{"id":1789,"date":"2021-02-18T00:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2021-02-18T00:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:12:07","slug":"wednesday-17th-february-2021-day-338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/18\/wednesday-17th-february-2021-day-338\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 17th February, 2021 [Day 338]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, we had quite an interesting experience on our TV set. I had done a search on YouTube<\/em> for Amadeus<\/em> (the film of the life of Mozart) and saw an entry for ‘Amadeus – the Director’s Cut’.\u00a0<\/em>Excitedly, we started to watch it only to discover that was an advert<\/em> for a particular version of Amadeus. Disappointed, we trawled the rest of YouTube<\/em> but did find a full version of the film but with the dialogue dubbed into Spanish. As it happened, we did not mind this too much and could follow most of the dialogue but in any case we\u00a0enjoyed the music and the way the plot unfolded. After a little lie-in this morning, we were again delayed whilst I updated my Waitrose<\/em> order for\u00a0delivery tomorrow –\u00a0this, by now, is part of our regular Wednesday morning routine. As the\u00a0weather was so mild, the park was absolutely teeming with\u00a0both\u00a0children and dogs so we won’t be sorry when it quietens down for a little. On the way down we met with some of our church friends who who were a little distressed that nothing at all is\u00a0happening in our own parish church whereas other parishes are taking a much more pro-active stance by keeping church services running whilst radically restricting the numbers. We seem to have been caught in a vicious spiral of the lockdown, our parish priest who has somewhat mysteriously retired from public view and one of the other major organisers of the\u00a0parish is in infirm health. What is distressing is that other churches are making the best of a bad job and it appears that many members of our church community are deserting it in favour of services in other towns and it is problematic whether or not\u00a0they will return.<\/span><\/p>\n

After lunch, my son and I got the rest of my computer system sorted out.\u00a0This involved making\u00a0sure my backup system was working correctly – we formatted one of my pocket drives and then got Time Machine<\/em> to make a\u00a0backup. \u00a0This is one of the best possible utilities on a MAC – the first time it runs, evidently it makes a full backup but thereafter it\u00a0performs hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month and weekly backups for all previous months. The backups are incremental i.e. it only backs up what has\u00a0actually been changed in the last hour, day or whatever and works well in\u00a0the background. Perhaps PC’s have a similar\u00a0facility these days but it means that you always have a ‘roll back’ in case anything has gone\u00a0dramatically wrong whilst you are working.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whilst we had the computer more-or-less decluttered and the backup systems working as I wanted, then I turned my attention to the desk itself. I cleared everything off it and onto some large trays on the floor. Now I can go about carefully putting back only what I need and discarding an awful lot of junk along the way. I\u00a0did discover two things that I knew were at the bottom of the pile – the button from a submarine captain’s jacket which I discovered whilst digging in the garden and also a roman coin which I shall have to clean up a bit to discover its actual denomination. Whilst on the subject of working with a tidy desk, I know that in these days of ‘hot\u00a0desking’ that one has one’s laptop and absolutely nothing else – I have coasters for coffee, notebooks, pens, stationery items and I dare not\u00a0mention\u00a0what else besides. But as I often say to members of my\u00a0family ‘I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety-nine just persons, which need no repentance’ –<\/em> however, they are not convinced by this I am told that I need to keep on repenting (i.e. keep things tidy) I will admit to one foible, though that I think is widely shared. If I leave out a letter, a document or whatever, then I know that some action needs to be taken on it but once it gets (neatly) filed away then the pressure to do something about it diminishes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tonight, by prior arrangement we Zoomed<\/em> Meg’s cousins over in Derby. We had a wonderful hour together and are\u00a0going to repeat the experience at\u00a0regular intervals, perhaps once a fortnight, and are looking\u00a0forward to the days perhaps in late\u00a0April\/May when we go and have a little ‘get-together’ even if is only\u00a0own a socially-distanced way in a garden. Meanwhile, I read that in Germany the (British) Oxford\/AstraZeneca\u00a0virus is not being well\u00a0received and there are reports of many fevers and headaches following the vaccination. However, there are no similar complaints about the Modena or the Pfizer vaccine which is preferred. Strange that,\u00a0isn’t it?<\/span><\/p>\n

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