Yesterday, it was official.

This 125-year-old house now has central air conditioning! The install is complete, it isn’t blowing any fuses, and it works!

So, even though it took several months to complete, it is still an incredible blessing. It didn’t cost me a dime. Plus, the install guys discovered that corroded breaker panel, which I wouldn’t have known about — and it was a fire hazard and would have just gotten worse.

Plus I also now have those brand new basement stairs!!! I can go down and change the filter in the furnace now whenever I want to, without worrying that I will fall through the rotting stairs and die!!

(Plus, I had many, many carpenters and plumbers and AC install guys and Amish roofers, coming and going. Of various ages. But every single one of them was extremely attractive so it was really great having them swarming all over the place!)

And the last but certainly not least news–

The really nice guy from the small, family-owned dumpster company did indeed call me back. Last evening. He quoted me a fraction of what a commercial junk-hauling company charges. So I said, “Okay!! Come on down!!”

So he’s coming today, while I’m in town at my shift, and he’s going to load up a dumpster with all that stuff that was abandoned in my little barn and then haul it away to the dump.

(If you’re new to the blog — over 2 years ago, a temporarily homeless young married couple stayed with me for 6 months. Then they “temporarily” left their stuff in my little barn and never came back for it.)

So, as of later today — all the home repairs are done and my barn will be my own again.

(I didn’t have to do any of the work, so I’m not sure why I’m so exhausted…)

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Anyway.

Somehow, life is good. And me and this old house carry on.

I don’t really have anything to post about today.

So, here’s this!

From Phyllis Stein — and how fortuitous!!

Johnny Thunders in London in 1977, but he is sitting in front of a movie poster for “The Sheik” starring Rudolph Valentino!! (Star of my masterpiece-recently-re-published novel, Twilight of the Immortal!!)

Rudolph Valentino as “The Sheik”, 1921

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And here’s this.

A few featuring Keith…

Smoking and rehearsing for “Rock & Roll Circus” in a London TV studio, 1968!

(Mick seems happier than Keith here, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that while Mick was filming the movie “Performance” earlier that year, Mick was openly doing it with Anita — Keith’s girlfriend — both on and off the set! The moods pictured here are just a coincidence.)

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And here’s this!

Keith and Bill Wyman onstage, when the Stones played Poland for the first time, in 1967!

Oh, and here’s this while we’re at it! Bill Wyman re-issued the newly restored video for “Stuff (Can’t Get Enough)” on April 10th!

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And here’s Keith, at the Stones’ legendary concert at Madison Square Garden in NYC, 1969:

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And let’s finish with this!

Nick Cave in LA, awaiting the imminent arrival of his wife, Susie! (About 7-ish years ago.)

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And now, seeing as how it is Tuesday, I have to get ready to head to town and stop in at the Rural King for more and more and more cat food!!

We’ll see if that perks up my energy a little bit… depending on who’s working the checkout counter, it usually does.

Meanwhile, have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Let’s close with this.

My life. Really. Hope it’s yours, too. (15 seconds):