caught the 08:30 BBC Radio 3 weather forecast.1 "Sunny and warm." Looking out of the window suggests they got it right. I'm also forecasting a cuppa within the next couple of minutes. I also recall that, over the years, Christa got more than enough solar exposure for the pair of us, and then some! I tended to loiter indoors as I know I burn easily. Christa did too, but didn't care.
On with the show. My internal network has been powered down and back up and seems to be behaving itself. I also noticed that the level of Ubuntu in my server has crept on to 10.04.1 LTS without any overt action on my part. Cool.
It's 10:36 and fresh air is summoning me outside. TTFN.
Given yesterday's books parcel...
... you could be excused a tad of mild déjà vu on seeing today's trio of "Best Buy" Blu-rays:
In other news, I've drawn blood — three times2 — while upgrading the network cabling and solving the mystery of the non-salt-using water softener. I'd been contemplating, with increasing exasperation, the stubborn failure of the level of salt in the reservoir to show any signs of diminishing since the incident of the "more salt, please!" beeping and my forced regeneration cycle a couple of months ago.
My plumber's email gave me the correct diagnosis. The top layer had formed a crust, concealing a growing chasm underneath it. When I broke through (one skinned knuckle) I saw immediately what to do, straightened up (one scalp wound on the stupidly sharp edge of a kitchen cupboard above me), fetched a 10kg sack of the stuff, and emptied it all in, which topped it up to about the 75% mark.
The second scalp wound was caused when I straightened up after fitting the Gigabit cabling to the Ubuntu server and the Buffalo Terastation NAS and similarly contacted the sharp edge of one of Junior's book shelves where I now park the ADSL modem.
I think that will do for one afternoon :-)
40C on my porch...
... when I returned from a round trip that encompassed a cuppa and a chat over with Roger & Eileen, followed by a tiny sneak preview of Len's just-delivered-today Asus Transformer Tablet PC. I'm now hungry, it's now 19:34, and I think some pixel-based entertainment would be in order.
[Pause]
Listening to Swedish is odd as bits of it sound tantalisingly familiar. But I do like subtitles as I can read those more or less "at a glance" and then concentrate on the images. Film #1 of the trilogy is excellent, but it's now 23:29 and time for another batch of sleep. G'night.