Day 667

Aka Wednesday 28^th November 2018

Went for an exercise walk and walked 9.96km (6.2miles) in 1h57minutes, which took 12,903 steps, burnt 1,100 calories and gave me time to think about my upcoming presentation...

...and listened to the latest 'Recovered & Remastered' tracks, ‘4Orbidden Mission IV’ and ‘Satellite Serenade (So Slow, It Grows...)’:

‘4Orbidden Mission IV’ is described as “A 48 minute journey featuring 4 classic 'The Orb' mixes...” and list three of the mixes: Gudrun Gut -Firething (The Orb Firedub), Keiichi Suzuki - Satellite Serenade (Trans Asian Express Mix) and The Cranberries - Zombie (Camel's Hump Mix). This is a dubby, trip-hop-ish mix that could have soundtracked Bill & Zed’s trip up the 'Wild Highway' aka 'The Congo/Zaire River' or perhaps Captain Willard’s journey to Colonel Kurtz…

‘Satellite Serenade (So Slow, It Grows...)’ is described as “Probably the finest Orb remix, slowed down here to become a rumbling dub filled monster...”, which it is, it draws you in, you’re nodding along, submerging into the track and suddenly it’s over, so you put it back on and spend another 40 minutes enjoying peace and mellowness. A friend summed it up as a ‘smokers delight’ of a tune 😊

…didn’t do New Comic Book Day today because there was only one comic out that I want to get and it made financial sense to order it from ebay, rather than buy a ticket into London Town…

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which takes us underground as I had to cheat on a third of the clues (seven out of 21). The answers did come, but they were cloudy and sometimes half formed, like I went for ‘airstrip’ when the answer was ‘airfield’ and ‘oval’ instead of ‘ovum’, but I did learn that a ‘person in charge of a lifeboat’ is called a ‘coxswain’, that a ‘large plover with a loud call – peewit’ is a ‘lapwing’, that a ‘curtain rail concealer’ is called a ‘pelmet’ and that ‘inveigh’ means to ‘complain bitterly’.