My week started with a call from an old friend of mine who was checking in since it was Father’s Day weekend. We spoke philosophically about the state of the world, which was weird for two guys who used to talk about pro wrestling. It was great to hear from my friend, Chris, and to know it was out of concern made it all the more special.
I was working last weekend and the first part of this week on updating the Shelf Life Magazine website with excerpts from the June/July 2024 issue. Speaking of Shelf Life, I’ve been reading “Bad, Bad Seymore Brown” by Susan Isaacs. It’s a mystery about a former FBI agent who teams up with her ex-cop father to solve the mystery of who might have attacked the lone survivor of a house fire some years earlier. It’s one of those mystery that’s not fast-paced but really engaging, thanks in part to the main characters. Can’t wait to see how this all turns out.
On the home front, and without going into too many details, my Mom – at long last – got some good news on some of the legal and financial issues she’s been battling through. I know it doesn’t solve all our problems but it should help to eliminate some of peripheral things she’s had to stress over.
We went to the One of A Kind Antique Mall in Woodstock on Saturday. Having got a Victorola turntable off Amazon the other day, while I was looking for Dale Earnhardt and NASCAR stuff, I also checked out the used LPs. I was surprised to see just how much classic rock LPs there were. I ended up getting Twist and Shout by the Beatles. My family had the album when I was a kid. I ended up writing my “recasting” of the band with the cast of Gilligan’s Island and Battlestar Galactica and myself on the cover. (I can’t imagine what I did to the value of the album.) So when I saw a chance to get another copy, I decided to go for it. I played it on Saturday night and my Mom really got a kick out of listening it while she was working in her sewing room. I actually wanted to get a record player so she could listen to the copy of the Sound of Music soundtrack my nephew found for her so we need to have another listening-while-we-work-on-stuff session soon.
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