…let alone take a road trip to California after I retire (again).<\/p>\n
I took a drive to Manheim Pennsylvania yesterday, to The Turntable Store where I had my Nakamichi cassette deck in for repair. The Turntable Store is a small, classic audio shop that sells used component stereo equipment from the late 20th century, and also does repairs. They also sell used vinyl and open reel music.<\/p>\n
Funny story…sort of. I asked the owner once if he ever got in any Heathkit stereo equipment, like maybe an AR-15, which I wouldn’t mind owning one of, and he looked at me funny. Then I realized that “AR-15” designation was a tad unfortunate these days and I had to explain. In Heathkiteze “AR” meant it was an integrated Amplifier and Receiver, “AA” was a unit that was only the amplifier section and “AJ” was the receiver section only. I still own the AA-14 I built back when I was a teenager that I use as a headphone amp.<\/p>\n
I did notice he had an AJ-14 receiver for sale there I could have bought to complement my AA-14, but I have the Radio Shack FM receiver dad gave me long ago as a birthday present so that’s not being replaced.<\/p>\n
On the way there and back I couldn’t help noticing something I’ve been dreading for a while now. Diesel is over six bucks a gallon now!<\/em> $6.30 in some spots. Great. Swell. Though I can’t afford to retire to the land of my birth I can still enjoy California fuel prices. But if it’s over six bucks around here I don’t want to think what it is in The Five Cities. I may not even be able to afford another road trip to California for the rest of the Trump presidency, and maybe even beyond, let alone living there.<\/p>\n Getting really tired of all this winning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …let alone take a road trip to California after I retire (again). I took a drive to Manheim Pennsylvania yesterday, to The Turntable Store where I had my Nakamichi cassette deck in for repair. The Turntable Store is a small, classic audio shop that sells used component stereo equipment from the late 20th century, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[322,55,367],"class_list":["post-14531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-geek-kid-chronicles","tag-this-and-that","tag-trump-rot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14532,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14531\/revisions\/14532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}