A couple months back while on a morning run, I came upon what looked to be a neighbor’s moving day trash. Sticking out of the pile and catching my eye was a mid-90s SONY stereo, resplendently protected from the elements in its original cabinet–one of those old rolly things with the components on top and…
Author: Earshot Presents
02/10/2021: (national) pizza night
As the kids’ Highlights magazine made known to us, yesterday was National Pizza Night. I’ve made pizza in the electric pellet smoker a few times now and, together with the kids, I was looking forward to observing such a fun event. Having the meal on the calendar, it was also a good opportunity for me…
02/09/2021: children’s singer-songwriter Tim Kubart
For Christmas, Santa brought Matteo his first guitar, a cool little acoustic uke-like thing made by a Kickstarter’ed company called Loog. Like seemingly everything else these kid/music-related these days, it’s not only a physical instrument, but a complete learning system including an app and all the requisite social properties. The YouTube channel features a bunch…
02/08/2021: the Yamaha SK100
I re-activated my Facebook account Saturday to post a couple of things to Marketplace. Glad to report that while the working SONY stereo w/ turntable that I brought in off the curb is still not gone, the double stroller is GONE–another step forward. Whilst on FB Marketplace, I came upon an ad for a free…
02/05/2021: the teachers in the middle
There’s an ongoing struggle happening between the people who want teachers and students to be back in classrooms and those who want there to be much more progress in our fight against COVID-19 before schools safely re-open. This week, the city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against its own school district in a desperate…