Once again, my plans thwarted! Old man winter (Old man river?) and young, woman, spring? (this doesn’t make any sense) teamed up to bring us continuous rain on Saturday in amounts sufficient to trigger a flash flood watch by the afternoon, and a bout of snow on Sunday with flakes the size of Chinese Stars (Jet Li?) that are still sticking around today. Since temps were above freezing pretty much the entire weekend, it’ll be some time before I can navigate the Blazer out to the lodge to move around the 5000lb bucket lift without a) getting stuck on the way in, and b) carving deep, muddy ruts around the building with that sucker hitched up.
So what did we do instead? Made excellent use of Saturday by getting up early and taking to the road. Headed down to Des Moines to the ReStore to see what they had to offer (scored a nice stack of 9x9 VAT) and some DalTile. From there to Calypso in one of the malls down there (http://www.calypso968.com/new/home.html) which was a very surreal experience in that you weren’t surprised by the Mohair Pair-esque items, but were caught off guard by vintage typewriters, chrome tables, radios and dinnerware actually for sale….inside a store…in the mall. Cara, being a pen lover, picked up another in the Retro 51 series and I couldn’t resist a chrome Colibri. The spacing and typeface on the clip reminded me very much of that used in the late 50’s, early 60’s on high-brow adding machines and computer equipment. Very Remington-Randish.
The rain continued off and on and we kept our eyes on the field waterways, driving north taking in the show. Stopped off at Bob and Barb’s after passing through Eldora and got the full tour of the place. A few hours later….still soggy and getting dark. Headed back and phoned in a pizza. Changed the clocks and collapsed in a pile of utter-tiredness.
More Sunday. Vowed to sleep in (huzzah!) and yet we were still tired. Shopped for groceries, spent a couple hours on laundry, and trekked over to the CF Lib with Cara. Here’s the deal: They have no books. Cara got her stuff, I found 3:10 to Yuma (2007) on DVD and upon looking over the Technology/Video/Computer non-fiction choices, I was awestruck by the fact that pretty much all the books were the exact some ones I checked out as a kid over 20 years ago. Nothing new. I cracked a couple open and sure enough, it all came back to me. Left with a very tattered copy of one I recognized, copywrite ’81. Flipped through it last night. Why should I pick VHS? Why should I pick Beta? The last half are all the machines on the market- features, prices, reviews. Interesting to actually own many of the machines and learn of their context in that time, 30 years later.
3:10 to Yuma (2007). Good movie, even with the english subtitles stuck on.
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