Kwai not?

This last (for a week) evening at home was spent with Lee, ravenously consuming a rare top sirloin that was charred over mesquite. That, together with a simple salad, made a pretty complete meal.

Between bites, we talked about techno music, which I do not understand at all, and which Lee adores. I did most of the listening, as I do not understand techno, nor do I particularly like it. Unfortunately, I am as much in the dark right now as I was before we communed.

I don't know what it is with music. I suppose not many people do know, and those that know are not telling. Feht is single-minded in his pursuit of a point of view from an age long gone. He told me once, if I am not mistaken, that music found its apex during Beethoven's time and has gone downhill ever since. Sounds like my old man, only grander. I wonder, has there ever been a generation that thought the music of the up-and-comers was better than the stuff they grew up with?

The tail end of dinner had me introduce Lee to The Bridge on the River Kwai, with Bill Holden and Alec Guinness. I first saw the film with a bunch of other kids back when I was 16 or so, and it made quite an impression with us then. It's different today. Half of the allusions in the film flitted past Lee like so many mosquitos in a stiff breeze.

Cheers...

Florida dreamin'...

Spending most of my time this weekend trying to straighten out my Linux problem was probably something I had to do for my own peace of mind, but in retrospect, I'm thinking maybe it wasn't such a hot idea. I left undone too many things that should have been done. On the other hand, it's not as if I'm not paying bills; there are times when maybe it's okay to drop other cares in favor of what's elementally bugging you.

So it turns out that, in the mad, utter rush to get out of here on time, I come up with the brilliant idea of putting the file I'm supposed to edit on disk, so I can edit it once I get to Florida and then e-mail it back. As ideas go, it's not bad, except that the file is in Word 97 format, and it turns out my wife's computer is loaded with Word 95. Urk. The only good aspect of this is that the original file is good and doesn't require all that much actual editing, but there's way too much to retype, so if I can find the Word converter that Microsoft had available some time back (do they even support Word 95 anymore?), I may have a chance to avoid the wrath of the documents department.

Once situated at the Royal Mansions in Cape Canaveral, I have spent a little time trying to get connected via my ISP, Netcom (or whatever it's called now after the n-th sequential merger). Once I finally got connected, I went immediately to the Microsoft site to see if I could find the Word document converter and...found it (all 1.2-MB of it) in jig time. It's installed and I'm ready to do a little serious rock and roll in the editing department.

This post is my first using the Windows LJ client, and so far, as they say, so good. The fingers are back in limber shape after all of today's flying. There are no clients to take care of tomorrow, so it's off to work!

Cheers...