Lizard in a blizzard...

Playlist
Tangerine Dream - Tangram
Herman Van Veen - Souvenir
Herman Van Veen - Zwei Tausand Eins
Various – Home Made Xmas CDs for the In-Laws

Up late – not feeling great...

Compiling Xmas CDs for Jane, Bobby, Keith and Maureen to prove to them I do actually buy some worthwhile CDs...

Sixteen tracks each, hopefully reflecting their own musical tastes...



Having broken the back of that particular project, it was uptown to meet with Dr Prog at the music library...

But, first, some attempted present shopping – I was all over the place looking for a particular item for the Exec Producer but to no avail...

Enjoyed the views though...



The Xmas entertainment is in full swing in the gardens...







To the library and Dr Prog soon appeared – then to a nearby café for a blether about recent gigs, future possible gigs and trips and recent ongoing Xmas shenanigans...

We walked through the now bitterly cold conditions to the Grassmarket and on back through the gardens to Princes St for more attempted shopping...

We visited the new Urban Outfitters store, now occupying the old Virgin “Megastore” – some interesting items, none of which were partaken of by your correspondent...

I left the good doctor there and, upon emerging, was hit by a snowstorm – fought my way back to the car and took a rather convoluted route home to try and avoid the slow moving traffic...



Home to the warmth and the rest of the day was taken up with surfing, compiling and, in the evening, the watching of “No Country for Old Men” on DVD...

My verdict was "not bad" but, to be honest, I can't see what all the fuss was about - a fairly pointless story that petered out into nothing and left me feeling like I'd wasted a couple of hours watching it...

I awaited the call from the Exec Producer to pick her up from an Xmas party in Dunfermline...

By 1 am we were back home, the Exec Producer having not apparently had that great a time, a contributing factor having been an hour long set by an Elvis Presley impersonator...

Not to worry...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Compiling, and hanging with the doc...