I am a rock I am an island

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I bought a record player today. I bought it from a guy on craigslist for $20. I only had $17.70 in cash and couldn’t get my ATM card to work, so I paid him $15 in cash and wrote a check for $5. The pen died on me so I had to get out another one to finish filling it out. The dude thought I was weird.

But the good news is, now I can play and record vinyl on my computer. This is a grand accomplishment. It’s been probably five years since I’ve listened to my Simon & Garfunkel “Greatest Hits” album. The only vinyl album I own.

I can start going retro now.

Categories: Life, Music
Tags: Simon & Garfunkel, vinyl

Last Sunday, I hiked w/ my roommate Martin up the Little Si Trail in the Cascades. Roundtrip to the summit of Little Si, it’s a five-mile hike. This wore me out, but I had a lot of fun. Afterwards, we stopped back in North Bend and grabbed some excellent dinner at the North Bend Bar & Grill

Looking Up: A view of rocks to the side of the Little Si trail.

Looking Towards the Path: Looking towards the Little Si trail from the rocks about midway through the hike.

Martin on the Rocks

Mount Si: From the summit of Little Si, this is the view of Mount Si (I think)

Reference Mark at the Top of Little Si Trail: I can’t quite read the number of the reference mark, but the rest of it reads (from top to bottom):
FOR INFORMATION OR TO REPORT DAMAGE WRITE
REFERENCE MARK
THE DIRECTOR
NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY
WASHINGTON, DC

Categories: Photographs
Tags: Cascades, Little Si