Year ends

An elf served me in the local spar today, telling me 'it's christmas eve'. So I guess it must be. For some reason I'm a day out this week, perhaps due to the many Headshock sessions that have blurred my mind and pickled my liver. Darn pleasant week actually but may lay off the beer today.

Of the various people who have said they'll read my novel, one has confessed to starting it. Pat has forced herself to read a couple of chapters and already declares 'doesn't seem as shit as the last two novels so far'. High praise indeed. :)

Received two ribbons for my Eventide pedals that have been doing the flickering screen thing. Very kindly sent from the States and then on to me for free, very impressive service from those guys and HHB. Merry Wossisname is what I say. If the Pitchfactor now working reliably again I will sell it if poss or swap for another Time Factor.

Oh well, some beta testing to do, should have been a posh sequencer to review over the hols but it never arrived despite being supposed to come Monday. Arse. A few other things to review so I should be kept busy enough but a chap's supposed to have fun too.

Here's a rather lovely shot of Jasper wondering if we're going to walk through the water or turn around. Bloody useless South Ribble Council totally unable to grasp the idea that you sort an area's flooding problems before doing new paths. Idiots everywhere. Which reminds me - PC World... the HP laptop I bought with Windows 10 on it, turns out it isn't really Windows 10 compatible so the fecker is crashing quite regularly, BSOD and screen driver issues. When I asked PC World about this they said I should sort it myself with HP and Microsoft. Hilariously, their tagline for emails is:

Never leaving a customer to fend for themselves.

As I said, idiots everywhere.

I just hope Virgin Cable doesn't turn out to be shit too. So far everyone I've spoken to about it since ordering and cancelling BT has told me about their problems and poor service. Sigh...

Place Setter

I'm not sure I've posted anything since getting this new laptop. Slimline HP jobby, more expensive than I'd typically go for but still less than half price of the Mac it obviously aspires to be. Fortunately the old one still works in case I get some pages where there are passwords coded I have no idea about (like the bloody BT one).

Broadband continues to suck monkey balls. In theory some dude called Ashid was monitoring my response for 24 hours so perhaps he'll be in touch as he did promise to do *something*. If it doesn't improve I'll be ditching BT after many, many years.

The good news is that my video helped Korg see the fault I've been describing and a fix is promised for the next update. I'm glad I stuck with it and slightly amazed nobody else encountered the same issue. It seems unlikely I'm the only person to use external sync.

Had a good visit with Paul the other night, marvelled at his modular without coveting, which is good. Got my CS30 back from Tony on Thursday, knobs apparently never touched, which rather explains the state they were in when they arrived. They do feel a lot better now. Have had some interest in the Elements module I want to sell. Will stick to my original plan of making the euro into a processor more than a synth.

Some gear pix