Perfection
The filets were cooked to perfection. Beach urchins took care of all the rest of the food. We couldn’t get the music pods working the way we wanted to so the Racc started pulling out records (and we dredged some more records up from the basement) and he did a great job of DJ-ing throughout the evening.
A number of years ago I started boxing up my record collection, such as it is, as well as my parents’ records and I was about to donate the whole shebang. Not so fast, KW. Little Cat Z happened in on all this during a visit from her then home in Detroit. Not so fast, mama. She took a box of records and the rest, or some of the rest, were relegated to the basement. I think I was thinking something like digitizing the ones I wanted and donating the rest. As it turns out, I was wrong (again!) because they sure came in handy tonight. And with somebody else’s eyes to leaf through the so-called collection, the playlist was much more interesting than whatever I might’ve stumbled upon. I do NOT have anything approaching an organized record collection, which may (or may not) make DJ-ing more interesting.
The pic is one I took on my daily winter 2012 schlep to hang out with The Commander at the War Memorial Hoosegow in Sault Ste Siberia. YakTrax on, backpack filled with two laptops (work and personal), phone in one pocket, cash, cards, and keys in the other. People up there were and are ingenious with their snow removal equipment. This is just a small bit of equipment. On the other end, there is a HUGE snowplow that can lift a plow totally up in the air over a parked car if necessary.
This was a cold day but in truth, that winter was an extremely warm one overall. The I500 snowmobile race was a mud race that year and after The Comm died in late February, when we were back on The Planet Ann Arbor, March featured temperatures in the 90s, a tornado and trees that flowered two months early. Flowering trees usually don’t blossom until May here.
January 18th, 2026 at 10:09 am
The building looked familiar, but I was thinking Ann Arbor at first. Not quite right for the State Theatre, though. Now I know exactly where it is and remember when it was JC Penny. Isn’t that where you, UKW, and I bought fabric for sleeveless dresses?
January 18th, 2026 at 3:08 pm
We’re having that early flowering here! When OD lived in New York, I was amazed at the different types of snowplows–sidewalk ones, HUGE ones, etc. We have one style. 🙂 Vinyl has come back into popularity. Warmer sound?