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Post by Cornflake on Aug 15, 2024 6:53:22 GMT -5
Good morning. Today will include, as is usual for a Thursday, my Zoom social breakfast and a trip to buy groceries, plus making dinner.
Around mid-August I start counting down towards summer's end. In about a month the mornings and evenings will start cooling down. That makes a big difference. There are still seven or eight weeks until the daytime heat breaks.
Enjoy your day.
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Post by paleo on Aug 15, 2024 7:45:22 GMT -5
Tonight is the ribbon cutting and grand opening of a new wine bar, The Niche, in Vinton. Dan and Maureen Boddicker are the owners and they have put together something special. It's in the Brickside building on main street.
Worth stopping at when people are in Vinton for Ijam. Dan and Maureen are both very musical.
Raining here this morning.
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Post by drlj on Aug 15, 2024 7:51:25 GMT -5
I thought today was Saturday. It’s been that kind of week.
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Post by millring on Aug 15, 2024 8:09:00 GMT -5
Errand day. Plates for the Toyota, oil change for the Dodge, order stuff for one of my coworkers to deliver.
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Post by howard lee on Aug 15, 2024 8:26:19 GMT -5
Good morning.
No major plans today except for a trip this afternoon to one of my least favorite parts of town, the upper east side, for an ultrasound at my medical group's radiology lab. A retired friend of mine here extols the joys of retirement thus: "It's great to be retired! You have all this free time between medical appointments." But my morning cappuccino is good.
The subway ride from Brooklyn causes me to miss my old apartment in Greenwich Village momentarily. Then I remember how I watched the neighborhood morph into a euro-trash shopping mall the years I lived there. Nonetheless, it was a good 17 years, location-wise, but Brooklyn is better for many reasons. The end of December will mark 21 years that we have lived here, longer than I lived at any one location in my entire life.
Hotter today, high 80s, with a possible shower in the PM. If I carry an umbrella the odds are that it won't rain.
You know, it just occurred to me that the daily thread on this board, which we have perpetuated over the years, is much like a diary, with hundreds of entries for longtime members. It would be an arduous but interesting project to go through the archive and extract one's entries into a single volume...
Wishing everyone, and our birthday boys, a very pleasant day.
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Post by Marty on Aug 15, 2024 8:39:56 GMT -5
Good morning.
64F-80F cloudy.
Terry will be by later and we will go to Willie's American Guitars.
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Post by Cornflake on Aug 15, 2024 9:05:19 GMT -5
"No major plans today except for a trip this afternoon to one of my least favorite parts of town, the upper east side...."
I'm not sure I ever went to the upper east side when I lived in New York. We heard that was where wealthy people lived. Ramen-eating students stuck to the upper west side.
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Post by howard lee on Aug 15, 2024 9:20:37 GMT -5
"No major plans today except for a trip this afternoon to one of my least favorite parts of town, the upper east side...." I'm not sure I ever went to the upper east side when I lived in New York. We heard that was where wealthy people lived. Ramen-eating students stuck to the upper west side.
I lived there with a GF for three years, 1981 through 1983, in a railroad flat in a tenement building on East 81st Street and Second Avenue, where rent was cheap. As you moved farther west toward Fifth Avenue and the park, the neighborhood there was much more posh. Our bathtub was in the kitchen, three feet to the left of the front door, so overnight guests were rare. The tub had a hinged lid that was perfect for parties—we'd cover half the tub, fill it with ice to keep cans and bottles cold, and use the other half of the lid to place bottles of spirits, wine, ice buckets. It was a neighborhood, though; we got to know many of the local business owners and had a favorite coffee shop ("The Little Den," owned and operated by Sammy and Lucy, now long gone) that served homemade bran muffins that couldn't be beat. But that was 41 years ago, and like many other parts of the city, things have changed.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 15, 2024 9:29:06 GMT -5
Locally based 24/7 classical station KSJN is playing one of my favorite pieces of music, "Capriccio Italien," by one Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. So wonderfully melodic and stirring.
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Post by martinfever on Aug 15, 2024 10:15:56 GMT -5
Hey Marty...if you go to Willie's check out the Podium 50th Anniversary D28 Singer Songwriter if you get a chance. Curious how it sounds after almost 15 years. Also the Martin M36 Custom Adi top. Thanks!
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Post by PaulKay on Aug 15, 2024 10:41:31 GMT -5
Today's endeavor to begin the long process of getting rid of all my musical equipment. I've chosen Facebook marketplace to try and sell stuff. Today I listed for sale my Paul Beard square neck dobro National Reso-lectric and LR Baggs Acoustic Reference Amplifier. I also need to list my digital 8-channel PA system w/Daedalus speakers. I've, so far, been unsuccessful in finding anyone interested in this.
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Post by billhammond on Aug 15, 2024 10:54:44 GMT -5
my digital 8-channel PA system w/Daedalus speakers. I remember those speakers from our Baraboo gathering long ago -- amazing sound, but don't they weigh a ton?
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Post by Village Idiot on Aug 15, 2024 10:56:07 GMT -5
It poured rain all night. Too many puddles where I walk, so I'll be visiting the treadmill at the rec center. Not my favorite, but I'm happy it's there.
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Post by kenlarsson on Aug 15, 2024 11:04:45 GMT -5
Good afternoon. I'm resting up after a morning bike ride. This afternoon I'll be heading to the Brooksville Democratic party headquarters to see what they're up to. Shopping and a workout in the home gym are also on the agenda.
Have a great day.
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Post by Cornflake on Aug 15, 2024 11:23:53 GMT -5
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Aug 15, 2024 11:33:33 GMT -5
This afternoon I'll be heading to the Brooksville Democratic party headquarters to see what they're up to. While you are there can you see if there is an update to “How to steal the election”.? I’m still running the 2020 2.24 version, and it really should be updated. Foggy and damp this morning at the beach. Breaking camp and heading a whole hour up the Coast to State park in Newport. Fish and chips at the South beach store are planned for lunch. Mike
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Post by david on Aug 15, 2024 11:52:35 GMT -5
SUV to the shop this morning for the potential buyer's mechanic to check it out. I hope it passes. It is the same shop that has been servicing it for 10 years.
Probably my last personal, in court, appearance this afternoon (unless someone discovers my involvement in that bank heist last winter).
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Post by kenlarsson on Aug 15, 2024 12:08:01 GMT -5
This afternoon I'll be heading to the Brooksville Democratic party headquarters to see what they're up to. While you are there can you see if there is an update to “How to steal the election”.? I’m still running the 2020 2.24 version, and it really should be updated. Never heard of this so I'll just assume it's a cynical put down.
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Post by david on Aug 15, 2024 12:18:18 GMT -5
While you are there can you see if there is an update to “How to steal the election”.? I’m still running the 2020 2.24 version, and it really should be updated. Never heard of this so I'll just assume it's a cynical put down. I suspect Mike was poking fun at those who claim that democrats stole the last presidential election.
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Post by millring on Aug 15, 2024 13:59:27 GMT -5
I'm sure this image will mean more to me than to you. It's just an old woman laughing with her dog, right? (so why share it?) This is one of Dar's friends. One she met 20 some years ago at dog training classes. Tracy is a very special woman. She will do anything for her friends. More than that, she'll do anything for strangers. Dar knows most of this not because Tracy tells Dar what she does in a manner claiming virtue, but Dar finds out either from other friends, or when Tracy recounts something matter-of-factly that she doesn't think is as remarkable as it is. For instance, Tracy goes to homeless shelters, brings lunch and shares it and conversation with folks there. Just a way to spend her lunch hour. And the reason the photo means something to friends like me? The dog is Chloe. She's blind and deaf. Tracy's raised her from puppyhood. Chloe can do scentwork. Chloe can do obedience. Obviously Chloe can make Tracy laugh.
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