@matigo Everything goes in phases, eh?
@peemee 👍 Sounds like you’ve kept improving after returning home. Have you had the home assessment yet?
I’ve always been really puzzled by the Badminton Horse Trials. How do they get the horses to hold badminton rackets?
@jussipekonen As you're a Northman I'm assuming you've seen it before. I never have.
I ordered something from a site which said 'Free next day shipping on all orders' at the top of their home page thinking it meant free, next day delivery but on the order page it said 3-5 day delivery. So obviously in their lingo 'Free next day shipping' means next day dispatch. My naĂŻve mistake perhaps but why are they shouting about it? If it was my company I'd just say 'Free postage' because that's all it is. What is there to crow about in a company dispatching something the day after I buy it? Big deal.
When the weather improves and I open windows, I’m always amazed by the sheer volume of people’s voices from the street. Why do they want me to hear their conversations?
@matigo I imagine they could process that out without fiddling with everything else.
What do other people think amount record companies remastering old recordings? I went to get Genesis's 'Land of Confusion' and listened to the thirty second preview and thought it sounded a bit hollow and too modern/digital. So then I found the old, analogue recording (single version) and listened to thirty seconds of that. Actually, I listened to both repeatedly for a while but I came away confused. The old one can sound a wee bit unclear compared to the remastered one so I don't think that is definitively better either.
If you forced me to choose I think I'd go with the original but not with big conviction. I think maybe a subtler, gentler remastering might have convinced me but as it is I think they are trying a bit too hard. It's not like music recording equipment in 1986 was rubbish, far from it. Surely remastering makes more sense for much older recordings. Why fiddle about with Genesis recordings from 1986; what's actually wrong with it? Nothing as far as I can tell.
Had my fan on a couple of times today. First of the year. It's not very hot but all it takes is a bit of manual garden work in the sun to make you perspire. Not complaining. I like it.