Birthday entry

 

Okay so I've had a birthday although a few things remain messed up after these last two year like ones family and any kind of going out is likely to be later on in the week as work continues on refitting one place we like to go.

There was a Tumblr card and message from my BFF.

Anyway given how this thing is with me it was entirely fitting that one neighbour bought me a bar of chocolate cos I really don't have any inclination toward anything specifically adult or interests even.

One thing I did get which goes back a few years for inspiration was a very special four cd and dvd set of the classic Elton John album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road that came out in 2014 which probably contains the highest amount per album of his best ever work including beyond the title track to take in Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, Bennie and the Jets and Candle In The Wind.

I was a bit strapped for cash in that period so I bought a two cd "deluxe edition" that had the whole album plus on a second disc some remakes of the songs by today's artists such as The Band Perry and a selection from a live recording made at the Hammersmith Odeon in December of 1973 that was broadcast on the radio.

Really it was this set I wanted which give you alternative mixes and non album tracks used on the singles, the whole concert in its two halves and a dvd with surround sound mixes coupled with a 100 page book.

I was very fortunate to have it bought for me from a store that still had a copy in completely sealed.

 Similarly my original Blu Ray of this anime tended to make some funny noises while it played due to some fault in how the film was authored onto the disc so the blu ray player can play it so I got a much recent copy that also includes the dvd which didn't have this issue included.

While somethings do alter a paper based mini encyclopedia can help not just when it comes to avoiding going down rabbit holes searching for the very thing you do want, help with spending less time looking at the screen but help in recalling "facts" that given how when I'm ill I lose track of with the impact on my memory without the issues that screens have.

It has things like World Maps based on the old Mercator's Projection, an extensive outline of World History, facts about science, natural sciences and medicine coupled with famous names, places and essays on various religious, philosophical, scientific and political ideas and theories.

It also covers major world sports with competitions and winners that makes for an excellent single volume compendium of knowledge.

While something things change many do not and this will help.

There was some stocking filler things such as underwear and new socks and a new navy blue skirt too plus some money to cover things from Amazon and of CatBay tm.

I did go out for lunch locally with my folks.