I made an extravagent purchase a couple of months ago: a Bose “Soundlink” system. The system includes a plug-in to a computer’s USB port. When I go to a radio station’s internet site and click on its live stream, the plug-in becomes a transmitter, sending the signal to a portable speaker with incredible sound. I can listen to the radio station in any room of the house.
It’s allowed us to listen to a jazz station from San Mateo, California that I heard of somewhere, and another jazz station from Newark, NJ that I discovered while visiting Emily and Sheldon a couple of years ago. But mostly we’ve been listening to WXPN, Philadelphia, which was coming through our radio speakers pretty much every waking moment when we lived in Wilmington, DE. After nearly nine years, the format is exactly the same, and most of the announcers are even the same! We’d forgotten how much we missed the station, with its wonderfully eclectic mix of rock and roll, blues, and soul.
But, listening to XPN is reminding us how much we do NOT miss the weather in that part of the country! Today, for instance, in Philadelphia it’s snowing. Again. They’re expecting up to 15 inches.
I love all of you living in that climate who (for some inexplicable reason) read this blog. But I sure do prefer living further south. Rain is wonderful.
