1. I drove to CdA first thing this morning to have the damage assessed that I inflicted on the Camry's sideview mirror a weekend ago.
I made the easy drive over more enjoyable by listening to Dave Gans' radio show, Tales from the Golden Road, on Sirius/XM's Grateful Dead channel. It's a call in show and listening to caller after caller tell stories of shows they went 40-50 to almost 60 years ago and marveling at the detailed knowledge many of these callers have about show tapes was really fun and reminded me yet again why I do not consider myself a Dead Head. All I do is listen to the band. I don't have detailed knowledge, great stories, a long history of having gone to a ton of shows, or any tapes. I don't have any tie dyed clothing either!
I love listening to Dead Heads tell stories and discuss the Deadiverse, but I cannot count myself one of them.
I was also happy to hear so many of these longtime Dead Heads express their enjoyment of Dead & Company, giving special praise to what John Mayer has brought to this band.
2. I checked in with a service advisor and then settled into a comfortable chair in Parker Toyota's waiting area and read more in The Falls and the Fair about what happened, thanks to King Cole's ingenius outreach to the many groups in the city of Spokane to discuss how downtown Spokane might be improved, resurrected even.
I made reading this most enjoyable book even more pleasing by putting in my earbuds and listening to Jeff's May 1st Deadish show featuring a heavenly acoustic set from May 1, 1970, a recording session on May 1, 1969 in which Bob Dylan and George Harrison got together with other musicians and performed in a studio together, and then some May 1st electric Grateful Dead from, I think, 1981.
The car was ready within about an hour -- I return next week for a new mirror to be installed (and more Deadish! -- and so I listened to some of Jeff's show in the waiting room, more of it on my drive back to Kellogg, and caught Jeff's After Show at home as he played songs the Grateful Dead performed on May 2nd as a tribute to a friend and regular listener whose birthday is on May 2nd.
That was fun, especially when Jeff ended the set with the Beatles and "Birthday"!
3. On Sunday, Debbie dipped into our basement freezer and brought up a steak to thaw and, this evening I cut this thick hunk of beef in half and fixed us a fun and delicious meal of steak, roasted potatoes, and steamed broccoli, cauliflower, and green beans combined.
Earlier in the day, the first thing I did when I arrived back in Kellogg was buzz up to the newly opened Beach Bum Bakery on Main Street and buy three sesame and three everything bagels. The Beach Bum bagels are, at least from my perspective, huge so I eat them one half at a time and buying a half a dozen of them is, for me, equivalent to buying a dozen of other bakers' bagels.
I'm ecstatic that Beach Bum Bakery is back. Having these bagels in my life again is a source of deep joy for me.
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