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Well, Goodbye...

Bard2dbone

Bard2dbone

Aug 4, 2002
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#1
...for awhile, anyway. And not yet, even.

This morning I start my vacation. In a couple of days (when everyone is out of school and finished with their work) my daughter and I are driving down to the Kerrville Folk Festival, and my wife will join us a couple of days later.

I take longer to get my RDA of the fest. Melanie would be approaching LD50 before I got ready to leave if she came down with us.

So I am going to have a week and a half of living in a portable nylon hut on a South Texas hillside, getting sunburnt, playing 12-string acoustic guitar, listening to music, and just sort of 'being.'

I can't wait.

But my tent doesn't have web access, so I won't be here much for a little while.
 
#9
Still not gone :rolleyes: :rollno: :scowl: :bawl:

It's lookin' like I won't leave till Monday now. Man I hate waiting. Kerrville is an awesome festival. I'll be surrounded by some of the strangest people I ever see, and yet somehow, they're all amazing. It's a truly cool place.

'It can be this way, always.'
 
#10
Have fun out there! Too bad about the tent's web connection, I got a 8 man that has wireless.......jk.

I'm leaving for Colorado myself on Tuesday, going to Colorado Springs, then to Fort Collins, then up to Steamboat Springs for some camping. Should be lots of fun! I get to see my Pop too, haven't seen him in about 5 months.


Oog :)
 
#16
I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.

It was awesomeness its ownself. I am burned to a little crisp. But it was well worth it. And I have discovered the possibly coolest nearly-an-instrument in the world. I am told it's called a 'cabletub' and that there is a website with that name. It is a washtub bass that can actually be played like an upright. I saw two versions, a two-string and a three-string. I got to play the two-string fairly extensively. It's amazing how much of a verification that is of the idea that bass players have their own philosophy of playing. The owner said as soon as I touched it I was better than he was. I asked and he is mainly a guitar player. We agreed that the reason I made it do more interesting thisngs than he did is that I'm mainly a bass player.

Can we have a big cheer for the obvious?!? YAAAAAAAAAYYYY!
 
#19
Oh man, did I see some weather?!?!

Living in a tent when a thunderstorm comes through is just way more excitement than I care for.

My daughter about had a spaz. She had not been out in a flexible container/structure during a storm before, and was moderately traumatized by it. I'm not sure I helped when I told her to ignore the lightning and try to go back to sleep. I think the closest lightning strike was about fifty or a hundred yards away, based on the instantaneous BOOM!!! But we couldn't find any evidence of a strilke the next day.

Man, could that tent dance around us, though. And when it slowed down and became a regular rainstorm it bothered me more because the tent was less watertight than I would have preferred.

And I still haven't developed my pictures from last year.

If you need a laugh, when we were trying to leave town, we went to the local Verizon store, because my wife had broken my charger. WHile we were there, she asked if she could charge her phone there while we ran our last errands before leaving town. They said "Sure, we close at 6:00." We came back at 5:40, but they were locked up and we had to call them to mail her her phone.
 

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