Monday 4 February 2013

Steven Spielberg, the Watkins Rapier 44 and the Password


The Ghost Writer spent the day in the grey office looking at computers and fixing the odd network problem and getting confused by people using the computers, who he says can be a bit stressful. After all the easy bit is pressing the on off button then OK yes remembering a password can have its moments. Someone telling you that they were sure that their password was some man that once played tennis at Wimbledon (or was it a woman), Ooooo no hang on it might have been that golf player, the one who used to play golf . . . . . might be vaguely useful as a way of passing the time but it will not get them onto the network. And then once on the network an array of icons apparently for some of the users is like a rabbit being caught in the headlights of a huge truck, but then as he says they are novices and have only been using the network for several years now, and it will be fine once they get the hang of it…. 



Unlike the Ghost Writer who has the mind of a bitter and twisted grumpy and cynical old cowboy IT Guru I have the mind of a young nimble, (the worlds my oyster) enthusiastic young nimble person still convinced the very nice Steven Spielberg will be on the phone any day saying things like I read that manuscript your agent super glued to my dog and my lawyer will be suing in the morning, no hang on that was my last agent I had to find another after his methods got a bit extreme. Esmeralda says she is happy to act as my agent but I feel that would only end in tears and it would be a shame to see the very nice Mr Spielberg crying.

It has been a quite day well up to about 5.30pm when the weather changed and winter has arrived again and is snapping at our toes with wind and rain. I should not discuss weather but really this is getting silly…….

I think I will go and get my old Watkins Rapier 44 out, and cheer up the cats with some feedback. By the way that saying The Worlds My Oyster is that because we are all in a squidgy mass trapped in a shell and will all be boiled in a big pan. 


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8 comments:

  1. The neXt time I am near the headlight of a truck I wiLL see if it is possible to use it as a trap. If the headlight was not attached to the vehicle then I could imagine it being used as a projectile. The secondary feature of the thrown headlight would be that even if you missed your target, the headlight might shatter, leaving behing glass shards, then if the prey walks on the shattered glass they injure themselves, making walking more difficult and easier to catch. But to get the deer trapped IN the headlight, I am thinking it would have to be a tiny deer to fit inside and then there is the question of creating a door mechanism. I am hungry now and must seek breakfast. There is leftover lasagna, mmm, but I think I wiLL find something else.

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    1. Oh, you said rabbit, not deer, that makes it so much easier.

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    2. Rabbits being caught in headlamps is a traditional thing in Britain OK I asume it is otherwise the old saying would have no meaning. Maybe in American where vehicles are much larger and therefore the headlamps must be larger it is more traditional to catch deer.

      I am glad you are not eating lasagne for breakfast, it is not traditional breakfast food.

      It is also very cold and damp over here at present making my progress of completing useful jobs slow, I have failed to complete a single one so far today

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    3. Being the untraditional person, I had lasagne this morning. But I had coffee with it as weLL. I have done veRy little eXcept wash dishes, do laundry, not go to the pharmacy, and not study biochemistry. As soon as I finish this I wiLL make Cooper a non-lasagne lunch.

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    4. It would be interesting to know if you are the only person in the western world to have had lasagne for breakfast today. I am meant to be going out for a meal tonight but it is still in the balance.

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    5. I had lasagne veRy late for supper and then when I had a smaLL portion much later after midnight (?) maybe I noticed that my some had got some out of the pan. So if he had some after midnight that might qualify as breakfast. I might not be the only person in the Western World eating lasagne for breakfast today, but I might be the only person doing so with a meat mixture of 50:50 ground buffalo:pork sausage.

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  2. Hi,
    Just being looking at you web page and reading all about your time with the Rapier 44...Really good.

    I am currently restoring a Rapier 44 that’s being sitting at the bottom of the cupboard for more than 15 years.

    I have finally decided to start/complete the rebuild…And I have the dollars Yea.

    Just wondering if you have some links as to where I can source pickups as my PU 1 is not working, and i need some other bits. Any help would much appreciate.
    PS I in down under AUS
    email - pablomez@iinet.net.au
    Regard
    Pablo

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    1. I am not really able to help with parts but there are collectors of Watkins Rapier guitars and a few web sites. I will email in a couple of days. I like the Rapier 44, it plays really well and is a classic of its day.

      Good luck on the rebuild.

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