MeghanIsMe

It took a while, but I finally did things today. I got my workshop organized and finished building the radio kit that's been languishing on my desk for months. It's late to start on it today, but I put my Marantz 2270 on the desk. Tomorrow I hope to replace the burned out lights and the rest of the vellum behind the front panel. While it's open, I'll hook my scope up to the power bus behind the big filter caps just to see if it looks relatively clean. I don't know how to do much more than that right now.

The Coca-Cola crate is Lisa's and is full of her records. On top of it is another of my vintage receivers, a 60 watt-per-channel Sherwood S8900-A in the factory faux-wood cabinet. That was another thrift store find. It was from a down-market SA tagged at something like $30, and there was a half-off electronics sale so I paid $15. I borrowed my Klipsch speakers from the living room to connect to it and have been playing music from my phone while I work. The unit was made in Chicago, and was Sherwood's last unit made here in the US. Having local history connections to my gear makes me happy. I haven't done any work on it; it's powered up and played just fine since I bought it.

I think working on repairing some stuff might help me not want to just lie around and do nothing. Fixing things makes me feel good about myself.