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Tomorrow we leave for this year's trip abroad. We've skipped all foreign cons, the trip to Prague etc to finance our stereo set. (It was worth it. What a joy to have a good stereo for the first time in years and years and years. I haven't had a working vinyl turntable since the eighties.)
The plane leaves at 9.50 am so we have to get up at about six, like any working day. Not too bad, I guess, if we manage to get to bed in time. Nat has warned us that the cockroaches have chosen this week to wake up from their hibernation and multiply. I'm no fan of roaches but that's OK, even though we are very unused to the critters. I just hope they won't lay eggs in our suitcases. I don't want to bring any of them home. Other than that, this is going to be fun. (If the cold I felt the beginnings of yesterday doesn't develop. I don't feel anything today, though, so hopefully I've chased it off with the echinacea I've been taking since yesterday evening.) This will be my first visit to Asia! Well, more like dipping my toe in Asia than really visiting the continent, but still... I have to do some reading up on sights today.
Other than that, I spend the evenings sorting LPs. I've come to realize how absolutely crucial it will be to catalogue them to have any chance of finding anything, much more important than cataloguing the books. So many records can be classified in multiple ways, but they can only be physically put in one place. So if I want to find a guitarist playing English Baroque music by five different composers on a record issued in a series, it could theoretically be sorted as part of that series, as Baroque music, as English music, under the artist, as solo guitar music, or under any of the five composers. Only by using a catalogue with enough classification fields will it be possible to find it easily. As a contrast, a book can usually be sorted by its author and that's enough to find it. Our book catalogue is mainly there to help us avoid buying duplicates, a use which will not be relevant for our LP catalogue. We have all the used classical LPs we need for the rest of our lives, we will not need to buy any more. That feels strange in a way.
The plane leaves at 9.50 am so we have to get up at about six, like any working day. Not too bad, I guess, if we manage to get to bed in time. Nat has warned us that the cockroaches have chosen this week to wake up from their hibernation and multiply. I'm no fan of roaches but that's OK, even though we are very unused to the critters. I just hope they won't lay eggs in our suitcases. I don't want to bring any of them home. Other than that, this is going to be fun. (If the cold I felt the beginnings of yesterday doesn't develop. I don't feel anything today, though, so hopefully I've chased it off with the echinacea I've been taking since yesterday evening.) This will be my first visit to Asia! Well, more like dipping my toe in Asia than really visiting the continent, but still... I have to do some reading up on sights today.
Other than that, I spend the evenings sorting LPs. I've come to realize how absolutely crucial it will be to catalogue them to have any chance of finding anything, much more important than cataloguing the books. So many records can be classified in multiple ways, but they can only be physically put in one place. So if I want to find a guitarist playing English Baroque music by five different composers on a record issued in a series, it could theoretically be sorted as part of that series, as Baroque music, as English music, under the artist, as solo guitar music, or under any of the five composers. Only by using a catalogue with enough classification fields will it be possible to find it easily. As a contrast, a book can usually be sorted by its author and that's enough to find it. Our book catalogue is mainly there to help us avoid buying duplicates, a use which will not be relevant for our LP catalogue. We have all the used classical LPs we need for the rest of our lives, we will not need to buy any more. That feels strange in a way.
