From the Granagh Road today
It has been a month now
since I caught myself on. Truly tired of being a fat wee fecker I
decided to eat better, drink less alcohol and walk more and I am
happy to report that, so far, it's all going rather well. My daily
walk has become a habit, I'm enjoying cooking and eating, I feel
better and I have breathed out 11lbs of excess tonnage. And one of
the things I'm enjoying most is that virtuous feeling when you don't
eat all the leftovers, instead having them for lunch or dinner the
next day. I love not being wasteful.
Then I found myself
craving music/audio-books for the daily walk but I had nothing to
play them on. Although there were two iPods that had been
lying in a drawer for several years but they were probably broken. I
dug them out, charged them up and tried them out. One was kaput but
the classic worked! Unfortunately I'd forgotten how to use it. This
is were the internet comes in handy. I found a video that some fellow
had made for his elderly mother who must have been a complete eedjit
but it was useful. My first walk (yesterday) was all about Massive
Attack (the Tricky days) because I couldn't remember how to use
shuffle. Eventually I worked it out with a little bit of assistance
from that eedjit's son.
On my walk today I
thought I had it on shuffle but it was alternating between Sinead
O'Connor and Ry Cooder and that didn't seem very shuffly to me.
Anyway I stopped for a pee up a laneway on the Granagh Road and
stuffed the player in my pocket. When I resumed listening the
sound had diappeared and I thought my headphones were broken. So
back into the pocket it went and home I marched. Back on the internet
I learned all about the wheel. I used to know this stuff. Where did
my knowledge go?
Another problem. There
was a lot of music on that iPod that I didn't want to listen to
anymore. And of course I'd forgotten how to manage the player. I knew
it had something to do with Rhythmbox. I don't do iTunes as my OS is
Ubuntu. I've spent hours today figuring it out and I just got it
sorted. I added John Lee Hooker, Rhiannon Giddens and the Milk Carton
Kids. I'll add more tomorrow and maybe some audio books. Maybe Wolf
Hall. I have the book but it's far too big and heavy. Far better to
have it read to me.
