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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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Neener said:
Yeah no $#!t Fnord. I searched through 15 freakin pages in the amp section for this damn thread and it was right there on the first page all along. Son of a .....

And the new smilies? Chickens....beavers? Or is that a squirrel? :beaver:
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Neener, some of the new faces I can get with… But, some I've no idea of what they represent, even with the description. Also, I like the silly animated gifs, THEY KEPT A FEW
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f n o r d !
 
#790
They're all doing great and getting used to the routine.

Little Jack finally allowed them both to get a good nights sleep.

I bought them the Motorola baby monitor system even though Jack's crib is in their room,
it allows them to keep an eye on him from other rooms.

BTW, no new photos, but bears have been sighted already this last week and dogs are alerting very bear specific. Time to get the bird feeders away from the house.
 
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Found out my gigs this weekend are only 2 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!Woo hoo! Then I found out thats 2 hours straight!!! Uh oh..........Think I may pull a stool up on stage with me and have a sit. AND if the guitar player comes over and tries to sit in my lap---"There will be blood"

Congrats on the first grandchild. My grandson jack is a handfull. But so are the other 7
 
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greybeard125 said:
Found out my gigs this weekend are only 2 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!Woo hoo! Then I found out thats 2 hours straight!!! Uh oh..........Think I may pull a stool up on stage with me and have a sit. AND if the guitar player comes over and tries to sit in my lap---"There will be blood"

Congrats on the first grandchild. My grandson jack is a handfull. But so are the other 7
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Thanks!

2 hours standing without a break these days would kill my back even with no added weight.

The age and the acquired wisdom of age and experience doesn't bother me, the lack of energy and stamina
is what bothers me more than anything, but I'm also not playing 6-7 nights a week to keep up my strength.
 
#797
Anyone else have trouble just letting things roll off of you? I got a call from a regular that a bud of his needed some repairs and couldn't afford a regular shop much less the drive and wait time. So I took in his old Peavey 300 monitor amp and Roland JC120.
Peavey just needed basic maintenance to bring it back, the Jazz Chorus was a different story. The JC burnt down one power amp, parts OBS and board was/is pretty charred. He saw smoke but just kept playing it. He also decided to test the one speaker that quit working (blown power amp side) himself and broke the terminal board. Already long story short, made a strip to remount the terminals on the speaker and hooked up the two in series as he requested. He did not want to attempt repairs on the burnt channel so I disabled it.
Knowing he was low on funds (as my regular had clued me) I charged him $60 for both as a one time courtesy. He said "Well I'll be lucky if I can make that back this week." Really, REAlly. REALLY! I looked at him and said "Okay maybe next time you should drive the 175 miles each way to the nearest decent shop, wait the 2 to 4 weeks to pay a minimum bench fee of $65 on each without a repair."
Not going to be nice anymore.
 
#798
Talk about being slapped in the face after doing the guy a favor.

I recall fixing an integrated stereo as a favor for a relative. I went above and beyond to not only fix it but clean up a number of unrelated issues related to a built in 8-track player. When I delivered the unit, he told be that he could have fixed it himself but he couldn't be bothered.
 
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beans-on-toast said:
Talk about being slapped in the face after doing the guy a favor.

I recall fixing an integrated stereo as a favor for a relative. I went above and beyond to not only fix it but clean up a number of unrelated issues related to a built in 8-track player. When I delivered the unit, he told be that he could have fixed it himself but he couldn't be bothered.
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The worst part, he already told me he has two gigs this week. If he only make back $60 HE is part of the reason bands are not getting decent pay around here lately!

I don't repair for family, one time was enough :)
 
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B-string said:
Anyone else have trouble just letting things roll off of you? I got a call from a regular that a bud of his needed some repairs and couldn't afford a regular shop much less the drive and wait time. So I took in his old Peavey 300 monitor amp and Roland JC120.
Peavey just needed basic maintenance to bring it back, the Jazz Chorus was a different story. The JC burnt down one power amp, parts OBS and board was/is pretty charred. He saw smoke but just kept playing it. He also decided to test the one speaker that quit working (blown power amp side) himself and broke the terminal board. Already long story short, made a strip to remount the terminals on the speaker and hooked up the two in series as he requested. He did not want to attempt repairs on the burnt channel so I disabled it.
Knowing he was low on funds (as my regular had clued me) I charged him $60 for both as a one time courtesy. He said "Well I'll be lucky if I can make that back this week." Really, REAlly. REALLY! I looked at him and said "Okay maybe next time you should drive the 175 miles each way to the nearest decent shop, wait the 2 to 4 weeks to pay a minimum bench fee of $65 on each without a repair."
Not going to be nice anymore.
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Classic case of "no good deed goes unpunished." "He saw smoke but just kept playing it." - another classic case - "casting pearls before swine (sub tools)."
 
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