People who know me/us will know that on a Friday evening we usually order in a couple of pizzas, make cups of tea, put on headphones, sit in front of a pair of microphones and juggle music, a mixing deck, a mastering console, two laptops and three monitors and record the weekend’s offering to This Reality Podcast.
Last night we didn’t.
We started out as we usually do but Soph began ranting more than usual; she’d had a really shit day (which I knew, I just didn’t appreciate quite how shit her day had been). So we canned the session and went to bed, cuddled up and read.
Today we went to the Vauxhall garage to buy a replacement bulb for my car, then picked up K and took her to the yard so she could ride Vin.
While we were there I tried to sort out Vin’s lunging equipment because K said she’d like to work on his canter; I found the lunge-line and lunging whip but not the cavesson, which is a bit of a bummer.
While K groomed, tacked up and rode Soph and I went to Chipping Norton for lunch – which was very nice indeed!
While we were in Chippy we popped in to a TV store and bought a Component/Scart converter for our new television.
Then we drove back to the yard, picked up K, returned her to the train station and then came home.
Our first attempt at the podcast ended in failure because the mastering software froze – I suspect that was due to a .net upgrade from that nice Mr Gates that came down the line just before we’d begun. Bless him.
So I had to restart everything in the studio and we tried again and this time it all went swimmingly.
While I typed up the notes in to the podcast webpage Soph watched a film on our newly-working brand new television (don’t ask, it’s a long story but at least the bits we bought in Chippy made the green go away).
And now… I don’t know.
I think it goes something like this ‘and now we’re going to switch off our laptops, watch crap television for a little (Total Wipeout) and I’m going to delve back in to my book’ (Neil Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’ which I’m finding very addictive).
Maybe some food later?
And a reasonably early night?
How Rock and Roll are we?
Very rock and roll – although it’s still more exciting than my weekend!
I still can’t decide if Total Wipeout is the greatest, or worst, television programme ever made…
Other than Soph’s shite day and the computer probs, sounds pretty good to me! My Sunday was spent in sweltering heat watching Husband purchase oak plywood to begin the kitchen project.
Yeah I know you were talking about Friday and not Sunday but it’s still the weekend, innit?