lethargic_man | Good news, bad news (not nesse-celery in that order)

The bad news: I listened to my Django Rheinhardt CD the other week... and then somehow managed to lose it in between returning it to its jewel case and returning the jewel case to the shelf; and it still hasn't turned up. How on earth did I manage to do that? And then today I went to listen to Tubular Bells only to find the CD missing from the case. Last time that happened, it turned out I'd absent-mindedly put the disc in the wrong case, on top of another disc; if that's the case again here, it could be months before it turns up and I get to listen to this perennial favourite of mine again: I have approximately four hundred CDs.

The good news: Whilst playing hunt-the-CD, I discovered something else I had lost.

The bad news: Whilst playing hunt-the-CD, I pulled epicyclic out, and the network connection died. coronium couldn't connect either, so it was the router which had died, even though the lights were blinking in the correct manner.

The good news: Though a power cycle didn't help, a power cycle and a light slap fixed it.

The good news: I got an email back from the Turk I'd messaged on Facebook checking the pronunciation of some names in my story. (Turns out bichaq is normally now spelled bıçak in Turkish, and has the regular pronunciation /bʌ'tʃak/ (buh-CHAK, with the ch in "church").)

The bad news: As I discovered the other evening, it's a bastard to rerecord bits and try and slip them in to my recording: the volume, or the pitch of my voice is always different. The situation's not helped by the fact that Audacity is playing funny buggers on both epicyclic and coronium, such that I can only record on the latter but only reliably save (!) on the former...