After the shooting earlier in the week a half a block from the coffee shop there was a shooting a half a block from my house two days later. this had happened in suburbia I'm sure that I'd be all worked up about it but it's the city. Give it 5 years and this neighborhood will be thoroughly gentrified. I'll be able to buy a scented candle or a dog coat on every block, and in that way it won't be much different from today, filled with things I dislike but which only tangentially effect me. I found this gem of a photo on the sidewalk outside the shop. I traded a few pounds of coffee for some lp's and 45's. There were a few good rockabilly 45's which I then traded to a guy I know who collects them for another stack of soul and mixed 80's 45's. Not a bad bit of trade.