Daily Blague

An afternoon in the kitchen: baking white bread, cooking tomato soup (I'll save the processing for tomorrow), bleaching the counter, emptying and filling and emptying and filling the dishwasher, watching the end of Howard's End and the beginning of Five Corners (maybe I'll see the whole thing by the time dinner is done - if we ever have dinner, considering Kathleen's day)... Listening to the CD that Ms NOLA made for me - an effort to keep me up to date pop musicwise. Was that Fountains of Wayne in there? Although I'm playing the disc on the computer, the interface is silent as to "artists" and "titles," so I don't know what I'm listening to, but most of the songs have fairly handy hooks, like "Judy's Dream of Horses." The sound is very good.... The Toshiba SDP 2700 arrived this afternoon, so now we can watch movies in bed. The top volume is pretty low, so headsets may be a must; at the same time, we will be watching at bedtime. I used to think that portable DVD players were the height of wastefulness, since any laptop does the job, and with a bigger picture. But when you're putting something at the foot of the bed - maybe not even that far away - laptops are way too big. If I could see our regular TV from the bed, the portable wouldn't be necessary, but I can't, and I've been falling asleep in my armchair too often; this afternoon, I passed out five or six times over The Peace to End All Peace, an outstanding but very detailed book.... Tomorrow is the last day of the building's latest maintenance program for the elevators, and all three cabs ought to be in service.... Oh, and one kitchen activity that didn't take place in the kitchen was the reformatting of the Culinarion branch of Portico. The whole damned thing.