Today’s been a bit of a slog, really. Although quite a rewarding slog.
Instead of my normal get-up -> shower -> do stuff process I decided to instead go straight out, after breakfast, into the garden and commence attempted to destroy my limbs further. After a few hours of work I was able to decide it was lunch time (I really needed it to be lunch time, I had started to feel a bit muzzy and faint, which is what happens when I keep delaying lunch) and I was able to look back at a chunk of path.
The brickwork around the pond-to-be is a bit iffy, because it’s just sat there. I’m not quite sure what to do about that at the moment, because we’ve no pond to put there, so I can’t attach them to anything. I do slightly wonder if we should abandon the pond, but then the rockery will look very silly, since it’s a rockery with a waterfall planned into it.
Anyhow, having cleared up I headed off quite excitedly to do food shopping… I was mainly quite excited because there’s a new cafe I wanted to try… I then was quite disappointed to find that my trip to do the food shopping did not allow me to try the new café on Gloucester Road, because their temporary opening hours are only Thursday to Saturday.
Still, I had a nice salad at Café Ronak.
Then I came home and sussed out the right piece of software to make the FlyTouch actually useful (although it fell over at 11.64 Gb of music scanned; and restarting it didn’t get me anywhere immediately). Unfortunately, the flytouch then started whining that the battery was nearly flat. My first thought was that I needed to plug in the charger… then I realised it was already plugged in. Then I took it out of the stand and played ‘wiggle the connector’, then I felt the charger and was highly suspicious of the cheap charger that came with the flytouch being stone cold. So I dug out the volt meter and… it’s dead. Of course.
I’ve (handily) another of John’s Special Power Supplies kicking around, so when I’ve dug up my instructions for that I’ll rewire it for the correct voltage and we should be sorted. Apart from the fact I need a new stereo-to-stereo cable to connect it to the radio. Incidentally, if anyone comes across either a TV22
(via Radiocraft)
or a Sony TV 8-301
(via Njarc)
I’d quite like one to build either a music / video player. No idea where it would live, but I’d quite like one. The little portable Sony’s probably more sensible than the TV-22, but I’ve always wanted a TV-22.
In other news, the Morcheeba CD that I picked up at Amnesty is awesome. I’d forgotten how much I like Morcheeba, and that I really should have more of their music. Also, I should restart the CD ripping process. And the DVD ripping process. Especially since our DVD player seems to have died. It’s still working as a CD player, but as a DVD player it fails mid-disk.
