COVID Senior Lockdown, Day 23

I’m not sure whether any of you remember Ted Koppel, but he was assigned to host the original Nightline on ABC. He was a semi-known at the time, and the show was initially about tracking the day-to-day developments in the Iranian hostage situation in the late 70s, which lasted 444 days until the election of Ronald Reagan. Then they set them free literally minutes after he took office. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go stream it and come back.

Waiting…..

Okay, there’s history here about how other nations’ actions affect us. That’s all. Up to you whether you look into it.

However, rather than rag on China, I’d rather report how we entertained our neighbors the other night. After a long and difficult day of manual labor for both me and Mrs. F, we poured a couple, opened the turntable, and slung a few platters onto the slab. In other words, we played records on the record player.

First was Mrs. F looking for some Allman Brothers vibe. Whipping Post was the choice. She found a long, loud, live version in our vintage vinyl collection. We cranked it to 11, opened the back doors, and audially invited the neighborhood in. Cool.

By the time we had segued to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (also on vintage vinyl, he said proudly), we had the next door family chatting cheerfully with us across the fence. Well, shouting cheerfully, actually, over the, you know, music. Their 12-year-old plays a mean picnic table drum solo, I must say. We all screamed at the end. Good song. Great day.