NHL hockey finals in September seems really odd.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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NHL hockey finals in September seems really odd.
Is that white gold or another material?
This whole bleedin' year seems really odd.
I’m here and thus accounted for. I just got out of bed around 10:30 ET. That sounds late, but I didn’t get to bed until 7:15 this morning.
I spent last night doing the outline of the next chapter of a book I am writing. I will sell exactly one copy of it when finished. It is a commissioned work.
I spent last night doing the outline of the next chapter of a book I am writing. I will sell exactly one copy of it when finished. It is a commissioned work.
When my friends and I were young hippyoids we used to hang around the town common on the park benches, the local constabulary did not like us at all and used to try to sneak up on us all the time at the back of the common in their cruisers and just sit there and watch us which we thought was kind of funny. Another one of the things they did for amusement was jump out of their cruisers and tell us all to get off the sidewalk and sit down and they'd then drive off. One time they did this and turned right around to make sure we had and we had all climbed the trees and they were scratching their heads, "Where did those $$#@@#^^ kids go??". One big fashion among us was to walk across the road with our arms around each other but the best thing we did was find an old washing machine box and put the shortest kid in it and we would walk him around with a leash attached to the box, none of these things amused the boys in blue though, they had no sense of humor.
We used to call them porcine names when they drove by and they'd slam on the brakes and of course try to figure out who had said it, they actually arrested one of us once for that and I was a 16 year old who ended up as a scared witness in court who kept kicking the witness box as I tried to answer questions I was so nervous, the lawyer for some reason didn't need me again. They actually put a little blue piggy bank on their dashboards after a while
. I don't know why they didn't like us after all it wasn't like the police station was right across the street..... it was.
I once thought it would be be very funny to sneak up behind one of my compatriots and wake him up with a firecracker blown up under his bench, he didn't like it and neither did the police, they arrested me for possession of fireworks, I don't know how they did though, I blew up the only one I had. I blew up the evidence.
Another time they were trying to make us get off the sidewalk and we decided we were the Chicago 7 and said nope we're not moving. They all got out (probably 3 or 4 of them) and walk right up to us, yelling "I said get off the sidewalk!", we stood our ground, one cop who weighed probably 400 lbs and was nicknamed "Tanker Brady" got a little too close to me and stepped on my foot which was in a moccasin, this hurt a lot so I started yelling at him, "Get your %^%^%$% foot off my &^%^&% foot you ^&^&^&(porcine name), he looked down and took his foot off and apologized, I was the hero that day.
Did I say I grew up in a small town?
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The base ring I commissioned there five? years ago is Sterling and will form some of the ring shown in white gold. Mine wiil retain the gold serpent, plus the aquamarine
Is tarnishing a problem with never take off sterling ?
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Working all night, good thing that the book doesn’t put you to sleep.
So far, not too much going on. We are going to meet up for a late lunch with Paul Boyer in a few hours. There will be absolutely no Rickenbacker talk, I swear (occasionally).
There is an ongoing discussion about New Age music and Keith Jarrett (?)!
Reminded me of this great song and band from back in the day (I've seen them a couple of times - got some great b&w photos, too, that I made the first time I saw them in the late '80s).
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Fabulous! Never made it to India, but I loved the southern Indian food (vegetarian and seafood) I had in Malaysia. Served with ambient-temp lime juice. On a banana leaf. Eat with the clean (right) hand. Awesome! Drooling over the memory of the crabs I ate.
Who's controlling the weather satellites that's what I want to know?
Based on our summer, it ain't Mr. Freeze.
Lucy Van Pelt said that they are controlled by some big eastern syndicate.
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Perry? James? Dave? Marsha?
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The Masons will never admit it. They hang together. They’re thick as a brick.
Years and years ago I was approached by the Masons to become a member. I shied away as I didn't know what was involved. I didn't want them to get in the way of my music.
IIRC Shadowfax was the name of the horse that Gandalf rode inThe lord Of The Rings. I named my four six string basses Frodo White fretted fitted with EMG Soap bars. My fretless is Samwise made of Koa again with EMGs. Pippin made from walnut with EMGs and a Piezo bridge and lastly Merry the five string I built from Carvin parts.
Their names are engraved on the truss-rod covers.
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