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Post by millring on Jul 30, 2023 6:02:58 GMT -5
The rare and coveted Members Mark All Beef Hot Dogs. These are the ones Sam's Club and Costco sell at the snack counter, just too fabulous to be a hot dog. A bit of potato salad on the side. My co-worker keeps raving about these:
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Post by millring on Jul 28, 2023 4:48:23 GMT -5
What battery dependency is doing to the pottery world:
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Post by millring on Jul 28, 2023 4:37:55 GMT -5
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BLTs
Jul 27, 2023 18:04:03 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by millring on Jul 27, 2023 18:04:03 GMT -5
Don't underestimate the pleasure of a bacon and cucumber sandwich.
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Post by millring on Jul 26, 2023 20:57:19 GMT -5
I'm more a bugs/barber of seville classically influenced fella. Loved the bits of fantasia I saw. I think I did finally see all of it.
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Post by millring on Jul 26, 2023 12:01:00 GMT -5
Grampa and Sonny. Maybe if you live as long as I have, and have played as many songs, you'll sound half as good as me. And that would still be very, very good
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Post by millring on Jul 26, 2023 10:53:19 GMT -5
Off today. So far I've cleaned out gutters, trimmed dog's nails, taken the Jeep BACK to the shop (I fear the worst. It started running very rough yesterday and stalls or bucks if I accelerate too fast), Put 8 new 8' florescent bulbs in the shop ceiling fixtures, had fried egg sandwiches, and played a little on the OT-22. I'm hoping to restring the LG2 and maybe get side by side photos with the OT-22.
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Post by millring on Jul 26, 2023 6:24:00 GMT -5
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Post by millring on Jul 25, 2023 20:57:28 GMT -5
After another 13.5 hour day (I'm over 50 hours in 4 days) I came home to a terrific dinner -- pot roast, mashed potatoes, green beans that have been cooked down with diced potatoes and chunks of honeybaked ham -- after which IceSha told me she wanted to go outside. So for the past hour and a half I've been sitting outside on IceSha's bench playing the Farida OT-62 into the creeping dark of night. Much of the time IceSha's been sharing the bench, back to back.
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Post by millring on Jul 25, 2023 8:54:05 GMT -5
John, news reports say UPS may strike. Will that make things even worse for you? We're guessing so. Right now we're weathering regular's vacation weeks. They're trying to send help from other offices.
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Post by millring on Jul 25, 2023 5:14:43 GMT -5
I went with Misty as my primary guitar holder a few years back, and have no regrets. She is wonder. Those eyebrows look so natural! Just like Barbie.
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Post by millring on Jul 25, 2023 4:26:33 GMT -5
37.5 hours in 3 days.
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Post by millring on Jul 23, 2023 15:16:41 GMT -5
If the movie doesn't have a scene where Barbie's head turns 180 degrees, or her arms don't bend awkwardly backwards.... it isn't Barbie.
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Post by millring on Jul 23, 2023 13:16:30 GMT -5
"The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of it, is geared toward making us connect with things not people. You are not a good consumer citizen if you spend your time bonding with the people around you and not stuff. In fact, we are trained from a young age to focus our hopes, dreams, and ambitions on things to buy and consume. Drug addiction is a subset of that." This really grabs me. One huge factor that I believe social connection brings to the mental health and well-being table is shame. Social media offers an ersatz social connection that can be tailored to not include shame And we've even taken to socially shaming shame. But I'm thinking that maybe we shouldn't be.
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Post by millring on Jul 23, 2023 10:25:07 GMT -5
On the Farida, are you using mediums on both? Standard tuning? I know I could look it up, but what are the scale lengths on those guitars? They're both short scale and I have identical exp17 on both. Standard tuning. And, yes they fight back a little -- particularly my right hand (I must fret very close to the frets because even though I play a lot, I don't develop much in the way of calluses.
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Post by millring on Jul 23, 2023 8:19:34 GMT -5
I have a couple of v picks around here somewhere. Noisy little buggers.
Off to Amazon the county. Two developments that may or may not make a difference:
1. I read a news story out of Elkhart this morning. It seems there is a stalled $100 million Amazon distribution center in Elkhart. Maybe if they finish it, things will change in Kosciusko County. Maybe not.
2. Amazon has started a new (for lack of a better explanation) Doordash for Amazon. You can become an Amazon distributor. Apparently there is a reputable business owner in Warsaw who is launching one.
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Post by millring on Jul 23, 2023 7:31:55 GMT -5
For what it's worth, coincidentally this came up on facebook this morning. Of course, Hari doesn't explain what put us in the "hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world", or what exactly those terms mean (they're politically and socially charged and presuppositional). So essentially, he's really saying not a whole lot (besides which, there's the possibility that no such study happened, or that it actually happened as presented). But since it's yet another observation about this subject, I thought I'd share it.
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Post by millring on Jul 23, 2023 7:07:36 GMT -5
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Post by millring on Jul 23, 2023 6:58:03 GMT -5
I had yet another 13.5 hour work day. But I did find out that, though by no means does it guarantee that I will win the bid for it, my efforts to open the regular position in Bourbon were successful and I will soon be bidding on it. (it would mean a 20 minute commute, but a regular route with regular hours, a day off each week, and a finish time that gets me home before 8PM)
On the Farida front, I'm finding that I have little trouble playing with mediums. And the sound is, so far, worth it.
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Post by millring on Jul 23, 2023 6:24:41 GMT -5
I suspect that it is because we so profoundly misunderstand evolution ... and then run with that misunderstanding ... that we don't grasp that we're all just tamed barbarians. Humans are not a constantly improving race (no organism is. we're all simply changing. in our case, we're obese, drug-dependent, and addicted, and every new change to our environment culls the herd). For 10,000 years mankind has relied heavily on religion to civilize us. Now we are rejecting religion (which may or may not be a good idea) and its role in civilizing, but I fear we are, in its absence, moving forward with several very mistaken notions -- not the least of which is that we are getting better and therefore what is newer is superior to what came before. As long as we maintain the order that religion gave us, we remain somewhat civilized. But without a belief in the foundational reason behind it, that's a very precarious position. As soon as we are uncomfortable, it collapses. That my well be true, but that also says there is no humanity without religious fiction. You got several likes for this, so it must be easy enough to understand what you're saying. But I don't.
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