Weekly digest 77

Happenings Again, this is double entry, so it covers two weeks I think. Most of it was just work though. Had my parents round for TV and video games. My dad was too tired to make progress on his game, so he watched me play Nier: Automata, a game he seemed very impressed by. We bought a cheap record player stand. I had tried to build one myself (more like a riser to sit the turntable on so the amp could go underneath), but, well, it turns out carpentry is hard. Even after making perfect cuts, getting it to stand up without its feet collapsing was too difficult. Also my paint job looked awful. It was time-consuming, and a waste of materials, but at least I learned about about sawing straight cuts with a jigsaw (I know, there are better types of saw for straight cuts, but a jigsaw is what I have). This means the record player is now back in action after years in the loft while we had very small children. It’s been fun to stick some records on (many of which I’d forgot we even had). But…