2016 — 15 May: Sunday
When one wrangles1 a large-ish collection of "stuff" — in the current case, DVDs and Blu-rays — one is faced (from time to time) with the need to catch up on the indexing of the contents of the collection lest one, erm, starts to lose track. And that would never do, would it?
Of course, one could (as I did in earlier times) simply keep on top of the indexing as things come and go. The only trouble with that excellent theoretical approach is the lack of time in retirement caused, no doubt, by one of the subtle ramifications of "The Law" first formulated and documented by Parkinson.
The sun is...
... shining, the tea has been drunk, the morning music is fine, and I shall now resume that which I stopped just over six hours ago when the eyes decided they had had enough...
I have no trouble with "Five a day" when one of the five is seven fresh strawberries!
Right!
Now all I have to do is file away the accumulated batch (39 titles) of DVD and Blu-ray artwork into my folders upstairs. And remember not to sit on the floor while doing so as that way lies acute pins and needles when I eventually regain my feet.
If the local...
... peace and quiet hereabouts this afternoon is any sign, the world must be away on holiday. It's sunny but pleasantly cool. I've twitched the central heating down to 20C and will hope to leave it untouched for the next few months. Having tackled the videos backlog, there still remain just a few updates to my lists of the books and music seeking my attention. Not to mention the necessary scrubbing of the more heavily-traversed (and thus slightly grottier) part of my kitchen floor!
It's not all wine and roses, this bachelor-slob lifestyle of mine :-)
I remember...
... skimming this small volume when I bought it, back in April 2006. I've just decided to give it another, more carefully-considered, "go".
Ten years ago marked two rather ghastly events in my life: (a) the diagnosis of Christa's second cancer, and (b) the decision by IBM to ask me2 to train a couple of Indians to replace me. Since IBM didn't seem to have much interest in what I chose to do after that, and since I didn't care one little bit for either "(a)" or "(b)" in any case, I was rather distracted at the time. Not much of the book sank in, though I still clearly remember its assertion that the only real challenge facing an omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, entity would be "the engineering of its own destruction" when it got too bored.
Now that the NUC...
... is back near the hi-fi I've just fired it up, logged in from BlackBeast, and set it playing music from the "shared" music folder on the new NAS.
I'm using the HDMI connection to the Rotel pre-amp and the VLC media player. It "just works", which is much my preferred modus operandi for technology toys these days...