Starting in Hell
And accelerating into oblivion.
Today began so well. At about 6am, I was woken by the band (Naval School?) playing that incessant piece of music over and over again for about four hours. The symphony of the early morning was accompanied by the plinkety-plink music from the school, some traditional Chinese music in the form of those annoyingly high-pitched pipes, and then Happy Birthday which, like Jingle Bells, has ended up as kind of general purpose public music in this country. Both are typically played in the plinkety-plink style just to make them that extra bit annoying.
I ended up sitting around here all afternoon waiting for a technician to turn up to get the DVD working, but waited in vain. I just heard a few moments ago that he went to the wrong place. The latest plan is that someone will come tomorrow morning some time before class at 11am. We'll see.
I was having another look at the menu options to see whether there was anything that might hint at what needs to be set. I'm sure that the solution isn't that involved, but even although I can switch the on screen menus to English, the manual remains stubbornly in Chinese. I think I know which option I should be looking at, but I'm not sure whether extra steps are necessary after that. It does seem, though, that I can't hook up external speakers to the new TV as could to the old one.
Thus the week continues its bothersome progress. We have class on Saturday. OK, so it's a Media Studies day. Then we're meant to have some sort of rehearsal in the afternoon for the concert on Sunday for which we're going to have to get up insanely early. I want a morning when I get to rise whenever and do so at a gentle pace. I'm getting sick of messed up mornings, which have been the theme of this week.
The aftermath of the earthquake is that this is now the blog until I get access to Spaces again – whenever that might happen.
Today began so well. At about 6am, I was woken by the band (Naval School?) playing that incessant piece of music over and over again for about four hours. The symphony of the early morning was accompanied by the plinkety-plink music from the school, some traditional Chinese music in the form of those annoyingly high-pitched pipes, and then Happy Birthday which, like Jingle Bells, has ended up as kind of general purpose public music in this country. Both are typically played in the plinkety-plink style just to make them that extra bit annoying.
I ended up sitting around here all afternoon waiting for a technician to turn up to get the DVD working, but waited in vain. I just heard a few moments ago that he went to the wrong place. The latest plan is that someone will come tomorrow morning some time before class at 11am. We'll see.
I was having another look at the menu options to see whether there was anything that might hint at what needs to be set. I'm sure that the solution isn't that involved, but even although I can switch the on screen menus to English, the manual remains stubbornly in Chinese. I think I know which option I should be looking at, but I'm not sure whether extra steps are necessary after that. It does seem, though, that I can't hook up external speakers to the new TV as could to the old one.
Thus the week continues its bothersome progress. We have class on Saturday. OK, so it's a Media Studies day. Then we're meant to have some sort of rehearsal in the afternoon for the concert on Sunday for which we're going to have to get up insanely early. I want a morning when I get to rise whenever and do so at a gentle pace. I'm getting sick of messed up mornings, which have been the theme of this week.
The aftermath of the earthquake is that this is now the blog until I get access to Spaces again – whenever that might happen.
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