when i got back, i put some oil in my bike chain - something long overdue - and went for a nice ride to let it sink in, rather than just track it around the basement. i decided to take a run around town, looking through pawn shops for old guitars.
i didn't find the gibson-style hh body i was hoping for, and think i've probably exhausted my options, but i'm going to repeat the exercise on friday morning to check some stores that happened to be closed on mondays, which seemed to be quite a few.
i did, however, get another hardcover case for $30. it came with a piece of shit mini classical that has a slightly wider neck than the hohner. i'll probably clean it up and put it up on kijiji for a few bucks. so, that's the new case for the electric/acoustic. and, i'll keep looking for similar style deals to fill out the cases.
i also got a stack of books, for $2-$3 each (the stephenson was a bit more), mostly for the alter-reality, and mostly books i used to own:
- 6/7 of the chronicles of narnia series (in a box set) (i read a few of these, not all of them, as a kid.)
- wuthering heights (i read this in late high school)
- three titles by f. scott fitzgerald (i read some but not all of these in late high school)
- hardcopy covers of the tommyknockers & misery, as well as the first dark tower entry <---i was a huge stephen king fan as a kid and read all of these before 1993
- utopia by thomas more <---this is a text from i think the 8th grade that i remember well, although we did a man for all seasons, rather than utopia
- jonathan swift - gulliver's travels <--- middle school
- arthur c. clarke - 2010: odyseey two - this was read in elementary school
- two texts by neil stephenson - i read snow crash in early university, but have not read quicksilver
i will probably delve further into specific authors in the alter-reality than i did in real life.
- the following are not for the alter-reality
- a biography of glenn gould by mark kingwell
- a compendium of three plays by sophocles - antigone, king oedipus & oedipus at colonus
- timequake by vonnegut (i always grab everything by vonnegut when i see it, but have not read this one)
