I’m taking a break from the horror story today because I have gone and caught the plague.

There will be more of that story, just not while my brain is burning. I’m going to the doctor at 9 a.m. today, thank God for CVS Minute Clinic.

So Labyrinth is on this morning, and while I wait for my appointment to end, the plague, I am watching it, and I suddenly had a very clear memory of my Dad.

Dad died in 1997, and I miss him every day. This memory was one I had forgotten, so it came back with a vengeance this morning.

So, like I said, I am watching Labyrinth. I used to have this huge boom box with two tape decks. I also had the Labyrinth soundtrack. There is a song at the beginning called Underground, it’s a David Bowie song, he wrote and composed all the songs for the movie. My dad loved that song.

When I would play it, he would ask me to turn it up, and he would dance.

Later, I got this hot pink Walkman that would also play cassette tapes. My dad wanted to hear what it sounded like through the headphones. That was new technology for us. I played Debbie Gibson for him because that is what I was into at the time. I remember him yelling, ‘I can hear the drums! It’s loud!’

It was very funny. He asked me if I could also play the ‘goblin’ song, but I didn’t know what he was talking about, so we just both danced to Debbie Gibson. He has the headphones, and I have the faint sound leaking through.

It would be years later, well after he died, that it would click in my head that he wanted to listen to Underground that day. By that time, though, that tape had warped, and all the songs sounded like they were being played in slow motion.

That was the thing with cassette tapes, they wore out if you listened to them too much.

Anyway, that’s all I’ve got today. Everyone have a wonderful Saturday. I’m going to rest as much as I can.