2013 — 27 September: Friday
Despite the hour1 there's always something reliably depressing to be found on the BBC:
From a charmless 2m 40s animation with equally charmless background music. Plus this now 30-year-old tale of near disaster.
Now why would...
... my little external Toshiba 500GB USB3 drive (aka the Red Data Sucka) only finally be recognised this morning by first plugging it into a USB2 port and then back into its 'usual' USB3 port? Plug and Play? Don't make me laugh. Perhaps it actually wasn't properly dismounted from my chum's PC after all on Wednesday afternoon? Not that there was any error message. Windows, heh? Stranger things happen at sea.
Both the...
... car and its driver are now refueled. My next task is to show up on time for my lunch date. Should be able to manage that. And the weather looks quite promising, too, though the sky was a glorious shade of pink (if such exists) a couple of hours ago. [Pause] Blimey. I was barely half way through a small set of 6Music programme downloads when Zen took care to point out that I had just blasted through 51.5% of my total download allowance for the month. Good job there's less than four days left :-)
I shall have to find a nice, long, hi-def film to download just to see how close I can get to my new limit this month.
I just had time...
... before setting off, to hustle these in off the front doorstep:
Now all that remains is to work out where to house what were until today three single DVD-Rs cut, respectively, from an ancient LaserDisc and a couple of off-air broadcasts, but which have now metamorphosed — left to right — into a DVD, a pair of Blu-rays, and a Blu-ray plus DVD pair. And find a couple of further round tuits, of course. I suppose if I were to read less, and listen to music less, I might watch more, I suppose. Still, at least the Gilmour concert is more for the ears than the eyes...
Having heard...
... the Sinfonia Antartica2 this morning, and been suitably (and compellingly) entranced by it, I found myself in the grip of another MP3 download this evening!
This is definitely my first 1910 Edison cylinder track (with Shackleton speaking!)