Buckle your seatbelts I’m about to get very meta. Yesterday is personally newsworthy because I did exactly what I’ve done the vast majority of days since March 2020, I stayed home. The news is that this is now newsworthy. For the last couple of months, I go out almost every day if for nothing more than my Donut Walk™. I was going to go out yesterday, but it started raining. Then as the rain let up I got a phone call. By the time that was over it was dinner time.
I did solve the mystery of the missing earbuds. The last time I used them was Sunday night walking to Yankee Stadium; I listened to the Met game the entire way. Let’s Go Mets! I then stuck them in my pocket. I foolishly forgot their case, so they were loose in my pocket. Yesterday I went to get them to talk on the phone. They weren’t on the table next to my chair where they usually live. They weren’t on the stand where I empty my pockets when I get home. They weren’t in the pockets of the shorts I wore to the game. They weren’t on the floor near any of the places I looked. I finally gave up and called without them. It’s much easier using my phone with the earbuds; smart phones are not ergonomically designed to be phones; they are minicomputers with a phone function. My phone call was long and by the end my arm was tired. I asked my friend to help me solve the mystery of the missing earbuds; I asked her, “If you were my earbuds would you jump ship so you can live in Yankee Stadium or hide somewhere in the apartment. Sadly, she came to the same solution I did, Yankee Stadium, damn stupid traitor Yankee fan earbuds. When I went to the kitchen to make dinner, there were the earbuds on the coffee table in the breakfast area. My guess is they did escape from my pocket, but at home, not the Yankee game, and my roommate picked them up and put them on the table. I found them right after I ordered a new pair. I didn’t cancel the order, I like to have two pairs, I did until one broke. Now I’ll have one to take with me when I go out and one that lives at home.
Remember I got all that free food they were handing out in my neighborhood? I’ve had mixed results eating it fast enough. I have only a drop left so I did succeed in finishing two gallons of milk before they went bad. I have not had the same success with the cheese. I had a block of pepper jack that I have neglected since I got all the free mozzarelle. I went to used it yesterday and found it had gone moldy. I went to the block of mozzarella I’ve been eating; it too went moldy. I’m almost finished with the shredded mozzarella, so that will survive unmolded, and I still have an unopened block of mozzarella. I hate losing the war against food spoilage, it’s wasteful. I regularly decided what to eat based on what I’m afraid will go bad soon. For breakfast I had Eggs Horvendile because I wanted to use an English Muffin. I’m going to have to actually go shopping to get milk and bread. It’s not worth the trip all the way over to Stop & Shop, but I want to take a walk anyway. What I’d really be giving up is the free Krispy Kreme donut.
Gord’s Gold is on Folk Music Notebook tonight at 11 EDT. Set your alarm now so you don’t miss it. Even better put on Folk Music Notebook now and keep it on all day so you can’t miss it. You’ll hear lots of other great music too.
The new episode is airing tonight, and I was getting antsy last night that I don’t have next week’s show prepared so I started work on it and programmed 50 minutes. The full show has about 55 minutes of music. I work well under pressure. I’ll probably make some changes before I record it. I see I got an email from an artist I asked to send me music. If she sent some, I know she would, I don’t know if she’ll be able to, I’ll add a song of the band’s to next week’s show. There’s so much music out there that I want the world to know.
Wise Madness 