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79F and sunny this afternoon.
Last night I snuck around by the house again.
Parked on the street and snuck behind the house on the south side to avoid the ring camera that's on the porch.
Natalie's still there, and so is my fire pit, but Prowly's cat door was locked.
More on that below.
There was an unattached set of wooden steps sitting near the back door, and holes dug in the dirt near what were the corners of the dog yard, suggesting they're preparing to build a small deck back there.
And the foam board from around the back room air conditioner was removed... though the AC unit was still in the window... off.
A light was on upstairs and I could see through the back windows up there that it's all new drywall and trim, with a new door, unattached, leaning against one window... possibly a new bathroom door.
I went right up to the back kitchen window too, and peered in.
It was dark in there, but there was light coming from behind the bathroom door, around the edges of it.
Couldn't tell if they've done the drywall down there, but the walls were shockingly bare... the shelves were gone and no more bulletin board... no door knocker on the bathroom door either... and of course no furniture.
Nothing's changed yet on the exterior... my front storms, and hatch door 2.0 are still there.
Even though I've given up on the idea of buying it back, I still have this curiosity about the place that brings me back to snoop around in the dark like a prowler.
Prowly's cat door being locked isn't necessarily bad news, I've decided.
It could be temporary, and they may have done it because they're preparing to do a lot of work in, and around the back room.
I mean... if they really wanted him out for good, they'd just remove the cat door and board over the hole.
That little plastic lock is reversable, so this may be temporary?
I dunno!
I honestly don't know, but I'm going with the theory that he's still okay.
I woke up today with the the idea that I should go buy a new mattress.
I looked around online to see who was closeby, and wound up calling a Lamphere's Furniture, about a mile from here.
They didn't have what I was looking for in stock, but I still ordered it from them anyway.
This is one of those foam mattresses that comes in a box, and it's gonna take a month to get here.
But after browsing on Amazon a few times, I know that wait time, and the price here, are par for the course.
My platform is twin XL, but the current mattress is only a twin, so it's not utilizing all the available space, and it's also hard as a rock.
I sleep on my side, alternating between left and right sides throughout the night, and this current mattress doesn't let my shoulder sink in at all, so I always wake up with sore shoulders... or sometimes sore upper back muscles.
I still sleep fine, but I wake up sore.
Last night there wasn't a single free space in the parking garage, thanks to an event at the Paramount, and I ended up having to park on the Benton Street east bridge... in the one space left there!
This really irks me, because I pay for that garage, and they have a roof level that's always gated off!
But at any rate, this afternoon I went down to get my car, then went to get gas and beer, then managed to get back into the garage, but there was still only one space in the whole place, up on level four.
Today was also Poplio Community Day, in Pokemon Go, so after I put the beer away, I went walking around for a while to catch Poplio.
After I caught my third shiny, I called it a day with that and came back in, out of the hot sun.
Wasted way too much time wiring up and testing out those carbon mikes only to find out that they were both garbage.
They were both distorting really badly, even with the input volume in a decent range.
I had a third one that's not really a carbon mike, it's like a little condenser mike that came out of a phone, and that one does sound decent... but it's not a true carbon mike, and lacks the warmth.
So I ordered a whole damn vintage rotary phone on Ebay, for $24.00.
With shipping, it's $40.00.
But it is a genuine rotary phone from the olden days, so the carbon mike inside that handset should be the best they ever made.
If that one still sounds like crap, then the problem is with the digital interface.
It doesn't register any signal if the mike is plugged into the guitar jack.
And when it's in the XLR jack, no signal without phantom power... which shouldn't be necessary for a carbon mike.
But the phantom power is 48 Volts, which seems like overkill, but I can't change it.
When it cools down a bit more outside, I'll shut off the AC and work on vocals for, Bed in the Suburbs, tonight.
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