2013 — 3 October: Thursday
Well now, here's a "how de do".1
I was listening last night (technically, earlier this morning) to a BBC 6Music "Classic Albums" programme, and decided this morning to acquire the album that had been under discussion. Until this point in my life (with only four tracks by "Beck" in my stash — one of those being a weird version of Bowie's "Diamond Dogs" off the "Moulin Rouge" soundtrack, one an unmemorable single off a "Maxim 96" free cover CD, one off the first BBC 6Music Live compilation CD, and the last being the collaboration with "Bat for Lashes" from the Twiglit "Eclipse" soundtrack) I have evidently been Beck-deprived.
However, as you can see here...
... I still am! It seems I am up and at 'em before the busy digital Elves beavering up the Amazon today. And, 30 minutes later, there's still no sign of the album in their Cloud Player. Tut, tut. In other words it is not yet, erm, at my beck and call :-)
It seems...
... we're to enjoy a high probability of torrential rain, and possibly even 'donner und blitzen', later today. Pity. Definitely autumn! But at least I have a lunch date to anticipate with pleasure. [Pause] And, before that, who could resist a piece by Jenny Diski "On Knickers"? Not me, certainly. (Link.)
Still feckless and still (three hours later) Beck-less, too. [Pause] But, after a quick trip to B&Q, no longer without a spare fuse in the house. I paused to study their growing range of LED replacement low-energy mains voltage bulbs, one or two of which claimed to be dimmable, but very few of which sported the all-important bayonet fitting. Not cheap, either.
The late morning weather is currently doing its best to match the dire predictions of the 7 a.m. forecaster. Yuk.
Having sampled...
... the steak and ale pie on offer at the re-opened (and recommendable) "Wheatsheaf" near Hillier's, and then adjourned for tea and an eclair, I'm finally back at Technology Towers pondering the new (and ever-thicker) Xara Designer Pro X9 manual dropped off by Mr Postie just before I set off, and wondering just how good the claimed ability to import Acorn "Draw" format vector artwork files actually is. I'm also wondering where I've stashed my various Acorn file archive CD-ROMs, but that's a second-order problem.
As the Shostakovich...
... 'Leningrad' symphony drags interminably on, I remain Beck-less this evening. That 15 minutes has become 15 hours.