Part of yesterday was spent wiring up various spiffy devices in order to ensure we can receive various media and play DVDs and the like. Almost everything in that line is now fixed. Unfortunately this has necessitated the usual mind-bogglingly complex knots of wires that we try to hide behind big chunks of furniture and attempt to forget are there. These chunks over time attract vast amounts of dust and dirt becoming, I suppose, our big dirty secrets. We had quite a number of these to untangle and un-dirty at the Mansion and we are resolved not to fall into the same trap here. Our solution will be to heave forward said chunky furniture at regular intervals and face the mess manfully. (Not womanfully; it's going to be my task.)
The problem, of course, is going to be keeping up with this resolution when it's a sad truth that out of sight so often equates to out of mind.
I'm reminded of Ridley Scott's great insight in the first Alien movie. Far from appearing gleaming and glitteringly new, the future will look used - that is, the bits in the background, down where the engines are, that drive the whole shebang.
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