Scrobbling

Some of you may wonder what the heck scrobbling is. It’s a method of keeping track what music you listen to, using a service provided by Last.fm You can share your played list with others; you can get suggestions of what else you might like based on your listening choices and it’s a fun way to generate some statistics to look back on as the years go by.

Now I used to scrobble most of what I play when I used Spotify. When I switched to Apple Music the process became unreliable, as Apple Music will only add tuns that you have in your library and not a regular stream.

Now, though, having got some excellent IEMs for Christmas, I have decided to switch streaming again. This time I am going to a Tidal HiFi account. I couldn’t hear the difference on my iPhone before but with these new buds I certainly can. I already could hear the difference between Apple’s AAC stream and Tidal’s CD quality on my desktop but I tend to do most of my listening when on my phone.

For those of you that would like to follow my eclectic musical tastes you can find my scrobbles here

Oh, in case you’re wondering, the IEMs I got for Christmas are the excellent RHA T20i. They are certainly an improvement on my old Bose QC15 cans. There’s no noise canceling but as the noise isolation is so good it’s not really needed. Noise leakage is superb too. I hate sitting next to people with cheap buds and you can hear that tinny sound that’s leaking out and I don’t want to be guilty of that myself. I tend to drive my buds quite hard too.

Here’s to a musical 2019 with plenty of new discoveries!

New Year’s Day 2019

Not a good night’s sleep. After getting to sleep around 2am I kept walking up with a headache. It’s not booze as I had one G&T around 10.30 last night and that was it.

There’s been a bug going around so it could be that. Anyway, I decided that is probably be better getting up and going to the gym so I did.

Anytime Fitness, Hounslow

After my workout I met Kathy in Costa

Cappuccino, Costa

Then we checked out Mam’s Cuisine, which is right next door. I had a vegetarian sandwich, and Kathy had Chicken Thali.

Bought some chicken breast on the way home, and I marinated that when we got indoors.  Kathy cooked that and we had a salad with it.  Afterwards, Christmas pudding and double cream.

A Sam Adams Boston Lager to wash it down.

Saturday Comes Around

Woke at 6:30 this morning. Looks a bit on the cold side out there but the coffee is hot and fresh.

Took it back to bed for a while. Got up and took Uber to Cranford Park. Got involved in the archaeological dig on the site of the house.

Did this for some time and then went to get tea from Kathy in the church.

That was when I found £120 had gone missing from my wallet. Searched everywhere but couldn’t find it.

Walked home with her and Damian and Belinda who had come to Cranford Park for the walk around the park that was on.

The walkers assemble
A concrete cap in the cellar roof.

After having a delicious omlette for lunch we went to the Queen’s Head for fireworks in the evening.

Started until around nine. Walked home, with Damian and I going via Tesco Express and getting some beer and crisps.

Watched some TV including an interesting documentary about Lenin. Went to bed around midnight.