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You may be able to skip life insurance, all depends on what your objectives are with it. I preferred term until my income is not needed for bills and funds were the to chunk me in the ground. House is paid for and I never buy I car I have to finance so they are paid for, so I likely won't get it again once my term is up a a few years. I'm certainly not going to carry it so I'm worth more dead than alive! I love my wife and she loves me, but neither of us carry anything just so the other will get some kind of windfall. I get a kick out of some the ads selling the idea of "Leaving loved ones a little something," as if life insurance is to be some kind of jackpot for some one. But that's just me. I'm sure you have, but may be worth evaluating actual needs for such insurance. All depends on personal objectives. Life insurance is funny. A number of people need it and don't have any, and some have it but don't actually need it.
Some people treat insurance as a form of gambling.

Remember when you could buy life insurance at the airport for a flight? Investment bankers would buy flight insurance on each other on the basis of "I feel lucky".
 
Bummer on the Alembic!
Anything is possible as long as the correct amount of stupid is applied. :laugh:

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I have a peculiar knack for stupid but have never managed to break a headstock... I really hope I am not over-estimating my stupid abilities.
 
I just haven't had any issues with their products personally. I don't think they can say it's leather if it's not.
I'm sure there's got to be some leather there but the whole neck strap is definitely not leather, leather lasts just about forever. I think the large main piece on the outer side is leather but I think the rest of it is artificial something or other especially the inner part that rests on your shoulder, in fact after I took the picture today there were little pieces on the floor of whatever the inner coating is. It's still there. :laugh: But I'm glad you've had good luck with them, I have used them a lot and maybe it has something to do with the humidity or the salt air out here, don't know.
It may be bonded leather. Still leather, but it is the scraps ground up and bound together.
Bonded leather - Wikipedia
 
I like 15's too, I brought these B-15T's out here as I was able to get them on the plane, they have 100 watt SS heads which do sound pretty good especially when daisy chained but they sound great with an SVT head, plenty of treble if I want it and they're 4 ohm cabs too. They don't really fill big rooms like the fridges do but sound good and they're fairly quick for ported 15's. They're made like tanks, they're from the mid 1990's and have Eminence speakers. I did blow one a few years ago though but was lucky enough to find a new OE speaker on Reverb, the seller thought he was going to have it in stock forever. :laugh:



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Watching the Wiggles with one of the grandsons.
Looks like the word is out on Thunderbirds.

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I took my daughter to see the original Wiggles. Three of them retired after that. The blue one has needed to keep working to pay for the divorce resulting from an affair with one of the dancers in the show...
 
love SVTs into non Ampeg cabs…especially when driving 2 Ohm….
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I was considering getting a 4 ohm Genzler 410 cab as I could bring it here on the plane, it's light enough plus they have six 3" cone tweeters which are supposed to disperse the highs very well. I've had so few gigs here though I can't really justify it.

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