[Today’s run: 3.2 miles]
This week’s runs were M-W-F and gym days were M-Th. I’m going to head south early in the morning instead of going to Starkville for the running group. I hope to be on the water, fishing with my son not too long after the sun comes up.
I’ve made some purchases of LP records lately. I bought one on-line and about a dozen at a local thrift shop. The on-line one was Boz Scaggs. The thrift shop haul was mostly classical with a couple of Tony Bennett albums thrown in.
I play them on a cheap turntable attached to my Fisher X-100 tube amplifier which I refurbished awhile back.
The speakers are Klipsh KG2 which I bought right after we were first married. I bought the speakers, an NAD receiver and an NAD CD player… and one music CD. We were living in Chicago and my wife didn’t understand why we needed a stereo. But I had gotten my first full time job and she gave me a bit of leeway. The NAD stuff is long gone but the speakers are still here.
Some of the records I had in my teen years have disappeared over time. Maybe some day they will turn up. But I have plenty to choose from.
I also have a CD player and some CDs, nothing amazing.
For classical albums, there are a lot of recordings of the standard stuff available and I don’t really know which are good and which aren’t. But if I see a name I recognize I usually go that way. I go for the Horowitz or Van Cliburn or Itzhak Perlman or Yo Yo Ma if given the option. I would say my tastes are middling when it comes to composers.
I have some jazz too. I would like to get Ellington’s Far East Suite. I had checked that out from the library one time and I enjoyed it. And I would like to get the Brubeck Quartet Time Out album that has Take Five on it. I have some big band stuff that I like, one in particular is Moonglow by the Artie Shaw orchestra. Somehow I ended up with a whole bunch of George Benson.
My daughter bought me Abbey Road a few years ago and that is my only Beatles record. I have a lot of Chicago.
Forty seven years sounds like a long time. This year they are doing RAGBRAI 50 (this coming week), which means it was 47 years ago that I last did it.
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Last week Mom regaled us at length about how you and one of your friends went on one of the first RAGBRAIs on your own. They were completely confident a couple middle school boys could go on a trek like that.
Two things come to mind regarding confidence: (1) In grade school we biked to Altoona’s public pool on NE 56th with no shoulder to speak of and used by trucks. (2) If memory serves, the father of the guy on that RAGBRAI trip died about a decade later when falling out of a boat while fishing in Canada (Abram Lake?). (I can be wrong to one degree or another on both – that happens.)
44 years for me.
Make that 45!