Thur 5 Oct 2023

There isnt much to do. I’m just sitting watching an old series on the TV. It’s from 78, and it’s pretty much what went on in the daily life in 1929-1945. Currently the crisis that they’re showing is that people are selling all their stuff and trying to get the money they are available to due to the crisis in 1930. Nobody have money, and nobody are able to buy anything. So everyone is trying to go back to their old ways of making their own clothes with scraps they are able to get.

It’s a small city where everyone knows everyone. So news spread fast, and if you have money then you are someone, if you dont have any then you’re a nobody. If you are a fine person, then you shop in the fine stores, if not then you go to the common stores. This is how it was back then. If you get someone pregnant, then you are forced to marry them, they are not allowed to have a child if they’re not married. It’s a story about how it was back in the 30’s Denmark. And everyone here knows it. People look weird at you if you havent seen it before.

The show is weird in the sense that everyone is Mr and Ms, and if you have to say something fast to someone then you just say their last name and nothing else. After writing my project and also knowing how it was in that time, then when people had to call someone they lifed the phone, dialed the handle (rotary handle you have to turn) not as a rotary phone, and then the operator would answer the phone. They would say a number between 1 and 999. Because there was not that many phonenumbers available.

I’m sick. And that really sucks. I want to do something, and be fresh, not groggy, and barely able to stand up.

I’ve done some cable management on my retro area, or actually it can just be called my TV.

A B&O MX8000. It’s a CRT. With a wonderful whine when you power it up. I love it. It’s connected to a pair of BeoLab 6000 speakers, where I really want to get some BeoLab 8000 speakers. They sound much better, but I’m living with what I have at the moment. The reason why I got the BeoLab 6000 was because the internal speaker in the TV was starting to scratch abit in certain shows, and then I was able to get these speakers very cheap. Below the TV, on the stand, there’s a Beocord V8000 VCR player. Which I’m having some issues with at the moment. It’s not really giving me display on some tapes. It’s like when it gets hot then it doesn’t want to play anything, and when it’s cold then it doesn’t want to show the tapes correctly, where it’s all just blurry. So I can pretty much just watch one tape and then I have to wait for it to cool down a bit before I can watch another. And this gets annoying pretty quickly.

I got an old armchair from, I’m guessing, the 70s. It’s brown leather, and hard wood. Smells of smoke. And it’s wonderful to sit in. It’s stable. No creaks or anything on it. It’s matched together with a coffee table that I got from my dad, which he got from his dad. And he got it used for his and my grandmas wedding in 1965. So it’s a few years old now. And it’s still good, and the reason why I’m saying it’s still good, is because it’s made of good quality wood, and not the cheap stuff that Ikea and other stores use now. I’m slowly changing everything I have out with older used stuff because they feel much more sturdy and not cheap. And it’s better to use the older stuff if it still works instead of going out to buy new just because you feel like it.

There’s one thing I still need to get done, and that’s getting a secondary monitor plugged into my desktop, but due to the desk I have I’m not exactly sure where to put it, and then I need to get a table or something for my newer consoles, so I can have them connected to my desktop for recordings.