I've got a slight headache

this morning. I don't know why, but hopefully it will be gone soon. If you've ever had an optical migraine you'll know how unpleasant that is. Thankfully I don't have one of those. On the weekend I had one and it normally disappears after about 15 minutes. This one came back. In other words it reversed it's course and reappeared in my peripheral vision. Quite disturbing. Nobody cares about my problems anyway, but I'm just writing what comes into my head so that's what happened. 

It's 54 degrees outside and it's still humid AF. It's probably gonna rain later. I won't be going out in it.  I spend most of yesterday afternoon fixing up some recordings that the band made last week. Indeed, the humidity was so bad that my guitar kept going out of tune. I had to go back and re record some of the guitar parts, which I would normally not bother to do. This was very bad though. It's hard to do because the live mics pick up the sound of the amplifier and it bleeds through on everything that isn't a direct input. The only thing that is di'd is the bass guitar. 

Last night I was listening to some vinyl. I found a perfectly good Technics SL1200 MK2 turntable in Vermont years ago. It is a "legendary quartz-synthesized direct-drive turntable introduced in 1979 and produced until 2010, widely regarded as the standard for professional DJing and scratching. Its design features a high-torque brushless DC motor with 1.5 kg/cm starting torque, ±8% continuous pitch control and a vibration-resistant die-cast aluminum body that ensures stable rotation and precise beatmatching." It was buried among all the other audio video junk that Ray (the previous owner) had left behind. It's quite heavy and built like a tank.

 I brought it back here and hooked it up to the stereo amp that I play the TV through. It sounds great. In particular there was one album by Astrid Gilberto that sounded almost other worldly on the turntable. You tend to forget how good LP records sounded. Although it's just a diamond needle scraping along a groove, it's astounding how much detail they managed to squeeze into what is essentially a primitive (compared to today's digital crap)

sound delivery system.    

The record itself isn't mine either. The cat who had lived here for the past 50 years or so was a hoarder, so his collection of albums stayed behind when he took off. A lot of them are DJ copies, meaning they weren't for commercial sale.

I think he or his sister worked at a college radio station and they kept all the DJ copies that they were given.  The Astrid record has a red sticker on the front "DJ FOR SALE". This is one of those. The album is called "I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do" and it was released in 1969.

Wikipedia says "  I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do is a studio album by Brazilian bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto, released on Verve Records in 1969. In the liner notes Gilberto calls the album her "fireplace album".