Tuesday, November 15, 2022

A new thing coming can elicit trepidation

Playlist
Suzanne Vega - Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles
Dieter Meier - Out Of Chaos
Roll The Dice - Until Silence
Sonar - Static Motion
Henry Mancini - Music From Peter Gunn
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Like Someone In Love
Wes Montgomery - Full House - Live at Tsubo, Berkeley, California
Kenny Dorham - Matador
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One
Phil Ochs - Pleasures Of The Harbor
John Mayall - A Hard Road
Marc And The Mambas - Torment And Toreros
Styx - Kilroy was here
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Dazzle Ships
Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
Yes - 90125
Peter Gabriel - So
Nazareth - Cinema
Nits - Henk
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Weather Report - This Is This
Morricone - The Mission OST
Udo Lindenberg - Phönix
Robert Fripp & The League Of The Crafty Guitarists - Live!
Paul McCartney - Press to Play
David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (Remaster)
Sparks - Music That You Can Dance To
Dead Kennedys - Bedtime For Democracy
Adrian Belew - Desire Caught By The Tail
Alice Cooper - Constrictor
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt It
Icehouse - Measure for Measure
Peter Hammill - Skin
Bill Nelson - Blue Moons And Laughing Guitars
Robert Fripp - The Gates of Paradise
Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Devics - If You Forget Me
Die Ärzte - 13
Donny McCaslin - Exile & Discovery
Trevor Rabin - Enemy of the State
Lowcraft - Manticore
Shelby Starner - From In The Shadows
Tori Amos - To Venus And Back
Matthew Florianz - The Tone T(H)ree
Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Der Daf/Dos Staat
Lucy Kaplansky - Ten Year Night
Reid Anderson - Abolish Bad Architecture
The Beatnuts - A Musical Massacre
Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...
Birdy - Birdy
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Bryan Ferry - Alphaville
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
Levin Torn White - Levin Torn White
Alex Machacek - 24 Tales
Gold Panda - The Work
Torelli - The Original Brandenburg Concertos
Agents Of Time - Universo
Trio HSK - Trio HSK
Various - Blue Note Compilations

Tuesday morning and up just after 6, ostensibly to write this up but that did not happen...


Stuff had been moved for blind implementation...




...and the skies were good...


As I opened the curtains, I spotted Fang at the end of the path...

When he saw me, he came trotting down for a visit...

I noted something on his nose and, on entry, realised it was paint...


What had the wee man been up to?

Anyway, investigations...


...led to some big biting and wounding...


...but I still love him...

Breakfast...


Instead of writing this diary, I took some time to compile my lists of Good LPs from specific years re thus far missing years - 1959, 60, 61, 62, 63, 67, 83, 86, 92, 99...  

Leaving me with 2001, 07, 13, 19 and 20 still to do...


Mid morning, the blind man arrived and carried out efficient and swift work to add his wares to the living, dining and upstairs back rooms...

After completion, I returned the third mentioned room to its former state...






...but noted I had enjoyed the "nothing below the window" view the preparation for the work had unveiled...

Anne made green soup, enjoyed for lunch along with more "Kominsky Method"...


In the afternoon, omens were good...



..and so I pulled the trigger on a new laptop...

The current one sprang into life on 18 August 2013 - just got caught up reading my entries for that day and the couple of weeks or so thereafter - a very productive time indeed...

Meanwhile, a tasty tea from Anne...


...and a visit from Jack, returning the two guitars lent to him on Friday...

Once again present and correct in the back room, with its new blinds...


On "University Challenge" 160 was accrued (winning tally), our highest score this year, helped along by a veritable plethora of correct answers re the 10 point starter questions...

Anne was on fire, as they say...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Ordering a new laptop...although with the inevitable buyer's regret kicking in immediately...

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