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Post by RickW on Jan 15, 2024 12:17:45 GMT -5
Looks like it is gone. Elderly has an OT-22 listed for $450. That’s the 1&3/4 inch nut. And it is still on their site. It comes with a gigbag. I really like Larrivee’s 00-40 12 fret. It’s long scale but I have played it and I like the feel. I always loved their parlor guitars. Just about bought one before I bought the cargo.
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Post by RickW on Jan 14, 2024 20:36:58 GMT -5
One of my jam partners just picked up a Martin 00-18, mahogany and spruce. It’s an incredibly little guitar. Martin 18 models are mahogany back and sides. Rosewood would be a 28. Mike Apparently I had already corrected that by the time you quoted me.
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Post by RickW on Jan 14, 2024 20:15:28 GMT -5
One of my jam partners just picked up a Martin 00-18, mahogany and spruce. It’s an incredibly little guitar.
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Post by RickW on Jan 14, 2024 17:48:04 GMT -5
It also became a thing for young women who were trying lose weight, to cut down on carbs. I’m sure there’s still some of that. But I know more than a few people with a real problem. When a person is discovered to have high hemoglobin A1C levels, their doctor often diagnoses them as "pre-diabetic" and warns them to cut way back on their carbohydrate and sugar intake.
Most of the folks I know are celiac. Family across from us, father and son are diabetic, (kid extremely so, has an insulin pump installed,)who need to watch their blood sugar, and mom and daughter are celiac. They, it turned out, had a silent form of the disease. They don't feel bad, but it does terrible things to the guts.
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Post by RickW on Jan 13, 2024 21:20:42 GMT -5
When I was younger I never heard of anybody having a problem with gluten. My guess is that just as many people did but few people, if any, knew the cause of the resulting problem. It also became a thing for young women who were trying lose weight, to cut down on carbs. I’m sure there’s still some of that. But I know more than a few people with a real problem.
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Post by RickW on Jan 13, 2024 13:38:10 GMT -5
This thread had me thinking back to my childhood and the choices I had regarding the household menu. Oh yeah, that's right: "You'll eat what's in front of you and like it or go to bed hungry!". I don't know if it's a bad thing or a good thing but it's interesting to observe how much more "kid centric" we've become over the last 40 years. Howard - not being critical or anything - just observing on a more macro level. It's not just generational. Culture wide people "don't eat....". Whether it's allergies ,or preferences, or lifestyles, people "don't eat...". We used to entertain quite a bit. No more. It's awkward. You don't dare assume a menu for your guests. They are very likely to say "I don't eat .." Yup. I guess I assumed smaller towns it wouldn't be quite the todo it is here, because a lot is driven by, shall we say, cultural trends. Not that there aren't folks with actual medical issues -- no one realized how many people there are with problems with dairy and wheat. But still, yes, organizing big dinners now is a PITA. Our girls, being Asian, have dairy issues. The only one who doesn't doesn't like cheese, so we mostly keep away from dairy heavy meals.
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Post by RickW on Jan 13, 2024 13:34:58 GMT -5
Living in Vancouver, we are surrounded by vegetarians and vegans, and it's astounding how many go for "meat substitutes." Not criticizing your daughter Howard, as it sounds like she does it right. But being in Vancouver, we are surrounded by ethnic Asian restaurants, cultures that have been making great vegetarian food for centuries. Dishes from India, Thailand, Vietnam, to a lesser extent China, Korea and Japan, are fantastic food. India in particular -- the world's largest collection of vegetarians know how to cook the stuff.
We've been cutting down on meat, partially because we figure it's healthier, but also the cost is becoming astronomical. I love a good steak, roast, pork chop, tenderloin, but not eating it a few times a week stretches the food budget considerably.
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Post by RickW on Jan 11, 2024 23:40:48 GMT -5
I’m dictating right into Scrivener now when I write, and it does all kinds of annoying things that I don’t always catch at the time. (Small digression there…. But we do that here.) Scrivener, as in Bartlebee The? That’s where the name comes from. It’s writing software.
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Post by RickW on Jan 11, 2024 14:33:08 GMT -5
Rick, I always dictate text messages and sometimes emails and I know what you mean. Things would be much simpler if I were indifferent to errors. Middledottir often sends us text messages that are almost incomprehensible. It’s almost endearing.
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Post by RickW on Jan 10, 2024 23:43:25 GMT -5
I’m dictating right into Scrivener now when I write, and it does all kinds of annoying things that I don’t always catch at the time. When you’re typing you’re thinking about them. When dictating, it tries to figure out from context, but not always. Council/counsel. Led/lead. And I cannot for the life me get it to spell “sighed.” It’s always side, and when I tell it to “correct that”, which should give me a list of alternative sound alikes, sighed is not in the list.
My favourite so far was that it couldn’t figure out “imp”, but it got “kitsune”, a Japanese spirit, without a problem. (Small digression there…. But we do that here.)
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Post by RickW on Jan 10, 2024 18:40:06 GMT -5
Actually, I think we need more legal immigration. If one lives in small town America I suspect the view of immigration might be a bit different. If you live in a big metropolitan area I think it might be easy to see immigrants as a drain on an already overburdened social safety net system. But in small town America it seems rather obvious that immigrants -- even illegal ones -- are more than carrying their weight. Maybe it is even they who are supporting us. I work daily with several immigrants and they are hella workers. It’s interesting what has happened to the Okanagan, a large, dry area in central BC, now the center of a vibrant wine industry, (like, it’s covered in grape vines. Looks like Napa,) that used to be orchards. The interesting part is that the orchards that are left are almost universally owned by Sikhs, South Asian immigrants from India. Their culture in the old country was a farming culture, and they moved here, they work as families, they work their asses off, and make a go of it. It seems that our old farming culture is disappearing.
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Post by RickW on Jan 10, 2024 14:26:17 GMT -5
Being one of those guys who likes to see multiple sides of the issue:
The US cannot take every single person who wants to wander in. I mean, I guess they could, but the quality of life of the US citizens who are already there would go into the dumpster. The US doesn’t have the resources to feed, house and educate every single person who shows up at the door. If all South America decided to move to the US … that would be a disaster.
But how exactly are you going to seal the border? That’s one hell of a long border. The border wall is a pipe dream, because the resources required to build it, including putting it deep enough to prevent tunneling, and then man it sufficiently, would be enormous. That’s one hell of a long border, a lot of it in the middle of nowhere.
Last, Evan is right. Some degree of immigration is needed, in every single wealthy country. Japan and China are already starting to fear the affects of an aging population, because folks in wealthy countries no longer have lots of children. When you start approaching the point where there are more people who aren’t working anymore than there are people to keep the economy running, that economy starts to die. And the wealthy countries, by right of having kept their shit together, should be able to pick and choose who comes in. Sure, they should be taking in the poor and broken in some amount. But they can also choose skilled people.
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Post by RickW on Jan 6, 2024 20:41:02 GMT -5
I have often said wives should come with a teleprompter built into their forehead. That would save me from all those times Nancy says "Ok, Rob, now you say..." What I’d actually like is a replay button, so when she says something and glares at me expectantly with that, “we’ve discussed this” look on her face, I can call up the original conversation.
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Post by RickW on Jan 2, 2024 15:30:58 GMT -5
My eldest is on vacation there, skiing. She was in Hokkaido, the north island, they felt nothing. They were on their way to Osaka yesterday, so the worst that’s going to happen is that some things may be interrupted as everyone reacts to the emergency.
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Post by RickW on Jan 1, 2024 19:12:06 GMT -5
Bat poop is pretty nasty stuff. 60 bats in your attic? Might be time to strip it down to the studs.
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Post by RickW on Dec 31, 2023 19:02:35 GMT -5
2024 shall be more of 2023, more writing, more music. Should finish off the new series, and we’ll see how sales go. Ever hopeful, but it’s def a marathon, not a sprint. We bought a rowing machine to change up the exercise routine, looking forward to that, and also we’ll be shopping for archery equipment, as we’re really enjoying shooting, but we’re still using club equipment. Going on a 3 week cruise from Norway around Great Britain in April. For tonight, Susan is cooking up some roast pork and veggies, we’ll have some bubbles, and probably not make it to midnight.
I took two weeks off and didn’t do much of anything except hang out with the fam and do Christmas. Looking forward to getting back into the routine.
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Post by RickW on Dec 31, 2023 18:54:31 GMT -5
You know, it could've been a ducted fan and still flown, it didn't need to be a pulse jet. They still use pulse jets in control line speed, so I guess to each his own. One of the original variants of the HE 162 used a pulse jet. Could very well be that whomever these folks were, they wanted to replicate that.
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Post by RickW on Dec 30, 2023 12:57:54 GMT -5
Very cool. The Heinkel 162 was made by the Germans at the end of WWII as a bomber interceptor. It couldn’t stay up for very long, eating through the fuel, but nothing could catch it. Quite a wild little plane. This guy built an RC model. Crazy how they prime the engine, and man, is it fast. He knows how to fly it. When they ran out of fuel, they would glide back to base, which left them every vulnerable. This one does that perfectly.
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Post by RickW on Dec 29, 2023 14:20:18 GMT -5
Though we have no way of knowing how financially successful he has become, Josh Turner has shown that at least there are now ways around the gatekeepers. There was a bit of a golden time for small acoustic acts to do their own recording and CD distribution at their concerts. Lots of folks were touring around making money that way. WIth the death of CDs, it’s become harder again. If anything, even though it’s obviously still possible, it’s definitely grown harder again. But that, as you know all too well, is the life of the creative entrepeneur. You never quite know when it’s all going to get overturned.
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Post by RickW on Dec 28, 2023 20:33:21 GMT -5
Just to be completely contrary to rest of you, and because yes, I do love it, and listen to it:
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