When I awoke I found that I had run out of muesli so I had to make some more. And in my deadened state I managed to spill half of the contents of the cornflakes packet all across the floor.<\/p>\n
After breakfast I reviewed the e-mails and found one relating to the meeting that I had yesterday. That involved doing some work.<\/p>\n
Such as dictating a text in French (i had about 9 takes before there was one that satisfied me) and then editing it. And then adding a pile of music and editing that.<\/p>\n
And while the music part was no problem, the dictation was – for the rather prosaic reason that I don’t have a microphone here. I had to dictate it onto the dictaphone, upload it and then edit it to remove the crackles.<\/p>\n
It’s a good job that I spent all of that time a few years ago mastering “Audacity”.<\/p>\n
So that was the morning taken care of – and there will be a few more days like this now until next Monday. And we’ll see where we go from there.<\/p>\n
After a rather late lunch I went for a walk in the rain around the headland. There were a few people – only the foolhardy – out there desperately trying to negotiate the lakes that had appeared along the footpaths. I didn’t stay out long.<\/p>\n
The historic dictaphone entries that needed deciphering today were all rather on the short side so I did 8 today. I’m trying to get ahead because, as regular readers of this rubbish will recall, there are some marathon ones to come from the time that I was in an emotional whirlpool.<\/p>\n
There was also time for me to do some file updating too. But talking of my website … “well, one of us is” – ed<\/em> … it has been trawled for the last few days by a Microsoft bot with an IP address in Washington State, “Microsoft Way” to be precise, but with a physical presence in Chicago.<\/p>\n I solved the mystery of the New Jersey visitor but this one from Chicago is bizarre.<\/p>\n Tea tonight was an aubergine-and-kidney-bean whatsit. Aubergines were cheap the other day so I bought one with the intention of making a whatsit this week. And it’s delicious too, except that I might have been somewhat extravagant with the chili powder I’ll need to put the toilet paper in the fridge before I go to bed.<\/p>\n No walk though. It’s teeming down outside and after a few hundred yards I gave up and came back inside.<\/p>\n I’ll just have to go for a longer walk tomorrow.<\/p>\n
