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Post by jdd2 on Sept 20, 2022 5:29:21 GMT -5
Typhoon passed quickly last night, not much to it, was dry enough today that I almost went for a ride. And cool now--might need blanket tonight.
This came up in the rotation today:
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Post by coachdoc on Sept 20, 2022 6:24:47 GMT -5
7:20. OMG, I’ve all ready slept in.
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Post by jdd2 on Sept 20, 2022 6:58:29 GMT -5
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Post by paleo on Sept 20, 2022 7:21:44 GMT -5
Good morning!
Music practice this afternoon.
Gotta get some stuff loaded into the truck today, I have to be up at my cabin by 8:00 am tomorrow to meet the plumber who will be installing a new water heater.
RIP Vikings
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Post by billhammond on Sept 20, 2022 8:19:24 GMT -5
Good day, the normal high for this date here is 72 degrees, but they are predicting 90, almost a record. We shall see.
Vikings looked listless. I was hoping for listful.
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Post by Tamarack on Sept 20, 2022 8:23:06 GMT -5
Good Morning
Pleasant September weather yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Flannel shirts and sweatshirts predicted for the end of the week.
Yesterday was a good day. Made an expedition to Lansing to retrieve my Farida, repaired under warranty after the glued-in bridge pins fiasco. Stopped by s state recreation area along the way and took a bike ride on an unpaved rail trail. Because it is unpaved, I didn't have to dodge roller bladers and skateboarders and had the trail to myself, with the exception of a couple of friendly squirrel hunters who accessed their favorite hunting spot on ebikes (might be a joke in there, I dunno)
Spent some time at Elderly and chatted with a young gentleman who was trying to make up his mind on a mahogany-top 000 Martin vs. a mahogany top GC Taylor. Also chatted with an older gentleman who will be 85 next month. Originally from Kentucky, has owned lots of guitars over his lifetime and is still picking. I got much of his life story. I suspect his family was part of the wartime and postwar migration of people from Kentucky, Tennessee etc. to work in the auto plants.
My purchase of the day was a Hohner PentaHarp, a 10-hole harmonica tuned to a minor pentatonic scale. It is designed to allow guitarists to play the blues without bending notes. So far it is baffling, but I will mess around with it and compare it to other harmonicas; might be a crutch to make some sense out of chromatic harmonica. If it ends up collecting dust, I have made worse purchases for more money.
This morning I am headed back to the back yard to replace bricks and prepare footers for the shed. I will be spending much time pounding sand.
Have a fine Tuesday.
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Post by Cornflake on Sept 20, 2022 8:24:13 GMT -5
Good morning. I discovered Baden Powell when I was about 20 and listened endlessly.
I woke up to a nice shower. They're always welcome here. There's nothing unusual scheduled today except that my daughter and her boyfriend will take us out to dinner to celebrate my wife's birthday.
Enjoy your day.
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Post by drlj on Sept 20, 2022 8:36:46 GMT -5
It is supposed to hit 90 today and a high of 64 on Thursday.
Enjoy what you can.
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Post by Marty on Sept 20, 2022 9:04:41 GMT -5
Good morning
68F-87F Cloudy now, sunny later.
While I do laundry I'll be in the studio taking photos of stuff I'm selling on Reverb. I listed two items last night and will photo and list a few of my Harmony guitars today. I probably won't get around to rebuilding these so might as well pass them on. This will create much needed income without spending 50 hours per guitar. I also dig around in the shop as I probably have a few more things long forgotten that I could list. I just don't get as much shop time any more and have plenty of customer work to fill what time I do get in there.
Getting old sucks. One of my old buddies keeps trying to tell me how cool his retirement apartment complex is. I keep asking him if I can have a shop there. No, so it's not so cool as he thinks.
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Post by Marty on Sept 20, 2022 9:06:20 GMT -5
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Post by Dan McLaughlin on Sept 20, 2022 11:34:42 GMT -5
Have good ones.
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Post by epaul on Sept 20, 2022 11:54:15 GMT -5
Morning.
The sun didn't rise today. The flowers have lost their blooms. The trees are drooping. The milk is sour. The coffee cold. The Vikings struck out.
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Post by aquaduct on Sept 20, 2022 15:15:47 GMT -5
Finally going back to work and that's a good thing. Running out of stuff to do around the house and the wife is getting increasingly nervous about Joe Biden's epic job performance.
I start Monday as a contract Quality Engineer at a metal tubing maker about 30 miles down I-81. Still don't know what to expect since the people toting the note is an aerospace company. Not sure if the job is to improve subpar performance or just establish the proper automotive grade quality system. The contract company itself is the US arm of an Indian company based out of Connecticut. My nominal boss is in the home office so I'm not sure if I'll ever meet her in person.
6 month contract, no bene's (not a big deal when you're wife's a Fed), and a pretty darn good hourly rate. And it's non-exempt so I can do as much OT as I can talk them into at time and a half. Kinda just like what I did with Caterpillar except I don't have to fly to Peoria every week and the US branch so far is all Americans with no H1Bs that I know of.
Other than that all I've got is that I now have to finish a bunch of stuff before I start and I need to go to Costco for new tires on the truck for the commute (current one's have 82,000 miles on 70,000 mile tires.
Woo hoo!
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Post by Dub on Sept 20, 2022 16:03:38 GMT -5
I start Monday as a contract Quality Engineer at a metal tubing maker about 30 miles down I-81. Still don't know what to expect since the people toting the note is an aerospace company. Not sure if the job is to improve subpar performance or just establish the proper automotive grade quality system. The contract company itself is the US arm of an Indian company based out of Connecticut. My nominal boss is in the home office so I'm not sure if I'll ever meet her in person. 6 month contract, no bene's (not a big deal when you're wife's a Fed), and a pretty darn good hourly rate. And it's non-exempt so I can do as much OT as I can talk them into at time and a half. Kinda just like what I did with Caterpillar except I don't have to fly to Peoria every week and the US branch so far is all Americans with no H1Bs that I know of. Other than that all I've got is that I now have to finish a bunch of stuff before I start and I need to go to Costco for new tires on the truck for the commute (current one's have 82,000 miles on 70,000 mile tires. Woo hoo! Great news, Peter. Congratulations. |
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Post by Cornflake on Sept 20, 2022 17:15:50 GMT -5
It turned out my overheated Jeep had a radiator leak and (if I understood correctly) a thermostat problem. Anyway, the repair cost was more than I would have liked but less than I would have paid to postpone buying a new car. I've never been interested in cars and as long as the old one runs, I don't want a new one.
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Post by billhammond on Sept 20, 2022 17:34:27 GMT -5
It turned out my overheated Jeep had a radiator leak and (if I understood correctly) a thermostat problem. Anyway, the repair cost was more than I would have liked but less than I would have paid to postpone buying a new car. I've never been interested in cars and as long as the old one runs, I don't want a new one. Did they give you any explanation as to why the idiot lights didn't come on? |
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Post by Cornflake on Sept 20, 2022 17:39:22 GMT -5
"Did they give you any explanation as to why the idiot lights didn't come on?"
No, but in both my Jeep and my wife's those started malfunctioning as the vehicles got old.
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Post by jdd2 on Sept 20, 2022 20:12:04 GMT -5
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Sept 20, 2022 21:53:27 GMT -5
Greetings from Walla Walla. Internet and cell service has been flakey, but so far a good time has been had by all. Wine tasting today, tomorrow too, bought some stuff from Long shadows winery today. We slummed fast food pizza for dinner tonight, will see what tomorrow brings.
Mike
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Post by Russell Letson on Sept 20, 2022 22:49:30 GMT -5
My high school class had its 60th reunion over the weekend, and I got a look at some of the photos this afternoon. Not as big a turnout as for #50, but it was still heartening to see how many of my classmates are not only ambulatory but look pretty healthy, particularly one junior-high buddy who as a teen was scrawny, stooped, and asthmatic but now looks as hale as any golfer. (Of course, these are the survivors--and a few checked out just over the last year.) What I found particularly interesting was that I could still see the 18-year-old faces in some of them. (And that there were names I had no recollection of--though with a class of 183, there were bound to be some I never connected with sixty years ago.)
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