Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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I'm lost in this conversation.....

FL COE = Freightliner cab over engine truck

 

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One time in the early 2000's I had a dream of inventing mouspad material paper coffee cup sleeves, customized with my Alaskaboy logo on it. I told my father in law, who is a professional glass half empty guy, and when we went to Salem Oregon, he promptly took me to a grocery cart full of mousepad sleeves, all for 25 cents! I was dejected until I returned to Sitka and told my then boss. He said, "don't be depressed that it was already done, be happy that someone verified you had a good idea." I'm still looking for my next million dollar idea!

That happens most of the time. Don’t give up. The hard part is bringing an idea to market, it costs a lot. And not having someone steal it from you along the way., even harder.

One hard lesson that I learned early on is that ruthless people with money are eager to take your ideas and pay you very little in return. Your skills can make other people very wealthy and leave you with nothing.

Genius can be in simple solutions that make other people scratch their heads and say, why didn’t I think of that.

How about inventing a touch screen that never needs to be cleaned, a coating that repels oil and dirt.

 

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Here's what I spent the evening doing.. singing online karaoke. It's fun. I have a very nice cheap mixer, mic, and headphones and it takes me away to another place...

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It’s nice to live in a song.

The song is well suited to your voice. The Rod Stewart of Sitka.

 

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It was a fond part of my younger days when I was working as a mechanic and going to school.

The smell of oil and varsol lingers.

 

[GwenOnBass]

One hard lesson that I learned early on is that ruthless people with money are eager to take your ideas and pay you very little in return. Your skills can make other people very wealthy and leave you with nothing.

You don't say?

Blues Monday is upon us.

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[Haroldo]

FL COE = Freightliner cab over engine truck

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The great Townes Van Zandt:

 

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You don't say?

Blues Monday is upon us.

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Blues Monday is the best day of the week to gripe.

She has a wonderful Big Mama Thornton type voice.

 

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The great Townes Van Zandt:

Music with a spark in it. Good for driving.

Don’t want music that makes you fall asleep. Tubular Bells does that to me every time I listen to it.

 

[Haroldo]

Music with a spark in it. Good for driving.

Don’t want music that makes you fall asleep. Tubular Bells does that to me every time I listen to it.

Newp. Want snap when behind the wheel.....

 

[murphy]

You don't say?

Blues Monday is upon us.

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Oh boy...that's helping me get my ass in gear with my morning coffee....Thank you

 

[murphy]

Speaking of fingers...I wish I could play and sing better...was getting pretty good in one of my blues bands...but quit them,,,and don't sing so much anymore...cannot sing in my reggae band...as much as I want to .... impossible to keep the groove steady...or play all the right notes of the riddim

 

[GwenOnBass]

The great Townes Van Zandt:

Oh yes, this is driving music.

 

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Speaking of fingers...I wish I could play and sing better...was getting pretty good in one of my blues bands...but quit them,,,and don't sing so much anymore...cannot sing in my reggae band...as much as I want to .... impossible to keep the groove steady...or play all the right notes of the riddim

Playing all the right notes is overrated.

Just play the important ones, leave some holes for the song to breath through.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Forgot who observed nobody ever danced to an "A".

 

[LBS-bass]

Here's what I spent the evening doing.. singing online karaoke. It's fun. I have a very nice cheap mixer, mic, and headphones and it takes me away to another place...

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Fun!

 

[LBS-bass]

Update to this: It's an app called Ireal tunes. Costs a few bucks as he put it.

I'm using something called iReal Pro to get and transpose charts for a project I've been working on. Lots of standards, fairly decent charts and I can easily change the keys to fit my voice and edit any questionable changes.

I'm not one who likes to bring stands or devices on stage but I'll do it if I'm subbing or sitting in because I don't have the time or inclination to learn a lot of new music for one show anymore. We had a big jam here on Saturday and most of us were just playing from memory. Toward the end of the night I brought a chart in to play with a guitarist I'm working with; handed copies to another guitarist who was there and he still played it wrong. "I know how it goes!"

Yeah, no you don't. So I stopped and showed him where the changes were that he was missing. Then it sounded good and I got to sing one song that day.

For the most part we all had a blast playing the music and I was forwarded a screenshot yesterday of a post in a neighborhood group saying thank you to whoever had the live band because they enjoyed the music. I love my neighbors, and we are blessed with an ever-growing circle of great friends .

 

[GonePlaid]

Nice rig! My indoctrination to the big stuff was an Astro 95 with a Detroit 8V-71 318 and Roadranger 10 speed. I really loved the way those DD 2-cycles sounded, but they didn't feel like the most powerful engines out there. It was a fond part of my younger days when I was working as a mechanic and going to school.

My first was a strong 290 Cumapart(tuned to 315 +/-), second a Formula 350 with a 9 spd I was gonna have converted to 13 but never got a round tuit.
I was told the best way to drive a DD 2 cycle was to slam the door on your hand so you were mad enuff to keep the RPM's up.

 

[GonePlaid]

FL COE = Freightliner cab over engine truck

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Mine wasn't that nice. First truck, economise.

 

[Passinwind]

You don't say?
Blues Monday is upon us.

Ah, so nice. I started digging back into the old 12 bar blues tune a friend calls at open mics pretty regularly. The Band In A Box version calls it at 180 bpm and the head was busting my rump pretty seriously. I ramped it way down and tried looping 4 bar sections and I'm finally getting somewhere now. I just looked up the original version, which is a lot slower than most of the ones I've been checking out. The band is pretty good too, Dizzy Gillespie on piano, Max Roach on drums, and some youngblood 19 year old on trumpet:

 

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Mine wasn't that nice. First truck, economise.

Does the engine being so close to the driver throw off enough heat into the cab to make it uncomfortable?