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Post by epaul on Jul 3, 2024 11:56:57 GMT -5
I make joke playing off of Rob's joke. I knew when IJ was. I just wanted to make double darn sure there wasn't a possibility that Rob might have mistakenly made his reservation a week ahead or behind, thus making the idea of IJ attendance suddenly more attractive to the several of us that are undecided.
In non-joke world, I fondly (if not entirely rationally) consider Rob to be a reason I would want to attend IJ, which, alas, I can not as that date is Brothers' Weekend, a date which just seems to be impossible to ever move.
(this year, one brother is leaving for Ireland immediately after. And every year, Labor Day, is locked down in a strong box for cabin brother's wife's family... we bros are welcome to join the crowd that weekend, but we really don't want to).
I really would like to attend IJ. I work up a couple very special trombone numbers every year, just in case fortune breaks my way. One day, one year...
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Post by epaul on Jul 3, 2024 9:23:31 GMT -5
Could you confirm the dates?
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Post by epaul on Jul 3, 2024 9:19:52 GMT -5
Morning!
I'm holding up my end of the Bell Curve (counter-balancing Don, who keeps trying to skew the results!). Up daisy fresh at 8:30. Never before 8; hardly never after 9. 8:15-8:30 is the sweet spot.
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Post by epaul on Jul 2, 2024 19:18:44 GMT -5
The Supremes asked the lower court (or courts) that handled the case before them to work on those details.
The actual settling and clarification of those details might take many years and many court cases. It won't be dumped out in a month complete in a tidy manual. And despite their best efforts, the this/that details won't be settled by the press or commentators or political spinners. It will be court case by court case over a period of years.
The only thing clear is that Trump's own Federal trial won't be until after the election, and given the slow pace of everything else in this Trump circus, that was likely to be the case anyway. With appeals added to the mix, a certainty.
If Trump wins the election, his attorney general will dismiss it all or it will disappear by some other method. If Trump loses, well, then it will be interesting. And some of the questions about official and personal will get answered.
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Post by epaul on Jul 2, 2024 11:00:31 GMT -5
Moeninr!
Tihgns aur a ltitel ufzyz ihs orming.
Ater
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Post by epaul on Jul 2, 2024 10:36:57 GMT -5
Most use a blender. For best results, set to high.
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Post by epaul on Jul 1, 2024 15:29:25 GMT -5
Any one will do. Buy the fit and screen you like. I like the Snark.
I had the Peterson Strobo-Clip. After nine and half hours of using it to try get my 12-string in Strobo-Clip tune, I threw it against the wall. It worked better after that. Not so neurotic. Then I lost it. In the wastebasket.
(I think I sold it someone on the forum. I still feel guilty about that.)
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Post by epaul on Jul 1, 2024 12:21:22 GMT -5
Lining your pockets in return for pardons is not an "official" act. Nor is leaning on election judges to try conjure up some extra non-existent votes in an election campaign an official act of the presidency. The mere act of occupying an office does not make everything done within that office legal or official. That is established law enforced in offices across this country.
If guidance is needed, there is a list of impeachable actions listed in the Constitution. Impeachable actions do not fall within a president's official duties by definition. The listing of those actions in the Constitution provides a framework a court can use to determine "official"/"personal" regardless of whether there is an actual removal via impeachment.
On the flip side, should a president face the threat of a lawsuit for a military action ordered by his command that goes south or is later deemed to have been "wrongful" when the political winds have turned against him?
...Charges brought perhaps brought by the attorney general appointed by his successor... or perhaps charges brought by a World Court. Joe sued for Afghanistan, Obama for some assassination, Bush for ordering the bombing of a Bagdad restaurant that had no bad guys in it?
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Post by epaul on Jul 1, 2024 11:16:10 GMT -5
Agree.
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Post by epaul on Jul 1, 2024 10:33:07 GMT -5
A cool and cloudy day in store (no rain, just clouds). 68 at 10:30. Expected high of 74.
In a shocking development, I bought a new instrument, and it wasn't a trombone. My little parlor is currently getting "plek'd" by the fine folks at Sweetwater. Should be in my hands in ten days or so.
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Post by epaul on Jun 30, 2024 17:30:40 GMT -5
For what you got and needed, $7K is a pretty good deal.
What can you get for 7K any more? One of the Major's Martins? Maybe. A personalized, in-house, trombone solo? Well, yes, but my travel and food expenses are extra. A week in Iowa courtesy of Todd's Guided Tours? Sure, once the lawsuits are settled. But, all in all, you got a steal.
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Post by epaul on Jun 30, 2024 14:04:52 GMT -5
That van looks really nice and clean (and no rust showing where it would matter). And you are better off with the gas engine. Those Toyota fours of that generation were amazingly reliable engines often running well north of 200,000 miles (some into 300K territory) (the diesels were good, but not a lot of fun in winter. and if parts are needed, parts for the gas are more common and cheaper.)
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Post by epaul on Jun 30, 2024 13:54:23 GMT -5
 And it even came with a dog! Like, how did they know? |
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Post by epaul on Jun 30, 2024 12:54:43 GMT -5
The Twins aren't on until this evening. You'll have to find something else to do for the afternoon.
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Post by epaul on Jun 30, 2024 12:42:57 GMT -5
Sunny and Cool. Currently 69 degrees at 12:30 PM. (82 in my greenhouse with one vent open). 71 is the projected high. A perfect day to do far more work than I am interested in doing. But, I will do some. Maybe.
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Post by epaul on Jun 30, 2024 12:36:15 GMT -5
... I ended up with a 1996 Toyota Town Ace, right hand drive, Japanese import with 48,000 miles.It's got one glitch I've got to solve -- it only runs when the air conditioner is on. Otherwise, it's just about as perfect a mail truck as I could hope for. Do you have the turbo diesel? |
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Post by epaul on Jun 30, 2024 11:50:38 GMT -5
Sure, go ahead. Pile on when you've got the advantage. -better put this in:  |
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Post by epaul on Jun 29, 2024 17:41:35 GMT -5
Morning.
Joe ain't the only one.
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Post by epaul on Jun 29, 2024 16:03:12 GMT -5
Bill Maher spoke for me. He often does.
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Post by epaul on Jun 29, 2024 11:21:42 GMT -5
Well, Reagan spent most of his second term with his marbles in a drawer somewhere and the country survived nicely (and Republicans were in Republican heaven).
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