Mark says alright...

Playlist
Various – Recent CDs on Shuffleplay
Tranceport – Tranceglobal
Tranceport – Altitude Silence
Alice Cooper – Can’t Sleep Clowns Will Eat Me*
Crazy Wisdom – A Death Junkie’s Last Peep Show*
Robert Fripp – Pie Jesu*
Kraftwerk – The Robots*
Pink Floyd – On the Turning Away*
David Sylvian/Robert Fripp – Jean the Birdman*
King Crimson – Cirkus
Fee Waybill – Read My Lips
The Tubes – Love Bomb
Grand Funk Railroad – Live Album
*CD Singles

Woke at 4:20 with a bit of a headache...

Back to sleep post painkillers and up again around 7:30...

Enjoyed a quiet start to the day, sitting in the living room with Meg the Black Cat on my knee as I browsed teletext to get myself up to date with the latest news, sport and entertainment stories, without having to actually watch the TV...

Anne surfaced and breakfast was enjoyed before some surfing – this post on Sid Smith’s blog led me to listen to two CDs by old chum Peri Urban’s former band, Tranceport – I’d forgotten I actually sang on one and played on the other...

Started the home run of the great CD listing project – just the CD singles remained...

This was interrupted by the positioning of Meg the Black cat into one of the wardrobes..





...and by the removal of the video recorder and the setting up of the Tivo...



Very disappointingly indeed, it seemed our aerial’s signal strength was not as great as it could be (despite having forked out for a new aerial and its installation when we first got freeview)...

I am heading to my mum’s tomorrow to install her Tivo and was already anticipating her disappointment – her aerial’s even weaker than ours...

On the upside, post this and an episode of “Smallville” (which I’ve not watched for years) and some leftover pasta for lunch and with the afternoon soundtracked by little listened to CD singles, by five o’clock the CD list was complete...

I have 5,727 (around 200 or so more than my “Red Book of CDs I’ve Bought Since 1985” would have led me to believe)...

Here’s a wee table showing the ratios of "hours per day listening" versus "years it would take to listen to the entire collection" (assuming each disc is 60 minutes long – so probably slightly overestimated but there or thereabouts, as each CD Single and Box Set are each counted as one disc)...

1hr per day – 16yrs
2hrs per day – 8yrs
3hrs per day – 5.25yrs
4hrs per day – 4yrs
5hrs per day – 3.25yrs
6hrs per day – 2.5yrs
7hrs per day – 2.25yrs
8hrs per day – 2yrs

Hmmm...

More disappointment in the evening - we were to have enjoyed a private preview of what will be the largest Indian restaurant in Edinburgh, Club India on Lothian Road, which chum Spike is opening shortly – sadly some plumbing work wasn’t quite completed and so the meal had to be postponed...

With my not having prepared any culinary exploits for this weekend (niece Kitty’s birthday party tomorrow), we consoled ourselves with a tasty takeaway from the Bombay Feast...

Truth be known, Anne would have been struggling to venture forth tonight in any case, her lurgi continuing to cause much painful (to her head and my ears) coughing on her part despite a good night last night in Fife...

The evening was spent mainly watching TV, “Harry Hill’s TV Burp” (our first Tivo'd show), “Virtual Revolution”, a not very entertaining edition of “QI” and the very hit and miss “Limmy’s Show”...

Last thing, I read through the entire instruction booklet for the Tivo and discovered the picture output has three possible settings – Anne then went into the gubbins of the programming and made a switch and Robert was indeed our uncle...



A celebrationary listen to Grand Funk’s set from the Atlanta International Pop Festival on 5 July 1970 was deemed to be in order...



Oh yeah, Mark says alright...

Highlight of the Day : Fixing the Tivo...