It's - um... 'Astonishing' !!

Greeting's World's !!

How is your bit of the Universe treating you this fine, cold & blowy day ?! It's another Tuesday - here in England's South-West corner....... and it's kind of cold outside - thankfully, I'm here, in the living room & the heating is on !! Nice & toasty !!

As I type - I'm home alone & the music is blasting out - as usual - just below deafening & life is good. Well, that's not exactly true, I feel like crap, but.... apart from that, I feel pretty good !!

I don't know, exactly what is wrong with me.... B woke me up, at 1pm - just to make sure I was Ok !! I slept well enough, thru' the night - but, as usual, my morning pills seemed to get the better of me & I just kept on sleeping. A bit of a bummer really !! Oh well......

Life goes on tho'.... and that's a fact !!

This afternoon, ME paid us a visit, just to say "Hello" after her mid-wife appointment.... and had a pancake with us, today being "Pan Cake Day" here in England !! Remember - pan cakes are for life - not just for one Tuesday per year !! I had forgotten - but, had one anyways.... really good it was as well !! B makes great pan cakes.... really good !!

Now tho' - both the ladies of the family have left me & gone out into the cold. ME has headed for home & B has gone to her weight-watchers class thingy. It's not actually called 'weight-watchers'..... that's something else... but, she has gone out anyhoo. She'll be home in about an hour....

That leaves me time to listen to the latest Dream Theater album 'The Astonishing'. My first reaction - and this is my first real listen to it - it's their '2112'. It's a lot longer, it's far more complicated.... but, reading the lyrics & listening to the album... '2112' was the first thing that came to my mind !! Oh well - that's going to get me a slagging !!

The tracks are:

CD 1

  1) The Decent Of The Nomacs
  2) Dystopian Overture
  3) The Gift Of Music
  4) The Answer
  5) A Better Life
  6) Lord Nafaryus
  7) A Savior In The Square
  8) When Your Time Has Come
  9) Act Of Faythe
10) Three Days
11) The Hovering Sojourn
12) Brother, Can You Hear Me
13) A Life Left Behind
14) Ravenskill
15) Chosen
16) A Tempting Offer
17) Digital Discord
18) The X Aspect
19) A New Beginning
20) The Road To Revolution

CD 2

  1) 2285 Entr'acte
  2) Moment Of Betrayal
  3) Heaven's Cove
  4) Begin Again
  5) The Path That Divides
  6) Machine Chatter
  7) The Walking Shadow
  8) My Last Farewell
  9) Losing Faythe
10) Whispers On The Wind
11) Hymn Of A Thousand Voices
12) Our New World
13) Power Down
14) Astonishing

Ok - I am literally, on track 16 of Cd 1 and this really is my first time of listening.... to me, the jury is still out. It sounds really good - but, if it's going to grow on me, like the last album did.... I'm not 100% sure.

I'm going to have to stop comparing it, to other albums.... not only by Dream Theater... to really see, if it gets a hook in me. I will keep listening to it - here & in the car, to see how things go - time will tell & that's a real fact in this case !!

Right - onto other things.....

Last night, B & I watched 'The Walk' about the guy, who walked between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York.... back in the '70's. It was really good - excellent really. I know I have a documentary about how the guy did it, somewhere here about.... I just have to find it. But, if you get the chance - go & watch the film.... it's really, really well worth your time !!

As for tomorrow, I have to return to the local hospital, to have my latest Vac pump - Gordon - removed. The plan, as I understood it, was to leave it on - for up to "indefinitely forever" to see how the wound on my back healed. Well.... in just 2 weeks, after having the thing put on me.... the local nursing team, have decided to take it
off !!

It seems that it's really messing with my back - or at least the skin, around the wound - and now, it's been decided to remove Gordon, to give my skin a chance to heal up a bit. What that will do, for the wound itself, I have no idea..... once again, "time will tell" I guess...... I will let you know, how things go !!

That's for tomorrow....

As for the rest of the night.... well, I have some printing to do. As mentioned before, I have recorded the latest 3 'Hobbit' movies, over to Cd.... now, I have found the track titles, on the 'net. Sooooo - I will print up the various tracks & then, at some point, I will add those titles to the Mini Egg, along with the 9 Cd's.... Yep - 9 Cd's... that's how many it took, to transfer everything over !!

It's Ok - 'The Lord Of The Rings' movies, took 12 Cd's... it really was a lot easier, to put them on that many discs, allowing for the a good join in the various bits of action. Oh well....

I've enjoyed listening to the movies, while I've been stuck in the hospitals...... here's hoping, that I don't have to spend anymore time - in any hospital - to get any sort of chance, to hear the 'Hobbit' movies. That would be a real bummer.... I've had enough of hospitals, I really have !!

Oh well.... I best be on my ways... things to do & stuff like that. As always, I thank you for your time & for logging in & for reading my words...... until next time...

Bye Bye