 At last! The book has arrived, on the "Ring and its symbols" (and a reminder that it's really worth taking time to shop around online). The book's been updated since first I devoured it in my late teens. More fuel related to my ongoing thoughts on archetypes...
No blogging for a couple of days, due to a big mistake on my part when Marianne and I on Saturday took up a kind invitation from François, the wired wizard to join a few friends for a barbecue on his 8th-floor terrace on Saturday night.
The conversation was scintillating, the company delightful, the storm steered mainly clear and the racket from the local bars where everybody else seemed to be watching football was such that it seemed the stadium itself was next door.
The food was so good that I disobeyed orders. I ate no more than four strawberries, but plenty of salad. The consequences for two days, particularly Sunday, were nothing short of catastrophic. A full 22 minutes I spent on the loo at one point and that was just the worst time of many.
My day of woe, also partly spent just stretched out to cope with the nausea, fortunately did no harm to Marianne.
The test of file sharing devices pledged last time I was here was conducted, extremely thoroughly, by said child.
"I'm becoming quite a good hacker," she proclaimed in the midst of a dozen downloads in hand or queued.
"That's not hacking," I enlightened her. "What you are doing there, chérie, is piracy on the grand scale!"
The outcome of these tests I will issue in the very near future.
No movies to report on, since the cinema was absolutely out of the question.
I have, however, finished 'Ventus'. I'm still wondering what I'm going to say about such an out of the ordinary book. Looking at enticing titles in waiting for the next read, guilt overcame me. It's nearly six months since my mum sent me what she describes as a "proper novel", and a serious prize-winner, at that for Christmas. So I decided I ought to try this instead.
Hmm. Trying to, at least. A "tour de force" it might be, but for some reason any author has already put my back up from the outset when she sets a pertinently contemporary, semi-political plot in a fictional country. Because if the troubled nation in question is not Peru, then I'm a giraffe. In which case why be so damned coy?
I'm not sure which flower to send my wildcat today.
She's been distraught, with good reason to be so. So right now, it's just a long-distance kiss. And the sooner, darling, you're no longer sleeping alone, the better it will be...
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Hours dealing with the social security people and other administrative tasks, including progress on the "welfare front" with my union hat on, gave the Mac plenty of time by itself to be thoroughly overhauled internally. The biggest chunk of it was still being "optimised" at around one in the morning, so I managed to get to sleep to the purr of an eMac.
 I know the latest heavy duty utilities for OS X are finally out, but the new Disk Warrior, currently landing in the mail boxes of friends, costs more than I plan to spend this month. So I'll carry on with the previous version, and with TechTool Pro 3.0.9, for a while longer.
They both do a fine job (but I wouldn't recommend trying to optimise an OS X disk or partition with the latter.
When I was done this morning, I was reminded of one little curiosity in the reboot (démarrage) panels. The "Classic" partition knows that I'm running Mac OS 9.2.2, both there and on the back-up one.
 But where on earth does the "Save" partition get the strange idea that there's something out there, or in here, called 9.1.7?
The pictures tell the tale (in the fine print).
Update: another reason not to upgrade utilities now, even the current ones are so slow. Elio kindly tried to open my door after lunch, since I'd slammed it on myself and found no keys when I reached for them to lock it properly.
Where he failed, with both sets of spare keys just happening today to be inaccessible to me, the man who put in the new lock after a winter burglary succeeded. Same technique.
Cost: just a bit more than that of the Disk Warrior and TT Pro upgrades combined.
Life is fun ... for locksmiths.
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