Notes - little things / old Sony / Ms E.

         Afternoon. You did forty-five minutes of exercise today to make up for the thirty minutes of walking the mall yesterday. (Bose was at the other end.) A short while ago you picked up the directions and quickly added the Bluetooth and had it up and running. Now you are sitting in your bedroom chair listening to Pandora – your “Traveling Wilburys” themed station. - Amorella

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The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were a British-American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. The band recorded two albums in 1988 and 1990, though Orbison died before the second was recorded.

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         1358 hours. The sound is quite good, particularly with some of my favorite music; “Hotel California” is on presently. The musical instruments are clearly distinct as is the vocal. Awesome, there are no need for headphones. I am well pleased, just as I thought I would be. Now it is time for a little Simon and Garfunkel’s “Here’s Mrs. Robinson”.

         Looks like you are going out for “linner” at Smashburgers this afternoon.

         1535 hours. Carol is going to write checks for the two billings that came in the mail today; then we go to food. Trivial detail, but if a truck barreled into us on the way or on the back we would probably find some significance in the concept that the last thing we did was pay our bills. Reminds me of Socrates and his supposed last words to pay a chicken to someone (I think).

Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David

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         Your point here is that even the little things bring rise to great thoughts and questions. Post. – Amorella

         1545 hours. That’s good because I couldn’t figure it out. 

         You had potato chips for supper while watching “NCIS” with Carol – along with “CSI Cyber” and NBC News. Now you have ‘Easy Listening” on your Tune In app for Carol who is reading a new Good Housekeeping. She finished her latest book this morning. – Amorella

         2204 hours. It is very pleasant listening to the bedroom radio. That last time we bought a real radio was when we bought a Sony with a walnut boxed (real wood) AM/FM and cassette player built in; this was in 1972 when the cassette concept was still new. They also bought two walnut (real wood) boxes: (each enclosed with a six inch mid-range speaker and a tweeter) Sansui speakers. Carol’s parents bought it for us (we paid them for it) on a U.S. Army base in Germany as they were coming to work in USAID at State from the embassy in New Delhi. The radio/cassette and speakers still operate though I had to buy and install new six inch mid-range speakers when upgrading to a single Sony CD player. Also, I bought and installed a Radio Shack walnut (real wood) boxed subwoofer. This was in the mid-eighties. The whole system still provides warm sounding music and is a nice piece of furniture. We used it until I bought a Bose system for the TV, it had a DVD/CD player and an FM radio – two speakers each hanging from a single vertical piece of steel one on each side of the TV, a Sony 34” inch TV upgradable to HD (which we converted in 2003) – the TV we replaced last June.

         I should bring up that old Sony and put it in the little bedroom for guests to listen to. Jazz has a really mellow tone on that machine. Why not?  It makes the music sound vinyl recorded rather than CD stamped. I used to play it when I was exercising in the basement – last summer I gave the weight machine to Tim K. our neighbor as long as he and his son Ben would move it out. They did. Carol watches the TV when she uses the walking machine. (2234)

         The radio is off and Carol is going to sleep, the lights are out except the MacAir screen is on the dimmest setting. You don’t need to see the keys – you haven’t since Miss Ensore and your junior year high school typing class days. Post. – Amorella

         2238 hours. I had a major crush on Miss Ensore both junior and senior year. I was one of her ‘master typists’. I was allowed to use one of the two electric typewriters in the classroom all semester.

         You would have done anything to win her favor; typing well was the best thing you could come up with outside of going out for theatre class for two years because she, as one of the English teachers, was the ‘theatre department’. - Amorella