June 7, 2000
Dear Everyone:
Things have finally settled down at work, now that
the Conversion is “officially” over.
There’s still some mopping up to do, but I went home on time
twice this week and actually fired up the
treadmill.
I’m hoping to make a habit of this at least three nights per
week. Even if I only go 1-½
miles, that’s still 1-½ miles more than none.
I’d like to walk off a few pounds.
Like, about 40.
Actually, between switching from
bagels-with-cream-cheese
to low fat yogurt for
breakfast most mornings, and the troubles with The Tooth, I seem to have
misplaced about 10-15 pounds already.
I’d like to see that trend continue.
Speaking of The Tooth, we start replacement
procedures this Friday. I
have a two hour appointment to do the preliminary work for three new
caps and a
bridge.
Then, exactly two weeks later, another appointment to do the
final cementing. It will be
a great relief not to have this piece of plastic in my mouth all the
time. Not to mention being
able to bite into foods again.
(It’s the simple pleasures that mean so much.)
In other news…
“Jeannie” has been getting domestic.
She’s decided to get rid of the antique radio cabinet, built back
in the days when RCA used
real wood, to make room for the antique
phone booth
which she will be getting from Mother.
The radio cabinet had been purchased to house the
stereo system
that “Jeannie” had bought many long years ago.
But she only uses the part of the system that plays
CD’s.
Doesn’t use the radio component; doesn’t use the
turntable
component. So, last Sunday,
I helped move the cabinet away from the dining room wall and unscrew the
back of the cabinet. First,
I had to unscrew the
antenna for
the radio component. The
antenna had been attached to the inside of the cabinet (I even vaguely
remember putting this thing together for her).
Then I carefully disconnected the radio component and we
carefully withdrew it from the cabinet.
In the course of removing components, we also
discovered many very old
cassette
recordings, of things like “The
Monkees’ Greatest Hits”.
Also, CD’s minus
jackets. Also, jackets
containing CD’s far different from the descriptions on the outsides.
In some cases, the cassettes and the CD’s were duplicates of each
other. This probably
explains why “Jeannie” doesn’t seem to have any
LP’s.
She just keeps buying the same artists in new media.
(“If you find any
8-track tapes
back there, let me know.”)
Since “Jeannie” has no LP’s, we decided there was
no need to keep the turntable.
Carefully disconnected and removed this.
Which left us with the
amplifier (the
heart of a component system) and the
CD player.
And several sets of
headphones, most
of which no longer work.
“Jeannie” had discarded the
speakers ages
ago, because she always uses headphones, a trait that I’m sure the
neighbors appreciate.
By now, we needed a new place to put the amplifier
and CD player, as “Jeannie” had a colleague coming who was going to take
the cabinet off her hands.
It was at this point that “Jeannie” realized that she could get a brand
new, self-contained CD player for a fraction of the price she had
originally paid for the component system.
And that’s how everything ended up in the garbage can.
Luckily, “Jeannie” has a really big garbage can.
So next weekend, we’ll probably go to all the
electronic gizmo warehouse places (plenty of them) to comparison shop
for a new CD player, which will also contain a radio and cassette
player, whether you want them or not (maybe even a clock).
Love, as always,
Pete
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