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Post by drlj on May 11, 2024 7:07:08 GMT -5
I don’t recall if Daniels had the guitar and took it to Konkoly or if Konkoly had the guitar and showed it to Daniels when he was at Elderly. Either way, the guitar was re-topped & became Jeff’s main guitar.
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Post by drlj on May 10, 2024 20:42:05 GMT -5
We have seen the Northern Lights a few times. Once, in Crete, IL we saw a gorgeous display that lasted 20-30 minutes. We have a nice view of the northern sky here and it’s dark and clear so we hope to see something. Fingers crossed.
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Post by drlj on May 10, 2024 20:17:21 GMT -5
Daniels has been playing & performing for many years-longer than he has been an actor. That part is nothing new. It is simply that Kelly Clarkson had no idea he played, wrote, and sang so it was a big shock to her and her audience. The audience reacted more to her surprise than they did to the song. I am sure most thought this was his first time playing and singing. He wrote that song probably 10-12 years ago. I heard it a long time ago. I like it.
His main guitar is interesting and I am including a video that explains it. The Jeff Daniels signature Martin OM is a recreation of the guitar described in the video. His was one of a kind until that point. I knew about his guitar & how it came about through someone mentioned in the video That’s Dick Boak, who used to be the Martin Historian and product development guru, interviewing him. He is retired now. The video was done before the signature model was put in production, but this is the meeting that led to it. The signature model came out in maybe 2011 or so. I don’t know how many were made. I played one, though, and it was very nice. He has a very interesting guitar done by a friend. The 1st 4 minutes or so explains the guitar.
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Post by drlj on May 10, 2024 12:30:16 GMT -5
Thought for the day: If one has not walked for 8 weeks, starting to walk again is pretty damned difficult. Nobody said it would be easy, though, so onward and upwards. You're the man, LJ.
I will sleep tonight. Maybe this afternoon!🥵
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Post by drlj on May 10, 2024 12:11:19 GMT -5
Thought for the day: If one has not walked for 8 weeks, starting to walk again is pretty damned difficult. Nobody said it would be easy, though, so onward and upwards.
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Post by drlj on May 10, 2024 10:26:35 GMT -5
I decided I didn’t like my stupid joke. Your post was heartfelt, emotional, and moving and it’s so hard to joke about that. Enjoy your trip and your memories.
The school where I started teaching closed and was razed. The school where I finished teaching closed. The school in which Barb taught closed and was razed. The school where she was principal for 14 year closed and was razed. It is like a part of our history has been erased and that is a strange feeling. We can point to empty fields and say we used to work there.
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Post by drlj on May 10, 2024 10:23:38 GMT -5
It wasn't meant to be taken personally. I just meant that what I think about FB should have no bearing on how others conduct their online experience. I ditched because I didn't agree with FB's privacy policies (not that it matters much all these years later, when so much of our PII is floating all over the ether) and I had also read an exposé about Mark Zuckerberg in The New Yorker and decided that the guy's moral compass is not pointing due north and he doesn't care a hang about any of his millions of subscribers, and also because during my short tenure on FB, I was inundated with friend invites from people who wrote greetings like, "haven't seen you for forty years!" I suppose it did not occur to them there was a reason for that.
Anyway, carry on.
Actually, it was a punchline from a joke, that starts with a general comment like, "Some people think everything is about them." I was pretty sure it was about you. I am relieved to find it wasn’t. Hey! It wasn’t about me, was it?
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Post by drlj on May 10, 2024 9:20:52 GMT -5
I just messaged LJ with pics of our dinner last night. Mike As long as you included vacation pictures, it’s ok.
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Post by drlj on May 10, 2024 9:02:42 GMT -5
Morning. 2nd lawnmowing of the year on tap today. Or tomorrow. If I weren't concerned about the flowers, I would just get a goat and be done with it. If you put in a sod roof, like that restaurant in Door County, goats could tend it, too. That would be cool.
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Post by drlj on May 10, 2024 8:44:23 GMT -5
Egrets and a large crane are scanning the pond for breakfast. I am scanning the kitchen for breakfast. Coffee is ready.
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Post by drlj on May 10, 2024 8:35:36 GMT -5
FB lets me watch weekly performances by Pizzarelli, Laurence Juber, David Grier, and others. I keep up with a couple musician friends using it. Other than watching the live performances, I find I am on it very little. I stay far away from Messenger although a sister, whom I have told dozens of times not to send me stuff that way, continues to send photos and other junk to me using it.
I am not interested in having 500 FB friends or in reading your latest blog on rose bushes. I doubt the IQ quizzes will actually show my IQ is 145(seems low, anyway).
I look at a few of the pictures some people put up but I don’t really put up photos myself.
And I honestly don’t care what anyone is having for dinner, have no interest in seeing pictures of the potatoes, or knowing someone just sat down in Iggy’s Bar & Grill to have a famous Iggy Burger. I don’t want anyone to call me and tell me about dinner so why would I want to read about it?
Vacation photos are nice because they give us ideas about places we could go.
I guess FB serves a purpose even though it isn’t much of one.
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Post by drlj on May 10, 2024 7:32:28 GMT -5
I take back my wishes. Why should you get birthday cake twice a year? Shouldn’t there be a fine for this?
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Post by drlj on May 9, 2024 9:56:20 GMT -5
I have been getting lots of pictures of voluptuous young women who want to be my friend.
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Post by drlj on May 9, 2024 9:13:28 GMT -5
I see more ads. I actually hate FB and I only stay on it for the musicians I follow. My two sisters, 86 & 90, feel that “The Facebook” is the most important thing in the world and they live on it. I think they believe those people actually are friends. I guess they like Cambell’s Soup recipes.
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Post by drlj on May 9, 2024 7:53:09 GMT -5
Lots of rain overnight. It does look lush outside. I just realized my surgery is going to screw up our anniversary. That really upset me. We usually go somewhere. I guess we will have to postpone that until fall.
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Post by drlj on May 9, 2024 7:48:43 GMT -5
A guitar like that will probably sell quickly. Let it be known it is for sale and it’ll have a new home before you know it. I figure all the guitars are going to belong to someone else sooner or later. Maybe several people. I can’t imagine anyone would buy a guitar like that and not appreciate it and treat it well, but once you sell it you no longer have control. Emotionally, you may not be ready to sell it, though. It doesn’t take up much space and the case is full of memories only you know, so why be in a hurry? Give it some more thought and decide what you want to do later. No rush. Sell it when you can let it go with a smile.
I figure my guitars will either be sold by relatives who know little or nothing about them, or by me. Instead of the money going into a pile to be divided, it might as well go into our pockets for Barb and me to use. Other than the guitar Barb gave me when we got married, my emotional attachment to them grows less and less all the time. They are just guitars. For the right price, they are all for sale. The right price is the tricky part. 😊
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Post by drlj on May 9, 2024 7:35:40 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, David. Cake is in order.
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Post by drlj on May 9, 2024 7:27:07 GMT -5
There comes a time…. I hope you can find a home for it.
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Post by drlj on May 8, 2024 16:37:13 GMT -5
Hey those of you who play guitar...any experience with Dunlop strings? I have used them. They are not bad strings. As I recall, for me, anyway, they did not last a long time. It’s been a long time since I used them.
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Post by drlj on May 8, 2024 10:47:59 GMT -5
Sunny after storms yesterday. The tornadoes skipped over us and went to MI. Two days from trying to learn to walk again. I feel like I could start today but I have followed a careful schedule for 8 weeks now and see no reason to vary from that now. Stick to the plan! By the time I am semi-normal, I will have invested at least 18 weeks in my recovery. That’s a long time. And it goes by slowly. I find steri-strips all over the house because they are dropping off. I had a lot of stitches so there were a lot of steri-strips. I am getting closer, but I still can’t reach the cigar. Almost there LJ, keep at it. During my recovery I was, like you right now, unable to stand and pee without it looking like I was trying to put out a barn fire. So I did it sitting down and I still do. It solved two problems, one was remembering to put the fucking seat back down and two was not splashing pee all over the place so the area around the toilet stays cleaner. It also helps with those middle of the night pee breaks when you have to go but really don't want to wake up. If I didn't tell you no one would ever know that I did this and it is also practiced by prison inmates to keep their cell cleaner. Well, when a person can’t walk, getting up at night to use the bathroom is impossible. In my case it requires a wheelchair, a walker, and waking up Barb. With all she has done and continues to do, I am not about to wake her if I don’t have to do so. I can’t sleep in the bed because it’s too high and difficult to get into so I sleep in the recliner that is in the bedroom. It’s easier. That means at night I have to use portable urinals. That’s not fun but I have gotten the hang of it. Sitting down is the least of my worries no matter what the Germans call it. Getting into the bathroom in the daytime is difficult enough and requires help because I can’t operate a wheelchair and a walker at the same time. And doing it all, standing & sitting & getting back up, on one leg adds to the difficulty. When dealing with something like this, you better have a loving partner because all modesty, shame, embarrassment, and dignity goes out the window. You can make a list and you will still leave most of the things you won’t be able to do, or the kind of help you will need, off because you won’t even think of them until you have to do them. I am fully aware there are many people worse off and that my problems are temporary and improving, but I am still in the woods, not out of them. It sounds like I am whining. I’m not. I really am pretty positive about all of this. I just acknowledge the pain-in-the-ass part.😵💫
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