Myyyyyy.... brain hurts!

But it doesn't make days like this any easier.

Started with an early hearing where the client has changed his mind more times than I've changed my socks in the same number of weeks. Somehow, I got dispensation for it.  Then, I spent most of the rest of the day trying to drag a settlement across a finish line. Both sides have been competing to see who can drive me crazier, but I think I may have gotten it there.  When I wasn't doing that, I was seeing a sorta new client who canceled a first appointment, got the wrong date for the second and then the wrong time today for the third. At least now I know: WRITE EVERYTHING DOWN FOR THEM.

And finally, I'm literally watching my Outlook spin its wheels tracking down a contact on another piece of annoyance I'm trying to get off my desk.

On the bright side ::whistles::, we've got a really weird movie on tap for tonight:



I read about this film in a review of the director's newest work, which stars Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard and will be out on Prime next month.  Both of them promise to be bizarre beyond words, but that's a lot more fun when you're not chained to a desk full of the bizarre.

In other entertainment news, our real hometown baseball team's return has been set for two weeks from tonight. The Bisons have also scheduled three Bark in the Park games, and I think our friends Scott (two-legged) and Sadie (four) will be joining us in late August for the second of them.

And returning to the heading of this post: something yesterday reminded me of this album I once owned, and even though the description says you can't listen to it in the US, you can, at least as I write this:

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I definitely remember watching the original Python episodes on PBS in the 1970s, but that was before video recorders and streaming options, so to really learn the material, it was the vinyl versions of their bits that I remember even more clearly. Last night, I listened to side one of this one (remember sides?), and it really contains a ton of their best stuff: Spanish Inquisition, Gumby Theater, The Man Who Contradicts People ("No I don't!"), and the Piranha Brothers. These are not just regurgitations of the BBC broadcasts, but were re-recorded specifically for the albums, with some additional bits never seen on the telly mixed in or added to the tracks.

Yet this wasn't the strangest of their audio collection.  Later on, they put out Matching Tie and Handkerchief, which may be the only three-sided album ever recorded. Side one had conventional tracks on it, but side two had two concentric grooves on it, so depending on where your needle dropped, you got one of two ::wait for it:: completely different sets of tracks. Oddly, I don't remember any of the bits from either Groove One or Groove Two of the second side; maybe I tried to play it backwards at slow speed and screwed up my needle;)