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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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BadExample said:
Attention Numberless GOF's
Calling All Cars, Calling All cars:​
Be on the lookout for me.

Please respond to this to get a number. If you know about when you asked for a number, that would be good. I'll start giving out numbers soon. Then we will decide who will take over the numbers and when.
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You da man! :thumbsup:
 
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BadExample said:
Attention Numberless GOF's
Calling All Cars, Calling All cars:​
Be on the lookout for me.

Please respond to this to get a number. If you know about when you asked for a number, that would be good. I'll start giving out numbers soon. Then we will decide who will take over the numbers and when.

So far...
Bros.:
Stumbo
RoadRanger
Bob Young
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March of 2017:
Amps...Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
"I've been off TB for awhile. Seeing lots of interesting threads. Just posted Tweeters Off, none for me Thanks and got invited by Mr. Badexample to this thread. I think I need a number!

I started playing guitar in '65. A few months of lessons and when the band got together, I was the least experienced and was elected to play bass. All downhill after that.:thumbsdown:

Played in several really good bands for many years, even co-founded a horn band that played around L.A. for a couple of years.

I took a couple of decades off for family, job and such. Still, I jammed, played parties, did sound off and on. I got in touch a several years ago with the original guitar player of that first band and I joined his studio jam band for lots of fun and memories.

Not playing out right now. Too many life things happening, specially the three grandkids and medical.

So, shoot me a number so I can join in the fun! I look forward to chatting it up with all the other GOFs on TB! "
 
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RandM said:
It's got me completely buggered how you guys keep functioning under Snow, but then I've only seen it a couple of times so I've no experience with it!

Maurie.
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It's one of those things you either deal with or move somewhere warmer. Personally, I'll take a Michigan winter over a Florida summer any time. If you're too cold you can put on more clothing. If you're too hot, there's only so much clothing you can take off before they arrest you.

I can endure the Michigan winters because the spring and summer are great. Autumn is nice too but I start to get depressed when it gets too cold for cycling around early December. After New Years I start the countdown to spring, knowing that in 8 weeks or so we'll start to have days warm enough to ride.
 
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BadExample said:
Attention Numberless GOF's
Calling All Cars, Calling All cars:​
Be on the lookout for me.

Please respond to this to get a number. If you know about when you asked for a number, that would be good. I'll start giving out numbers soon. Then we will decide who will take over the numbers and when.

So far...
Bros.:
Stumbo
RoadRanger
Bob Young
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Originally requested a # 11/28. Gave myself one 11/29. I'll take an official one just to fit in...
 
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I wish you all a great 2018. It was a quiet Christmas for us, on the dinner on Christmas Eve just me and wife, her father and my mother. Small tokens for presents, we feel it is important to have the people together. On Christmas day, my wife's brothers came over with their families. What a contrast, 16 people and 3 dogs kept a pretty good noise. My son didn't get his daughters for either Christmas or New Year's - we missed being with them.

For 2018, I tentatively signed for lessons by an old cat in town, whose style I have always admired. Maybe I can step up a bit on my bass skills. It's not any kind of a resolution, as of yet.

I caught up on the thread and have a couple of remarks I put in the back of my head... Where are they now? Oh yes.

Regarding the Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), it seems quite common. I have had it a couple of times. The last time I was taken out of my desk at work on a stretcher,and wheeled to ER in an ambulance. I was wise enough to contact a local doctor who is an expert on the problem, and I had to do those head-spinning slow exercises for about a month before the symptom subsided. Hang in there! It will go away.

I extend my condolences to those who have experienced a loss. Life is a tragedy - if it doesn't happen to you, it will be someone you love.

Dogs. I got a puppy in November and she's been a bright spot in our gloomy winter. My older dog is the police keeping her at bay when she doesn't behave. Other times, they have explosive bouts of playfulness, other times they are conked out from exhaustion. I hope they learn to hunt as a small pack.

Temperatures - we have it around both sides of the freezing point, at all times. I fear for my old hip bones as under any newfallen snow there is bound to be a glasslike molten surface of ice.

Okay. Carry on, I will pop in now and again. Greetings from Finland!

-RP
 
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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx.
"The more I know about people, the better I like my dog." -- Mark Twain (possibly).
and most appropriate for this thread:
"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to." --Joe Gores

"The only thing that could make my dog more perfect is if he was a really good musician who likes to jam with a hack bass player." --Me
 
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