Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[spiritbass]

I'm maintaining sanity here in Missouri - someone has too. Still putting in five-hour workdays. I feel sorry for those more isolated than I've been. Tried to go fishing this afternoon, but it was just a short boat ride. Too hot and windy and I only got one strike. I do need to get out and pick up the winter's accumulation of branches and limbs from the yard. Fresh air & sunshine - nature's best medicine. Gonna have to fire up the mower before too long...

 

[beans-on-toast]

Tried to go fishing this afternoon, but it was just a short boat ride. Too hot and windy and I only got one strike.

If less people are fishing, the stock should be good. With only one strike, maybe the fish are distancing themselves.

 

[spiritbass]

If less people are fishing, the stock should be good. With only one strike, maybe the fish are distancing themselves.

I'm usually not out this early in the year, so I can't say for sure. I wasn't using live bait, but I was talking to a couple who were, and they were catching hybrid sunfish...

 

[beans-on-toast]

I'm usually not out this early in the year, so I can't say for sure. I wasn't using live bait, but I was talking to a couple who were, and they were catching hybrid sunfish...

Good eating or are the hybrid sunfish too small?

 

[spiritbass]

Good eating or are the hybrid sunfish too small?

Good eating, for sure.

 

[Bobhmcs]

Moar first fret markers for moar basses!

I will take that as you like that. I have had a number of individuals ask me why I did that. I usually answer "Because I feel every fret should have a marker of some kind". That usually ends the Q&A portion. I know I am such a GOF. Somehow "Because that's the way it came" isn't quite sufficient.
;[)
Bob

 

[GonePlaid]

I will take that as you like that. I have had a number of individuals ask me why I did that. I usually answer "Because I feel every fret should have a marker of some kind". That usually ends the Q&A portion. I know I am such a GOF. Somehow "Because that's the way it came" isn't quite sufficient.
;[)
Bob

Could have numbers, I suppose.

 

[Bobhmcs]

Could have numbers, I suppose.

I can hear it now "That's not A# that's 22!"
Lol
Bob

 

[2tonic]

I hereby claim as a member of GOF my right to Grump. ;[)
Bob

I see your grump and raise you two grumbles!
.

Can a fella get a "harumph" around here?

 

[2tonic]

I address you all tonight from Bowling Green, KY, home of the National Corvette Museum.
Delivered another two cold storage units, this time to Atlanta, GA. Now making my way back home to Chicago area.
My "meh" ankle has recovered, but of course, it was the left one (the clutch foot) that I really torqued. Can't support any weight without my boot strapped up TIGHT.
I know there are several current and former drivers following this thread, but for the uninitiated, the only times you need to fully depress the clutch is to start the truck, move from a stop, and while you're stopped.
Once it's moving, an experienced driver can "float" the gears, upshifting and downshifting without using the clutch.
Which is a good thing, as it currently takes both my feet to fully depress the rat bastard.
Anyways, I hope to dispense with the cane by this weekend. It's helped, but trying to use it to assist while climbing into and out of the cab has been an exercise in futility. I'm sure I've provided plenty of comic relief to the other truck stop occupants these past 10 days!

I wish you all well, wherever you're holed up, and pray you're families are fine.
Maybe I can dig up a useful contribution to Funky Friday or Soulful Sunday when I reach the homestead.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

I address you all tonight from Bowling Green, KY, home of the National Corvette Museum.
Delivered another two cold storage units, this time to Atlanta, GA. Now making my way back home to Chicago area.
My "meh" ankle has recovered, but of course, it was the left one (the clutch foot) that I really torqued. Can't support any weight without my boot strapped up TIGHT.
I know there are several current and former drivers following this thread, but for the uninitiated, the only times you need to fully depress the clutch is to start the truck, move from a stop, and while you're stopped.
Once it's moving, an experienced driver can "float" the gears, upshifting and downshifting without using the clutch.
Which is a good thing, as it currently takes both my feet to fully depress the rat bastard.
Anyways, I hope to dispense with the cane by this weekend. It's helped, but trying to use it to assist while climbing into and out of the cab has been an exercise in futility. I'm sure I've provided plenty of comic relief to the other truck stop occupants these past 10 days!

I wish you all well, wherever you're holed up, and pray you're families are fine.
Maybe I can dig up a useful contribution to Funky Friday or Soulful Sunday when I reach the homestead.

Godspeed, @2tonic . Safe travels home.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Could have numbers, I suppose.

Some instruments have LED's on the edge of the fretboard. Glow in the dark or fluorescent fretmarkers should work. Then there is the Rickenbacker light show which takes bedazzling up a notch.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I will take that as you like that. I have had a number of individuals ask me why I did that. I usually answer "Because I feel every fret should have a marker of some kind". That usually ends the Q&A portion. I know I am such a GOF. Somehow "Because that's the way it came" isn't quite sufficient.
;[)
Bob

It's hard to harrumph when I'm laughing

Oh yeah to me a first fret marker makes the bass look finished. And never really thought about it until I owned a bass with a first fret marker. All like this is right to me and wondering why it's so rare in nature.

The fretboard markers on Rics always seem to me the grooviest. The most interesting one I've seen that isn't some elaborate exercise in ornamentation (though, in truth all fretboard markers are at least functional ornamentation) is the one with octaves an the 5th and 17th frets. Looked at that and wondered and then was all cool, I get it, Want. That's the Reverend Wattplower II bass, and happy to imagine myself with one. But not in that green. Okay I can live with the green, but still. Invalid Link Removed

 

[beans-on-toast]

Seems that the anchor inlay is a tribute to the builders father who was in the navy. The weight of the anchor in the Mark I may have caused the head to dive. This bass has illuminated green side dots.

 

[GonePlaid]

I address you all tonight from Bowling Green, KY, home of the National Corvette Museum.
Delivered another two cold storage units, this time to Atlanta, GA. Now making my way back home to Chicago area.
My "meh" ankle has recovered, but of course, it was the left one (the clutch foot) that I really torqued. Can't support any weight without my boot strapped up TIGHT.
I know there are several current and former drivers following this thread, but for the uninitiated, the only times you need to fully depress the clutch is to start the truck, move from a stop, and while you're stopped.
Once it's moving, an experienced driver can "float" the gears, upshifting and downshifting without using the clutch.
Which is a good thing, as it currently takes both my feet to fully depress the rat bastard.
Anyways, I hope to dispense with the cane by this weekend. It's helped, but trying to use it to assist while climbing into and out of the cab has been an exercise in futility. I'm sure I've provided plenty of comic relief to the other truck stop occupants these past 10 days!

I wish you all well, wherever you're holed up, and pray you're families are fine.
Maybe I can dig up a useful contribution to Funky Friday or Soulful Sunday when I reach the homestead.

I had a co-worker who was used to driving a COE. While his truck was in the shop, they gave him a 'hood' to drive. First trip out, at the end of a long, not exactly legal, drive he opened the door and swung around to grab the rear handrail to come down the steps. Wound up 'kissing' the sleeper-to the profound amusement of other drivers nearby.
I retired in 2007. I'd hate to hafta double clutch now. Plus both my knees are questionable at best. Get better and stay safe.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I had a co-worker who was used to driving a COE. While his truck was in the shop, they gave him a 'hood' to drive. First trip out, at the end of a long, not exactly legal, drive he opened the door and swung around to grab the rear handrail to come down the steps. Wound up 'kissing' the sleeper-to the profound amusement of other drivers nearby.
I retired in 2007. I'd hate to hafta double clutch now. Plus both my knees are questionable at best. Get better and stay safe.

Liking trains, thought that you'd enjoy this. No transmission but the climbing the ladders was probably harder on the knees than a trucks.

My grandfather was a steam locomotive plumber. He did work like this. The engineering behind it all is pretty impressive.

 

[GonePlaid]

Liking trains, thought that you'd enjoy this. No transmission but the climbing the ladders was probably harder on the knees than a trucks.

My grandfather was a steam locomotive plumber. He did work like this. The engineering behind it all is pretty impressive.

Thanks. Way cool. I got some pics of her sitting at Steamtown in Scranton, PA, in 87/88.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Liking trains, thought that you'd enjoy this. No transmission but the climbing the ladders was probably harder on the knees than a trucks.

My grandfather was a steam locomotive plumber. He did work like this. The engineering behind it all is pretty impressive.

Now I need an amp with steam gauges.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Could have numbers, I suppose.

Will letters suffice?

 

[2tonic]

I had a co-worker who was used to driving a COE............

COE's (cab over engine's) have pounded more nuts flat than the Skippy Peanut Butter Company!!

I'm not sure which has rendered more men sterile.......Cabover's, or the 1000 watt linears the old drivers used to mount under the seats!