Wandering through random musical offerings on my Apple TV, I stumbled upon The Hu, a Mongolian heave metal folk group. I can’t understand a thing they sing but the tunes & the beat is fantastic. Plus they play traditional Mongolian instruments. I love it.
@joeo10 We missed the chance to celebrate Mum’s 90th birthday in September, it was right in the middle of 111 days of stage 4 lockdown.
Was getting prepared to travel 3.5 hours away to attend my aunt’s funeral on Tuesday. Due to distance I’d booked in to a local hotel for the night.
Then an hour later the announcement goes out the the state is going back into Stage 4 COVID lockdown for five days, which included the funeral date. No travel outside your 5 km home bubble. Only leave home for four reasons: shopping for food/essentials, exercise, work or caregiving.
No more than 10 attendees at a funeral.
That really screwed things up. My cousins & their families frantically rescheduled things & now the funeral has been postponed by a week.
Mum can’t travel now, she’ll have to watch the video stream from the funeral chapel. She missed her older sister’s funeral three years ago because she was in rehab following shoulder surgery.
Annother really annoying thing about stage four restrictions is that even though, for example, my sister as chief caregiver for our mother can leave her home bubble, she can’t visit the aged care place.
She was quite sick, lymphoma had spread throughout her body. My mother’s 87-yr-old sister has died at 3:15 today. I’ve no idea if that’s am or pm. Mum won’t be able to attend, she’s to crook herself.
Depressed. So sudden.
@matigo Or you’re extra sensitive to tobacco smoke. I am, which is interesting considering until 30 years ago I was a 60-per-day smoker. I stopped when hospitalised for 16 days following an industrial accident.
@variablepulserate the square photo optinn still exists, it’s been shifted & hidden.
@matigo I have dozens of CDs I copied over to miniDisc before I had a mac capable of connecting to an iPod, which i also lacked at the time. I have two miniDisk recorders, on fits in a shirt pocket, the other is built into a stereo system. The latter has the ability to rip a CD to miniDisc in half the time taken to play said CD. but you then have to manually rename each track using the arrows on the stereo’s remote control, somewhat tedious.
// @streakmachine