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Post by TKennedy on Apr 17, 2024 18:49:02 GMT -5
My parents wrote me weekly in college and I usually wrote back about the same. I just came across a bunch of those letters going through their stuff. Pretty mundane for the most part, just what was going on. I don’t ever remember calling them.
Nowadays my grandkids in college text their mom sometimes several times a day.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 16, 2024 8:20:43 GMT -5
I’ve never played Pebble Beach. The green fees alone were $300 a head. But a business associate and I had a wonderful dinner at the restaurant there. That may have been $300 too but it covered both of us. That must have been a few years after you were there. Probably early ‘90s. I think Clint Eastwood was still Mayor of Carmel. We were staying there and it was only $50 then.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 15, 2024 23:24:45 GMT -5
I played Pebble a couple of times in 1986 when an Orthopedic club I was in met there. It was several weeks before the US Open was held there and they were letting the rough grow out to open specs.
If you were in the second cut the best you could do was hit a nine iron or wedge out into the fairway provided you could find your ball.
I remember Tiger hitting a 200+ yd seven iron out of the second cut to hit the green on number six in two at the 2000 open. One of the most amazing shots I’ve ever seen.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 14, 2024 22:29:02 GMT -5
I always wind up watching because of the beauty of the grounds and the great golf. At the same time, the snootiness of the venue and the elites that run it and contrive all of its picayune etiquette rules put me off. The tournament director’s carefully manicured hairdo was competitive with the expertise of the groundskeeping crew.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 14, 2024 17:40:42 GMT -5
Well Scotty is crushing them -
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 13, 2024 21:43:43 GMT -5
Anyone watching? Should be an exciting Sunday, well kind of. Maybe it just me but there don’t seem to be many players these days that are very colorful. I am guessing Scotty will win unless someone slips his wife some pitocin and she goes into labor
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 13, 2024 14:01:26 GMT -5
Windy but otherwise sunny and beautiful. Got the deck furniture out and will tackle the dock later if the wind goes down.
Will be watching the Masters.
Pat worked at her antique store two days in St Paul this week. Went pretty well. First attempt since her stroke in September left her with a significant visual deficit. She never thought she’d work again so it was a big deal. Several coworkers brought her flowers.
I drove down to Northfield to see our trumpet player and his wife in an assisted living where their daughter moved them. He has some increasing cognitive issues and his wife has macular degeneration. They were both legendary teachers and incredibly active people in Alexandria with tons of friends. The assisted living is very nice but it’s a difficult transition. Kind of sad, in fact real sad. It was hard to leave them.
OK back to positivity.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 12, 2024 19:40:34 GMT -5
Yep, the three chord song was already in the can a long time ago.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 12, 2024 14:15:17 GMT -5
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 11, 2024 21:36:48 GMT -5
I read Phillip Short’s bio of Putin. The hole thing was drenched in corruption. It’s a good comprehensive coverage.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 10, 2024 21:13:49 GMT -5
Interesting Russ. I wonder if Marty has ever encountered one. I have never sawed off a neck but would envision that with the kerf of the saw and the process of re-setting the neck the shortening could affect intonation.
I do epoxy my headblocks to the rimset. That way i know that with a curved joint any small gaps will be filled and it’s a joint that will never need to be disassembled.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 10, 2024 19:48:11 GMT -5
I bought David Russel Young’s book on guitar making a long time ago. It convinced me that guitar making was way above my pay grade.
One novel thing he did was a butt neck joint epoxied together. Probably one of the worst ideas there could be.
Wonder if Prine’s instrument ever needed a neck reset?
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 9, 2024 15:19:53 GMT -5
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 9, 2024 9:30:36 GMT -5
My wife’s bracket won her family pool last night! There were 30 entries at $10 a pop so she’ll make quite a haul. I was 21st
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 8, 2024 18:06:36 GMT -5
My granddaughter Claire and her dog June had a good view of a partial in Chicago, my grandson Sean had a great one in Cleveland.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 7, 2024 11:10:45 GMT -5
Rainy, watched the last 50K of Paris Roubaix. Amazing 40k solo breakaway by Van der Poel.
We’ll watch the women’s final in a couple of hours.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 6, 2024 22:15:49 GMT -5
One of my all time favorites is by my friend David Stoddard. He’s an amazing songwriter and a good guy. Russ you know him.
Here’s a live version at Creek House with Beth Wood
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 6, 2024 16:07:04 GMT -5
Todd so happy you are gathering steam!
Russ we did a Patsy Cline street concert in Long Prairie once. We set up at one end of the block and as folks arrived the front row formed up about forty feet from us.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 5, 2024 23:30:24 GMT -5
A real barn burner eh?
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 3, 2024 19:50:06 GMT -5
As a compulsive straightener-upper of things, I'm feeling a bit twitchy about the untidy and slanted sticker placement. You should have seen the inside of the car. Some of the logos on the empty fast food containers and cups were vintage.
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