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Post by t-bob on Apr 28, 2012 6:05:39 GMT -5
So starts the 1st morning of the weekend... good weather out here in the SF Bay Area, high 60s and sun expected. I'll be mowing the lawn again today which has quickly grown to a foot tall.
I'm starting to look around for different work already. I haven't closed a sale yet, actually didn't expect to this quickly, but this particular company is not very patient. There's other jobs out there, and easier to find one when already employed.
My Yankees won a most entertaining game yesterday, quite a few lead changes, decent pitching and patient hitting on both sides, and a few dramatic HRs. Walkoff wild pitch in the bottom 9th to end it.
Messed around a bit last night in Open D, Rider In The Rain sounds good in it. And still working on The Sea as performed by the late great Sandy Denny, chords provided to me a couple of years ago by Billy Boy.
I/we have another session with the divorce mediator next week, and I think it will be the last one. Then it will be time to file the paperwork with the state. And figure out a way to move inexpensively.
Enjoy the weekend if you have one. And the days even if you don't.
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Post by theevan on Apr 28, 2012 7:24:18 GMT -5
Back from the health club and feeling all buff. The beauty of illusion...
Too many festivals, not enough time.
-Jazzfest is under way. Too many people and scads of annoying people in "festival mode" with their silly get-ups and such.
-If I had time, Festival International in Lafayette has to be one of the best free fests anywhere. I've been there with Sekhmet, AlanC and his Lovely Other.
-Louisiana BiCentennial is at the Capitol grounds today. Lots of free food, music, crafts, demos, etc. I think we'll head there.
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Post by Lonnie on Apr 28, 2012 7:34:33 GMT -5
Good morning... they're talking about snow here.
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Post by Don Clark on Apr 28, 2012 7:48:22 GMT -5
Mornin'.....
Off to Fowler to get started on the final cleanup in the house and to pull the garage down. Literally. We'll set whatever contents out, remove the doors, hook up a couple of log chains to it and pull it to the ground. Easier to disassemble from the ground. Brother in law is giving me one of his farm trucks with the endgate out so I load and dump easily.
Lonnie.....snow? Nah.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Apr 28, 2012 7:58:47 GMT -5
Morning. Raining. Can't mow. Think I'll get a haircut instead.
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Post by mnhermit on Apr 28, 2012 8:04:56 GMT -5
G'mornin' - gray, but not raining - yet. Yard work ahead for me today.
Today in History:
1376 - English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay
1686 - 1st volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published
1789 - Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty & Capt William Bligh
1855 - 1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
1914 - W H Carrier patents air conditioner
1922 - WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station
1940 - Glenn Miller records "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
1942 - "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia
1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
1969 - King Crismson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
1989 - Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
born today:
1592 - George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/English admiral
1758 - James Monroe, Westmoreland Va, (D-R) 5th pres (1817-25)
1878 - Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe], Phila, actor (Free Soul, Dr Kildare)
1882 - Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist
1926 - Harper Lee, author (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1943 - Fantastic Johnny C[orley], US singer (Boogaloo down Broadway)
1947 - factorychef - happy retiree and gourmand.
1950 - Jay Leno, New Rochelle, comedian/talk show host (Tonight Show)
1955 - Eddie Jobson, rock violinist (Zappa, UK, Roxy Music-For Your Pleasure)
1960 - Wally Langdon, bassist (Bob Color)
1968 - Matt Varga, Australia, resonater player and raconteur
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Post by Doug on Apr 28, 2012 8:11:23 GMT -5
I'z here
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Post by t-bob on Apr 28, 2012 8:23:11 GMT -5
Mornin'..... Off to Fowler to get started on the final cleanup in the house and to pull the garage down. Literally. We'll set whatever contents out, remove the doors, hook up a couple of log chains to it and pull it to the ground. Easier to disassemble from the ground. Brother in law is giving me one of his farm trucks with the endgate out so I load and dump easily. Lonnie.....snow? Nah. Have fun with the garage. Destruction is so satisfying. The only thing better is blowing shit up. I used to remove old growth cedar stumps with dynomite - some took 4 sticks - when I lived in rural Washington state. I did that with a carport about ten years ago. I removed all the cross bracing between the eight 4x4 posts and two of us pushed it over. At the time we had previously parked $75K of cars in it. A strong windstorm could have blown it down on top of those two cars. Yikes. |
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Post by drlj on Apr 28, 2012 8:27:59 GMT -5
Cold and rainy here. I wanted to mow the lawn but I will have to sit around listening to music, playing my guitar and sipping fine wine instead. Drat!
Enjoy the day.
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Post by Cornflake on Apr 28, 2012 8:58:08 GMT -5
Good morning. It should be a nice day here. Enjoy yours.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 28, 2012 10:54:45 GMT -5
Lessee what I got on the Bachelor Dew list. Hmm, watch a couple car shows on the telly, wander down to Podium and plunder some new arrivals, then off to the fishmonger as I have a walleye jones, then maybe to a brewery taproom and then I need to ignore the Twins and play some guitar and oh yeah, I really should clean the kitchen floor, but there's always Sunday.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2012 11:17:18 GMT -5
Good morning ... today I remove a euonymous bush that has grown behind the electric meter and is causing all kinds of problems. I don't have to turn off the electricity 'cuz I'll be working real fast.
See y'all tomorrow ... most likely ;D
Sparky
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Post by Doug on Apr 28, 2012 11:34:25 GMT -5
Contractor predicting that the shower will be finished by Tue my guess is Thur. ;D
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Post by billhammond on Apr 28, 2012 11:47:15 GMT -5
Good morning ... today I remove a euonymous bush You have a bush named after yourself??? |
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Post by millring on Apr 28, 2012 12:08:42 GMT -5
Good morning ... today I remove a euonymous bush You have a bush named after yourself??? Heh. I like that. I got in a conversation with another artist set up next to me at a show. We got talking about ways we've heard people mispronounce words that left us scratching our heads, wondering exactly what they were talking about. I told of the time someone told me of a flower arrangement they had in their house. In it was some "you cally peatus". I had to think about it for a while before I finally figure out that they read "eucalyptus" but had no idea what the word was, so they had sounded it out. She countered with the story of a date who was trying to impress her with his tale of having snorkeled in ba-Rack-a-duh infested waters. |
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Post by sekhmet on Apr 28, 2012 12:27:37 GMT -5
Afternoon. Slept about 14 hours and feel somewhat human again.
It's sunny and coolish, but the prediction is that the rest of the month will be normal. About 15 to 17 Celsius. That's very pleasant weather indeed.
Thinking about doing a vegetable garden this year. Like the idea of no pesticides.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 28, 2012 13:24:15 GMT -5
I got in a conversation with another artist set up next to me at a show. We got talking about ways we've heard people mispronounce words that left us scratching our heads, wondering exactly what they were talking about. My favorites were "Doc I'm havin' trouble with my prostrate." or "My rotor cuff is killin' me" |
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Post by billhammond on Apr 28, 2012 13:27:35 GMT -5
Sick as hell anemia?
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Post by billhammond on Apr 28, 2012 13:28:04 GMT -5
Fireballs of the Eucharist?
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Post by Don Clark on Apr 28, 2012 19:03:08 GMT -5
Quite productive day at Fowler. Was able to pick up the truck on the way in to town, stopped to put some gas in it and it was dead when I went to start it. A friend drove by about then and I called him real quick and he came to my rescue with jumper cables. Got the truck to the house, got most of the prep done to the garage but will drop it next trip. That will be in two weeks as next weekend is the Sampler Festival where I'll spend two days playing music, meeting people and making new friends, and hopefully booking some new gigs and getting CD sales off to a good start.
And I'll stop by the house in Fowler Thursday when I go for a haircut and put my charger on the truck and just leave it on a 2 amp trickle.
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