down, but not out

Not much has happened in the past several weeks. After the Super Bowl, I bought a large collection of 78s & LPs for $400, but the seller withheld one important LP - a Dean Martin Friar's Club Roast LP - and hasn't offered it to me, so I might have to take him to small claim.

For the record, I had the collection delivered to Dave Grudt's on the evening of Feb. 7, went through the records and didn't see it. During the following weekend, Dave delivered the records, and we put them in the garage. I looked through them completely, didn't see them, so I called the seller - Frank in Signal Hill - and he said he'd look for it. Didn't hear from him again.

On about that same day, I got ill, bad cold, not the flu, and to this moment, I've suffered from remnants of it. I'll probably send him a demand letter first thing next week.

Yesterday, I got a call from "Mary" who had a lifetime of records to sell. Went over to her house at Senasac & Monlaco. She invited me in, and there she was, a gray haired dike and her two dike roommates, a giant screen TV on the wall. In her record room were several shelves of LPs, a nice looking juke box and some 45s boxes, all immaculately kept. One collector, named Bob from Tustin, had been there and bought some stuff, but I've never seen so many well-kept boring records in one place. Nothing there, except for one single on Sabra.

Anything else? She told me she brought home some dirty 45s, but they were in her car and she was embarassed to show them to me. I helped her get over his embarassment, and she took me outside, past the tornado damage and into the garage where sat, that's right, unsleeved dirty 45s, but decent, r&b, soul and some downright weirdies. I found 90 plus, for $40, so I had to go to the bank. Forgot that Sylvia holds our only ATM card and she was out shopping with Shea, so after I fought my way back through a traffic accident at Carson/Bellflower, found I had $36, brought that to her, and that was OK, for now. Strange day indeed.

Not to mention that Shea's Medical card expired, and she had to call her Medical social worker to get it reinstant, else pay 1.50 for neuronten which helps prevent seizures. All in all, a trying day, and I'm just beginning to beat the cold/flu.