What are you doing today?

We must have snared all the good weather then, supposed to be nearly summery temps here right up to end October. Nice extension of the old season and welcome distraction from the fact that the days are getting shorter.

Today still laughing over a gift that arrived in the mail from kinfolk who like me are book lovers... nice that it arrived in this stretch of sunny days, can wear it outdoors before next spring!

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lizkat said:
We must have snared all the good weather then, supposed to be nearly summery temps here right up to end October. Nice extension of the old season and welcome distraction from the fact that the days are getting shorter.

Today still laughing over a gift that arrived in the mail from kinfolk who like me are book lovers... nice that it arrived in this stretch of sunny days, can wear it outdoors before next spring!

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That's brilliant; while I'm not all that crazy about the colour - a black t-shirt seems to be a sort of default setting in my summer wardrobe, and mauve, lilac, purple are colors that just don't look well on me - I absolutely adore the sentiment expressed so eloquently.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
That's brilliant; while I'm not all that crazy about the colour - a black t-shirt seems to be a sort of default setting in my summer wardrobe, and mauve, lilac, purple are colors that just don't look well on me - I absolutely adore the sentiment expressed so eloquently.
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My problem with purple fabrics is that they can sun-fade to brownish tones somewhat over time. I'll have to be careful not to leave this out in the sun on a clothesline. Anyway nearly end of the time to be hanging wash out on the line this year. Love the fresh smell of sheets and pillowcases air dried like that, but I'm no martyr to the effect and I do quit hanging wash outside once the air grows cold.
 
On my squirrel proofing run (see home improvement thread ...), I hit up ABC (for future reference, that's the chain liquor store in these parts).

Picked up some Stone IPA (the "standard"), since it's kind of thematic with this time of year, some Rogue Dead Guy ale :)
 
DT said:
The small one went old school with her music, she got the new Tay Tay in today ... in this format o_O


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Why not, everything comes around again anyway, right? Even if slightly different. I could have gone for that color when I was spinning vinyl...

btw it's great that you no longer call a certain someone 'the little girl,' but one of these days, now that you have switched her moniker to 'the small one,' she's gonna school you on how she's a damn grown woman. Jes' sayin'... 🥳
 
lizkat said:
Why not, everything comes around again anyway, right? Even if slightly different. I could have gone for that color when I was spinning vinyl...
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I’ll be honest, I was a bit too young to hear records in their heyday. Went from compact cassette to CD. So I did recently pick up a turnable and a couple records (old and new) to try. I’ll be honest, it just sent me back to collecting CD for the quality + physical format. But I do lament that CDs are getting trash packaging these days. Getting it on vinyl is probably a better collector’s item, but I like listening to the music rather than the surface noise.
 
Nycturne said:
I’ll be honest, I was a bit too young to hear records in their heyday. Went from compact cassette to CD. So I did recently pick up a turnable and a couple records (old and new) to try. I’ll be honest, it just sent me back to collecting CD for the quality + physical format. But I do lament that CDs are getting trash packaging these days. Getting it on vinyl is probably a better collector’s item, but I like listening to the music rather than the surface noise.
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I"ll be honest too... at my age the appeal of digital downloads is pretty high. I've ripped a lot of CDs and kept fewer than a hundred, probably. l still do have some vinyl, mostly some Musical Heritage Society of less often performed Bach Cantatas and etc., but I don't buy many CDs or any vinyl any more. Truly trying to settle into decluttered mode. Apple Music works for me.

Still I love the orange of @DT's daughter's latest pick. We're coming up to the season of greys and lavenders here now, once the leaves fall off the trees. It's a time when I start hauling out fabrics with tropical foliage prints on them, to brighten what I see around the inside of my place.
 
Not a fan of Taylor Swift, but oooh, look at that luscious orange vinyl record!!! Orange is my favorite color. I'd buy the album just for that, even if I never even played it (which I couldn't since my turntable is pretty old, I doubt that I'd be able to replace the needle and cartridge thingy, and so I'd be hesitant about risking any of my vinyl records on it now).

Like Liz, I'm, ahem, somewhat "vintage," and am thoroughly enjoying the ease with which we can now listen to and purchase music today. Earlier this evening I spent some time listening to Alabama Shakes, having run across their lead singer, Brittany Howard, singing in a video and immediately becoming intrigued. This woman can SING and she's charismatic. She's got a bright future ahead of her. Thanks to the magic of YouTube and then iTunes (pardon me, Apple Music) I was able to listen to enough songs to know that I wanted the Alabama Shakes albums plus Brittany's that she released as a solo effort after separating from Alabama Shakes to strike out on her own. A click of the appropriate button and voila! My iTunes Library now has some new additions.... Sure beats going to a record store and really not knowing exactly what we were getting on an album except the one or two tracks that had been featured in extensive radio play!

I keep staring at that photo of the gorgeous orange vinyl.......I wonder if the B&N down the road from me has it available....?!! Oh, I suppose I ought to at least give the "Midnights" album a listen on iTunes, too, while I'm at it, just to see what it is all about, what Taylor has come up with now...

Oh -- one more thing..... Please, DT, your daughter is growing up and coming into her own, so please don't refer to her as a a little girl or "the small one" -- she would not thank you for that! Referring to her on here as "the Daughter" works just fine, at least for me.
 
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I’ve not bought any physical music in years. Perhaps decades. I still have a few CD’s but my vinyl collection never left my childhood home with me. By then it was tapes (mostly for the car) or CD’s.
All my CD’s got stolen when I lived in Newcastle, so I only replaced some as I was poor back then with no house insurance.
Then I bought an iPod and that was that. Still got it somewhere, but not sure if it still works.
 
No vinyl here, but I also bought the new Taylor Swift CD at Target yesterday since there are three bonus tracks on a CD exclusive to Target. Of course my daughter has no way of listening to a CD. 🙄 But I think she is hoping her dad can pull the songs for her since he does still have a CD/DVD player on his PC which he built himself. He is currently out of town with our son at a lacrosse tournament, but they'll be home tonight.
 
mollyc said:
No vinyl here, but I also bought the new Taylor Swift CD at Target yesterday since there are three bonus tracks on a CD exclusive to Target. Of course my daughter has no way of listening to a CD. 🙄 But I think she is hoping her dad can pull the songs for her since he does still have a CD/DVD player on his PC which he built himself. He is currently out of town with our son at a lacrosse tournament, but they'll be home tonight.
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I keep an Apple SuperDrive for that exact reason.
 
I do use my CD rips more often than the CDs directly, but it’s easier to go back to the CD in the case of something happening with my Plex server, and I don’t have to worry about copyright fights causing stuff to go missing (Kindle). I kinda do the same with movies.

But if I want that physicality of popping out a disc, putting it in the player and listening that way, I do have a CD player in my home stereo.
 
mollyc said:
on a CD exclusive to Target.
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Argghh. Nothing is sacred any more, right? Used to be we all nagged parents for "whatever it was" until they caved in or the world had moved on to helping us all want something newer but in the meantime the later "collectibles market" only had one kind of whatever it had been...

Now it's that we must all serially want one of "whatever it is" that's exclusive to some retailer? I must turn the page on this topic, else turn into a curmudgeon even before the ballgames today.
 
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I keep an Apple SuperDrive for that exact reason.
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Same here! Until I bought a new car two years ago I used to play CDs in the car, but my Honda Civic Hatchback Sport doesn't have a CD player, since it provides the connections for plugging in my iPhone when I want to use Apple Car Play. Mostly I just use the wireless BT feature and keep my iPhone in my purse when I'm running errands and not really driving all that far. In the house I listen to music on the computer or iPad or occasionally dig out the old portable CD player when there's one of my CDs that I haven't gotten around to ripping in order to put an album or specific tracks into my iTunes library. Ah, the best of intentions....

I still have some vinyl albums from the long-ago past and have occasionally flirted with the idea of getting a turntable which can be plugged into the computer, but most of them I also already have in digital form anyway, having purchased them in iTunes or ripped the CD version. A few, though, are not available in any format other than the original vinyl record from many years ago, so I'll probably never get to listen to them.again. Keeping them for sentimental reasons now.....
 
mollyc said:
No vinyl here, but I also bought the new Taylor Swift CD at Target yesterday since there are three bonus tracks on a CD exclusive to Target. Of course my daughter has no way of listening to a CD. 🙄 But I think she is hoping her dad can pull the songs for her since he does still have a CD/DVD player on his PC which he built himself. He is currently out of town with our son at a lacrosse tournament, but they'll be home tonight.
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I think the exclusives are kind of cool, it's about the collecting, it's no different than the alternate comic book covers I used to buy, 4 of the exact same book, or trading cards with different variants, etc. The K-pop scene is really big into the collectors angle, CDs come packaged with books, cards, posters, and there are whole online exchanges where kids swap.

Heck, we almost bought the HHN '22 official soundtrack on vinyl, just for a collectors item from the event (not much different than a poster, flannel shirt, whatever).
 
DT said:
I think the exclusives are kind of cool, it's about the collecting, it's no different than the alternate comic book covers I used to buy, 4 of the exact same book, or trading cards with different variants, etc. The K-pop scene is really big into the collectors angle, CDs come packaged with books, cards, posters, and there are whole online exchanges where kids swap.

Heck, we almost bought the HHN '22 official soundtrack on vinyl, just for a collectors item from the event (not much different than a poster, flannel shirt, whatever).
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I've done that, too, gone to whichever particular chain was selling a "deluxe" or "special edition" version of a favorite artist's album on CD, with a few bonus tracks included. In one case I have the same album on vinyl, on CD (regular version and special deluxe edition) AND in my iTunes library. If I recall correctly, this has been the only reason I've set foot in a Walmart, because they happened to be the store offering the exclusive version a few times. Other years it's been Target which had the special version.
 
Today I started out seriously grumpy. Stayed up too late lighting candles for the blasted hapless Yanks, woke up to rain, so also to falling leaves and cooler weather. And was looking at a surplus of stuff to eat that seemed out of season, e.g., lettuces and tomatoes, when lentil and potato soup seemed like a better idea.

Obviously a pile of first world problems. Got on with some fall cleaning to get my blood moving and snap out of a silly funk.

Anyway I found some fabulous leftover chili in the freezer so that's on the menu for tonight and by tomorrow the warm weather drifts back in, so the salad fixings will seem more appealing. Things already lookin' up...
 
One our Halloween favorites is a movie, Trick 'r Treat, it was originally made in 2007, had a little preview tour, and wound up just being released DTV. It's really gotten a good cult following, really fun, stars Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin, and the always amazing Brian Cox, it's an anthology with a really well done wrap around story as well as each segment being tightly incorporated into the others, some neat perspective and time shifts.

Well, it finally got a theatrical release this week and we got tickets for Halloween night. Hitting up a super nice Cinemark theater, selected seats, a great place to eat is right in the same plaza (big brewhouse and they have some killer seasonal draft right now), so that's our Halloween plans.

That's right, we will not be doing anything at the house for Halloween after about 20 years of doing it up. We did change our various LED lights/projectors to Halloween-esque colors, and put up a few things on the interior, but that's it. Not bringing down any of the dozen boxes of outdoor decorations, props, lights, etc.

We're still having a blast with horror films, our trips down to HHN '22 were incredibly fun, but just not feeling spending all the time to setup, and to hand out candy in this area (if you get my drift ... :D)
 
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