Saturday, August 05, 2023

Laptops are a mystery...

Playlist
David Sylvian - Samadhisound 2003-2014: Do You Know Me Now?
Sombre Reptiles - Souvenirs of Pop
DDHR - Cheap Flights to Anywhere
DDHR - The Hero's Quest for the Lost King of Ra Oot
Sombre Reptiles - Kernelcrux
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fallingsky
DDHR - Deceptive Conception
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Songs of the Sombre Reptiles
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fifty Five Songs
Sombre Reptiles - World of Fire
Sombre Reptiles - Poppies
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Songs of the Sombre Reptiles (CD Single Extras)
Call Me Clive - The Bastards Didn't Deserve Us
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fifty Five Songs
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Callingstill
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Two Two One Zero
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Silversongs 1996-2021 (Remakes)
Capital Models - 2022-05-14 Live in Roslin
Capital Models - 2021-08-11
Capital Models - 2023-02-05
Capital Models - 2023-07-02
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Black Moon
District 97 - One More Red Night
Balladeste - Conversations in Ritual
District 97 - Screenplay
Gerald Cleaver, Hprizm, Brandon Lopez - In the Wilderness

Not the best Saturday ever...

But, first, some books...





Laptop wouldn't start up this morning...

Even once it did get going, various further problems throughout the day...


Breakfast was good though...


...as was the accompanying music, from the selection of Plymouth related items acquired yesterday...


Then back to the machines with my idea, slightly delayed, for today, which was to compile a list of my own songs that it might be possible to play with a band...

111 songs - 8 hours...

Whittled away to 52, 40, 30 and 25 to a reasonably manageable 90 minutes - not to bad for 47 years...

All the greats, all hits 1977-2023...

1970's
Stars/Mars
Surgery
Computer Operator

1980's
You Said You'd Love Me
Funny Funny
Lap Of Luxury
Poppies
What Does it Matter What the Weatherman Brings?
Barbecue Beach

1990's
You Haunt Me
Dirty Men In A Red Car
A Nice Job in a Small Town

2000's
Twenty Twenty Vision
I Re-Arranged the House
Skylines Full of Cranes
The Crocodile Song
Half a Lifetime Away
Blue Eyes Across the Room
The End of Everything

2010's
Splinterheart
Everything Will Be Alright

2020's
A Day By The Sea
Happy is the Way
Underground Like Doug McClure
Decades

Stayed in to allow Anne to go to see her mum while I waited for Ryan the Kitchen Man to come and try and sort the splash back thing...

Looks not bad from this angle but...


...in reality, it's not the best..





...and it's probably very likely going to have to go...

Further downside was Queen of the South, having exited the League Cup at the group stages, going down 4-3 to Alloa in Dumfries after having gone ahead in just 3 minutes (our other two goals were both penalties)...

Meanwhile Hearts were triumphant 2-0 at St Johnstone and good to see Kilmarnock beating Scotland's newest team at Castle Greyskull...

A few "Good Cop" episodes watched after finishing off Season 2 of "The Lincoln Lawyer" last night...

And, another upside was a visit from Fang, who, post goodie drops, followed me back upstairs as I struggled with the laptop...



He soon found a spot on the bed...


I finally got the laptop to "sleep"...


..and later, fired it up again and did further work on it - AdBlocker seemed to be causing a problem post this morning's forced installation of new drivers...

By the time it was working reasonably again (which is ridiculous given I only got it in November) it was midnight and time for bed...

Highlight of the Day : Laptop starting up...

Today's New Music:-

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