Return to antiquing
Two quietly busy days: Saturday, I finally felt up to doing to some housework about the place. Also went out to pick up a few groceries while getting my schedule for ye day job. Come to find out I got a huge amount of hours next week: no complaint here, as I find myself ready to go back to work. This week off did me some good, despite the cough I've been shaking off lately.
Today/Sunday - First time in a couple of months that my dad went antiquing, this time along the "Antiques Alley" between Epping and the outskirts of Concord, NH. Popped into a few small shops, mostly in converted barns and what looked like old general store spaces. One place had a whole slew of vinyl LPs - all for a dollar a piece - in the rear of the shop, which felt like a little piece of heaven: dug through some of the bins, found a few things, including a set of Alban Berg's "Wozzeck", also the two-disk collection of Kurt Weill songs "Berlin to Broadway", which I've had my out for after I had it out of one of the local libraries and it vanished when they culled the entire vinyl. Gotta say, Weill was one of the composers that helped inform my later teen years, for better or worse. The whole raffish decadence of his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht gave my conservative, somewhat sequestered self the jolt that it needed, and it helped me to start challenging my boundaries.
Snow falling tonight: I peeked out to find a coating of silver on the trees and the grass. Weather reports say we'll have a couple inches by morning, which I look forward to walking through on my way to work: first time to break out the snow boots I bought a couple of weeks back.