As I was headed downstairs to get my coffee this morning, I noticed two packages sitting on the front porch. I brought them in, and they were both for me. Hooray!
One was obviously, almost glaringly, a box of Grove soap. I buy soap from Grove because I like the quality, but they make a big deal out of their supposed sustainability, touting it all over the box. It says things like “Earth win,” and “Most sustainable home on the block” (LOL–“most expensive soap on the block” might be more accurate!). I’m a huge fan of sustainability, mind you. I’m just not sure how big an impact I’m making with my choice of soap.
The other package was from Amazon. Having ordered several items from them recently, I couldn’t know exactly what was inside until I opened the package. It turned out to be a keyboard pedal. Yes!
See, last night my keyboard’s sustain pedal died. It had been giving me trouble for years, but last night no amount of prodding or twisting the cable would make it work again. When I pulled the cable out, the plug came apart, apparently broken in some way. I put it back together, tried more prodding and twisting, but nothing worked.
In fairness to the pedal, I should say that it was probably close to 30 years old. I’d certainly gotten my money’s worth. But its demise really sucked, because I can’t play the keyboard without a pedal. If a piece of music doesn’t require any sustain, it’s fine, but when you need the pedal and don’t have one, its absence feels like missing a limb.
So I went to the Amazon website and ordered the first universal pedal they offered, which was from M-AUDIO, a real brand that I knew I could trust. Its arrival today was earlier than expected, before I’d even had the chance to miss having a pedal. It’s already plugged in and good to go. There are a great many terrible things one could say about Amazon, but today they did good.