I’ve been enjoying playing some of our old CDs but our CD player skips tracks and it’s most annoying.

It may be due to a buildup of dust over the years.

We usually play our CDs through the DVD player and through the sound bar but this set up is a bit old fashioned but we haven’t got rid of it. Much like the heavy black box TV set 📺 we have in the other room which is an eye sore and which I’ve asked a multitude of times to remove 🤣.

In some way, when I look around our house it seems to have been frozen in time say around 1992. Books, CDs, DVDs, graphic novels, crafts, arts, videos, games, and in some way, there’s a level of comfort and recognition about it. Every time we have young people over, they comment how much it feels like the place they grew up in. They spend ages looking through the music and movies and ask to listen or watch something.

I recall my young nephews wanting to watch that black box TV set. They spent a couple of hours on the bed watching a DVD of a series they used to watch when they were younger.

“Don’t you want to see it inside on the big flat screen?” I asked.

“No we prefer to watch it on this!”

It made me think how much the world and the technology around us has changed but the vintage stuff always brings us some curiosity or comfort.

I felt it was my nephews last ditched attempt to say goodbye to the old world. Maybe they didn’t get a chance to say goodbye and to take a moment to appreciate that the old technology had brought us entertainment into our home at a time when we appreciated it more; and when it was appreciated…together.

Now we have music, movies, books, entertainment at our fingertips. Each of us with our own personal playlist on our devices.

The act of putting a CD into the player and pressing play and then waiting for those few silent moments to pass until the music starts, is quite nice. No searching, no scrolling.

It’ll be a while before we get rid of this old technology and for now, I just want to appreciate it before I say my goodbye to it.