78 deg outside right now? I guess it is, the thermometer says so. It’s supposed to be 90 on Thursday. At this rate I’ll be going to Florida to cool down. Today I have to tidy up the corner of the living room that has all the spare drums, amps and other paraphernalia that won’t fit in the music room. It isn’t the living room really, it’s a separate space that was a room, but for some reason the wall was knocked down to make the living room one bigger room. It’s hard to explain. They’ve done so much to this 125 year old house that it’s nothing like it was when it was originally built. The outside is the same. The inside….better not to think about it.
“Don’t worry, I’ll hook you up.”
The cable guy is coming in a few days to check the equipment, so I have to make room and clear out all of this stuff otherwise he’ll just shake his head and walk away. I can’t do much about the 6 ft grand piano, but I can get rid of most of the other stuff. I also need to tune my piano which fortunately I can do. All you need is a good ear, an app and the proper tuning tool. It’s a special wrench that fits on the tuning pegs and allows you to move them without breaking them. I’ve done this before.
There are three strings for most of the notes, and you just have to get them all in tune. You have little foam paddle dampers that you stick in between the individual notes which allows you to isolate the one that is out of tune with the rest. I’m sure everyone is fascinated by all of this. I won’t be doing any of that today.
Nothing is happening in the news. It’s the same old tedious stuff. The Post is obsessed with Eric Swalwell and his sex scandals and to a lesser extent Zohran Mamdani’s first city-owned grocery store which will cost a $30 million to build from the ground up at East Harlem’s longstanding La Marqueta. Kids, this is communism 101. You promise people free stuff and then set about to deliver it at 10 times the cost that should be. As the article says, “Even assuming New York City’s priciest union-driven construction costs, a standard-sized 25,000-square-foot grocery store should only be about $15 million to build, said Adam Lehodey, an expert at the Manhattan Institute.”
Where does all the money go? You can’t seriously tell me that it costs $30 million to renovate an existing grocery store? This is what people voted for apparently. The taxpayers funding this nonsense better not find out about it, they’ll be mad and might decide to decamp elsewhere
Just a regular guy, riding the subway with the plebes.
Of course the lunatic people who are experts at wasting money now will want to tax you for wanting to get away from the madness. Stop the madness already.
Good Day