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For those without AppleTV+, it’s free this weekend (1/3-5). Time to watch Slow Horses. https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2024/12/get-a-free-all-access-pass-to-apple-tv-the-first-weekend-of-2025/

Streetlights by Bonnie Raitt (1974) https://album.link/i/287366514 Example: Strong Album. I only knew her in the 80's once I found Nick Of Time and the rest. I should have, and still should, explore her 70s work. One of the quintessential voices in my life. Ed: of Note - Drums – Stephen Gadd... :}

Mendelssohn - Murray Perahia, Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner – Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Picked up this LP used. I've always liked Mendelssohn.

50yo Phases And Stages by Willie Nelson (1974) https://album.link/i/885243424 Example: I really like this album. Tender and pretty. He was happy to be on Atlantic records.

This. (boring stereo version) Murry is one of my favs for Mozart. This whole combo works really well for me for the 2nd Concerto. I am not sure I am a real fan of the first just as a work, nothing against this version. Thanks rob.

Still have some 50yo's kicking around in my queue: In Too Much Too Soon by New York Dolls (1974) https://album.link/i/1443895609 Example: Fun rock with early punk vibes.

I for one I'm waiting for something like the extinct Google glasses with video features, so I can wear them while operating or attending a concert, or walking the city for pictures. While discreet, the mouth camera won't be so convenient

swt61, Those cheesecakes look AMAZING!!! I bake once a year these days. Cookies for the folks on my block. This year I went with white chocolate macadamia. I baked some proper looking "cakey" ones, but the ones that really sold looked like this...I kept the dough less cold before putting them on the pan. Folks like the more caramelized edges I'm guessing. HS

Also going to Casa Bedecarre. This one for New Years friends and guests. My first Coffee Cheesecake. It looks quite dark on top, but smells fantastic. Not sure if the coffee has something to do with the color.

50yo -- Oh yeah ^^ one is 50yo as well. Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan (1974) https://album.link/i/1696215205 Example: More diverse than other albums, which I liked. But it is a good not great album for me. Of course a handful of killer tunes, but then a few that are a miss for me. It will be in rotation. Well until I listen to Aja again and this one may get lost in the queue.

Covid is no joke. My mother is in her 80s and frail. I'm 50 and ...sturdy. She went to the ER and got prescribed Paxlovid. It appears to help, but some of the side effects are a bit rough. I'm fully vaxed and in fact recently boosted. I'm no longer feverish, but far from well. I suspect this is a new strain that has yet to be named (remember the ominous sounding Omicron Variant?) Also the heating system is still not fixed, but after my mother went to the ER I opened the mechanical closet and yelled at it. Then I turned it off and on again and it's been making heat since. In the 40K universe I'd be a tech priest.