The evening has an air of Sunday Night about it, don’t ask me why, it just does.<\/p>\n
I’m not back to school tomorrow.<\/p>\n
It just does.<\/p>\n
So I’m sitting here doing my usual Sunday Night tasks:
\nBacking up the laptop on to Drive A – the half-terabyte external disk drive I keep for such purposes.<\/p>\n
And then backing up the laptop on to Drive B – another half-terabyte external disk drive I keep, etc, etc<\/em>.<\/p>\n And reading blogs – not in a haphazard way, just the ones that I regularly read.<\/p>\n Except everyone’s being a little quiet for some reason or other.<\/p>\n Random!<\/p>\n And dipping in to that other Sunday Night activity while all the backing up (beep, beep, beep… geddit? Oh, I’m so funny!) is going on – iPoding.<\/p>\n Or to be more correct – weeding out those tracks which have been relegated from my iPod playlist and adding a little of whatever tickles my fancy from the iStore or from the extensive CD collection that lives, Harry Potter-like, in the cupboard under the stairs.<\/p>\n That’s how I came across the reference in the earlier post to Adele – her name and the words ‘Home Town’ were on a Notepad file on a pen drive.<\/p>\n A little googling got me to where I wanted to be but…<\/p>\n Bit annoyed I can’t download Hometown Glory!<\/p>\n I make digital recordings or electronic notes – when I hear tracks – when I hear something I like; I tend to leave the notes all over the place, come upon them weeks later.<\/p>\n It’s such a pleasant surprise to sample a 30-second clip of a track and think… Yep, that’s really brilliant. I’ll get it!<\/em><\/p>\n It validates my original thinking.<\/p>\n Not hugely detailed notes though, just the name of the artist and track name (if the radio announcer bothers to back-announce such details – but you’d be amazed just how bloody shoddy some of the DJs on Radio 1 are when it comes to such a basic job function. Or maybe you wouldn’t – most Radio 1 DJs being employed these days for some deeply obscure quality that’s far too deep for the rest of mankind to fathom. Yes Fearne Cotton, I’m talking about you, you talentless, feckless, brainless, gob on a stick bimbo).<\/p>\n Anyway.<\/p>\n The Lovely S sits beside me, similarly engaged in the iPod world – but for the first time.<\/p>\n She is listening to a Russell Brand podcast – giggling away at it in a very slightly demented manner.<\/p>\n Currently being imported in to my installation of iTunes, as I prattle away, is the album \u00c3\u0081g\u00c3\u00a6tis Byrjun by Sigur R\u00c3\u00b3s.<\/p>\n I’ve got their second album – Takk – but this one’s a new discovery and I look forward to learning much about it.<\/p>\n Speaking of music – have you got the blog-post naming convention yet? I started this run ages ago! \ud83d\ude42 Apart from the OU posts which are named far more prosaically.<\/p>\n Woo!<\/p>\n Prosaically and in context! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n And Oh My God!<\/p>\n I’ve just realised I’m writing two blog posts at the same time – one in Word for a later time and this one in WordPress for now.<\/p>\n How complicated!<\/p>\n Wail!<\/p>\n It’s OK now though. I’ve saved and closed the other one, back here with you now, totally focussed once more.<\/p>\n Listening to Hometown Glory again. Loud.<\/p>\n That’s the same piano sample that Timbaland used on Apologise, right?<\/p>\n Just realised, this is a bit ‘stream of consciousness’ but that wasn’t intentional, just turned out this way.<\/p>\n Like life.<\/p>\n Just turned out this way – no Great Master Plan.<\/p>\n Hang on, Hometown Glory needs resetting.<\/p>\n Back wiv ya.<\/p>\n How’s yours been – Christmas, I mean?<\/p>\n Why do I feel so worn out when the most energetic thing I’ve done was Vin-related duties on Christmas Day?<\/p>\n Apart from that I’ve been waited on, hand and foot.<\/p>\n Except my feet weren’t actually waited on.<\/p>\n Stupid expression.<\/p>\n Anyway, I have been waited on (but not in a partial-body kind of way).<\/p>\n I’m the vegetarian – the sole vegetarian (the soul vegetarian too) – of the gathering.<\/p>\n And yet I was spoilt for choice when it came to eating.<\/p>\n The Lovely S’s mother always makes such a determined effort to see me trundle out of the house on wheels because my fat little legs no longer work properly.<\/p>\n It’s flattering really, that she goes to such an effort to ensure that I’m so well catered for (pun!).<\/p>\n But Oh My Lord did we do some eating over Christmas.<\/p>\n I might have a few days on light food while I’m in Spain, otherwise Vin’s going to complain his arse off on New Year’s Day when I climb aboard.<\/p>\n Though, frankly, light food is what I’m going to be on anyway – La Alpujarra and La Sierra Nevada not exactly being vegetarian enclaves, oh no.<\/p>\n Ah, I see that I’ve eased out of prattling and in to rambling mode.<\/p>\n A sure sign that I should close down and head for bed.<\/p>\n Night!<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The evening has an air of Sunday Night about it, don’t ask me why, it just does. 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