Well, the cold-like illness I had was obviously not a proper cold. I’ve still got a slightly phlemy throat but that’s it now.
Yesterday I just felt shattered and unable to focus, so I spent a great deal of the afternoon asleep, after which I was fine other than feeling dizzy if I rotated my head quickly. Obviously something was affecting my ears and balance.
At least the illness didn’t linger, so I’ll be back to work on Monday.
Blurgh.
A cold snuck up on me in the night, started to make me have to swallow every 30 seconds or so and stopped me sleeping. So, here I am, working from home (for small values of work) and trying to dose up and get better ASAP.
I hate colds.
I’ve just picked up from my department’s library a book they were throwing out:-
“Teach Yourself Books: Electronic Computers” F.L.Westwater, © 1962 The English Universities Press.
It’s facinating reading. Here’s an exerpt from the “Future” chapter:-
Exerpt below
I spent my last morning in Cornwall in bed.
After getting up I tried to record the Vangelis album. However, due to muddy paw prints and cat hair (from our old cat who loved to sit on things after coming in from the garden) it wasn’t in good enough shape.
We watched The Incredibles in the evening before I did most of my packing and got to bed early.
I got up at about 10am, pottered around a bit and then got on with the job of burning the penultimate two albums to CD during which I talked on Bullet.
After lunch we went off to Truro so that my Dad and I could finally get something my Mum wanted for Christmas, which was perfume. Whillst there we popped into the Edinburgh Woollen Mill shop where I managed to pick up a couple of jumpers in the sale.
It was a quiet evening with OK telly programmes. Now it’s time for bed.
Thanks Grim for the meme…
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You scored as Kaylee (Kaywinnet Lee) Frye. The Mechanic. You are a natural mechanic, and you are far too sweet and cheerful to live out here. How you can see the good in everyone around you boggles the mind occasionally. Still you don’t seem to be any crazier than that, and it is a nice kinda crazy.
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I woke up at about 9am and thought I’d have a quick game of Minehunt. Erm, three hours later I noticed it was midday. Oops!
Anyway, this afternoon and evening I recorded Zoolook and the Star Wars soundtrack and tried recording The Planet Suite. However, the latter turned out to be far too worn and scratched to be worth transferring.
The day started at pretty well precisely 9:30am when I awoke. The good night’s sleep had recharged my batteries and I was ready to face the world again.
After checking prices on-line for CDs in jewel cases in all the possible local(ish) shops we all drove to the big Tesco over at Pool near Redruth. I managed to pick up a set of 10 CD-Rs on a spindle and a pack of cases for less combined than the prepackaged versions. A bit annoying. Still, it allowed me to start burning this afternoon.
I decided to have a minor detour on the way home so drove back via Cambourne and Praze-an-Beeble. I also dropped in on Kuggar Stoves in Helston so my Dad could get more details on a fire for the living room.
After leaving there I thought I’d try to find the St.Johns Business Park as I was curious as to where the not too brilliant pasties from the national franchise of pasty shops, “West Cornwall Pasty Co.” , were made. Well, I didn’t find it, though I did drive all the way down to Porthleven.
After lunch I finally burnt War of the Worlds and ABBA’s album “The Singles: The First Ten Years” (quite ironic as it was their only 10 years) to CD so I can listen to them seeing as I don’t have a turntable at home.
I also experimented with photographing the album covers in preparation for creating the CD covers..
Tomorrow I thing I’ll transfer a couple more albums I only have on LP such as Jean-Michael Jarre’s Zoolook, the original Star Wars soundtrack, Vangelis’ Heaven and Hell and probably a couple of classical music albums.
Some people in the music publishing industry would consider what I’m doing piracy. I say to them, why should I buy the music twice if I can guarantee that only one copy will be listened to at any one time and only by the original purchaser?
I also played Doom 3 for about half an hour. I’ve now got to a boring boss, the soul cube keeper. Somehow I thing I might be left at this point in the game for some time.
Due to a disturbed night last night, basically a null day.
Last night I got off to sleep OK but didn’t sleep deeply due to the sinusitis. At 3:15am my Mum in her confused state got up thinking it was breakfast time which caused me to wake up. I then found that I couldn’t sleep so sat playing Minehunt ’til 8am before getting another one and a half hour’s kip.
As you can imagine, I wasn’t in any state to do much all day, even with another snooze in the afternoon.
Thankfully, my sinusitis has eased. This evening I suddenly sneezed and my sinuses started draining quickly. It was such a relief.