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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Update on the computer problems I’ve been experiencing. After a chat with Apple Tech Support I now have my Dorothy’s iMac running El Capitan (OSX.11.6) and it’s all working as it should. 
No more bad connections with Safari and no more “Startup disk is full” messages.
I have to call them again about the Mac Minis but I feel sure they’ll help me get them going again.
No more bad connections with Safari and no more “Startup disk is full” messages.I have to call them again about the Mac Minis but I feel sure they’ll help me get them going again.
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The only place better than a music store was a combined music and record store.
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Here in the DC metro area back in the 70's we had Giant Music and some of the Harmony Huts IIRC carried musical gear.
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Unclear why any thought it was a good idea to advertise Peter Paul & Mary next to Neil Young, or if the ad actually sold any records. Coupon ads once gave advertisers physical proof that people read their ad.
My mom worked here selling cameras, film, greeting cards, and records when I was very young. When the owner expanded to a second store he made her the manager of the new store! She got me interested in music by playing the likes of Floyd Cramer and Ray Charles at home. Soon, mom realized she needed to bring home every new Beatles record the day she got it!!
But, when she brought home this "Are You Experienced?" album I didn't know what to think! ... until I played it!! Holy Moly!!! That's when I knew I had a cool mom (and that I would never be a lead guitarist).
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That's some big leap from that folk stuff that nearly caught on to Hey Joe.
Upstairs at the family-owned music store was where I bought my saxophone reeds. Downstairs is where we browsed records. Records were affordable for even a kid. At first I bought what I heard on the radio ....
Upstairs at the family-owned music store was where I bought my saxophone reeds. Downstairs is where we browsed records. Records were affordable for even a kid. At first I bought what I heard on the radio ....
Cramer's ”Last Date" and numerous covers, Charles's "I Got A Woman", "Hit The Road Jack" and many more, were hardly folk stuff. My mom also played Lawrence Welk and other artists, but Cramer and Charles were the ones I liked and remember most.
Although I admit to learning some Kingston Trio and PP&M songs in my early guitar days, that was not what I listened to. In fact, the teacher of my 3 or 4 guitar lessons started with "Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley" and got worse from there! Electric guitar is what caught my ear, from hot country, to surf and The Ventures, to rock 'n roll. I never understood the big deal about Dylan picking up a Strat!
And actually, I heard a bluesy recording of "Hey, Joe" before Jimi's version. And all my jam mates and every local live band I heard in the mid 60s seemed to do either a traditional blues or a folky version! That's what made Jimi's version so jarring, and exciting!
TL;DR - Don't get me started reminiscing about my early musical days!
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More than one person has a hard time imagining Bob Dylan working on a fishing boat outside Delacroix.
...man, that's always how I pictured him...
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Unrelated, but while I'm thinking about it
There was an ink alchemist who was a major Fender fan. He mixed fountain pen inks to an exact match for Fender colours. The inks were well-received for their performance by the very picky fountain pen community. Great inks - flowed well, didn't clog, dried fast, didn't feather, stood up well to light. Using the past tense as he died without leaving any notes on how he mixed his inks. The brand, Private Reserve, died with him.
I've more than a few bottles here in the ink larder. I may have a Daphne blue, not sure if I have a Lake Placid Blue. I was kind of down on blue ink for a long time. More or less I only use one blue ink and I'm out of that one. I did, however, find this (now very old) Halloween ink. There's just not that many things to do with orange ink.
(FWIW for some, the older the ink the better. Certain vintage inks carry a very high price. See: Parker Penman Sapphire. Or NOS Carter's ink.)
There was an ink alchemist who was a major Fender fan. He mixed fountain pen inks to an exact match for Fender colours. The inks were well-received for their performance by the very picky fountain pen community. Great inks - flowed well, didn't clog, dried fast, didn't feather, stood up well to light. Using the past tense as he died without leaving any notes on how he mixed his inks. The brand, Private Reserve, died with him.
I've more than a few bottles here in the ink larder. I may have a Daphne blue, not sure if I have a Lake Placid Blue. I was kind of down on blue ink for a long time. More or less I only use one blue ink and I'm out of that one. I did, however, find this (now very old) Halloween ink. There's just not that many things to do with orange ink.
(FWIW for some, the older the ink the better. Certain vintage inks carry a very high price. See: Parker Penman Sapphire. Or NOS Carter's ink.)
Back in the day, there was a folk circuit. Gigs were booked and artists shuffled through all knids of small towns. Neil, Joni, Peter, Paul&Mary, Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot and many others played small coffee houses. Neil met Stephen Stills on the circuit. He hooked up with him when he moved to LA. They formed Buffalo Springfield. They all knew each other long before they were known. An exciting time.
Niela Miller: Thanks for recognizing my song as the original impetus for Hey Joe (stolen from me by Billy Roberts, an old boyfriend)
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Well dang, you were serious. I read this waiting for the bad pun at the end. There has to be one in there someplace. One of you Crumedgeons step in here. All I can come up with is: round nib or flat?
The guy building my garage started putting the roof trusses up today. 7 AM, still mostly dark, 33 degrees F...and he's putting up 28' trusses by himself, without a lift or hoist or anything. Cripes. Kicking it old-school. In the 45 minutes it took me to feed the house parrots and drink my coffee, he had 4 of them up.
It’s a rare event when I see the bottom of an ink bottle these days. Years ago, we were taught how to ink over pencil when lettering technical drawings.
Do the parrots like coffee beans? I suppose that they’re hepped up enough as to not need stimulants.
Impressive erecting! Delivering them must have have required more than a contractor’s trailer.
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I missed it...think the vendor delivered the trusses.
Caffiene is toxic for them, so no coffee beans or chocolate.
and for today's GOF comment. This garage is costing exactly twice what I paid for my first two-bedroom house in what was at the time a decent neighborhood in Tucson.
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