Music:

There are times when my MP3 player is so completely wrong about the music it chooses. Like now, I have just put on 50 songs to be played at random, and 49 of them are not what I want to listen to right at this moment. This current playlisy is looking better… Out of the first five tracks I have found two that I want to listen to. Not great, but an improvement.

Elton John is playing right now, with ‘Rocket Man’. Now ‘Oxygene 8’ by Jean-Michel Jarre. For those who do not know his music, he is an electronic musician. He is in the Guiness Book of Records for the biggest concert ever, or at least was. His music was using in the movie Galipoli. His father was Maurice Jarre, who wrote the score to Dr Zhivargo, and from memory got an Oscar for it.

I got into Jean-Michel Jarre back in High School when I needed to mix the music for a school fashion parade where they used Oxygene Part II for the section on 25th century wedding dresses. I have the video tape of that around here somewhere – although that was a year 11 task, and I was in year 10 at the time. When I did textiles in Year 11 (Long Story, ask me sometime), they changed the course since having a guy in the class making a wedding dress was sort of not politically correct.

Narnia

I wanted to start reading the Narnia books of C.S. Lewis last night, and found that I am missing two of the seven books in the series. The worst part is that I am missing book 1 which is the one I obviously wanted to start with. In eight years the series will be out of copyright since it will be 50 years since the author died so maybe I should just wait until then. Project Gutenberg has a few of his documents that are out of copyright, but not the Narnia Series.

The movie of ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ was shot just around the corner from a friends house just outside Auckland

Church Meeting

I have a church meeting tomorrow night. Another meeting of the Finance group. The figures are not nice but I have some information to present which might provide interesting reading for those who are attending. The information is highly confidential so I cannot detail it here at the moment, but I believe that the members of the church will agree with my suggestions.

It is something I have been sitting on for over 12 months trying to decide what to do with it. Now I have a group who can look at it and decide what to do next. It might be an interesting meeting

Courier

The courier finally arived about 3:50pm. This meant I needed to go flat out for about an hour to reprogram the units and send them off. Not fun at all. But I got them out of here and to the Post Office in time. Just. With about 5 minutes to spare. That is what I call a close call.