Is really in April but in NSW we celebrate it on the second weekend in June.  I had some mates come around to toast her health and have my own version of Downton Abbey dinner.   It was a lovely night of conversation, food and booze.

My new laptop came with windows 8.  It is truly FUCKED.  Even the desk top replacement you can switch too isn't that crash hot.

And iTunes.  I got an iPod for my birthday so started ripping CDs with iTunes   It works ok with SOME newer cds.  As I mostly listen to classical it seem determined to ruin my internal balance of calm.  Mostly by ripping all the tracks but popping one track into a separate file and I cant work out to get the tracks back together.  So i end up deleting the whole lot and trying again.  And it misplaces a DIFFERENT track.  

In desperation I have turned my 2004 Pentium desktop back on and started ripping with an old version of windows player which at least allows some manipulation within the folder.

Of course I realise the whole point of apple and iTunes is to get you to download your music but since I paid for 2000 CDs i want to listen to them with the convenience of mp3.  Why pay twice?
 

Thanks to everyone for their best wishes.

As I can't do much around the house until I get the all clear from the doctor, I decided to sort the CDs and DVDs.  The CDs were mostly done, in alpha order by composer, so that was mainly inserting new ones and moving them along the shelves.  The DVDs another matter.  There is about 550 of them and I still have about 150 videos. Sorting has always been a problem.  My main way is by date.....of the subject matter.  Like "I Claudius" comes before "Braveheart" before "the Last of the Mohicans" etc.  That works perfectly well for about a third.  Its sorting the rest which is a pain as some films sort of defy rational categorisation. Sometimes I wish I wasn't so acquisitive.

Both my bathroom need replacing.  When I have the energy.  The front one is basically an empty shell filled with left over building materials.  The back one is a 70s home done job with the tiles falling off the wall.  To string out its life I give it a waterproofing makeover every so often.  Cost - $25.  Its amazing what you can with shower curtains and duct tape.

pink_halen posed the question...does anyone wear cufflinks nowdays?  Here are some of mine....

Snow? plastic?  Nets?  Close...these are spider webs.  The wet weather in southern NSW has created perfect conditions for wolf spiders to have fun.  Read about them here:

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My brother came over and I held the ladder while he climbed on the roof.  The downpipes were blocked with debris from a she-oak in the next yard.  It is the tree of nightmares..the needles go everywhere.  I need to convince my neighbour to have it down (if the council will allow).  At the least it probaby means 3 montly gutter cleans.

I cooked pork ribs in a bag tonight and watched this movie I picked up for 5$ at the video shop.  I'm a sucker for period flicks - and this one was quite good.  Not nearly as bloody as Queen Margot.  As usual for French period fims you get to see 95% of the main actors who does spend some time sans culottes.

Sigh. My new roof still leaks. The volume of water hitting the gutter the other day was enough to send it into the ceiling and then like a water curtain down inside.  I have some ideas to waterproof up top, but had to move a wool persian carpet which was getting wet.  Solution - an acrylic pile. Indestructible.  And much smaller so i can move it.

After a heavy week, taking 5 minutes to recover in my comfy office chairs. My office is a home away from home...I've dragged a heap of things there that I don't want at home.   Have a good weekend LJ friends.