'the record is a possession' (the subdivisions of time)

 'the record is a possession' - roger dean, prog rock documentary. 

yesterday horsemouth had an internet outage. 

he drew some diagrams and edited some text in a word file. fortunately he'd sent the email he needed to send  beforehand. 

he got out for a walk now. there's not much daylight left to be had these days. he was out for a quick walk earlier - he got a 2021 diary from the colenso road book box (horsemouth reckons it won't match the days of the week and the date until 2027 now because of a leap year). he knew he should check. 2020 and 2024 are leap years (years with 366 days).

broadly each common year (365 days) starts a day later in the week than the one before -  2021 jan 1st was a friday, 2022 jan 1st was a saturday, 2023 jan 1st is a sunday, but 2025 jan 1st is a wednesday because 2024 will be a leap year, 2026 a thursday etc..

so diaries mostly become reusable every 11 years  but if you are very lucky the become reusable  in 6 years - and in this case horsemouth is lucky, otherwise he can just draw or write in the diary or ignore the dates. 

while we are on this topic it is worth pointing out that the year must be divided up for accounting purposes also - weeks must be allocated to months, if every month was 4 weeks we would have a 48 week year (but in fact most months have two or three days over) so instead 4 months are allocated  5 weeks (so far so good). however as each common year is 52 weeks and a day (and a leap year  52 weeks and 2 days pretty soon you require an extra week to keep everything in sync - thus we get 53 week accounting years (probably once every 6 years or so). this would also mean an additional 5 week month in the accounting year.

13 Moons (for there are 13 moons in the year), up near the st.john at hackney church, have some prints of andrew minty's for sale (well done dude). 

when records were vinyl records (rather than CDs or digital files) there was the problem of timing the performances so that the time available on each side of the record would be usefully used (and that the tracks would follow on nicely from each other). this used to be referred to as the track sequencing of the record. great efforts were made to ensure the album flowed as a whole. 

he has been reading the whisperer in the darkness (lovecraft does the hill country) and the music of erich zann (lovecraft does evil old paris). he listened to some of the moroccan music paul bowles recorded and released in 1959 (the chanting is great)

it was clear skies last night so it is brighter and colder out. this morning maybe a walk with TG. in a bit finish off the coffee and eat a bowl of museli (then perhaps some toast). the book box by the tower seems to have died. 

tomorrow horsemouth goes early for a meeting to discuss the decarbonisation of social housing.  

there is government money to help with the early stages of this but the government want to be ale to show that the programme has been effective and that they are getting value for money so it is a trifle bureaucratic. fortunately there are smart young people on hand to assist them through the process. otherwise horsemouth seriously thinks they would be sunk. 

of course while much of the bureaucracy vanishes if you don't use government money that still leaves the problem of accessing adequate technical expertise. retrofitting old houses is by no means a straightforward task.