Prosaic Paradise

I am in a small way writing this just because I love this picture I took this weekend.

But also because I am waiting for two packages I am super excited about. One pair of glasses from Warby Parker (Telf keeps her eye on the trends, and for that I am grateful!) and one Moleskine Folio from Rickshaw bags. My current/old glasses are about to fall apart and are in noticeable disrepair so no matter how much I love them, it is their time. The folio is more of a risk purchase because I’m not 100% sure it’s going to be the perfect thing, but I have a really hard time resisting a custom tool. If you make your product with a customizing tool, I am doomed. I do already have a bag from them that Jack’s awesome sister got me for Christmas, though, so I know their product is of excellent (not just good) quality.

Speaking of my sister-out-law, we got to see her and her two adorable kids and her partner this weekend, as well as Jack’s parents. That is where I took the mail truck photo. I’m still no baby whisperer but I got to hold the baby and do that bouncing-singing-calm down thing and the child did not cry.

On Friday I learned that the official Genesis website is being taken down. Basically, the band’s management handed over website/webstore/whatever to this company called Ultrastar when they went on tour in 2007. They set up memberships and forums and stuff and you paid an annual membership and got “some cool stuff” about 33% of which came through. I am not upset about that. I am highly upset that they are taking the community and dismantling it. I met so many cool and passionate people, musicians and fans, people I met in person at shows and tributes. I don’t really know who to blame. It makes sense for a band with a 40 year history to have a god damn official website. Well – I have most of the folks in my contact list on Facebook. But I still think it’s rotten. It was a tremendous resource. One person said “it was the best forum I’ve ever been a part of” and that’s true for me too. Yes, other forums are being built and alternatives sought, but now it will be many separate places and … just not the same.

Today was … today was a hard but worthwhile day. I had been struggling with the spare bedroom and doing anything at all with the contents. It was a graveyard of things I didn’t know what to do with but seemingly wanted to keep. I was/am blocked. Well, today Deborah came over in a gracious act of kindness and used her considerable personal organizing skills to start me on the path to usability. We got rid of 10+ trash bags of stuff, I lost count. There were points where I struggled with emotional attachments. My dad will probably laugh at me but I cried at the idea of throwing away his Cat Stevens’ Teaser and the Firecat cassette. It is one of only a few he had that we would listen to together. Obviously I have the music digitally but I remember that cassette as being my dad’s, listening to it in the garage while he worked on one thing or another. Well, I have a plan for that one. But the rest went.

Next week we do more. The even harder stuff. I can’t wait to get that room down to the boards, quite frankly.

Tags: genesis, stuff

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