I’ve been up to Minnesota a few times, but this trip was unique. I flew in but did not have a rental car so I was reliant on my local colleagues to cart me around. When that ended, I was on my own – which is fine with me. This time I was in the […]
Before I begin today’s tale, just wanted to acknowledge that just a couple weeks ago is the three year anniversary of my first post on this blog, which now totals nearly 300 posts. This post is the 150th tagged ‘thrift store’ so just to do some very, very rough math at 25 records each, that […]
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US-1 is the Maine Line
I’ve visited New Hampshire before and did a good job working through Manchester and also some of Portsmouth. I found myself back in Portsmouth but I knew there was little to nothing left there so I turned my eyes north to Maine. Unbelievably, I found an array of thrift stores on the main road out […]
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the space between
the space between records and their receptacles the travelers often depart the bin sees all bold and proud omnipresent always watching but off in the distance on the horizon orphaned vinyl long to make their way back home ‘pots & pans’ herb & mantovani piled high waiting for the phone to ring back at the […]
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Eyes on Iowa
Had to take a brutal 8 hour drive to the Kansas City area. I already have Kansas and Missouri checked off the list but determined (even though it may have been slightly longer) I could take I-80 straight west to Des Moines, where it becomes I-35 and took me right to my destination. So I […]
If there was ever a better example of ‘no rest for the wicked’, it was that I got called to go to Buffalo while I was on vacation in Orlando. I rushed back having booked my trip before I even got home and made my way back out east for ‘fall guy’ type of political […]
Proud to check yet another state off my list! Had an awesome opportunity to head out to Seattle for 5 nights. The work of course was tough, bad hours as well. But lots of down time and I knew in advance I’d be doing everything I could to take advantage. I was there from Thursday-Tuesday […]
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‘Triangle’ crate (3 of 4)
So I continued on with my journey to create four completely irregular, asymmetrical crates to be stored, two by two, on a shelf in my living room where my old television used to be, which is now in an electronics recyclery or a landfill. With this bin, I wanted to incorporate triangles. The simplest approach […]
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Garage Sale, Addison
Nothing better than waking up Saturday morning and checking your phone in bed and seeing on gsalr.com that there is a garage sale with records you can bike to that morning. Unless it’s raining. And you have to suddenly go to work. When all that was done I drove over there and found some major […]
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‘Laser Beam’ crate (2 of 4)
So I have continued my work building four crates to move some of the weight of my vinyl collection out of my office and across the floor plan of my condo. When you worry about your record collection busting through the floor due to it’s mammoth size….yeah, you have a problem. However unfounded my worries […]