Another fine day Ollie. If by fine you mean hot and humid. And sunny. The overcast didn’t last long and the sun was trying to cook my brains in my skull, but I fooled it, I don’t have any! Ha, take that sun. Seriously though, it did get a bit cooler in the afternoon and the breeze was nice. I hope that continues as it is very hot at the shop.

I did do a couple of pickups, kind of ‘clearing the decks’ before the weekend and getting ready to head to the BOL in a couple of days. Then I went to the shop and started plugging away at clearing enough space to get out of the storage unit. I did get distracted toward the end and spent some cool down time going through 5 boxes of LP records I picked up. There are a surprising number of $20 and $30 records in what was a random lot without even genre descriptions. If I can get moving on listing stuff, it’ll be a great purchase.

There is a box full of jazz and blues 78s on the Decca label that might even have some more valuable records in it, but I ran out of time to look them up. I really need to start listing stuff. And I need to sort and stack the stuff I’m keeping. I am making it a point to listen to a couple of records most days. Great stuff. Day before yesterday it was two very early Kinks records I hadn’t heard before. I like their later stuff better, so I should sell them, but I’ll probably keep them out of a need for completeness.

Little stuff to fill in around the bigger stuff…

Oh, and some other auction stuff arrived in the mail that will go into the armory stacks. Never know when you’ll need some parts.

Today I’ll be working on the shop and the storage unit. If I can get that albatross off my neck, I’ll count it as major progress along that path. Just have to stay cool and hydrated.

Baby steps are still steps. And adding to the stacks doesn’t hurt.

nick