:: anne in the attic ::

Create Your Own Countdown

:: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 ::

Morning dawns again, a new April, and the clocks have sprung forward in anticipation, but I haven't really noticed, as I've been laid out with an evil flu since Saturday morning. I went in to work just to case up my route (took me less than two hours, working from within a fever) so that someone else could carry it, then went right home. And before I realized it, Monday had come and gone, here it is Tuesday already, and I am smack in the middle of wasting my vacation being sick. Well, fuck that. I called various people last night to cancel various obligations involving music and other such impossibilities in my condition. Later this morning, though, I'm attempting a drive up to see my brother, who was greatly disappointed at my inability to come up Saturday night as we'd planned and spend a couple of days in Portland with him. It's not like I'll be a hell of a ball; I'll only be good for some hangin' out and video games, maybe, which was all we really wanted to do anyway.

As I lay sweating, though, the fruits of my eBay labours have begun to roll in, and the analog end of my studio is shaping up. There were some fun things in there just for me, too, like some Ten Years After and the Emitt Rhodes I wanted in reel-to-reel format. I understand the term "stacking" to be when you splice several 3.75-ips albums together on one reel for hours of listening without having to bother with reel changing. And one of my decks has the coveted auto-reverse feature (the Sony that's going into the main stereo system; the Teac in the studio is strictly a one-way 4-tracker)-- a little sensing foil at the other end, and you can get a good 4 hours straight. High-tech in its day; of course, now we have CD decks with huge capacities by comparison, but I love learning about all of this stuff. The hands-on of it all gives me something I can't express, nurtures my soul, preserves a kind of history.

I will miss the fellowship of the choir tonight, but we have an all-day practice at the end of the week, and I don't wish to pass on any pestilence before that. And though I am looking forward to that, I must admit that sometimes it's nice just to miss people, if that makes any sense to anyone else but me.

:: Anne 10:20 AM [smartass remarks] ::
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