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Post by PaulKay on May 17, 2024 10:17:17 GMT -5
Good morning, just back from Trader Joe's, and stopped on the way home at my local Speedway station to fill my coffee mug with House blend. It's funny, but that $1.50 16-oz. fill is pretty much my favorite coffee, but then, I've never been a coffee purist. Speedway has those cool machines where you pick your blend, the bean containers rotate, grind your selection and brew it on the spot. I would say that that is 99.9% of the reason it is so good. Even an average quality coffee bean will be 10X better if is brewed from freshly ground beans.
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Post by PaulKay on May 16, 2024 18:20:33 GMT -5
Thanks. Got a three pack for $39.
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Post by PaulKay on May 14, 2024 7:42:06 GMT -5
It’s 5:30 AM and a pleasant 76 degrees. Headed for the upper 90’s as is typical for this time of year. Nothing special today. I’m working on 3 new tunes these days. Jim Croce and JJ Cale. New York’s Not My Home, Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown, and Call Me the Breeze. Then at some point I will resurrect my version “Time In a Bottle” that I played back in my college days. The goal is to replace some old blues tunes with some stuff people recognize.
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Post by PaulKay on May 13, 2024 9:54:50 GMT -5
Good morning. Howard, around here every home has central air conditioning. Window units are for milder climates. I remember visiting Nova Scotia for our 25th anniversary. Halifax was full of window units. I could be wrong but I seem to remember that in early 1961, when I spent a week and a half in Phoenix, people didn’t have air conditioners as much as they had homes and buildings with cold water pipes built into the walls. At least I was told that what they did. Does that sound right? I think they used what are called "swamp coolers". Evaporative cooling from water. Also makes a good humidifier. There are still some homes in Phoenix that have them.
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Post by PaulKay on May 7, 2024 8:58:42 GMT -5
I've never seen Ed in concert and would like to. His arrangements are always interesting. I played his arrangement for "Water Is Wide" at stepdaughter Jill's wedding years ago. It went over very well. I have always wanted to steal some of his lap slide arrangements but never got to it.
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Post by PaulKay on May 7, 2024 8:45:08 GMT -5
Gorgeous. Falls of water, or just water in general, is not all that common out here.
Thank goodness for gravity.
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Post by PaulKay on May 7, 2024 8:39:01 GMT -5
Pleasant weather today. The home owners assoc. is recoating the roads in our subdivision over the next week. They do our street tomorrow and we can't drive on it for 36 hours. So we'll run our errands today so we can hunker down for a couple days. Of course that day is also Linda's birthday. We usually go out to dinner, but that'll have to wait until the weekend. But I already have her presents in the house, so we can still celebrate at home.
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Post by PaulKay on May 5, 2024 19:31:26 GMT -5
I want to do the JJ Cale tune "Call Me The Breeze". I'm not sure what had me searching for this the other day. I think I was trying to figure out who the young kid was and what had happened to him since. I’m going after something like this.
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Post by PaulKay on May 5, 2024 9:10:19 GMT -5
I have read that people in Mexico don't celebrate Cinco de Mayo. It is only observed here in the States. That's probably because Mayonnaise is that common in Mexico. Eric will come by for practice today. We don't have a gig until the end of May, so we can try some new tunes for a change. I want to do the JJ Cale tune "Call Me The Breeze". And maybe "Crazy Mama".
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Post by PaulKay on May 5, 2024 7:45:47 GMT -5
That list has been around for almost as long as the blues has been around. I put it on my website back on te 90’s. How to Sing the Blies
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Post by PaulKay on May 3, 2024 18:16:00 GMT -5
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Post by PaulKay on May 3, 2024 9:52:38 GMT -5
Sounds like a great day well spent, Howard.
I can certainly relate to comment regarding the absence of another "gotta have it" guitar. Marcia bought me a Roger McGuinn Seven string a few years ago, and I acquired an Anniversary D18. They are on the wall with the Clarence White that I played at the factory. ( As CFM does not sell at the factory, I took down the serial number and had my local shop order it for me. ) Are there better guitars, guitars that would fit me even better? Probably. But I am not seeking them out. There is one that I played: Mike Wonder's D-1 Collings. Whoo boy. What a sweetie! And the guitar, too.
I mention it because it reminds me that not all guitars with the same designation are the same. In 1972 I had the wherewithal to afford a D18. I went into THE BIG CITY of Cleveland, OH and bought one. There were several and I did not know then to try 'em all. To this day I wonder if I passed up a diamond for a cubic zirconia. But no, no regrets. It was $287.38 - includes tax and hard shell case- well spent. Still owned, still played. Froon My D-18 is from either 1993 or 1994. I can never remember which. Nice guitar. It seems new to me but 1993 was 31 years ago. How is that possible? My HDC-35 (Cedar top) is vintage 1992. The claim I can make with most of my guitars is that they were made in later half of the last century. The older I get, the more relevant that becomes.
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Post by PaulKay on May 3, 2024 9:44:54 GMT -5
Like LJ, I've never set foot in a Sam Ash store.
But my experience with their business itself showed me they were pretty shady. I signed up with them (via an internet service) to direct people visiting my web site to their site (for a commission on any sales it generates). But the company stiffed me on paying any of the commissions I earned. So I dropped them. Musician's Friend on the other hand payed a lot of commissions during that same time.
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Post by PaulKay on Apr 30, 2024 10:43:46 GMT -5
We took Rocky to see the eye surgeon last week and he was given a clean bill of health on his recovery from cataract surgery. So he was able to enjoy some swimming over the weekend. Today we take him back to Internal Medicine where they will check his liver values again. They are expected to be back to normal since the cessation of steroids a few weeks ago. If the reading is normal, we'll also stop any further antibiotics.
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Post by PaulKay on Apr 28, 2024 7:55:43 GMT -5
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Post by PaulKay on Apr 27, 2024 8:54:08 GMT -5
I know pretty much nothing about the law, but in following the court's decisions over the years it does seem that the conservative justices want to consider themselves textualists. As I understand that, it means they look only to what is specifically written in the text of the constitution. This was what drove the abortion decision (nothing in the constitution specifically protects it).
So it seems more than ironic that these same conservative justices now seem to be bending over backward to try to "create" new rules that clearly are not in the constitution. Gorsuch admitted as much during the arguments while the liberal justices (equally ironic) were pointing out that the constitution text had no statements for presidential immunity.
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Post by PaulKay on Apr 27, 2024 7:48:21 GMT -5
Yesterday’s gig went well for the first two sets. Then it started to rain. We were in this huge covered area, tucked off to the side. Mostly to get away from the 20 mph winds. It turns out the “only” spot under that entire covered area where the roof leaked was directly over me. Within minutes it was clear we had to stop and move our gear. The outlet strip got wet, but that was after we pulled the plug. So we never did play the 3rd set.
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Post by PaulKay on Apr 25, 2024 10:03:40 GMT -5
I must admit, I did not know this. That store was much more than just a music shop.
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Post by PaulKay on Apr 25, 2024 7:43:21 GMT -5
Seems to be in the middle of nowhere.
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Post by PaulKay on Apr 24, 2024 18:48:56 GMT -5
I ran through all 3 sets of music (with sound) today in preparation for Friday’s gig. Now it’s time for pizza.
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