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Whew! This adulting stuff sucks. I haven't even had much time to mediocre, lately. The shop is on an upswing, but personnel hasn't caught up, and soo oh much drama going on, with my granddaughter living with us! It makes me prefer going to work, where I am explicitly forbidden to play bass...

Greetings, fellow Mediocritites! Whew, long time, no post. Everyone is healthy and gainfully employed where applicable, here in BigStringBenderland. I've just been busy and quite distracted. No particular reason, other than my ascending age and descending concern for the world around me. It...

Greetings fellow mediocritites, we survived. The Crud has been vanquished, the home disinfected, and I missed out on it again! (Whew!). Since I never tested positive, I had to work these last weeks, but it seemed like business as usual. My grand daughter, who now rents our upstairs, got a...

Well shuh freakin' eesh! As grandma used to say, "if it ain't one pile, its another that smells just like it.". I got home from work today, to find out that my lovely wife has the Crud. Yes, THAT Crud. Again. This is her 7th time in 6 years, all around this time of the year, plus or minus a...

Ello, y'all, or Greetings fellow Mediocritites! Yeah, I'm still out and about, alive and kickin' (and screamin'). The holiday season just got crazy with the weather and grandkids and work and this and that and the other thing. I'm sure you all know what I mean. Anyway, it was all good, except...

My research shows that the Fender Prophecy series was a Fender Heartsfield collab, and built by the Fujigen Gakka in Japan. They made 3 versions, the first being a bass wood and maple build with a bolt on neck and passive electronics, the second had either ash or basswood body, bolt on maple...

I am 90% sure that the little buck my friend's wife harvested was the same little buck that my former friend had poorly shot a week prior. Too many similarities in description, especially with the belly wound. Anyway, I really want to believe that. None of the neighbors reported a wounded deer...

NBD! Meet the Prophecy III, yet to be named.

I sometimes erupt envelopes of ionized gas, myself. Usually on Wednesday, after taco Tuesdays with that special habanero sauce!

I once had a summer job of keeping geese off of a local farmers cattle pond. The goose poo would mire the water and weird stuff would grow, making it unsafe for the cows to drink. After a week of chasing them away, manually, by waving a broom and yelling, I got creative, and brought my paintball...

Been out in the woods for a while, with spotty, spotty signal. Double spotty signal makes it difficult to post here. But it has been an educational time dor me. I have decided that I am a much better guide than hunter. But that is Ok for me. For every whitetail harvested on the parcel I'm...

Play them. A lot.

It happened again this year. I bought 62# of assorted candy, turned the porch light on, but nothing. Not a single trick or treater! They walked right on by, ignoring the guy in the coveralls, with a pitch fork and straw hat. I used to love Halloween. And I'd have gotten away with it if it...

Depending on the pickup type, 60hz hum can start a loop.

I think I have a diagnosable phobia of dentists. I have been heard saying "I'd rather fight a hungry lion with a plastic spork than sit in that chair". I have never had a "good" visit. In my green weenie days, the Army dentist skipped his die grinder across my upper front gum, and it got...

My toofs are also failing. In 2011, I had to have a rod put in my left tibia, which pissed off the marrow, and I now suffer from a directly linked vitamin D deficiency. After 3 years of wondering why all of my bones started to lose calcium, as my teeth started to dissolve and the little bones...

Tomorrow is the PA/DJ gig for the young 3 piece. The birdies in grapevine are telling me some people are not happy that I volunteered my services. Those unhappy people are exactly the one person I was hoping to make not my friend, by "clock blocking" him. That's a term I usually hear at work...

When I was young, there was a local story about a lost Amish man who's shoes were found outside of a large pig pen. Everyone thought he'd fallen in and was devoured. A year later, he turned back up, at his old home, after being turned down by a local college for not having a birth certificate or...

Prolly lead. It's a heavy base metal...

Greetings fellow Mediocritites! After much arduous endeavouring, and 530 hrs of OJT, I was able to take my level 2 NDT test for magnetic particle inspection. The standards require two sets of three tests, the first set taken after 16 hrs of class and 130 hrs of OJT, with a level 2 babysitter...

I feel your pain. My Nimbus left me July 4. It stings.

Yeah, I did about that same thing. Got my leg smashed and went from a very fit 195 to a very squishy 260, was diagnosed pre diabetic, quit drinking sugared beverages, lost 15#, then had a quadruple bypass and lost another 60, but felt like crap. I then carefully worked my way back up to a comfy...

I once got laahst in Bah-stun

My question is; what does a guy who knows what a pluperfect conjunctive is doing driving a taxi?

Shu eesh! I wrestled the 155# class in 8th grade, when I was 5'6". I haven't been less than 180# since shortly after my heart attack, when 3rd shift wrecked my appetite and I got down to 174#, and looked like a dysentery survivor. I am now a healthy 200# even, and happy about it, at about 5'9"...

First day back on day shift. Let's see how this goes. One big benefit is that finding time to play without waking the neighbors will be so much easier.

My late aunt was a Benny Goodman super fan. She would play his tunes on her electric organ, and had a signed 3 album set of his hits. She said she waited for 6 hours to get it signed.

So the saga continues! My girl dogs decided they did not like the scent of the dog-shampoo, so they both went and rolled in the area where they were sprayed, reapplying the skunk musk from Sunday night. Fortunately, it has been very dewey and the intensity has waned, a bit.

Oh! But it can be! Mediocrity is as painful as the velocity of the bottle thrown at your head!

My dumbarse girl dogs both decided to sniff the butt of a stinky kitty, and got sprayed in the face for their offense. My Aussie went back for seconds. So, I spent 4 hours scrubbing down dumb dogs with peroxide and baking soda. It doesn't make the stink go away, but it does keep it from...

That hits hard and way to close to home. I lucked out with a 14 day window of crazy timing. My dad lucked out on '52, when he was recalled from a C47 flight that crashed and was never found. But the price? He was recalled to be told that his sister had been killed in a house fire.

My local seamstress takes lacebucks... I'll just slap myself, it'll be easier.

I counted the pennies in my bass-bucks jar, and I think I have enough scraped to (gulp) put my P Bass Lyte Deluxe back in the hands of a luthier. If you remember, the last time didn't end so well. But I found a new shop, and these guys make both acoustic and electric instruments from scratch...

My golf partner's son was head chef at Hooligan's. I just learned that is no ponger the case. He apparently moved to the UP and is now a full time dealer at a casino. Whodathunk?

I was working in my MPI booth when I got a text. This late, it would usually be my wife or my boss. Or more accurately, my Boss or my boss! Anyway, it was a woman who was at the family reunion, and wanted to talk to me, would it be OK to call. I texted back "yes", since I was 5 minutes to break...

My wife makes an egg noodle and cabbage dish, sometimes with sausage and sometimes with ham, very similar to a haluski. As for pierogi, I adore them! One of my favorite cold weather suppers is bratwurst simmered in beer with steamed green beans and pierogi. That is the pinnacle of comfort food...

My golf partner has a Mexican mother who makes me tamales. His son is head chef at a Polish restaurant, where I get glompkies, my cousin volunteers with a woman at her church is 100% Czech, and she brings me kolach, and polevka (sp?). I eat well without having to cook! How you ask? My wife...

Run in place and the dreaded mule kick!

It was "The Silver Bullet" for us, but sure as help felt like peanut butter!

As an American, the term "take away" has a bit of a different meaning. Over here we use the term "take out" for food brought home from the restaurant, but that could be a midwest thing, too. Anyway, I had the chicken pox when I was about 8, also, but was spared from the rest, the measles, mumps...