SIDEQUESTING IN AARAU

Picking up a vintage turntable stand. Preamble ⇣An introduction The dream table ⇣Finding the cart of my dreams on ricardo.ch Aarau adventure ⇣What's new in Aarau? Seeing it in person ⇣Picking up the turntable cart "I can fix him." ⇣A little bit of DIY + elbow grease The big reveal ⇣The table in its forever home Next steps ⇣Buying the record player Preamble Due to focusing on my Netherlands travelogs, I haven't been able to write about my current life update: Pursuing old hobbies.Since the trip, I took up drawing in a sketchbook and I'm now preparing to collect vinyl records. Both hobbies are things I did in my youth but stopped doing because: Crippling perfectionism. I started comparing my sketchbooks to my peers and deemed I wasn't good enough so I should stop because what's the point. Music streaming platforms. I had a substantial CD collection and started a budding record collection, but once I moved to Hong Kong I simply didn't have the space so it just made sense at the time.…