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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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The near-entirety of my tool ownership is the Ernie Ball musician's toolkit. I added a couple bits that didn't come with: a feeler gauge, a capo, and a tape measure. A credit-card sized "everything" tool is what goes in the gig bag. It's also a bottle opener. Important is important.
 
The near-entirety of my tool ownership is the Ernie Ball musician's toolkit. I added a couple bits that didn't come with: a feeler gauge, a capo, and a tape measure. A credit-card sized "everything" tool is what goes in the gig bag. It's also a bottle opener. Important is important.

And who wouldn't want a "feeler gauge" :whistle:? Important is important...
 
The near-entirety of my tool ownership is the Ernie Ball musician's toolkit. I added a couple bits that didn't come with: a feeler gauge, a capo, and a tape measure. A credit-card sized "everything" tool is what goes in the gig bag. It's also a bottle opener. Important is important.

I have a gig bag on wheels to carry music, cables, tuner, tools to fix anything on a bass, various adapters, and a pair of drum sticks. It's been surprising how many times I've had to loan a drummer a pair of sticks. I play drums a little. We have another bass player at school this semester. If the drummer is out, we trade off on bass and drums. Nothing fancy, keep time and very few fills although I did do trading fours the other week. I had to use all of my skills for that! :laugh:
 
Yep, my engineering classes gave me a profound level of respect for how easily things can suddenly go haywire. Thirty years of experience in the field reinforced those lessons. I'm sure there are already people who are claiming some sort of conspiracy behind why the building collapsed.
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Probably space lasers used by the deep state government. :laugh:

And no one does anything until something bad happens. Thank you board members and elected officials. Idiots.

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I have a gig bag on wheels to carry music, cables, tuner, tools to fix anything on a bass, various adapters, and a pair of drum sticks. It's been surprising how many times I've had to loan a drummer a pair of sticks. I play drums a little. We have another bass player at school this semester. If the drummer is out, we trade off on bass and drums. Nothing fancy, keep time and very few fills although I did do trading fours the other week. I had to use all of my skills for that! :laugh:

A gig tools arms race is the furthest thing from my mind.

A-way back in the time of band, convincing us to show up on time and prepared is our director's raison d'etre. Of course there is That One Guy who is so totally disorganized all the time it's a wonder how he will ever get through life. Reasonably certain he did, didn't keep tabs.
 
My FL relatives tell me of steadily increasing daily amounts of water in their streets now. It seems a lot of FL is being undermined by something that doesn't exist (is "a hoax") and nobody is allowed to officially talk about it...
One of Florida's major problems is that it is FLAT. In my early days at Motorola (early '90s), I taught my FL sales team what different wastewater lift stations looked like from street level, and have them drive around their territories and identify ones that did NOT have a radio antenna. I then built an intro sales pitch for them and had them call on any public works department that had lift stations without radios. Sold millions of dollars of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems in Florida. Easy money. Especially when there was some kind of problem, and sewage backed up into the mayor's house. Then it was REALLY easy money. :laugh:
 
One of Florida's major problems is that it is FLAT. In my early days at Motorola (early '90s), I taught my FL sales team what different wastewater lift stations looked like from street level, and have them drive around their territories and identify ones that did NOT have a radio antenna. I then built an intro sales pitch for them and had them call on any public works department that had lift stations without radios. Sold millions of dollars of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems in Florida. Easy money. Especially when there was some kind of problem, and sewage backed up into the mayor's house. Then it was REALLY easy money. :laugh:
Plantation...
 
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Uhoh
Tornado warning for a half hour
Stay safe!

I was just checking Chicago's weather (driving there from Arizona starting Wednesday). Holy smokes, but that's a strong-looking system on radar. Sliding northeast, just south of DuPage country and downtown Chicago. My brother and his wife are in Wheaton, so they should be OK.

When people think of bad weather in Chicago, they think of winter blizzards, extended below-freezing temps, and howling wind. But that's not the worst. The worst is June. When the do-do hits the fan, watch out!

EDIT: I've been struck by lightning more than once landing at O'Hare. Always in June. One time though, it was REALLY cool! I had a window seat starboard, forward of the wing. We were descending through a June thunderstorm returning from Frankfurt, DE, already over land from Lake Michigan, landing to the west. I was looking out of the window, back at the engine and the wing, when a bolt of lightning hit the wingtip, creating a HUGE orange ball of plasma. SO cool.

The pilot came on the intercom so quickly that no one had time to become afraid/scared/hysterical, announcing that all of the lights were green and we were good to go for landing. Whew!
 
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