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Opening of paddling season for me!
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Border said:
Thanks much Dagrev. There are many difficult decisions when it becomes clear a loved one is not able to live on their own any longer. In this case my MIL has had a couple of falls, and is now convalescing at my wife's sister's place in Missouri. The house in Oregon has been sitting unoccupied for a bit, and it has become clear she is not going to be able to live there again, even with in home care. I suspect we will be spending a fair amount of time in Oregon this summer finding a good assisted living place and cleaning out and selling the home. It has caused me to reexamine my own affairs and just how much stuff I have accumulated.
I am looking forward to the drive, between covid and working from home, just doing a bit of traveling will be a welcome change.
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Border, you seem to be a very thoughtful person. I have confidence that you will make as wise decisions as you can given what you can and will know at the time. If a misstep often can't be avoided given we only have so many options and have so much info to go on at the time.
 
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Nocturnal said:
We are beginning to travel down this road as well. My M-I-L has an appointment for testing with Banner Alzheimer's Institute on Tuesday. We think this is the beginning of the end of living on her own. She refuses to accept that anything is truly wrong with her because she doesn't remember the bad days and on those bad days the delusions can be extreme. Our hope is that once she is diagnosed, we can begin the process of moving her to a facility. It is clear that she will need memory care very soon, even though she doesn't think there are memory issues. or that the issues aren't severe. We want her to be able to make decisions on her care and what facility she ends up in while she still can. It is difficult watching this happen as you slowly lose the person you knew.
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Sorry to hear that. I'm helping a family at church where the lady is 95 and beginning to have delusions. Normally her memory has been amazing. Just today she said her husband has run off with a not so attractive woman. He's been dead about 10 yrs. Like your situation, she doesn't see a problem and thinks other family members are trying to cheat her, which would never happen. I hope all goes as well as can be expected. Getting old ain't for sissy's that's for sure.

My F-I-L has Alzheimers and looks like he will be starting dialysis before the end of the year. My dad had to do dialysis the last couple of years of his life and it's a not so good option when there is no other option.
 
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dukeorock said:
‘Chef,’ aka Alan Loshbaugh passed away. He was a very popular mod here on TB. Had the pleasure of hanging with him some and we often exchanged friendly texts and fb messages. He will be sorely missed
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I’m so sad to hear that. Very helpful guy over the years. I wondered what was up. He was active early on the tt800 thread and the other Mesa threads and then wasn’t. He had a nice Mustang I lusted after.
 
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PillO said:
You have my sympathies. I am currently going through something similar; my mum is dying of cancer. Back in January, we went through all the documents - power of attorneys, will, funeral arrangements, etc. Been working on long term care/palliative care for when she can no longer look after herself. Also discussed how much treatment she wants. Yesterday we discussed the fact that she needs to make a list of people we should call. It is difficult to discuss someone's death with them. And the terrible thing is that we don't know when - next week, next month, next year...

As for the piano, from what I have seen, acoustic pianos have a negative value. There are always ads offering free pianos to anyone who wants to pick it up.

My brother bought a house a couple of years ago. Left behind was an upright piano. The lawyer asked for a list of deficiencies (missing fixtures, appliances not working etc.); I told him to get an estimate for disposal of the piano and submit it. Worst of it is that middle C and the B beside it are out of tune.
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So sorry to hear about your mother. Not an easy road to travel. One of those things that are unique to each person and it always feels like there is a fair amount of fumbling in the dark. Situations such as yours, you the event is soon to be here, you just don't know when. I know with my dad for over a year every day we wondered if today would be the day. It does indeed weigh on you, so take care of yourself during this time.
 
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dagrev said:
Only you can determine if you love it or not. Maybe you can point out what you didn't like about the VP and that would help us better know what kind of tone you are shooting for. It all depends on what you didn't like in the VP as to how much you may/may not love the CP. Also, what something sounds like in a store is not going to be all that helpful unless they have a same amp you have at home. If if it's the same, a bigger room at a store still isn't going to sound like your home. All kinds of things to consider that go into how it will sound, so if you could take one home or take your amp to the store would really be helpful.

If a bass sounded fantastic, I really wouldn't care that much about the looks, assuming it played well. How comfortable and well made it is would be higher on the list for me personally.
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There is also a matter of what strings were on it.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
Looks just like mine Andy! Glad you posted that pic, didn’t know if the knobs were original on mine..mine is an 89, yours?
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Mine is a well used 77. Has the Bicentennial pickguard with the 76 in the Birds tail, but its 77. Way back when I had my 76 it had the same knobs on it so these may be original as well.
 
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RexxRokket said:
Right, I do play the exact same thing that's on the record. But, indeed, I do tune DGCF instead of EADG so that's why the position of my fingers on the fretboard looks that way.
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That's a bit of a relief. I'm pretty familiar with the tune, it used to be our opener, and watching you I was, like, "wait a minute. It sounds great-but looks wrong." Took me a minute to figger it out.
 
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