I have the great luxury of spending all day with my daughter every Friday. My wife’s work schedule changed and my job is very flexible, so now I work 10 hour days (from home) M-Th with Friday off. AMAZING. Anyway, Emi and I did a lot of running today. Got some errands done, then went for lunch and to the “The Music Store” (Guitar Center) so she can bang around on the drums. She had her first gig (haha) and it was a lot of fun. Got her some drum sticks and a soprano recorder. Having a kid is a great excuse to pick up more weird instruments.
Saw some decaying signs and snapped pics. I miss shooting in the city and need to plan a time to go wander around with my camera soon.
We also went to pick up a reel to reel player I found for almost nothing on Craigslist. The day we brought the cassette recorder home from my wife’s grandmas’s house, we also brought home a few reels of very old (60s?) voice recordings. Seems that instead of writing letters back home, she and her family in Japan would record themselves describing their current events and mail the tapes back and forth. The machine works, but runs slow. Needs a belt checking and a deep cleaning. Had some old foam disintegrate so I’m sure the insides are a mess. More on this soon.