i got out of the shower yesterday evening to get something to eat, which was supposed to be temporary; i was supposed to get back in shortly. instead, my sunday meal dragged out a little longer than expected, as i stopped a few times and got distracted. i passed out briefly around 1:00 am, woke up and made some coffee and meant to setup my old five discer in the bedroom, but that took longer than expected; i did some writing, and then fell asleep around 7:00 instead of getting back in the shower in the morning. this turned out to be a long sleep - all the way until about 17:00 pm. i think i needed the rest, and it actually let my hair get it's shape back a little; after washing it all day yesterday, it had developed a weird flatness that looked awful, which was due to the tangled sections under the visible sections getting cleaned, which has been the problem for the last few weeks. this is partly due to growing out of the awkward phase of regrowing; what i'm describing is my hair reestablishing layers, due to the breakage that's occurred over the last two years. i want pretty even and pretty straight hair, so this is pissing me off. it looks more like normal hair again today.
my sunday meal was what was left in the fridge, and i ate it in four steps - two oranges, and then six pieces of garlic bread, in three waves. this is not a meal, exactly, but it almost entirely clears out my fridge, which is the last thing in the kitchen left to clean. all that's left in there is a bit of marble cheese, some drips of ceasar dressing, a bulb of garlic, a handful of dill and some various soup broth, including beef broth and chicken broth. i still have a lot of canned food and a lot of pasta left, so i'm going to make some kraft dinner tonight to really clear out the fridge (except the broth, which i will need to find ways to eat this month, as i did in may and june), clean it out, spend the night in the shower, try to get some laundry done in the morning and then try to get out around noon. i have two pasta meals left in my first meal cycle (which is four plates), but the item i have the most of in my pantry is excess pasta of types i don't normally eat (like penne), so i expect to be eating pasta for most of the next several weeks. it is increasingly clear that i will need to have another month of adventures in food bank food, and maybe get back into schedule for august 1st. maybe. the kd tonight will contain everything left in the fridge except the broth plus spices and yeast for nutrition and be the end of my sunday meal.
the system i set up last night is a jvc xl fz-158 five disc changer through the yamaha cr-620 and into the celestion ditton 110s. i explained that my dad gave me the celestions with the nad for use with my pod (which didn't work as intended) and probably noted that the cr-620 was also a gift that he purchased at a garage sale in the distant past. he at one point had the cr-620 set up in his unfinished basement with a record player (which i also have) in one of the many houses he lived in, but it was rare for him to have an unfinished basement, and he ended up giving me the cr-620 for use with the celestions (i actually think that's where the celestions were initially being used) around 2008ish or so because he was told by my stepmother to get it out of the house because it was too old looking. my stepmother was very shallow, in that sense. anything that looked like it was vintage (furniture or electronics) could not be allowed anywhere where it could be seen; everything always had to look like it was recently purchased, brand new. she would not allow a record player in the house at all, apparently, as it was too old looking. it's the literal idea of keeping up with the joneses taken to extreme levels of psychosis. it was ok to have older gear in the unfinished basement, or hidden in my bedroom when i lived there, but as soon as they moved somewhere with a finished basement, he had to get rid of it, as he could not put a behemoth chrome stereo receiver from the 1970s in a finished basement, it just looked too old and out of place. these items were consequently transported to my apartment partly as a way for him to store them for future retrieval and use, as that's what he always did with vintage gear in the past, he hid it in my bedroom, which she stayed out of by mutual agreement. and, she would literally just turf stuff she didn't like the look of, she didn't care what it was worth or what it sounded like. my room was the only safe place in the house, so he no longer had a safe place to hide things once i left. i had the 620/celestion pairing initially set up in my bedroom on bronson in ottawa as a secondary system (with the newer panasonic 5 disc cd-changer, which is actually a dvd player, and which he gave me around the same time), and that three piece system transferred to the living room on marion, before being disassembled on curry because it was really a studio apartment and i didn't think it made sense to have two systems (i eventually set up both the kefs and the celestions together). i am back to having two distinct systems here again (four actually) and have reassembled the celestion/cr-620 pairing (after rejecting the nad for the celestions a second time) but have swapped the panasonic 5-disc for the jvc 5-disc because the panasonic has become the main cd/dvd player, partly because it's newer and partly because it's more functional and partly because the jvc developed some issues after retrieving it from storage in 2013.
i initially got the jvc as a birthday present in 1998 and it has followed me everywhere since. it's a relatively inexpensive player that doesn't read dvds or mp3 cds but does have some advanced programming features. when i got it out of storage in 2013, it had a noticeable dip in the metallic exterior, indicating something had probably been dropped on it. i have used it sparingly, since, but have generally had it placed in my bedroom near my bed and intended it to be used for listening to music through headphones while i'm reading in bed, as it has a separate headphone out and doesn't need to go through an amp. i realized some time around the year 2022 that the tray was jammed.
i did fix the tray issue some time last year, but have struggled to get the player to engage until this morning. i'm going to operate on the hypothesis that the lasers are slightly out of alignment but that they will realign themselves with use. therefore, the more i use the device, the better it will work.
it was able to play songs from the big chair this morning without skips or crashes. great.
this will allow me to listen to a broader subsection of my cd collection, and not just the aor stuff that the nad can drive through the yamahas without clipping below 50 hz, and specifically while i'm getting to work on catching up on email in my bedroom.