Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Al Kraft]

That doesn't surprise me, Navy! LOL just kidding...........

In the Army I learned the combat definition of "hurry up and wait.."

They say that the military teaches young folks valuable life lessons...IME developing patience with "hurry up and wait" is a skill that serves us well in all aspects of life, but especially when one has to deal with any government entity.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Answering roll call in a timely manner for once. What'd you expect, consistency???
All fingers and toes accounted for, except for this one toe that I don't recognize and I'm sure wasn't there last time I looked.
My only plan for the weekend is to continue trying to cough my lungs out. We've both been battling respiratory demons since the weekend after Thankgiving and we're both on our second relapse. Initially mine was like my typical yearly sinus infection, but by the third pass it has morphed into bronchitis. I really really notice the difference in my immune system as I get older. It used to be that I'd rarely get a cold and if I did, it was mild and quick. Not so much anymore. Besides the effects of aging, I think we've been getting exposed to more since the grandson started pre-school. Oh boy, fresh viruses.
Damn kids. Get off the lawn, and take those leaves with you.

One good thing this week though. Our 37 year old daughter announced that she and her boyfriend are getting married in June. That really took us by surprise. She's always been fiercely independent and I never really expected she'd make that move, but I'm glad she's found someone she can be happy with and I like the guy.

@ric426 wife Carey and I are getting older and wife is a prior smoker, I'm asthmatic. There are two supplements I've added after research into respiratory in elders. We're taking maximum dose Omega 3 Krill Oil and 1000mg of Vitamin C daily. I think we recover from infections a little sooner. I'm going to be 67 next month but I'm still working. Many of the office staff are half my age, with young children. Children create a cesspool of infections. The dang mothers think they're so indispensable that they come into work still infectious and spread colds and viruses. Managers p*ss me off because they subliminally suggest to staff that if they're not 'that sick' they should still come in to keep up their high productivity work.

I'm trying to decide if we should switch to Airborne Vitamin C or Emergen-C because both contain high amounts of Vitamin C and other natural herbs like echinacea to help fight off infections. Vitamin C and Krill Oil I think are making a difference in our health. Here's a link to a study on Vitamin C:

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[Raymundo49]

Friends, neighbors, and kinfolk, I'm here to tell you, I lucked out so massively in that dept. that I've spent the rest of my life waiting for the karmic scales to balance out. Literally the first woman I met when I was discharged in 1969 became my wife, and we're still swapping dishwashing 50 years later. If I was custom ordering with an unlimited budget, I couldn't have drawn better specs. "she can dance a Cajun rhythm, jump like a Willys in four wheel drive"

Bob Weir put in the line "jump like a Willys in four wheel drive" The lyricist Robert Hunter threw a fit, he hated it! Great song though!

 

[Raymundo49]

Bob Weir put in the line "jump like a Willys in four wheel drive" The lyricist Robert Hunter threw a fit, he hated it! Great song though!

I am still amazed that Lesh could make his shtick work really well on Working Mans Dead and American Beauty! Prolly my favorite bass player of all time! When he was still playing a four string anyway!

 

[alaskaleftybass]

I think I've picked on just about all the regulars except maybe @GonePlaid @Stumbo and @BassmanPaul today..

 

[Raymundo49]

I think I've picked on just about all the regulars except maybe @GonePlaid @Stumbo and @BassmanPaul today..

What type of pick do you use??

 

[BassmanPaul]

I like the guy.

When I met my Dorothy’s Dad I shook his hand and said ‘Pleased to meet you Sir.’ I was beloved after that! Now if he’d only known what I was up to with his daughter that might have changed!!! LOL

 

[alaskaleftybass]

What type of pick do you use??

........annnnnnnnnnnd.... @Raymundo49

 

[SoulReflection]

When I met my Dorothy’s Dad I shook his hand and said ‘Pleased to meet you Sir.’ I was beloved after that! Now if he’d only known what I was up to with his daughter that might have changed!!! LOL

Now, Paul, in a prior post you said you had deleted that stuff???

 

[BassmanPaul]

Now, Paul, in a prior post you said you had deleted that stuff???

No my girl’s family are the good stuff! She has four big brothers who we used to babysit at times. They all consider me their oldest brother!

 

[Raymundo49]

........annnnnnnnnnnd.... @Raymundo49

That's all I gots for the moment!

 

[SoulReflection]

No my girl’s family are the good stuff! She has four big brothers who we used to babysit at times. They all consider me their oldest brother!

Lucky for you that you could pull that off! So, what were you up to with his daughter/their sister? .

 

[beans-on-toast]

I slipped on the ice on the way home today. I fell on my nuts and broke some of them. Hope that the squirrels will still enjoy them tomorrow.

 

[G-Dog]

Present! All appendages nominal, sir!

Putting last minute touches on Sunday morning's songs with the ultralight Vox!

 

[SoulReflection]

I slipped on the ice on the way home today. I fell on my nuts and broke some of them. Hope that the squirrels will still enjoy them tomorrow.

Oh dear...as much as I would like to hear the details, I don't think so !

It must be Saturday night...

 

[beans-on-toast]

I mostly play with a pick. The wrist action came naturally to me, developed during adolescence. I think that comes from playing guitar and bass. Many bass players in the 60’s used a pick.

Just wondering, if older players prefer finger style or a pick.

What type of pick do you use??

 

[SoulReflection]

I mostly play with a pick. The wrist action came naturally to me, developed during adolescence. I think that comes from playing guitar and bass. Many bass players in the 60’s used a pick.

Just wondering, if older players prefer finger style or a pick.

Back in the '60's, when I was learning to play bass, I used a pick for Ventures tunes...then I graduated to finger style, because of Booker T and Duck Dunn and it's been that way ever since .

 

[G-Dog]

I mostly play with a pick. The wrist action came naturally to me, developed during adolescence. I think that comes from playing guitar and bass. Many bass players in the 60’s used a pick.

Just wondering, if older players prefer finger style or a pick.

My first 10 years was rhythm guitar with a pick. So, naturally, my beginning bass work was mostly with pick. But, over the decades, my bass work has become decidedly much more finger style, with the occasional pick for certain tones.

 

[ric426]

I used to play with a pick all the time. I stopped playing for a few years and when I drifted back into it I decided to only play finger style. I didn't play any better, just differently.

I think I've picked on just about all the regulars except maybe @GonePlaid @Stumbo and @BassmanPaul
today..

Boy, I feel left out, but then I'm an irregular.

 

[Raymundo49]

I mostly play with a pick. The wrist action came naturally to me, developed during adolescence. I think that comes from playing guitar and bass. Many bass players in the 60’s used a pick.

Just wondering, if older players prefer finger style or a pick.

I asked that question trying to be funny, go back to post 13145 to see how that started! It is a good question though, and will reply to it after a bit..