Last night Alex and I went to a friend's house for a BBQ tea and helped celebrate their son's 18th birthday (hello Sean). We had a lovely night. It's always nice for someone else to cook and as usual the food and company was excellent.
It was about 10:30 when we got home so we watched the 1986 Jim Henson classic "Labyrinth". David Bowie plays the Goblin King, and it's about 15-year-old Sarah who accidentally wishes her baby half-brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth who will keep Toby if Sarah does not complete his Labyrinth in 13 hours. Bowie has been a heart-throb for me since I was 14, and since this movie is over 20 years old, it brought back lots of good memories.
Today I tried listening to music while I was using Vista, and was so dissappointed with the way the surround sound worked I went back to XP. I downloaded the Vista Visualisation Pack and now my XP looks like Vista but actually performs better than that operating system. The surround sound, the printer and scanner all work perfectly, and I get the new look. I've had to change the grub bootloader options to set XP as the default OS, so reboots won't put me back into Vista. The whole Vista experience has been a disappointing one. Certainly security is better in Vista, but there was no performance increase, and doing ordinary tasks took longer because of the extra screens popping up to ask permission to do something.
Alex came home from the skate park earlier, hardly able to walk. He had a major stack on his scooter and has done something to his tail-bone. He has a nasty bruise near it and has been complaining all afternoon about how sore it is. That skate part is the cause of so many injuries around this town, but to be expected, when it's concrete. There's nothing forgiving about it. Alex has a couple of scars to prove how dangerous it can be, as do many of his friends.
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