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That is pretty wild. Sounds like he has a special talent there. That’s just awesome.
I can read music and play piano a little. Right hand mostly, single notes. Double notes are tougher. I think that’s great and hope he moves forward with that.
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My wife was gone last night so I sat down to learn a bass line from an old Bread song, Look what you’ve done. I have acoustic guitars, drums, and voice recorded (a friend sang). I just need to add the bass line and finish it up. I’m listening to it and the bass line is nothing like I expected from Bread – Bland that is. I really like the song but I figured the bass line would be pretty limp. It is not. It is all over the place. I got the main part I think, but then I thought, this must be on youtube and sure enough, it is. So now I have a video of the guy playing it and tablature notes to try to figure it out if I can’t figure it out from the video. This will be a bit of a challenge to get down. I was going to add stuff, but with this, I don’t need to. It is plenty busy. Anyway, that’s pretty much how I spent my evening last night.
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The Gibson SG sounds interesting. I am always looking but not buying much. I pretty much have my set up.
Epiphone Les Paul Plus top Pro. This is my go to.
Epiphone ES-335. I am liking this more and more
Fender Elite II bass I’ve had this since the band in college
Yamaha acoustic sounds great.
An electric acoustic Not as good, need to fix the action on it but otherwise is ok.
Shop Electric guitar Strat clone made by my son in wood shop. That was the project that year.Marshall Origin 20 head
Mashall Code 50 amplifier with speaker
Friedman Mini BE This thing is quite surprising.
2×12 cabinet with Celestion 2 12 inch Vintage 30 speakers.
Peavey Combo 300 bass amp from the band in collegeI have some effects pedals as well. My wife doesn’t want anymore clutter. I don’t have time to really play them much and I’m really not all that great of a player really. But I enjoy it.
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Regarding the soaker hoses, these are the ones that have worked for us really well.
You might take a look.
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I tried to check out the Les Paul, it looked pretty but I can’t get past the login for nextdoor. How much do they want for it? And how much for the SG?
We have not had good luck with soaker hoses either which is why I made the manifold. We always hooked them up together in series. This time I made a manifold to essentially hook them up in parallel. The manifold holds the pressure so they all start with the same pressure and the water flows pretty good. Using 25 foot hoses. We have 6 grow beds and using two manifolds with 3 spigots each to cover the six. I’m pretty happy with it. My wife got these hoses off Amazon and they really put out.
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Yep, if our kid moves his family to TN, then my wife does not want to be far from them. So I would think we are going. This is just a unique property with great assets. It will be tough to leave that.
Yesterday I finally set the valve lash on the mower. I had to adjust just one valve. The other three were right on. So now that is done. I also built manifolds to distribute water to three grow beds through soaker hoses. And they work great. So overall a successful weekend.
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Take them to the beach!!! Kids will love it. Ha ha!!!
We have our oldest son and his wife considering moving to TN. In fact almost her whole family is considering it. We have 6 kids but only he has grandkids and my wife may have to go to TN to be near them. We have a pretty sweet set up here and it is irreplaceable really. Woods, creek, end of a cul de sac. Horse trails all over. It really is a unique property and we’ll never get anything like it I don’t think. So I’m not sold on moving. I guess we’ll see what happens.
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Yeah, they are very handy as leaf vacuum cleaners. We have 1.25 acres with about a 11k sq ft yard to mow. So a push mower is a lot of work, even the self propelled ones. If they had those with a 42 inch deck or 48 inch deck, maybe. Nope, my hips and legs are wearing out. The guy that sold us the house gave us a self propelled mower that I used on that. My wife didn’t know it was self propelled and tried to use it and it was a disaster for her. He also gave us a rider but pride kept me from using it. After that we used it and have had one ever since. We bought a trailer for it and that works great. Rather than hauling heavy stuff by hand we can put 8 times as much stuff in that trailer and get it to where we need or much closer to where we need. That trailer has been used way more than we thought it would. Very handy. John Deere 10P trailer.
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The last number of summers our grass has browned up. Never happened before. Mostly anyway. Still green so far.
Started a fire outside last night and we cooked hot dogs with the grand kids, 6 and 3. They liked it. Not so much about marshmallows. They like cooking the mallow but not eating it. Some neighbors came by and ate hot dogs with us. It was kind of fun.
Finally got the oil filter off my John Deere lawn tractor. Used a pipe wrench. Now it is full of fresh oil and waiting for a valve adjustment. Then I need to get on the chipper that I tore apart last year, put back together wrong, the blade was not tightened because I got distracted by a neighbor and it shot through the plenum. So hopefully the blades are on tight and I have a few more bolts to replace and then it should be good. If I was retired, I actually have time to work on this stuff and get stuff done. I get home from work and really don’t have much energy to do stuff at night. So I have to force myself out there. We bought this D125 because it was hardly used, 70 hours and cheap. Our LA135 has close to 200 hours. So we thought we could sell the LA135 for what we bought the D125 for and be even, or sell for more. But it works well enough that we are having a time of making that transistion. I want to get the D125 fully maintained so I have grease to do, valve lash to adjust, and blades to sharpen. The LA135 should have the valve lash adjusted and points greased. I have a jack to make all that easier but lost a 1 inch o-ring that keeps the shear pin in there. Shear pin broke. So I have a lot of stuff to do really.
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I don’t know if we’ve seen a changing of the guard. But Final X might be so.
Yeah, the cost for this diesel is too much. However I get pretty good mileage so that might override. However, the way the car calculates the average mileage changed from this trip. They did something and it is not doing what it used to do. So something changed. Also the new DEF pump is making a racket. I can’t hear it on the road but when I park I can hear it.
I guess Carrano got it handed to her. Not that it was a marquee fight or anything. Two has beens, but I heard about it this morning and it lasted 17 seconds.
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Well, I was traveling to UT Sat – late last night. Things were going well until the DEF said I had 200 miles or I couldn’t start my car again. We were just outside Twin Falls ID and they have a VW dealership. I’ve been through this before, but the cost was more than I thought it would be. They replaced the DEF injector, emptied the DEF tank because there was low quality fluid the car computer said and wouldn’t let them reset. Then they found the DEF pump nipple that the hose attaches to broken and leaking. So that had to be replaced. $1950 later, I was on the road and drove straight home to Seattle. Long drive. The DEF system is problematic. Usually it gives you a 1500 mile warning. I got a 200 mile warning. So the leak was fast. Funny that I put in a whole box of DEF fluid just last week. So I’m not sure what the system was saying. But they found the bad pump from that. I hope they were on the up and up. It was a costly drive. We drove because tickets to salt lake were $650. We would have been better off flying, but I guess this was brewing and would have been trouble eventually.
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We roofed last year. They replaced a bunch of plywood due to water absorbtion. Hopefully they fixed that scenario.
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Wow, that is quite the story. I remember the fight and the arrest. I wonder if Rutgers will make a mistake or not on this. 250K is something pretty big.
My wife and I spent the weekend on the northern Oregon coast. We stayed in Seaside but that is very close to Cannon Beach. So we spent time in both. It was just a quick vacation but ended up being amazing. The weather on Saturday cleared up and the sun actually came out. It was cool in the breeze but very very pleasant at 64F. Sunday the temps got to 84F and not a cloud in the sky. Today it is back to low 60s. We hit it perfect. On Sunday we started to go to Cannon Beach, but the traffic was horrendous. We finally found a place to park in Seaside and walked to the beach. It was about 3 hours there. It was a great time people watching, reading, my wife actually went into the ocean a little. Let me tell you, the water is so cold it gives me a massive head ache when I get my feet in so I don’t do that anymore. Wee got sunburned even though we put the stuff on. Great drive home and we just had a really nice time.
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YOu are speaking Greek to me. But those are all the questions I have to get answers for.
Shoveled another yard of dirt on Saturday and mowed a neighbor’s way overgrown lawn. I think it was overwhelming for him to look at so I took care of it. Hot tubbed with my wife that night and we both felt much better.
Oh and how about that US nationals? Jax, Spencer, and Mason lost. Very surprising, Jax is not invinceable. We’ve known Spencer is not invincible for some time. And Mason lost in quarters so that was surprising.
WTTs will be something this year. I saw the 3rd place match for Jax and DeSanto. It was pretty rough. The match Jax lost to Davino was also quite rough. He’s going to have to create a new level if he is going to be successful. They have figured him out.
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