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Miscellany
Dec. 20th, 2006 05:32 pmI handed in grades on Monday morning, and came home a little after noon, thinking I was done with the semester and looking forward to a couple of weeks of vacation. Wrong. Over the course of that afternoon and the following day, about half a dozen student requests drifted in, so I had to go in again today to check records, look into procedures, and the like.
That's done. All the loose ends have been tied up. (I think. There's one that may need additional work.) I can sit down in good conscience and play Civilization IV, read, write, snooze, or whatever.
Well, no. I couldn't play Civ IV, because I didn't have a clock in the computer room - and it's dangerous to play Civilization without some means of keeping track of time. As I mentioned earlier, I was down to one wall clock, and that one's in the living room. So, on the way home today I picked up three cheap wall clocks, for the computer room, the dining room, and my bedroom. I also bought another couple of ornaments for the tree, for a total of five - and that's about as many as it'll take. (I could probably stick one, maybe two more on, but it looks reasonably full now, so I'm stopping.)
The CDs arrived today. The Roger Miller album is a three-CD set, with a total of 70 (!) songs. It claims to be complete, and I'm not going to argue. "King of the Road", "Chug-a-lug", "Dang Me", "Little Green Apples", "England Swings" (I didn't know that one was his!), several covers, and a bunch of stuff I don't recognize... As for Arlo Guthrie, I don't know whether I'm going to put "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" on my playlists or just keep it separate. (That thing's longer than "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida"!) The rest will certainly go on. The Sam Cooke album is a bunch of light stuff - "Cupid", "You Send Me", "Twistin' the Night Away". It also includes a cover of "Summertime" (from Porgy and Bess); that makes four versions of that song in my collection. (The others are by Janis Joplin, the Walker Brothers, and Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.) The Sly album is fairly complete - 34 tracks, including all their classics - "Hot Fun in the Summertime", "Thank You", "Everybody Is A Star", "Everyday People". Gonna be good...
Elsewhere on the music front, I hear from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
neonnurse about a new device, a turntable with a USB hookup, allowing the transfer of songs from vinyl to silicon. That looks to be my next big purchase; I have a number of LPs that I haven't been able to find in CD versions. I especially want to copy my old Stone Poneys album ("Long Long Time", "Different Drum", "In My Reply", "Rock Me on the Water", "The Hobo") and Blue Bayou. Leftoverture; Diamonds and Rust; Peter, Paul and Mary - oh, my. That thing, when I get it, is going to keep me b-u-s-y...
That's done. All the loose ends have been tied up. (I think. There's one that may need additional work.) I can sit down in good conscience and play Civilization IV, read, write, snooze, or whatever.
Well, no. I couldn't play Civ IV, because I didn't have a clock in the computer room - and it's dangerous to play Civilization without some means of keeping track of time. As I mentioned earlier, I was down to one wall clock, and that one's in the living room. So, on the way home today I picked up three cheap wall clocks, for the computer room, the dining room, and my bedroom. I also bought another couple of ornaments for the tree, for a total of five - and that's about as many as it'll take. (I could probably stick one, maybe two more on, but it looks reasonably full now, so I'm stopping.)
The CDs arrived today. The Roger Miller album is a three-CD set, with a total of 70 (!) songs. It claims to be complete, and I'm not going to argue. "King of the Road", "Chug-a-lug", "Dang Me", "Little Green Apples", "England Swings" (I didn't know that one was his!), several covers, and a bunch of stuff I don't recognize... As for Arlo Guthrie, I don't know whether I'm going to put "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" on my playlists or just keep it separate. (That thing's longer than "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida"!) The rest will certainly go on. The Sam Cooke album is a bunch of light stuff - "Cupid", "You Send Me", "Twistin' the Night Away". It also includes a cover of "Summertime" (from Porgy and Bess); that makes four versions of that song in my collection. (The others are by Janis Joplin, the Walker Brothers, and Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.) The Sly album is fairly complete - 34 tracks, including all their classics - "Hot Fun in the Summertime", "Thank You", "Everybody Is A Star", "Everyday People". Gonna be good...
Elsewhere on the music front, I hear from
neonnurse about a new device, a turntable with a USB hookup, allowing the transfer of songs from vinyl to silicon. That looks to be my next big purchase; I have a number of LPs that I haven't been able to find in CD versions. I especially want to copy my old Stone Poneys album ("Long Long Time", "Different Drum", "In My Reply", "Rock Me on the Water", "The Hobo") and Blue Bayou. Leftoverture; Diamonds and Rust; Peter, Paul and Mary - oh, my. That thing, when I get it, is going to keep me b-u-s-y...
