Up and awake. Jules and I made our weekly sojourn to the Bee Creek Cafe in the sprawling metropolis that is: Platte City, Missouri. I had coffee with cream and a lemon scone.
I'm loafing for another 24 minutes, and then will suit up to finish off weed whacking the Back 40 which I let go. It'll top out at 80 today, so I'll be out there for a while! I may even borrow the neighbor's chainsaw and tackle the large limb that came down a few weeks ago.
Good morning. It will be 53 to 71 here with showers. We’ll have lunch with two friends from Phoenix who are also up here. Then we’ll have dinner with two other friends from Phoenix who are up here. Enjoy your day.
Had a nice visit with VI while watching Castle Ridge. It was a beautiful night, unfortunately we couldn't stay for real while thing as we had other plans.
Nice here today too. Still in the planning phase for today, but I do know I'm putting new strings on one of the archtops (LaBella Roller Wounds to replace the flat wounds that I'm not happy with).
Illinois people, check your lottery tickets. A single winner picked up something north of $714 million last night.
In Iowa we don't milk our cows, we kill'em and eat'em! “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Post by billhammond on Jul 30, 2022 10:50:54 GMT -5
Bills paid by phone and by mail this morning, cash withdrawn from C.U., ham steak purchased at Angus Meats, boxed wines bought at Morelli's at a great sale price, air ops observed at Holman Field, fuel found for $4.29, lots of convertible tops down and motorcycles about.
My yard guy worked tirelessly for five hours yesterday trimming all my shrubs, knocking down a volunteer maple that was threatening to take over the east side of my house and then remulching everywhere. Three bluejays were poking around in that mulch this morning, looked like a parent and two young'ns. Beautiful birds that I don't usually see on the ground.
Indycar race, from Indy no less, starting shortly. Time to make a fresh pot of coffee.
Had a nice visit with VI while watching Castle Ridge. It was a beautiful night, unfortunately we couldn't stay for real while thing as we had other plans.
Nice here today too. Still in the planning phase for today, but I do know I'm putting new strings on one of the archtops (LaBella Roller Wounds to replace the flat wounds that I'm not happy with).
Illinois people, check your lottery tickets. A single winner picked up something north of $714 million last night.
Dang, I forgot to get a ticket.
"Stories are all the human race has got, Dave. You just got to find the one you like and stay with it."
Well, drat. I seem to be coming down with some bug and we have canceled our lunch and dinner plans. Whatever it is, I don’t want to share it with friends.
Don Peters' thought....."I seem to be coming down with some bug and we have canceled our lunch and dinner plans. Whatever it is, I don’t want to share it with friends." Ditto
I still alive. a little bit walk around my apartment and outside and be very careful and I might wave or a tiny smile but my mask is on so they can't see it.
Make sure to have my mask on.
I still have the tiny covid19 - my doctor said “stay at your studio for 5 days"
I'll be moving around a little bit and then when I get tired I'll just take a nap
We look at the outside clues that people show and make up stories. The stories are just stories. Interconnected. Making up stories is what human beings do. But, if we are wise, we can slow down, remember stories and learn.
Morning. I don't know what I was doing yesterday that burned up so much time, but I didn't get the lawn mowed so that's number one up on the list today.
Will meet Anna's beau tonight. She's pretty excited about him. Gus' wedding in two weeks. Casper has his adoption anniversary coming up. Lot's going on.
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Went to the farmers market today with the wife. Middle aged guy and his wife singing country. Other than painfully out of tune guitars and weak harmonies they were pretty good and had a few loyal fans perched in lawn chairs watching.
Nice weather.
“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
Whew, a bit warm: 92 and on its way to 102. Got the puppies out for a walk early, watered the yard, picked some blueberries and made a pretty good omelet for breakfast. Time to let modern science keep my cool the rest of the day.
So the La Bella strings were a disaster on the small archtop. Didn't like them at all. Odd since I use the same ones on the larger es175 style guitar.
I.put a.set.of chrome on it for now and will have to ponder other candidates. Maybe D'Darrio half wounds.
In Iowa we don't milk our cows, we kill'em and eat'em! “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
So the La Bella strings were a disaster on the small archtop. Didn't like them at all. Odd since I use the same ones on the larger es175 style guitar.
I.put a.set.of chrome on it for now and will have to ponder other candidates. Maybe D'Darrio half wounds.
What gauge Joe?
12s
In Iowa we don't milk our cows, we kill'em and eat'em! “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
So the La Bella strings were a disaster on the small archtop. Didn't like them at all. Odd since I use the same ones on the larger es175 style guitar.
I.put a.set.of chrome on it for now and will have to ponder other candidates. Maybe D'Darrio half wounds.
So, what was undesirable about them? (Aside: FYI, I’ve never used them.) Tension? Acoustic tone? Pickup response? General feel on the instrument?
And please describe what an ideal set (mythical, I know) might be like.
Surely we can all provide purely personal and perhaps useless advice.
The tension seemed really high and somewhat u balanced (not true to my opinion of them on the same scale length big bodied guitar, but the neck is larger and i keep a slightly lower actuon on it). The feel under the fingers was irritating and the tone was not pleasant from the pickups.
I like a warmer sound and prefer something other than round wounds as I tend to drag on the strings and generate too much string noise to my ear.
I've got half rounds on my strat, but unfortunately don't have anything but a set of 9s laying around.
In Iowa we don't milk our cows, we kill'em and eat'em! “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
I've been stocking these in the shop. At $12 a set you can afford to replace them more often than the Thomastik. And for flatwounds they seem to last quite well.