Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I'm not sure whether I ever got around to using this as a quote-of-the-day already, but I was sorting an old pile of notes that had gotten scrambled and mixed with recent notes, and spotted this on a scrap of paper, jotted down during a phone call quite some time ago:

"There are so many things you can do to sheep."

"How many have you done?"

"Four."

I don't think I ever worked up my nerve to ask which four.

Again on the pile of old notes ... some time back, somebody asked me to look up a couple of tunes: "Ship In Full Sail" and (I'm having trouble reading my own handwriting) either "Grawsey Jig" or "Gramsey Jig". Well, I found a melody called "The Ship's In Full Sail" but I no longer have any idea who wanted me to find it.

I managed to get some stuff knocked off my to-do list today. Not as much as I would've liked, but progress is progress. Now I'm feeling really, really tired -- ready for a nap -- but I don't know yet what time the planned dinner outing tonight is going to be.

One thing I've gotten further behind on again is my television watching. I don't have a tape to put in when the one I'm recording on this evening runs out. Pretty low on the list of important things, what with the bigger matters I have to worry about, but it still manages to be on my mind, y'know? (I want the 4:00 AM episode of Buffy. Since I got hooked on the show so late ("Once More With Feeling"), I'm trying to catch up on previous seasons. 4:00 Monday mornings is season one right now. 22:00 Sunday evenings is, uh, season four? Anyhow, a couple of lines in a recent current-season episode really stood out for me since I'd just watched the first-season episode that they echoed a day or two earlier. I figure catching up is a good thing.) I just hope the bad spot on the tape that's in there now doesn't wind up clobbering a critical line of dialogue on Alias tonight.

And to think that a few years ago I'd gotten so completely out of the habit of watching television that even though my friends were telling me that I was missing some really good shows, I couldn't remember to tune in to check them out. There was a spell of really bad television, when there really wasn't anything worth watching, at least not on broadcast television (I do not have cable), and I just stopped watching. I mean, nearly nothing but football when I wasn't doing something more important on game day, and eventually Sabrina, and once in a while the news. When good stuff started showing over the airwaves again, it took me a while to notice, and then a while to get back in the habit of paying attention. Now that I'm paying attention to television again (as has been the case for the past couple of years, I guess), I still won't sit in front of the set if I'm feeling restless or there's something else I need to do that I have the energy for. If I'm not well enough for anything more important and not so tired that I have to crash, then I'll watch. But there's a lot out there that I Don't Want To Miss (including some, such as 24 and Angel that I really want to watch in order), so the backlog of videocassettes stacks up...

A random-access device such as Replay TV or Tivo would come in handy, because I wouldn't have to watch all of a tape or start working back from the end in order to clear space for re-use. But such devices are so far down on my priority list when I'm constantly on the verge of not being able to pay my HMO premium or auto insurance or buy groceries, that those toys are idle daydreams for now. Huge difference between "want" and "need".