Thursday’s Child
A guy could go crazy trying to think up “catchy” titles that allude to content, but why bother? Nobody reads anymore, and the ones who do hardly retain anything. Okay, that’s a “projection” on my part. In my case I retain an enormous amount of stuff, but it’s replaced by the next stuff that I read and “retain.” So you’re all off the hook from now on, everybody agreed? Fine then, here’s another garden variety “update” for me you:
I’m moving into my new room on the 10th and 11th, that is, on Monday and Tuesday coming up after this weekend.
Monday, sometime between 1 & 3 PM, the guy from Comcast is coming to the new crib with a high speed Internet-only installation. Because the installation requires a Comcast field rep, and I requested to do it “myself” they are waiving the $99 installation fee.
I know how to play the game, see? In order to break the rules (properly), you have to know the rules. Miles Davis said that, referring to musical ‘rules.’ But, like many things about music and the theory of it all, it can apply to life in general.
Why is that? Well, it’s because music is a logical structure, and the creation of it involves both physical and non-physical elements, and its impact on the environment is also both physical and non-physical. Sound (no pun intended) logical structures can be “mapped” onto multiple morphologies. (There’s a $2 word for y’all, eh?).
Mathematics is, at its essence, a logical system, a system OF logic. It’s no accident that many musicians had a knack for math (whether they enjoyed or excelled at, it, or not.). What’s that? Too many commas? Ha ha, try again, cowgirl.
So, to return to the alleged “subject” for a bit, rules weren’t necessarily made to be broken, but they certainly need to be understood before being broken. Maybe they should also be understood before being followed, too, what do you think?
So, it looks like I’ll get “my way” as a result of using Comcast’s poorly-advertised and even less-familiar rules. Why isn’t all of life so simple? Well, who says it can’t be? I don’t know, but it seems pretty tricky at times, to me.
Back to next Monday/Tuesday.
“The Girls” (that would be Nancy & Rebel) apparently have designs on the design of my living environment. And that is a really good thing, because I have a history of “adapting” to whatever the deal is, and, just like following rules, thoughtlessly ambivalent as to their rationale, that can lead to very dissatisfying experiences and outcomes.
The Girls found a cheap (for some, not me) portable fridge. I have an electric water boiler, grinder for coffee beans (two, actually, the second being for spices), a rice cooker, a french press coffee maker (mechanical, there’s another name for it, forget about it for now) and a bread box.
So, what do I need? I want to use the main kitchen in the apartment as little as possible. There’s going to be somebody living in the living room, in addition to the other bedrooms, right between my “front” door and the kitchen. because of my very strange hours when I’m in production I do not want to get the starving munchies and have to trip over someone and put up the kitchen klang bang crash noise at some un-gawdly hour.
So what’s missing? An electric skillet and one of those electric toaster oven things? Or a fancier combination convection/microwave? I hate microwaved food. They’re great for popcorn, but I don’t eat popcorn. Good for reheating coffee, and food, too, if there’s no peanut butter. But not really good for those things. have you ever reheated coffee in a microwave? I do it all the time. The cup can get twice as hot as the actual coffee, and it cools off, I swear to Gawd, at a faster rate than it would under “analog” process conditions.
Is this common knowledge or is it, once again, just me?
At any rate, I’m fine, or even better. Appliances pale in importance compared to wide bandwidth, coffee, peanut butter and tobacco. And I’ll have those waiting for me when I move in. So there you go.