It’s weird that the long weekend doesn’t go right into June. We have another almost full week of May left after today. Such is the calendar, I suppose. As I sit here in my home office, it’s cool enough for me to open the window to a pretty early evening breeze. As I look over to the open window, I see a family getting into their vehicle across the street, presumably after spending the day at the park. It’s a lucky thing to have the park in walking distance of us. One of these days, we’ll take a walk to it…
We stayed in for the long weekend. We’re slowly but surely unpacking and it’s almost like Christmas discovering items packed long ago. I keep finding Oakland Athletics memorabilia, which is fantastic. We got to a few boxes of books and I’m glad to have some of my hardcover books on the shelves yet I know I have more. I also found my ten year high school reunion program and remembrance booklet, which I’ll add to my yearbooks when I get to them.
It’s so great getting our collections out of boxes and onto their places. LOVE that we have a vinyl collection, which we will slowly grow. Our movie collection is also growing but now we also have laserdiscs out and logged along with our blu-rays and 4k movies. We have always kept our analog collection in good condition, whether movies or music. I’m still going to buy digital music because not all the artists I follow release even CDs. I even have 45s. It’s amazing that they still play.
The laserdisc collection is not likely to grow by very much since they don’t make them anymore. We had a small collection, gave some of the movies to my dad then took them back and more after he passed away. He stuck labels on some of them, with his name and address, and I find it oddly comforting to have. Dad loved watching movies.
While writing this, I took out my DSLR and shot some photos. I really should take it out into the world again. It’s an old camera but it is still quite capable.
I am sitting here in my home office and one of the end credits is playing from Thor: The Dark World in the loft. It is night now, about an hour before bedtime. It’s already under 60F outside and the breeze whistles by then wanders in with a cool caress. Like now, just a soft, almost imperceptible touch. I can hear the cars pass by on O’Hara Avenue. Sometimes they turn on to Adams Lane. But not at the moment. Right now it’s just the wind and my fingers on the keys of my Macbook Air. If I lean forward a bit to look out the window, I can see the street lamp in front of our house. Our house.
- I didn’t go out to see The Mandalorian and Grogu this weekend. I think I need to go out next weekend because what kind of Star Wars fan am I if I don’t see the movie in the first couple of weekends? Oi!
- We did get The Mandalorian seasons on 4k steelbook. It’ll fun to re-watch that way!
- Ordered a Riley Green vinyl because I want more vinyl.
- Super tempted to join Riley Green’s fan club. What am I saying? I’m going to end up joining, aren’t it?
