Big Saturday Night

Flipping through the tv channels last evening in between shows we were enthralled by an unexpected surprise. It stopped us dead in our tracks when we heard the sounds. It was music from country western songs. We aren’t the biggest country western fans, but John Schneider from Dukes of Hazard was promoting the music. While they were showcasing all the artists, a few stood out for a variety of reasons. My husband asked me about Mac Davis - who he recognized but couldn’t remember his name. I used to watch the Mac Davis show way back when. In fact, my parents - particularly my dad - loved music. We had singles, 78’s and 33’s of broadway shows like South Pacific, Annie Get Your Gun, and movie soundtracks from Hatari to Sound of Music, to Polish Polka music. We watched every music show from Mitch Miller to Lawrence Welk to Dean Martin.... so the sounds emanating from tv brought back memories. Dolly Parton was a favorite. We listened to the infomercial in its entirety. After playing iPad games for a while we turned the tv back on to the same channel. This time The Teen Years music was being promoted by Neil Sadaka creating more memories of Rick Nelson and so many more. Music has always been soothing and a comfort to me and as we get older every song brings back so many memories. It was a weird way to spend a part of our Saturday night. I’m not sure who would actually buy all of those CD’s, but I can understand why someone might. 

CD Reader

My old laptop had a CD reader/drive. We used a lot of CD’s back then. When I got my latest Toshiba laptop at least five years ago, I opted not to get the CD drive. I use my iPad for just about everything, and needed a simple laptop for functions the iPad just doesn’t have. I never cared for the iMacs and software, so I just stuck with the what I had been using at work for so many years. Now we have a project that requires reading a CD. Rather than try to figure it out at the local library, we decided to just buy the CD drive and take the time to review the records in the comfort of home. So we drove over to Best Buy and picked up a dell unit. It’s obviously easy to use. I’m sad that I didn’t think about getting it earlier because when we moved almost eleven months ago to our new condo in northern Virginia from Capitol Hill, we threw out all of our CD’s - a couple movies and many albums. You could say we are creatures of having the least amount of junk on our hands. When we moved, we purged even more of the few things that we owned. If it’s really important we can always access the music or the movie digitally. Somehow that never happens.