The Uncertainty Principle: Terror on Tiki Island....

I've been spending a lot of time inside my brain lately.

This hasn't disrupted my interaction with the physical world...

I've been maintaining progress on projects, completing tasks

as usual in my own unique manner.

I've always had the ability to retreat inside--

which is both an advantage and a disadvantage.

The downside in retreating to life in my brain
is that the bad memory loop starts to play endlessly.
This endless loop wears me down.

I think we all have that lifetime bad memory collection video that
can suddenly begin playing on the giant screen
within our minds.

A greatest hits video, so to say, of things we wish we hadn't done,
feel bad about or think that we displayed bad behavior in life.
Things we feel wrong about...
When playing this mental blame game video
one never knows if the blame one is rolling about in is truly deserved or not?
Logic and evidence plays no part in viewing and believing the blame video.

Aging provides not only an incredibly longer list of failure subject matter for the video,
but also provides uninterrupted time to run these failure thoughts again and again and again.
It can at times feel as if there is no escape from this internal judgement play.

My solution is to demand that APPLE

produce the Neuralyzer used in Men in Black.

The hell with bigger screen i-phones or watches that tell you someone is calling:
Design and produce an APPLE Neuralyzer to eliminate memories--
Rev-up those slave labor factories in China---right God-Damn now!

I would actually camp out in line for an Apple Neuralyser

then---

I would Neuralyz the living shit out of myself!

My question is so what is science doing in place of building my neuralyzer?

Science is too busy--

Advancing Mankind in

providing really important shit like building a machine to produce

cappuccino in weightlessness on the space station????

Really science---

thanks sooooooooooo much....

If science can provide Starbucks in orbit,

my APPLE personal Neuralyzer concept should be like no problem right?
Get on it, cause, I need it like, yesterday!

My Hitachi TRK-8270W

Considered a rare boombox by some collectors.

When I received this box it didn't work at all and looked physically horrible
despite a half hearted attempt by the seller to clean it up.
Opening it up to see what was wrong I discovered that not only were the tape player belts MELTED on the motor pulleys,
and one of the circuit boards was literally broken in half.
(You can see it dangling loose in the left side of the photo below)

Two days of work later--

gluing the circuit board together, replacing melted belts,

and contact cleaning the shit out of all the controls.

The left channel is somewhat weak compared to the right channel.

I have to research the solution to this particular problem and attempt fixing it later.
The Radio now works.
After replacing the belt the tape player is also working but eating tapes...

I am going to reopen the box and try a smaller sized belt....

At least now physically the box looks great,
soon i hope to have it working as good as it looks....

Cinematic Titanic

My favorite is Terror on Tiki Island.

Years ago, I purchased a really nice Rocketeer action figure, the

Rocketeer is my all time favorite movie, the thirty bucks it cost was

way worth it to me.

I've kept it for years, displayed in my nerd caves.

I saw an identical figure for sale yesterday on Amazon for $650.00.

Yes----that was $650.00

No--I am not shitting you....

Apparently one of the side affects of growing old...

i never thought of is that all of the shit
you have hung onto over the years...

Suddenly the old shit you have and never think about
it all becomes really, really valuable???
Who knew??

This week:

Stan Getz
Getz can get, well, way to busy for me...
he rifts into that over the hill Jazz excess that afflicts some
soloists.
I'm glad i recorded him for my collection and to study---
but---
Art Pepper is still the Sax player to me...