Seamingly lost

I've been carefully going through the bookshelves this week looking for duplicates  as oddly enough sometimes I do get them such as when I've been getting a series and find myself looking for an upgrade usually because the original is highly foxed with that fawn tint on the paper, there's the odd tear or my copy had no dust jacket.
I found a number the other day so they'll go to a charity store nearby that sells books together with other odds and ends as I get ready to return to The Dorm.
The weather's been better than the weekend so I have been out walking quite a bit this week, seeing people about.
As well I got around to titling up a number of the minidiscs  I made a week or so ago because on the recorder you can select upper and lower case letters plus a combination of numbers and punctuation signs such as ( ) & , . etc on a virtual keyboard that you select one by one to make the title and store it so whatever machine it is played on, you will see the disc name and the title of each song which is very useful for finding things and confirming you have the right disc out.
I'd sooner get this batch titled all up before starting on any others.

Ready to return

We're working in Firefox this week from the Windows Laptop as Pale Moon is having issues that makes it unreliable on Google's sites and touch and go on Tumblr too so I'm kind of hoping to see a bug fix this week.

 There's little escaping it from the press advertisements, the notices in uniform shops and increasingly offers from both online retailers plus certain supermarkets, the New Term is upon us.
In my world I'll be returning come September in grey as I have had a grey school jumper with a V neck which after all this medical stuff since July has preoccupied my time apart from how it's left me.
It should go well with my grey, green and black pleated skirts although unlike her in the picture I don't own a traditional leather satchel and indeed remember them fading out for briefcases or hold alls.
The worst thing you could ever have for carrying books in was the Duffle Bag which easily distorted and rubbed the corners of text books to the point some schools prohibited them for the damage they could cause.
The trouble was of course they were really intended for sports kit being made from a canvas material and not books so had no corners just a long tube shape with a drawstring that pulled the top closed.
Anyway I have my music ready to take away with sorted so bye for now!

Writing MiniDiscs in 2018!

Okay I got your attention....

 In another week interrupted by events of a medical nature, apart from some reading, I have been reacquainted with something that was a big part of period I was very unwell a good while back to the point I was unable to use my trusty tape recorder because using the controls didn't just feel very painful, they made  my hands shake violently.
Equally I was finding handling records nay even on bad days compact discs difficult which if you are a music lover made you feel ten times worse cos you couldn't enjoy it anymore
I bought what was then a new kind of recorder with small fully protected discs and soft buttons (plus remote) called a MiniDisc recorder and had many of my records and cds put on them so I could play them without risk of me making my illness worse or damaging them.
It also enabled me to make recordings from radio, topping and trimming introductions later on as used to do using splicing tape to make excellent copies to play whenever I was in the mood to.
Anyway I found my portable recorder and set about making a few new discs because although this is 2018, surprisingly the minidisc sounds at least as good as an Mp3, almost as good as a cd on a good machine and there's something nice about having a physical object in your hand to play.

That folks is a ten pack of 74 minute MiniDiscs bought new  to make some new home recordings on.
I've spent the week copying my Rumer and Rolling Stones albums to it which will play on my original bought in 1998 MiniDisc walkman pictured below .

 That, with a high metal content still works as well as it did back then when it used to live in my coat pocked with a couple of spare NiMH rechargable batteries and a few discs sounding superb on my Sennheiser headphones.

Weekend thoughts

Good moaning

Sometimes it seems the best thing is to live in the moment holding on your balloons in awe of a cat as with me it often seems it's a case of two steps forward and one back  as I work through this period of medical complications.
The good thing is the bite related side is over with, the antibiotics having done their job as scary as the Saturday was (and I don't feel like going through another near death experience) but now we want to investigate the blood pressure which has always been high.
The funny thing is on back of a similar infection five years ago we went through all this before only to conclude although it is high, it wasn't that big of a problem in the scheme of things.
I have been on walks across the week for fresh air, sun and yes exercise as you take your time conversing with folk you meet with their dogs, kids or whatever  which believe you me is preferable to the buzz saw from next door as they're working in the upper story extensions and work on the existing rooms which is almost deafening at times. 

Summer outdoor pose II

Kind of last week revisited based on the classic 'girl' photo's of the fifties and sixties where teens would pose on gates for family pictures except for this is in an open field and that's not a gate but a stile, an arrangement of steps that allows people but not animals to climb over a fence or wall.
The weather during the period that was taken was very warm which wasn't just why it is a thin summer gingham dress is being worn but a clear factor. Talking of clear one needed to wear white underwear with it to avoid giving you bum a clear impression coming through the  material.
You are fortunate to be even getting this blog cos I became so unwell on Saturday that I felt my insides folding  and was going to die but was able to act quickly to deal with it as it was so close to a 111 and a rush to A&E.
I'm on antibiotics know which is yukky but should help remove the infection that caused it.