This was a part of the gift Caroline Engelhardt gave to me for celebrating my first birthday with her since we started dating. While Caroline was at the Psychic TV concert last year in the early hours of the 4th, we weren’t interested in each other at that time, and hence, I don’t think I even pointed out that it was my birthday. I turned 27 on this day, and besides the much-needed shoes (mine were falling apart), she also gave me some balloons that sat on top of a cabinet near the hall door so I could see them all the time. This is also the very first post I’m making after starting to scan in our archive of materials here at the end of August 2018.

Those balloons stayed there and, for years, still had a tiny bit of air left in them in 1995. We finally got rid of them when we moved to the United States in April of that year.