Monday, August 25, 2014

Gratitude Monday: Not smoke in my eyes

As follow-on to last week’s Gratitude Monday, today I am joyfully grateful for the generosity of spirit my friend Chris showed after she read the post about Smokey Robinson’s new album.

She got right down to the point, asking, “Do you iTunes?” I don’t, actually, because I’m the only person on the planet who does not own an Apple device of any sort.

(I was looking into an iPod Touch for a while, because my Zune is literally held together by tape, and a friend was happy to get me one for my birthday. But Max, the manager at the Stanford Mall Apple Store, was such an unbelievable snotbag—he was only interested in selling me an iPhone, and it turns out that not only does it not have an FM receiver, I’d have to spend a day converting all my MP3 music to the iTunes format if I wanted to use his poxy pod. So that went out the window, and I just wrapped another layer of tape around the Zune.)

So Chris switched to Amazon mode, and looky what arrived Thursday afternoon, the day after “Smokey and Friends” was released:


I’ve been dancing around the area ever since—and not just because I can’t get enough of Smokey and Steven Tyler singing “You Really Got a Hold on Me”. It’s the combination of Smokey, Steven and Chris that’s lifting my spirits.


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