2011 — 6 October: Thursday
Today's tasks1 will probably include getting my next sack of salt for the water softener as I'm just about to open the last one of my little stash. I'd been vaguely intending to shoot off to the biker café for brunch, but my main co-pilot has other commitments. I've no shortage of other stuff2 to attend to, some of it rather wearisome.
I shall have to see what I can manage by way of entertainment. Something a bit more cheerful than the dirge on BBC Radio 3 at the moment, for a start :-)
Oops
There's an unfortunate, but amusing, typo in the author's "Final Comments" section of an interesting paper on "Gaming security by obscurity". Made more amusing for me by the word in question being italicised for emphasis. Don't you just hate it when that happens?
Christa began her UK career working in Royal Holloway College 38 years ago this month. Crikey.
Phase I of...
... outdoor chores complete, there's nowt wrong with the 1984 Solti "New World" to accompany my late "lemonses" cuppa. To ease the load on my Oppo Blu-ray player, I've just re-instated the Oppo DVD purely for use as my CD player — besides, it gives me an excuse to use one of those frightfully expensive Chord digital cables now that the majority of their snake oil has evaporated.
It may be autumn...
... but, if you know where to point your pixellation kit (as Mike does) you can still find the odd splash of colour here and there as we trample the Hampshire countryside under our boots:
Time for a spot of lunch, methinks.
[Pause]
Having broken off from my carton moving task to take some stuff over to Brian, pick up some stuff from him, and refresh myself at the Roger & Eileen Tea Shoppe, I've just prepared my evening meal — a heart-warming curry — and am about to savour it with another tranche of the Exposure that is Northern. It's 19:03, and has become both quite cool and rather breezy.
[Pause, again]
Mysteriously near to midnight, and sleep beckons imperiously. G'night.