I Live In An Apartment

As most of my friends here know, I'm living in Washington DC for about 16 months as I complete my master's degree. Well while I'm here, I'm living in a second floor corner apartment in the Georgetown neighborhood of the city. It's not large, basically two rooms, and it came furnished.

The main room has a small kitchenette in one corner and a living/dining area filling out the rest of the room. There's a futon in place of a couch and I basically use it as my bed. There is a bedroom that came with a bed, but I've stored that with the landlord and use the bedroom as a makeshift exercise area for my taekwondo.

But back in the main room, there is one thing that is quite curious. It's an turntable with an amplifier. The landlord said it is not his and the Lieutenant that I'm subletting from said it was there when he arrived a year and a half ago. So some previous tenant evidently donated it to the apartment furnishings.

Well, I recently went back home for a weekend to pick up some more stuff including winter clothes that I would need for my sixteen months here. While home I mentioned the turntable; it really is quite the novelty item for this digital girl. Upon hearing of my find, my dad ran to the basement and put together a milk crate full of old vinyl albums for me to listen to. I've finally pulled it out and began exploring this new way to listen to music!!

The first album I pulled out was "Hotel California" by, of course, The Eagles. The title track is a classic and I've heard it a million times and love it. But, being an album and not my Spotify feed, the Eagles continued on with songs I had NOT heard. Loved these two:



and ...



So then I continued going through his crate of music and I came across Eric Clapton "Unplugged". Liked the whole side 1, but came to "Tears from Heaven" and just loved it. I was chatting with my good friend @TexChik and she told me the story of how and why he came to write that song 😢 ... so sad ...



Anyway, I'm just getting settled nicely here in Washington and discovering a new (old) way to enjoy music. That's all for now! ;)

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