Post-Thanksgiving Day Notes

• Why is it that I can't drive over the bridges between downtown Salem and West Salem without thinking "earthquake!" .... as in: is this when the big one is going to hit!!? It's one of my fears. I don't want to be over a river when the shaking starts.
• I'm obsessed lately with searching out books of poetry. Also with taking pictures. I always wondered what would take the place of playing basketball when it came to my recreation time. 
• Once again observed my favorite holiday .... Record Store Day, Black Friday edition. Came away with a ten-inch Son Volt EP and a live John Lee Hooker release. ..... (RANDOM ACT of KINDNESS alert!!!) The store owner then handed me a complimentary live Dawes double record. I don't know much about them but I seem to recall a Jackson Browne connection of some sort. As in he's been attempting to get the word out about them.
• I'm amazed at how you can have a perfectly beautiful day (yesterday) followed by an incredibly dreary day (today). I've always wanted to see the actual atmospheric separation point.
• "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!" .... Heard that twice now the past few days. I'm going to have to get a copy of True Grit.
• Re-connected with an old friend a few days ago. It had been at least fifteen years, maybe twenty but I still feel surprise at how much his life has changed in that time. Things they've been through that I had no or little idea of. And resultantly I feel more appreciative of the lack of change in my own.
• So many bands that have been around for decades that I know nothing about. Incredible when you consider how much money, research and time that I've spent on collecting music over the years.