Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[BadExample]

I think it's more of an issue with the CFO/Head Accountant

Who may well be the CEO

 

[GonePlaid]

Bevause I am one lazy SOB, I still haven't canvassed the local motorcycle parts shops and haven't asked my buddy where he got his similar tires.
One other option is to take a three hour hell ride of a drive to Butuan, which is a larger city with more shops. We go there on shopping trips every now and then.
But due to my laziness, the fallback choice of getting the OEM tires, the crappy ones made in India, from the Yamaha dealer might be it.

Living in the Philippines next installment will be about getting clothes that fit for a guy who is 6'2" and 230 lbs. in a country where the average height is about 5'3".

When I walk down the street here I look like one of those balloons at the Macy's Thangsgiving Day parade in NYC.

I'm picturing a group of kids running along holding your guide ropes. (I was in the Philippines on and off in 66/67 as a "guest" of the Navy-Olongapo, of course, Manila and Cebu)

 

[BadExample]

Bevause I am one lazy SOB, I still haven't canvassed the local motorcycle parts shops and haven't asked my buddy where he got his similar tires.
One other option is to take a three hour hell ride of a drive to Butuan, which is a larger city with more shops. We go there on shopping trips every now and then.
But due to my laziness, the fallback choice of getting the OEM tires, the crappy ones made in India, from the Yamaha dealer might be it.

Living in the Philippines next installment will be about getting clothes that fit for a guy who is 6'2" and 230 lbs. in a country where the average height is about 5'3".

When I walk down the street here I look like one of those balloons at the Macy's Thangsgiving Day parade in NYC.

ROFL, I'm already buying ahead on clothes. Last time to PI I bought a pair of really nice Jeans. My size. But you know what? I'm not shaped like a girl. Worst pair of jeans I ever had for comfort. Every late summer/fall I buy all the shorts, T-shirts, short sleeve shirts I can find that fit. Oh, and belts, been buying my size, oversize and undersized expansive Deluth Trading belts that last.

A lot of expats buy from used outlets that sell used clothing shipped from the US.

 

[beans-on-toast]

My wife and I have a routine. Before I go into a music store I voluntarily surrender my wallet. It helps keep me in check when I know that I have nothing to spend.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

My wife and I have a routine. Before I go into a music store I voluntarily surrender my wallet. It helps keep me in check when I know that I have nothing to spend.

Your wife lets you have a wallet????

 

[beans-on-toast]

Your wife lets you have a wallet????

Only used for emergencies and to carry my allowance, which I normally never spend.

It’s better not having to deal with money. In business, she looks after the paperwork and financials. When I get the all clear, I simply show up and deliver technical solutions. My side is way easier.

 

[Jeff Bonny]

< super grumpy today. fostering a stray german shepherd, been three days since she ran up to us in public, taking her to the vet tonight to have her scanned for an id microchip. i want to keep her. we have to prove that we search for her owner for 30 fays (legally), before a GS rescue and/or shelter would even consider taking her. sorry flea bag, worms etc. completely rehabilitating her. will probably end-up with her, not looking forward to finding housing for my wife and I that will allow for us all.

would love to share pix, but not a good idea if she turns to be stolen etc

Hope things work out and you get to give her the loving home she needs...it'll be good for you too. I got a rough collie/border collie cross a couple of years ago. He was a rescue....he rescued me from the tailspin I'd been in for several years. Being a dog person with no dog is a sure recipe for unhappiness.

Otis is quite a fine figure of a dog who could well be destined for greater things.....

 

[beans-on-toast]

Otis is quite a fine figure of a dog who could well be destined for greater things.....
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Nice little dog. He'll have to join ACTRA if he becomes an actor.

 

[bassmike2010]

My wife and I have a routine. Before I go into a music store I voluntarily surrender my wallet. It helps keep me in check when I know that I have nothing to spend.

My wife has no desire to go into a music store with me. Seeing me in TB
looking at Bass porn alone sends her into a Granny Clampett seizure.

 

[beans-on-toast]

My wife has no desire to go into a music store with me. Seeing me in TB
looking at Bass porn alone sends her into a Granny Clampett seizure.

Try taking her shopping where she likes to go, then invite her to stop by a music store with you on the way home. Don’t buy anything though. Just talk enthusiastically about things that you like. She’ll grow to associate a happy day with going to a music store.

Just try not to wake up till the deam is over.

 

[bassmike2010]

Try taking her shopping where she likes to go, then invite her to stop by a music store with you on the way home. Don’t buy anything though. Just talk enthusiastically about things that you like. She’ll grow to associate a happy day with going to a music store.

Just try not to wake up till the deam is over.

She's not young and gullible. She has her own job and does her own shopping . Just what she buys herself and what I buy myself are miles apart in cost. My Leverage is I'm working every weekend double header last week and a triple this past weekend so it's all in good fun.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

She's not young and gullible. She has her own job and does her own shopping . Just what she buys herself and what I buy myself are miles apart in cost. My Leverage is I'm working every weekend double header last week and a triple this past weekend so it's all in good fun.

Viva la difference!
Don't know how I'd put on my pants in the morning if it weren't for my wife...

 

[BadExample]

GOF's UNITE! No more wasting our time walking in the sun.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Flo & Eddie have done backup on a lot of records.

 

[Passinwind]

Flo & Eddie have done backup on a lot of records.

Yep. Loved seeing them with Zappa in the early 70s and a little later with the Flo and Eddie band as well.

 

[agedhorse]

Worked with them years ago on what is currently touring as the "Happy Together" tour, I think we did one of the first stops on their first tour, which featured 5 or 6 oldies acts doing a couple of songs each, followed up with Flo & Eddie for 20-30 minutes and the finale was everybody back on stage singing Happy Together. Some acts aged well, some made me realize that if you plan on living a long life you better take care of yourself

 

[GonePlaid]

Worked with them years ago on what is currently touring as the "Happy Together" tour, I think we did one of the first stops on their first tour, which featured 5 or 6 oldies acts doing a couple of songs each, followed up with Flo & Eddie for 20-30 minutes and the finale was everybody back on stage singing Happy Together. Some acts aged well, some made me realize that if you plan on living a long life you better take care of yourself

More or less the words of Mickey Mantle.

 

[bassmike2010]

Viva la difference!
Don't know how I'd put on my pants in the morning if it weren't for my wife...

I 'd love to put my pants on in the morning
but unless I get up earlier than she does, she's got this pool cue with a fork taped to it and she finds where I hang my pants and t shirt over the chair...

 

[Jeff Bonny]

if you plan on living a long life you better take care of yourself

Wish all the old guys who mighta mentioned this^^^ sorta thing when I'd break a finger too drunk to make a good fist...or crash a bike....or go way too fast on skis......or a skateboard.........well, I just wish they hadn't been so completely full of crap I couldn't stand to listen. Which reminds me, my memory must really be going in my old age 'cause I'm pretty sure when I was younger I knew a helluva lot more than I do now.

 

[Al Kraft]

cause I'm pretty sure when I was younger I knew a helluva lot more than I do now.

I know for sure I was smarter from a book learning perspective when I was younger, but sadly I didn't have the wisdom or experience I do today to know what I should have done with it! Fortunately I was surrounded by brilliant engineers (who wrote the books I studied in college), military legends, and lots of Navy and Marine Corps pilots, so my ego was more than kept in check - I think that helped me grow up more quickly than I otherwise would have.