Friday's are the best day of my week.....

Every friday finally comes, and even though i don't work a 40hour work week, i start each day when my alarm bell sounds @ 2am, and by friday, i am sick of it all!
So, i leave work with my friend Dave usually around 9:30am, and we drive home, stopping first at my pharmacy, where i run in and pick up my prescription while he generously waits for me, and then we continue on our way into Waterloo's Uptown core, where i live....he drops me off, I quickly change from my grubby work clothes, and stroll down the street to my favorite greasy spoon 1950's vintage diner called "harmony lunch"...i order bacon & eggs & toast with coffee, wolf it down, pay for it, leave a tip and head to my favorite thrift store, called 'generations', which is run by the mennonite council or something like that....today i scored a stage light on a stand for $8....I carried it home, dropped it off and then headed to the town square, where my bank is, and i paid bills, grabbed some groceries, dropped them off at home, and headed back out and down a block to Long & McQuade, my local music gear retail store!!! After lurking around in there for 9 years I have made a couple of friends, whom i saw as soon as i walked in the door.....after talking about guitar amps, and drooling over expensive stuff, my friend Brandon surprised me with a beat up Yamaha JX-15, a solid state workhorse of an amp from 1980....and he just gave it to me, so i bought a can of lube/cleaning spray for $20, and also bought a casio volume control pedal that had been in stock at that store since the 80's at least....i don't know if it will be compatible with my Roland D-20 digital synthesizer keyboard, or my guitar effects loop but heck, for $10 why not try and see?
So i spent a total of $30, walked home with the JX-15 amplifier & the cleaner spray and the casio volume pedal....i really love that place...and it's the people who make it a great place to spend some money!!! I also made my march 2010 payment on my credit line at the store....another 6 months and I owe nothing.....life is good if all that mattered was my studio and my music gear!
a photo of it wasn't hard to find online, someone is selling one for $65 somewhere on craigslist! mine is better looking than this one, not as beat, but this snap shot will do, i don't have the energy to get my camera out! :)
I wish i had never sold my other ones, but life's like that, and sometimes you need the extra loot to cover your butt.
I have owned a Yorkville BassMaster-50, DeanMarkley 25watt bass amp, and a Marshall MS-4 microStack mini amp....today i own the ORANGE micro crush, the KIEL regal model-300 tube combo amp, and now the Yamaha JX-15 solid state amp.
My next mission is to settle on powered monitors.
I sold my ART SLA-1(100watt power amp) and my pair of Yorkville Ysm-1 speakers two years ago...
....I wish i didn't have to sell them to pay for stuff, because i would really rather have that set up for my monitoring needs.
But alas, here i am about to invest some dough soon on powered monitors, and I think i will get the new Yorkville powered monitors, YSM-?, i could be wrong about the model name, they are the same as my old speakers, except these come with amplification so i won't need to buy a rackmount power amp again...
I almost bought the Behringer EX-3200, an exciter/enhancer rack unit, for $55, on sale, i already own the earlier model, but I hesitated, because i had to pay bills today.
I am sure it will be around next week though.....when i go through this friday ritual again!
i am outa here, time for some movie marathon madness.